Wardogs’ Season 3 will launch on twelfth November, full with a brand new city map, a brand new Restricted Mode, and a ban wave concentrating on 185,000 accounts.
Developer Bulkhead confirmed the small print earlier this week, revealing plans for a full wipe and development adjustments that it hopes will “recapture the shared discovery and sense of accomplishment that outlined” the 100-player tactical shooter when it first launched in Early Entry.
The brand new map will deal with close-quarters preventing, and for a “extra degree enjoying subject”, gamers can dip into Restricted Mode, which gives “an alternate strategy to expertise” the sport because it restricts weapons, ammunition, armour, and automobiles.
Whereas the complete listing of restrictions continues to be being determined, it at the moment contains FMJ-only ammunition, a Tier 2 armour cap, and a diminished assault automobile choice.
“The mode is designed to protect the texture of early-to-mid-game fight and cut back the benefit provided by extra highly effective gear,” the workforce stated.
Bulkhead additionally confirmed seasons are getting longer. Any longer, they’ll final three months, giving gamers “extra time to work in the direction of their objectives earlier than every wipe and the event workforce extra time to arrange future updates”. Development can even be “introduced nearer to the tempo of Season 1”, following the studio’s acknowledgement that Season 2 accelerated “the journey too aggressively”.
“Season 3 is about giving gamers a brand new battlefield to study collectively and a development journey value spending time on,” stated Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer. “Longer seasons give everybody extra room to succeed in their very own objectives, and provides us the time to correctly develop what comes subsequent.”
Alongside Season 3, Bulkhead revealed it has used machine studying to overview is “activating additional layers of its anti-cheat” after analysing 187 million hours of gameplay with assist from machine studying. It says having near 4 million distinctive gamers since launch gave it sufficient information to tug that work ahead from subsequent yr.
“[E]xploiters, real-money merchants, and gold-farming networks” have been completely banned and misplaced their server-hosting privileges, and a participant belief rating is deliberate for 2027.
“Defending the individuals who play Wardogs pretty is crucial to every part we’re constructing,” Brammer added.
Larger adjustments to the metagame, together with a brand new development system, are additionally due in 2027 as Bulkhead works in the direction of Wardogs 1.0. Full Season 3 patch notes shall be out earlier than launch.
Wardogs launched in Steam Early Entry on tenth September, and is due on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S in 2028.
Wardogs is likely one of the breakout successes of the yr. In our early entry Wardogs overview, we stated the sport’s mixture of aggressive shooters’ finest bits with one thing fully of its personal made it “a brilliantly refreshing tackle the style”.