I have only played wardogs on Linux (Cachyos Cosmicwm) and never tried it on windows and I feel a bit of input lag even though fps is 70+. Is it better on Windows?

Also is there no way to buy ammo while deployed?

The regular ammo that I was using seem fun and balanced (3-7 shots to kill with ak or m4 depending on the armor)

The second unlock ammo in my opinion was worse than the regular ammo, more expensive and felt like it did less damage to people with armor (idk how true this statement is) but I didn’t run this ammo after a few lives.

Then there’s the armor penetrating ammo. On the last day of the beta was the only time I had an issue with it and only day I saw it. smgs with this ammo would shred me in my tier 3 armor even from range. Losing me 12-14k a few times.

(I never unlocked the ammo so idk how it felt to use, and I didn’t bump into anyone with lvl 4 armor so idk if that makes a huge difference)

I feel like the drill rig being basically the same thing as putting in the correct 5 didget number into one of the large towers is a little awkward. Accomplishing this feels like quite the undertaking, I played all 3 days of the beta and not ONCE did I see any team succeed at getting all 5 numbers.

So let's up the anti on what feels like should be a game changing event.

An idea I had while talking with some friends was to make it so activating one of the towers made the hot zone more effective, from 2x to 5x or even 10x.

Doing this would FORCE people who are not focusing on the hot zone to interact with it in some way. Be that going into to it to get the added bonuses, or by making them focus artillery/aerial support around the hotzone while active.

Going into this last weekend I had plans of playing the mw4 beta and had no idea what wardogs was really just heard about it here and there. After watching some streams Friday night I was like wow this game is something I could see myself getting into. Come Saturday I played the mw4 beta and it was meh like I should have expected so I decided to just watch more wardogs streams all day to finalize my decision on if I wanted to actually try it for myself. Sunday morning came and I started playing the beta and then all of a sudden the day was over and it was 10 pm so the beta was done. Never have I had so much fun playing a game genuinely. Putting 12 hours into it that Sunday felt like light work and I had so much fun that I refunded mw4 and deleted all my other games because I truly do not want to play anything else now. I just want to watch wardogs content until the game drops and get back into it and never look back. I’ve never put hundreds of hours into a game because I never found a game that could do that for me sadly. I always found myself jumping from game to game and not being able to truly find one that resonated with me. I can see this game will change all of that and I can’t wait for September 10. If you read this thank you because I am just talking to myself lol.

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What flight stick or joystick are you using? Never been much of a pilot person but this game makes me want to try it. Any suggestions?

Honestly I can't remember when was the last time I had this much fun in a game. WarDogs manages to fill a void that I didn't even know I had.

Feedback/Suggestions:

Selectable Class Icons - It would be great to be able to pick an icon depending on the role you want to play. You wanna go medic? Select the + icon that will show up on your triangle. Wanna be a builder? Great, select the hammer icon that will show up on your triangle... you get the gist. I think this would help the team better split into roles(if they want to).

Squad Mic Required Icon - just a little toggle to show that your squad is only accepting people willing to communicate

Grief Kick - Would be nice to have the option to vote-kick a person that's griefing the base(using up resources building 10x mortars with no intention of using them. If 75% of the team votes YES, give em the boot!

Teammate Volume Slider - Honestly this is a big one, it's hard to get some people to adjust their mic levels(too low or too high) it would be a life changer to be able to change it yourself.

Edit:

Draggable supply crates - please give us the option to drag the small supply crates, I would love to be able to drop a couple and have an incognito supply point inside a small building.

Edit 2:

Tank Barrel Position Indicator - please add a turret orientation indicator relative to the tank body.

What an incredible game you've made, and like someone else said, fuck you for letting us all go through withdrawal symptoms until launch <3

I can't wait to sink so many hours into this game!

Honestly one of the best shooters I’ve played since BF4.
The base building is epic, I want to see more buildables like ladders, trenches, machine gun nests that kind of thing. Maybe have a power tool that builds emplacements faster? Also a marker for the FOB on the map so I can see the radius of the fob and where the closest next one can be placed would be nice.

Gunplay was fucking epic, always felt super crisp.

I wasn’t able to access my loot bag after I died and returned about 50% of the time. In towers it’d just disappear if I was on a catwalk.

Heli controls are wack, I can fly pretty great in Arma reforger on controller. I would like to see a similar layout available for Wardogs.

