WARDOGS news

Highlights of BULKHEAD's Road to Season 02 press conference: the Mosin is locked to its 3.5x PU scope, hollow points are useless against tier-4 body armor, rain masks footsteps, squads get intent icons instead of custom names, light MMG helicopters sway more, server names are hidden in the pause menu and team-hopping is penalised. Season 1 XP is banked for a future skill tree, weapons will unlock with a new Intel currency, seasons target about six weeks, and testers are already playing a dense urban map.

BULKHEAD's Road to Season 02 devlog: Season 1 ends with a full wipe, leftover cash turns into Gold Bars for permanent cosmetics and early-access XP is banked for future progression. Season 2 nerfs mortar spam, adds delivery streaks, reworks heavy helmets and tier-4 armor, buffs Lonestar; no lobby parties yet. Four new weapons, a Molotov, four vehicles and rain.

The studio is preparing a hotfix for minor security and stability issues affecting some players. Servers will be unavailable for about an hour on October 2 at 11:00 Kyiv time.

Today at 11:00 Kyiv time the game goes offline for an hour for update 0.1.2: the studio closed cash and XP farming exploits and warns that repeat abuse can now mean a permanent ban without warning.

The studio nominated WARDOGS for the Golden Joystick Awards in the Best Early Access Game 2026 category — the winner is decided by player voting at goldenjoysticks.com.

BULKHEAD announced a new sales milestone for WARDOGS — three million copies sold — and thanked the community for its support.

Today, September 25, at 14:00 Kyiv time WARDOGS will go into a technical pause for about an hour: the studio is rolling out a security update, login and all services will be unavailable.

The studio announced the Season 02 start date — October 15, 2026. No content details yet.

Leaderboard rows now expand: you can see when a player logs in, how many hours on which days they played, and how those hours split between the two servers. The table can be sorted by hours, kills, K/D, CASH and days.

BULKHEAD released the Community Highlights Week 01 recap and teased Season 02. A $100,000 contest is open until October 8, but Ukraine isn't on the eligible country list.

On 25 August it was a chat with five people in it. Today it is more than 500 in Discord, two servers of a hundred slots each and our own player statistics.

Two Ukrainian WARDOGS communities have agreed to keep a shared ban list. Whoever gets thrown out here does not get into theirs, and the other way round.

The first server hit its hundred every evening and half the community stood in the queue. Since 15 September there is a second one: same maps, same rules, shared bans.

Patch 0.11 has been installed and the WARDOGS UA | HUB server is back online. Find it via the new Community tab in the server list.

The website now has a leaderboard for our WARDOGS server — its own stats on hours, joins, and kills, gathered by polling the server every two minutes. On its first day, 184 players already made the list.

BULKHEAD took the servers down on Monday, 14 September at 11:00 Kyiv time; the outage lasted 50 minutes. Patch 0.11 splits the browser into Official and Community, adds search by name, and makes community server IDs stable across restarts.

The studio confirmed that one game server had been kicking players to the main menu since release. It has now been shut down.

BULKHEAD has admitted that demand for the game exceeded beta-test expectations, so the login queue is large and some players are occasionally bounced back.

WARDOGS Discord reported a bug banning some players just for trying to join a server. Developers have identified the cause and are preparing a fix.

WARDOGS topped Steam's top-grossing chart on prepurchases alone, beating Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, and Marvel Rivals — before its servers have even opened.

BULKHEAD released the WARDOGS launch trailer — the game is now available in Steam Early Access, with console version confirmed for 2028.

BULKHEAD have named 2028 as the console release date for WARDOGS for the first time, while the PC version has just launched in Steam Early Access.

BULKHEAD opened Steam preloading for the game, with early access launch still set for 19:00 Kyiv time. They also released the Season 1 changelog alongside it.

BULKHEAD's «The Journey So Far…» video description now lists an exact launch time, not just a date — today, September 10.

In the description of the "The Journey So Far…" video, BULKHEAD gave an exact time for the first time: launch trailer at 13:00 and early access at 19:00 Kyiv time. The price on Ukrainian Steam is 829 UAH.

On September 10, WARDOGS opens to everyone in early access. Here's what the studio promises, how much the game will cost, and where to play with the Ukrainian community tomorrow.

BULKHEAD released episode 11 of "10 Reasons NOT to Buy WARDOGS" focused on cheaters: why anti-cheat details stay hidden and why reporting matters more than filming cheat clips.

