The update 0.11 for Wardogs goes live today, September 14, so players should expect some downtime as devs work on server browser improvements, community browser discoverability, and more.
Wardogs has been soaring in the popularity charts ever since the title’s release a couple of days ago. Most recently, the title reached a peak of 400,000 concurrent users. The latest patch is for community servers, which have been described as the lifeblood that keeps the game running well beyond its peak player days.
What’s New in Wardogs Patch 0.11
The Wardogs developers have acknowledged that their community servers have been underserved, and the experience hasn’t been up to the mark. Because of that, the latest update works toward improving the server browser for community servers. Moreover, as an apology, community servers will offer a bonus 5% End of Match cash bonus. The fronnt end has now been split into two browsers, Community and Official.
The developers have removed unnecessary filtering for the official servers and improved their reliability for Community Servers. Community server IDs will no longer be wiped on map changes and restarts. Moreover, there is a ‘Show Empty/Full’ browser, an updated Host button that directs to the correct location, and changes to server name ordering and naming.
The developers also mentioned upcoming features requested by the community, but they don’t impact the work being done for season 2. The features in the pipeline include Community server favoriting, tiered priority queues for Community servers, Message of the Day promotion, improved Warmup activities, AFK kicking during seeding disabling, and Team switching controls.
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All Wardogs Update 0.11 Patch Notes
Split front end into two browsers, Community and Official
- A game with this many players realistically should be using matchmaking, and server browsers aren’t massively fit for purpose, but we don’t want Community admins and hosts to suffer. They’re the lifeblood of the community who keep a game running well beyond its peak player days. As a result we have added an option for players.
– Removed unnecessary filtering from Official Servers
- In its current state, filtering is not necessary for Official Servers as we do not have Official modified game modes. Filters have been removed from the Official browser.
– Improved reliability of filtering in Community Servers
– Added text based search to Community Servers
– Community Server IDs now persist between matches and restarts
- Community Server IDs were previously wiped on map change and restart. They will now persist, and each server will have its own unique ID so players can join via ID. However the number will be much longer for security reasons.
– Added Show Empty/Full to browser quick bar
– Updated Host button to direct to the correct location
– Server name ordering and naming
- We have enforced new requirements on servers to make them alphabetical regardless of special characters and numbers. You will no longer be allowed to use more than one space at a time.
Upcoming Features
We are still working on a list of features we have seen requested from communities as a priority. This doesn’t affect the content we’re working on for Season 2, but we are heavily focused on reactive quality of life feedback for the very short term. These features are not yet ready but are in the pipeline.
- Community Server favouriting
- Tiered priority queues for Community servers
- Message of the Day prompt
- Improved Warmup Activities
- AFK kicking during seeding disabling
- Team Switching Controls
Other Fixes
– Various cash exploits have been fixed
– More GPU crashes addressed
Increased Capacity in Asia
- We have increased the server capacity in the Asian region to support the interest coming from that region. Thank you to our players across Asia who have shown interest and continued to play the game. We will be putting more focus into supporting Asia as an important part of the worldwide Wardogs playerbase.
Our Stance on Economy Abuse
The economy of WARDOGS interlinks all players together into one shared universe and experience, even more so when we bring the meta into the game. As an early access game, we’re not perfect, and we never will be. But if you do find something and take advantage of it, we have decided to come down hard. These players will be dealt with in the following ways:
- Abusing cash exploits and bugs
We will respond with a timed ban, the length of which will be determined based on any previously applied bans. We will reset your cash and XP to 0. - Creating content that tutorialises economy exploits and bugsWe will treat creating content that tutorialises how to abuse systems, with no regard for reporting the issue, as advertising cheats. This will result in a permanent ban. There are easy ways to get things in front of us. We are not saying do not post on social media or Discord. We are saying there is a difference between promoting and alerting.
- XP farming
This will result in the most serious bans. We track every server you enter, and we are also very aware of which servers are XP farming servers. If your account is tracked as joining one of these servers for more than a few minutes, we will ban your account permanently.
The latest Wardogs patch notes can be found on the title’s Steam page.
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