How WARDOGS Works

Match setup

Up to 100 players join one of three teams: Lonestar, Valkyra or Manticore. The current evidence confirms the team names but does not establish different gameplay bonuses.

Control Zone rules

Teams fight over a randomized 2×2 km Control Zone inside a published 256 km² battlefield. The team with the most players in the zone earns points, and the first team to 100 points wins.

Hot Zone

A smaller moving Hot Zone doubles a player’s objective contribution and cash reward in the published design. Timing and movement rules have not been published.

Persistent cash loop

Players start with $10,000, earn cash through teamplay and spend it on each-life combinations of weapons, equipment and vehicles. The published design says cash persists between matches.

Roles, vehicles and the battlefield

• Equipment-defined roles instead of fixed classes
• Player-built fortifications and forward operating bases
• Destructible buildings and battlefield structures
• Transport, tanks, helicopters and artillery examples
• Proximity voice chat

Boundary: Detailed inventories, values and limits remain unconfirmed for Early Access.

A high-level match flow

1. Join one of the three teams.
2. Buy a loadout for a useful role.
3. Move toward the Control Zone or support teammates reaching it.
4. Earn cash through combat, support, transport or objective actions.
5. Reassess spending because the published design says cash persists.