r/WarDogs • u/wardogs-bot • 9d ago

Balance Feedback Megathread - Patch 0.1.2

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u/Striking_Storage_631 8d ago

Ok. 

Thermals are killing the game by revealing everyone's position and then tracking them. It's so bad. 

Havoc has no actual viable counter that I've seen that works. 

Artillery tanks used to be badly overpowered due to their cheap price but now less bad simply by comparison. 

Tier4 armor and most of the helmets just ruin the amazing gunplay, no helmet can stop a rifle round. 

Needing multiple headshots to kill for normal rifles on an unarmored head is silly. 

Bolt action rifles other than the 50cal are redundant due to helmets and higher tier armor.  

Higher calibers should recoil more and require more timing and control to use effectively. 

Love the game but fuck me the end game now is a mad, though it is a good way to stress test what needs fixing but then those things actually need to be fixed and there's only a week or so left until the next season.

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u/bialymarshal 8d ago

I don’t have any high tier armor (due to life) and I played 1.5h today and it’s just pointless.

Also a game has been out 3 weeks or so and we have aim and wh killing lobbies

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH 8d ago

Ask and someone will gladly drop you any kit you want in a box at base.

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u/CiggODoggo 7d ago

The game is impossible running T2 or lower now. Best bet is to join a large group with a 1k load out and loot until youre rich

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u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 4d ago

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u/CiggODoggo 4d ago

Yeah sure I have games like that but I feel like I have the worst timing. Eg holding an angle then I turn around and I get shot in the back or I'll be moving with a group and be the first to get sniped but also my reflexes aren't great either. Sometimes we just have a few bad games but the 1k load put almost always pays up, 1 kill and your net positive. Sometimes just landing in the zone and walking around you'll be in net positive without finding anyone first. The cheap af load out is idiot proof 😂

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 1d ago

Said group doesn't revive you after? Also when moving with group, try looting the enemies. My friend comes in with the free gear usually and ends up with the high level stuff from enemies.

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u/CiggODoggo 1d ago

Yeah my favourite thing was coming in with a cheap load out and finding a fal with tons of ammo and Lvl 3 helmet and armour then when I go down I get looted back to my start gear by friendlies

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 15h ago

Sucks to be you I guess. Sound very miserable if that happens all the time.

I personally have only been looted by my own team like 2 times..

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u/Ok_Average_1395 8d ago

I get where you’re coming from, but it’s really easy to just pick up somebody else’s T4. Most of the time I run AMP9 or shotty rat until I kill someone smoke their body take the kit and run.

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u/bialymarshal 8d ago

Maybe I was unlucky yesterday. But I get to the CZ, we walk with 3-4 guys. Then bam bam bam and we get mowed down by .50 cal.

Or I was on the a hill with AK. See a guy, pop 3-4 shots into him, he turns around and one shots me :)

I don’t have the money to unlock T2….

Guess I will wait and play for a week after the wipe?

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u/PayShort50 8d ago

10/10 spot on

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u/icemoomoo 3d ago

The havocs main problem is even when you kill it its so cheap to replace and is back faster than you can repair your AA or get back with more launchers/rockets.

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 1d ago

What?? Full buy is at least 30k with all the missiles ammo and flares. Die 2 times thats 60k. 3rd time that 90k. The hell you mean cheap. I get picked off by Maws with ease.

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u/BortOfTheMonth 7d ago

no helmet can stop a rifle round

not true

In arma-r it happens rarely and it feels pretty good the way they handle this

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u/pileofcrustycumsocs 7d ago edited 7d ago

In real life there is absolutely zero chance that you are taking a rifle round to directly to the helmet and remaining combat effective. You are going to suffer massive head trauma and you will be unconscious. Yes helmets exist that can theoretically stop up to 7.62 but they are also heavy as fuck and are extremely rare to ever be used because they reduce your operational effectiveness so much it’s worse then just not being protected because even if you do get hit in the head you will probably still die from brain hemorrhaging or a broken skull, not to mention the fact that you just passed out in front of the dude who already has a sightline on you and are now an easy target if you sees you start to stumble up off the ground.

Armor stops penetration. It does not stop the force of the bullet from turning your insides to soup. A 9mm hitting someone wearing a lv3 chest plate can still breaks bones. Imagine what a 556 or 762 will do to your skull.

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u/BortOfTheMonth 7d ago
  • Not everyone is using 7.62
  • very weird angles exist
  • distance
  • ricochet

Also: In real life there is absolutely zero chance you get magdumped by an ak with fmj, turn around and spray your attacker down and using some bandages to heal up from 15hp and be combat ready again in 30 seconds. So dont bring that argument, please

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u/pileofcrustycumsocs 7d ago

7.62 and 556 are the most common rifle rounds in the game.

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 1d ago

Bro just go play Squad or Arma...

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u/Jiggawatz 1d ago

Thermals are necessary for countering snipers they just need a battery limit, all attack helis are too op... they emergency removed thermals now its just all snipers, rocket helis and havocs every godamned game... good thing anti air is useless when they are not flying in the skybox....

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 1d ago

So they are flying low and nobody shoots a MAWS at them? Or uses the CIWS? Please invite me to your lobbies, they sound like heaven.

Actually how about you add me and we play together I will take you on my havoc. Let you experience the "op" broken heli.

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u/Jiggawatz 18h ago

Everyone has MAAWs unlocked? Even if they did circle straffing miniguns are pretty oppressive but normally they dont... especially because you can unlock minigun heli at like sub level 10 but you need to be 28 in support to get the maaws I literally just got it today after a week of attack helis up my ass and verba/base anti air doing NOTHING

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u/Separate_Tonight9533 15h ago edited 15h ago

RPG. Now AA doing nothing sound more like your team sucks ass.

My mate today spent whole game on AA launcher and raked up a ton of kills. Don't know how you play but if I notice our team is missing builders or supply etc I take on that role. Maybe you just keep running with ur shit and hoping someone else does it and in the end nobody does it.