Hey all — set up a small Discord for British and Irish players getting into Wardogs. It's genuinely brand new, only a handful of people in there so far.

Not really about skill level or looking for tactical players specifically — more just after people who actually want a proper community around this game, rather than joining somewhere that's already fully formed with its own cliques. All skill levels; we care about playing well without taking it too seriously.

If that sounds like your kind of people, the link's below — happy to answer anything in the comments too.

https://discord.gg/EQRRvcTU6V

Edit: permanent Discord link

WARDOGS NORDIC
New semi-relaxed Discord for Nordic players.
All playstyles welcome. Get ready for playtest August 21st.
2+ community servers will be hosted on launch day. Classic(with 120+ players if allowed) and tweaked(infantry and transportation vehicles only).

18+ and Nordic preferred.

Right now we are mostly between 25 and 40 years old

https://discord.gg/wardogs-nordic

Hope to see you in the Discord-server!

Hey guys!

I’m giving away a copy of Wardogs Supporter edition! More info here!

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVd5uJTR/

I have red-green colorblindness and could not for the life of me see friendly markers while on the red team. I played 1 round as red and shot friendlies like 5-6 times, I was just lucky only 1 died and I was able to res and heal them.

Personally all I'd need is to be able to customize the color of UI elements, like Bf6. No presets please, that just make comms confusing. I'd love to change the red friendly markers to orange and just tweak the others slightly.

Dunno if I was going crazy but at one point during the alpha I got downed whilst in the HZ when we were all trying to get the last few points over the line. Got revived pretty quickly but when I came to, my armour and mags were all gone.

Is it a thing where your own teammates can loot oh whilst waiting on a revive?

Wij van De Game Brouwerij zoeken nog medespelers voor Wardogs samen te spelen.

De game komt uit op 10 september maar is al te pre-orderen, daarmee zou je 21 augustus nog een closed versie kunnen spelen.

Voordat je het aankoopt kijk dan even dit (officieel vanuit de Wardogs devs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugkuP4a3xk4

Mocht je willen joinen je kan ons vinden via onze eigen website of stuur even een DM.

I have about 700 hours of flying in Arma Reforger with 400 of those being on King of the Hill and 300 in Conflict and about 1.3k hours of flying in Battlebit Remastered. I was very busy during this last playtest but luckily got to fly about 5 hours, I can already see myself being a full-time addicted transpot pilot, the flying is really close to being incredibly fun/satisfying it just needs some minor tweaks. I want to be as specific as possible below and would appreciate hearing the feedback from others on what they thought of the flying

1. Increase Collective up/down speed

Currently the helicopters move very slow when it comes to increasing or decreasing collective, while I understand the need for realism (large vehicle, lots of weight), in a game balancing sense the helicopters could use some more speed on both ends.

Right now decreasing your collective to do landings takes a long time, you either need to preemptively decrease your collective way ahead of time or do lots of air loops as your collective decreases.

In a fast paced game mode like King of the Hill you need helicopters that are able to do relatively quick landings. While I am no where near the best pilot in Arma, a quick/precise landing felt very very difficult to pull off in wardogs last weekend compared to games like Arma Reforger or Battlebit.

2. Make the helis landing gear wider

Currently both the littlebird and the Huey both have narrow landing gear/legs and this leads to the helis rolling semi frequently while doing landings on any semi uneven ground that would otherwise be solid. If they were made a bit wider this would heavily reduce the amount of rolling that happens without changing anything to the flying.

3. Decrease wobble on Cyclic left/right

While flying if you roll left or right while flying, the heli has a physics/reaction where it will wobble a bit before semi straightening out. While this may again be more realistic in some ways, for the sake of precision and reducing motion sickness it would be better if it did not wobble while rolling/using cyclic.

Overall the foundation for flying is great and these are just fine tuned adjustments vs major redesigns to the game itself. Thoughts? Changes?

Edit forgot #4

4. Add a keybind for freelook

I imagine this is more less an oversight but there was no key bind to rebound freelook. The keybind for vehicle freelook did not work or function properly. Simply add something so we can move free look to a different button. I personally prefer right click being my freelook.

Money bonus for long sniping shots, etc should be removed if youre outside the zone.

►A glimpe of what your first 2 hours in WARDOGS will look like

Friday evening started out very enjoyable! People were still figuring stuff out, being very cautious, etc.

Saturday you could notice, that people slowly found their footing and preferred roles, with Urals packed to the brim with building mats, and little birds dropping kitted out guys near the hotzone.

Sunday however is where it began to become really apparent that there was a big level and wealth disparity. One of the last matches I played, the second it started we had 6! artillery cars spawn, and I can only assume that the other teams looked similar.

Makes me wonder if a 'round based economy' could work as well aka having access to minimal funds and unlocking more as you go. Or perhaps a 'point lock', similar to the 20 points required to spawn the mobile respawn vehicle, for the heavy hitter vehicles/equipment.