WARDOGS UA | HUB has acquired its own 100-player WARDOGS server. It goes live on 10 September, the day the game enters Early Access. Everyone is welcome; announcements are posted in our Discord.

BULKHEAD named two approved hosting partners. At QONZER a 60–100 slot server costs £49.95–69.95 a month; BisectHosting has not shown prices yet. Servers go live on 10 September.

An analysis of the WARDOGS catalog shows the Halftrack Backpack costs more than the L2A6 tank. Comparing prices of the cheapest and most expensive items in the game.

BULKHEAD have shown Zestafona for the first time — a compact industrial and warehouse map for WARDOGS. It won't be in the beta and arrives at launch on September 10 or later.

BULKHEAD has lifted the closed beta restrictions for WARDOGS — anyone can now play without invites or an NDA, with access open until Sunday, 11:00 Kyiv time.

The WARDOGS beta test no longer requires invites or a waitlist — anyone can join. Access runs until Sunday, September 6, 11:00 Kyiv time.

The WARDOGS beta test ends Sunday at 11:00 Kyiv time. Early access follows on September 10.

The WARDOGS closed beta servers went up Thursday at 21:00 Kyiv time and stay up until Sunday 11:00. NDA is lifted, and Linux players report the new anti-cheat is blocking them.

BULKHEAD announced the #WARDOGS100K clip contest with a $100,000 cash grand prize, but Ukraine is not on the list of eligible countries.

WARDOGS will be announced during a combined showcase of 16 shooters on Twitch. What exactly will be shown is still unknown; a recap follows right after the show.

17:00 UTC, “DROP INTO THE FIRING RANGE”. They are testing the login queue and the backend before launch. Game servers: “a handful for the evening, no promises”.

Two dates worth keeping apart: BULKHEAD's own show on Twitch and the opening of Early Access. What is known for sure — and what is not.

No monetization during Early Access. After the full release it starts and the base price goes up — but early buyers pay nothing extra.

We rebuilt the contract board. It used to be an eight-field form. Now it is a console: you tap when, how many of you and where — the roster assembles itself and all that is left is to confirm. ⏱ The hour bar. Twenty-four columns showing when the servers are actually busy. Not a guess — our own Steam samples every 10 minutes. Tap an hour and the run is set for it. 🩺 Roles, not “looking for a team”. Assault, medic, support, scout, driver,

A British studio put the Ukrainian song “Reve ta stohne Dnipr shyrokyi” into the trailer for its shooter. We were the first Ukrainian outlet to notice — and it is no coincidence: the game has three factions, and the conflict on its maps openly echoes real ones.

The test closed on 24 August at 02:00 UTC. In three days roughly half a million different people tried the game, and on concurrent players WARDOGS passed Squad and Arma. For a game with no advertising budget at the big showcases, that is the strongest argument it could make before launch.

On Sunday the test hit its maximum: 105,774 players at once on Steam. Two days earlier it was 92,595 — so the audience grew across the whole weekend instead of falling away after the first evening. And that was the same week as the Call of Duty beta and a major Battlefield 6 update.

The beta opened on 21 August at 19:00 London time, and the first players met a queue straight away. Twitch Drops went live the same day — but they granted no access to the test, only rewards. The way in was still a pre-order or the Steam Playtest lottery.

For a minute of screen time at a major industry showcase the studio was asked for about three hundred thousand dollars. Instead of paying, BULKHEAD put together The FPS Games Show and invited fifteen more teams — free, with no paid slots in the programme. The show is on 3 September at 21:00 Kyiv time, and the big WARDOGS announcement is promised there.

The studio confirmed Linux is not officially supported and that Proton work is in progress. The obstacle is the anti-cheat.

BULKHEAD listed their own weak points: not enough content, the Early Access price, visuals, and their previous shooter's failure. The game then topped the chart.

The studio has committed to adding no in-game purchases for the duration of early access — the single exception being an optional Supporter Pack of cosmetics. Instead there is stepped pricing: the earlier you come in, the less you pay. For a game whose whole economy rests on in-game money, that is a promise of principle.

BULKHEAD and Team17 have named the early access date and opened Steam pre-orders. The standard edition costs $39.99, the Supporter Edition $49.99 and adds cosmetics only. Every pre-order came with guaranteed access to the closed beta on 21–23 August.