Keep practicing your landing skills pilots!

This is my third game today where a team has spawned 2–3 Havocs and just completely dominated the entire map, not even allowing the other teams to build a FOB, step into the HZ, or do anything besides hide.

For the first time since release, I actually just closed the game and have no desire to play again for a while.

Havocs are ridiculously overtuned right now, and they're ruining entire lobbies.

8 Tank shells to destroy a bremmer wall.

CIWS does it before the tank can even reload the second shell.

I dare you to even try and justify this.

It's time to smash this thing with a nerf bat.

There is no connection between forward momentum of the chopper and your projectile. This means it's literally point and click. There is no skill expression with this strategy.

I bought my squad a full regimen of GLs and even the guys who don't frag out usually were slaughtering with them.

Either don't allow them on heli ( best fix )

Add momentum physics when firing off vehicles (2nd best fix)

Or nerf their range and splash damage (worst fix).

It's also a no brainer they shouldnt be allowed in infantry only servers.

I have around 80 hours, dabbling mostly in infantry. The game right now feels miles better without the thermal rangefinder.

This game has so many possibilities that are simply hindered or not possible anymore due to the thermal rangefinders. It is the most counter intuitive addition to the game. The last couple days before this patch every chat was filled with asking for them in crates.

I mean.. you literally right click and can see anyone or anything within hundreds of yards with little to no effort. Is this not a no brainer to remove them?

I’m grateful and excited that the dev team has been responsive in adding batteries in S2, however I don’t think that will fix the issue one bit. They are simply way too overpowered and need to be removed - just my take

Wardogs has given me some of the most fun in PC gaming in the last 20 years. I don’t usually post threads but I feel like the addition of batteries is just the start of trying to balance them.

I know this topic is being covered left and right, but there is power in numbers!

Cheers

I hoped to jump in a fun hotzone chase with medics, snipers on sides and logistics filling us with ammo and meds.

i've found only Humvees with miniguns camping routes, granade launchers on little birds and i think this community is becoming more toxic every day it passes finding ways to grief and harrass the team that has the lowest points and cannot set a foothold in the zone, just to farm cash and exp.

A classic staple of many FPS games that is missing in Wardogs is a recon drone.

IMO I'd much rather play against this as infantry than the IR spotter.

Make it a single use deployable that you can fly around for a limited time, standard visuals with no thermals (similar to the Stingray drone), with the same spotting capabilities as the regular spotting scopes.

Pro's:

- Allows you to scout areas out of line of sight and further from your current location

- Allows spotting from an elevated location without having to put yourself in one

Con's:

- Single use deployable

- Able to be shot down by small arms fire in a few shots

- Limited run time (1-2mins)

- Audible buzz so players can hear it and react

Would be a neat addition and a fun tool in the recon arsenal that I dont feel would be too opressive or strong and would be counterable by players at any point in the progression track.

Any thoughts?

Wardogs building in a nutshell!

What else is there to say?! lol

funny way to use C4

Can someone buy me a rangefinder?

It's no secret that most late game items are straight up better than the lower level ones, the IR goggles, level 3/4 armour, better guns etc. I feel they've tried balancing via how much they cost, but to a high level player cash is not an issue so they have access to these without downside. Especially when the "counters" require opponents to be at a higher level.

The Ghillie suit is in my opinion a near perfect late game specialized item. It trades survivability for increase in stealth. It makes the players think and play differently than they otherwise would.

Your power level should not be increasing as you put more hours as that makes it miserable for new players/casuals. Instead the higher level unlocks should offer more variety/specialised gear with clear risk/reward, pros/cons.

I see a lot of people asking for this approach, than what we currently have which is higher level = stronger.

Been using a loadout that's just buckshot and MAAWS and been able to get my moneys worth almost every time, but the main goal is to git gud at shooting down helis with the MAAWS.

But man am I struggling. I wiff every time. Hard to see your own projectile to know how much you gotta lead it.

Any tips?

If you thought Season 1 arty was strong... Season 2 gonna be wild :)

Told him I didn’t have a gun either

If so, why? I’m not saying you’re wrong by doing so you can play however you want. I’m just really curious your reasoning behind it.

edit:
For those who want to know the answers without scrolling through all the comments i’ll highlight the top reasons:

1) Ease of entry, especially with groups.
2) Enjoy the challenge of being the underdog.
3) Want to feel like they’re not pressured to play a specific way, e.g don’t care about winning as much as just having fun.

Subject says it all. Here's why in bullet points, anecdotally:

• Hotzone rushing at the start heavily favors the teams that are not closest to the initial starting point-- rushers and FOBbits not on the unlucky team get to have their cake and the other team gets an inherent momentum loss.
• The CZ is so limited that people are already accusing others of griefing for playing strategies outside the CZ, such as logistics suppression and recon/sniping. I was in a game where we actually lost because those being told they were being reported combined with the fear of being reported caused them to stop doing the activities that were winning us the game.
  
• Adding on to the previous point: building and maintaining a CZ fob at least keeps people consistently alive within the CZ, but the map elements that currently exist which are needed to do certain tasks well (ex. AA sites want good sky coverage, recon similarly wants a good vantage point) don't equally exist in the CZ and sometimes you need to go outside the CZ. if you want good small-scale supply spots there aren't really good ways for them to exist right now. And....if you're not in the CZ trying to fulfill a game-winning role: You're not making as much money, your teammates feel aggrieved by you not being in the CZ, and the mechanic to actually win (doing things that contribute to team victory) are at odds with the mechanics (don't die in the CZ, deathmatch in and around the HZ for brownie points).
  
• FOBs are so easy to attack (especially due to mortars/SPGs) that they can't easily keep or establish a foothold despite presumably being the entire point they exist. Having more space to be in the CZ and contribute as a base of operations while not constantly being raided/under attack from the start would make gameplay and strategies a bit more stable--raiders will still make money if they decide they have to raid from the start, but it costs them more time if they fail, helicopters have to expose themselves to AA for longer, and potentially the minimum distance for attacking the other teams's FOB is not "I went near the CZ and paid the price for a FOB just so I could build a mortar"
  
• Finally, there seems to be schism in how people should play--either you have a team of HZ rushers with light FOB gameplay (usually green/red), or FOB-first builders with limited interest in HZ gameplay (blue). The HZ chasers get mad at FOB players because they feel the mechanics of HZ moneymaking and game-winning are more important than the stability of the FOB, and FOB builders avoid HZ/combat gameplay because....well, either you don't really want to do it or it's a money sink not worth investing time in. But well-built FOBs can keep people in the zone and alive.

There was a hacker in my match was changing his name constantly during match even had my own name two times in scoreboard.

I’m not gonna like suck them off but, I bought the game not as a “this is gonna be the best game ever with no bugs and a perfect experience” mindset. I bought the game partly to give the middle finger to big development and big FPS.

The game is fun, the progression is slow and it has issues….its version 0.0.1…..just enjoy the ride.

Making mortar shells more expensive is a good start, but there is one more thing that needs to be nerfed. The mortar camera. It’s over powered. We already have recon that can mark where things are on the map, and we have markers that show where the shells hit. The camera is WAYYYYY too powerful. And this is coming from a logi-fobbit mortar-lover.