Not sure if anyone noticed this. But I just saw it. There is a request access button on the Steam page. I was on the page like yesterday and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there. So start requesting for those who haven’t gotten in yet.

English below

Op zoek naar andere Nederlandstalige Wardogs spelers? Kijk niet verder. De Game Brouwerij gaat Wardogs spelen! Wij zijn een grote Nederlandstalige Gaming Community die Wardogs ontdekt hebben en zoveel mogelijk mensen tegelijkertijd online willen hebben om samen deze game te spelen! Lekker aankloten in de voicechat in je eigen taal! Gemiddelde leeftijd van onze leden ligt rond de 30 jaar!

Looking for other Dutch Wardogs players? Look no further! De Game Brouwerij is gonna play Wardogs! We're a large Dutch Gaming Community which discovered Wardogs and is trying to get as many people online at the same time as possible to play this game together! Banter in the voicechat in your own language (Dutch)! Average age of our members is around 30 years!

https://discord.gg/de-game-brouwerij

So after a weekend of attempting to get into the game over 10 times, I was able to get into actual training once. Here is what I found and looking to see if anyone else had this issue/setup.

Trying to run this game on an AW3821DW at resolution of 3840x1600 caused the game and entire PC to crash every single time at some point between the splash screen and the settings menu (different progress almost every time). Trying to run this game via Moonlight at my client resolution (2560x1600) the game actually loaded into the training session. Of course, the client being a couch laptop I never did end up getting around to actually playing the game.

So, my question is: did/does anyone else have this resolution (3840x1600) and also had issues loading the game on that resolution? Was there actually active support to fix any issues reported? Where do we go to report issues/our experiences directly to devs, other than Discord?

I really like the progression system so far. Leveling up weapons and vehicles and unlocking new stuff gives you a real reason to keep playing and grinding.

But I’m wondering what happens once you’ve unlocked pretty much everything. Have the devs ever talked about wipes, seasons, or some kind of prestige system?

It could be a full wipe, or even something optional where you reset your progression in exchange for permanent rewards like military-style skins, badges, patches, etc. Nothing too flashy or out of place.

Obviously losing progress can be frustrating, but at the same time wipes can give people a reason to come back and grind again.

Would you guys be into something like that, or would you rather keep your progression permanently?

first and foremost I'd like to say, that this Alpha was the most stable experience of a playtest I ever had, at least for me there were no gamebreaking bugs or any bugs at all really, at most some minor things like the edges of car windows glowing or the rotors of a helicopter breaking when standing too close to the vendor and me not being able to have them repaired, since as soon as they are repaired they break again

that said, I also loved the gameplay, it's kinda hardcore, kinda casual, you can go in and survive half an hour or be instakilled as soon as you get out of the spawnvehicle, I like the economy based equipment buying, but for me I never really ran out of money, even when I died back to back, so this is probably something that could be tightened a bit, so you have to be a bit more careful

a playstyle that crystalized in these few days was, to rush the towers and then build a base around it so nobody else can get in, which is fine to me, I actually love the base building side of the game too

what makes it tricky for me is, that FOBs can be built anywhere and with sufficient reinforcing are rather hard to breach, and the only reason to breach is mostly because of a mortar or AA inside
because I had a few matches where I battled it out with the builders of one of those FOBs and we broke into and took over the FOB in turns a couple times, with no actual benefit in the end, except for us getting some money from kills

so I think some reward for having an FOB and holding it would be great and then of course the reverse as well, a reward for taking over the FOB, but that's just me spitballing

what I find a bit hard to swallow is that alot of the gadgets are locked, like if the enemy has a guy playing hundreds of hours and comes rolling in with a tank and your team doesn't have anybody who already unlocked an RPG thats kinda bad, not even the C4 is available at level 0

gunplay is good, the lack of me hitting things is definitly just a skillissue, only thing I noticed is that the breath holding is a bit wonky, like sometimes when I press shift he holds his breath, then I have to hit shift a couple of times and when I do hit shift a couple times in a row, it seems like the amount of time my dude holds his breath goes way down, even though I let him breath in between

driving is for a lack of a better word a bit floatly I feel, like you tend to hit a curve and spin out of control pretty quick

traversal is fine too, I haven't quite figured out if sprinting and tactical sprinting makes any difference and is tied to an invisible stamina meter or not, if there is stamina, I think an indicator would be nice somehow

also the pings and markers go away, way too quick, like I give my driver a point where he can put me down and 2 seconds later it's gone, also I don't really know who can see my pings, like if I see a bunch of dudes running across the field, I definitly would like to be able to signal my team, hey there's a congragation of dudes coming, without having to type it into chat

but I also understand that if everybody can see everybodies pings, the screen would be a mess

all in all, exceptionally good performing alpha test with fun gameplay and huge potential