A sneak peek at @WARDOGS Season 2
✅ Storms.
✅ Level 4 helmets fog up when you run in the rain + more vision limitations
✅ 4 weapons (one for assault, medic, recon - an M14 - and support)
✅ Rain runs down windows, limiting visibility through glass
✅ IR goggles need batteries
ICYMI lots of details in here straight from @WARDOGS design team thanks to @BigfryTV & @fps_crash🎙️
Recording a season 2 vlog today with the big points made more digestible but to really grasp the 'why' behind decisions you can always get more context!
https://t.co/ha58x9K0tN
It'll be back Season 2, we just agree with the sentiment and the player behaviour and data supports the shift in playing style to be too consistent and repetetive.
We're learning here too, but we've reacted on this one because we think it was worth it.
📢 PSA: We have made 2 key balance changes.
Within the next 12 hours, the IR Rangefinders will be disabled in the vendor until Season 02, where they will require batteries to use. In this instance, we agree with player sentiment and they cross the line into being too overpowered.
The CWIS also now destroys the havoc in around 6 seconds as opposed to 12. We acknowledge we overcorrected this in the previous patch and have hotfixed the issue this morning. No new client download required.
Heads-up 📢
A hotfix is planned for tomorrow, Friday 2nd, at 08:00 UTC, to address minor security and stability issues affecting some players.
Expected downtime is one hour.
https://t.co/VSoHagclHE
📢 PSA: Update 0.1.2 maintenance window is now over. Players can now update their clients and join servers. Make sure to close and update WARDOGS to the latest version to be able to join.
PSA: WARDOGS will be entering a maintenance window at 8:00 UTC, est 1hr. Services will be offline while we deploy update 0.1.2.
This update intended to fix the WD-L020 Crash Error alongside patching out some key exploits and bugs.
Patch Notes:
https://t.co/zoGV07sWzm
Early morning update to address crashes and exploits. Season 02 will bring a much larger update, with new map conditions, equipment, balance reworks and more!
We'll share more on that next week.
Stay tuned.
Heads-up, creators 👋
Some 'agencies' are contacting people claiming to represent BULKHEAD/WARDOGS. They don't. We'll reach out directly. If something feels off, don't reply or sign anything. Get in touch with us to check.
Dev Reacts: @jbowendaman made an awesome video that I thought warranted a response this morning about balancing and XP.
Appreciate you all still playing our game, this video ended up longer than I thought!
Link to orginal video: https://t.co/1tF0F9Mo94
XP Balancing meeting!
So much amazing data from our in game tech mixed with comments from socials.. don’t blow this out of proportion but using AI to scrape and organise data is great.. it means every comment on every YouTuber we follow big and small, tweets, Reddit posts, even video transcripts!
Amazing for a dev team to have this at their finger tips and amazing to build a collective community voice.
We’ll always make the decision we think is best and you may not always agree, but there’s no excuse for devs to not at least see everything thats being said.
@MaleOreo@WARDOGS Hey, this one specifically isn’t even a cheat this is an exploit with a bit of work. We’re going to patch it out but it takes us a bit of time. Bare with us!
WARDOGS Event #2 is tomorrow 👀
We’re doing another community night on the Evasion server with team planning, coordinated chaos, and a couple twists this time around.
Round 1, normal WARDOGS.
Round 2, infantry-focused, with helis limited to logistics and troop transport.
Teams will be assigned this time, just pick your preferred role.
Signups close at 7:30 PM ET
Planning starts 7:30 PM ET
Event starts 8:00 PM ET
Come hang out, meet some people, and see what happens when everyone coordinates.
Sign up in our Evasion Discord ⬇️
https://t.co/3y8TlTvNpy
#WARDOGS @WARDOGS
RTs appreciated 🤝
Scale alone makes this very interesting to me. The speed of most jets means they would only be over the Combat Zone circle for like 7-10 seconds at most😄
Now add in bombs. For the love of god I don't need any more explosives LOL. Between mortars, arty trucks, rocket helis... Fighting in the trenches is a tough enough on my ears as it is.
I'll take an AC-130 though... That would be fun.
2 weeks in. The clips keep coming.
It's great to see playstyles evolving, new strats being discovered, and the community using equipment and vehicles in ways we didn't expect.
Share your best moments with #WARDOGS100K or submit them at https://t.co/V7wr88Xa8g.
Just to be clear… in my casual chat… this is what I actually said.
We chose to decrease the cost of development.. there were TWO options.. my point was basic economics..
“Self proclaimed ceo says games should cost more”… is once again a boring headline.
I’ve also said AAA games can’t keep under delivering on quality and charging $60 but nobody wrote an article about it.
I don’t know why they care what I have to say, I’m just another person whose game is popular right now… my words don’t mean anymore than anyone else’s other than when it comes to WARDOGS, and even then..