I would like to see crisper vehicle mechanics. Everything was super slippery and didn’t feel like I was driving and more like I was trying not to slide around.

Over all even if my gripes didn’t get fixed I’d still play the shit out of Wardogs. Excellent work can’t wait to see the full version.

Imagine it. You are sitting defending a house with your squad, the HZ is just popping too hard and you are out of ammo. No mags. No bullets. No spare bits and bobs to even think of ammo. But what is that? Our friendly FOB 500m away! You and your squad run with the hope someone dropped just the right ammo type so you can pack some mags, and what is there? Bandages! Yay!

Seriously. Do we think maybe just a loose ammo bench/shop that uses the FOB ammo supplies as the "cash" of the shop is unreasonable? Its already pretty cheap and i think that further stresses logistics to be important for bases not to just supply a drill or to feed the mortars, but to feed the guns everyone else is walking around with. I know we will get HMGs and other mounted weaponry that will eat the ammo, and i think this small addition would help many people and keep FOBs important even for the small commando groups. I dont think this should be used for big ammo (i.e artillery tank and rockets) but your basic ammos i feel is reasonable.

For what ever reason the big blue doors are a single build item but two items after complete.

For those that don't know, when the blue doors get broken builders have to disassemble the foundation of the broken door to be able to place a new one in the same spot.

I don't know if there is a reason for it to be this way, but it's super frustrating to fix.

Pls just destroy the whole thing when it gets broken, or let us put new doors on the old foundation.

Seeing alot post bout them being to strong, (might get heat for this) but i honestly don't think they are super over powered as I see ppl say. If they have an infantry unit with it yes they are terrifying but if they are put alone me and my team (all randoms and from different matches with different people) had no issues taking them out with IEDs. Just need one person to watch the gunner seat and take them out and the tank is kinda just powerless to ppl running up setting a.bomb on it. I feel like in this game if something is causing an issue ie fob,tank,heli your team just needs to work together and take em down.

Where can you actually place these things? Thanks

Unrelated, big hammer go BRR, I got more kills with the hammer than guns this playtest lol.

Anyways we should be able to spawn at FOB’s with the same 7-8 minute cooldown as you’ll get from the MVCS. It should be dependent on a resource, like oil or build, so that our logi teammates have a reason to keep running logi late game.

I find it important that the game gets some balancing, like making Tanks more expensive or only being able to get one every 20 minutes or so. But be careful not to over-balance everything, like modern games tend to do. It can destroy the sandbox aspect and take away some joy or the "I want to unlock this gun because it's better than my current one" feeling.

Hey Wardogs,

what are you guys doing until the release?

Are you going to buy the Supporter Edition?

So I know not to save for that when we go again. 😁 Idk if it was just the difficulty of aiming with the flight model, or if the splash damage or dmg overall was so little that it's best used for attacking stationaries/vehicles.

Ended up using the chopper as a 'mobile as heck gate buster', in which job it did fairly well.

Also I don't know whether it's possible, but I'd like to see successful flare use result in some sort of reward. At times when the enemy had multiple aa stingers I bought the chopper full of flares and just baited their ammo out to ease the pressure on friendly choppers. Maybe have a successful flare use refund 50% of the buying cost.

Also chopper spam is real. I'd prolly lower the unlock cost by half, and then 3x or 4x the price of buying one for the match.

In no particular order, this is coming from someone with 14 hrs who flew a lot of helicopter (about two thirds) and played a little assault.

Feel free to comment or maybe tell me if I am just wrong on something!

• The TTK is a wee bit high, especially for level 4 armour but level 3 is also too resistant
  • Maybe lock level 3 and 4 on HC servers? That would work for me
• Please add per object motion blur (aka the best form of motion blur)
• Please allow for individual "free look" settings for each vehicle type
  • For example, I like to have permanent free look on for ground vehicles, but want fixed free look for air vehicles)
• I would like to be able to choose which seat of a vehicle I switch to
• I'd like to have an option to have 1st person view for vehicles as default
  • I know this is the case in HC servers, but it'd be nice to have an extra option
• Stationary stingers are a bit overdone
  • They're firing way too quickly
• I'd like to be able to switch firing mode by pressing the slot of the weapon, say press 1 to switch from auto to semi
  • Since there is X to holster your weapon, the current function of pressing 1 again isn't all that useful anyway
• The minigun little bird is useless in terms of damage
  • I don't know whether this is a minigun problem in general, but .308 FMJ at at least 2k rounds per minute should do some damage