WARDOGS Updates – What changed and when

Matchmaking and player-run servers are split into separate browser views, with text search and more reliable server filtering.

Server IDs persist between matches and restarts; the announced update also includes a temporary 5% end-of-match cash bonus.

The team says several cash exploits were fixed and warns that deliberate abuse can result in cash and XP resets or bans.

Server capacity was increased for the Asian region.

Z20 Lakota handling received a balance pass, helicopter input damping now applies to every input device, and vehicle turrets have a maximum operator rotation speed.

155mm, 122mm and flare deployables now use more space in a loadout.

Several Career, Medic, Support and Driver unlock levels were adjusted, including the Sports Parachute, Large Backpack, PP-19 drum magazine, URAL and Humvee with minigun.

The changelog includes frame-generation controls, reduced shadow-cache hitching and fixes for several crash paths.

Players were asked to restart and download the latest client before returning to the login queue.

The update targeted failed joins, unexpected kicks during play and extended queue times.

WARDOGS became available in Steam Early Access on September 10, 2026.

Each player begins with $10,000 and buys a custom loadout before spawning.

The announced test focused on systems that only reveal issues at scale, including server capacity, browsing, voice chat, entitlements and queues.