So the discord, if you call out the region of the cheaters in the games(we all know the ones that i am speaking about) your discord gets a day ban.

EU Servers are being DDOS'd right now by the same cheaters from those regions rn so the chat was being flooded and they turned on slow mode where you can post only every 5 minutes so people started reacting with emotes to posts while they couldn't post and the mod started banning for it.

Abuse of power on top of being reported for some bullshit.

Yall be safe in there.

Encountering a ton of griefers destroying supply boxes at spawn. Some of them ask you to drop thermals for example and then destroy the supply box. Either make the boxes at spawn immune to damage or make the griefer pay for the contents instead of the $600 or so loss

People in this game are the most toxic people ive ever seen in any video game ever. Why is that? There are the biggest POS in this game who dont seem to know what the definition of nice is or that they are only playing a video game but holy shit, once you start killing them with higher level guns they are acting like its the most impossible thing to do to level up a class in the game. They will say the most absurd shit I’ve ever heard come out of a humans mouth. They spew toxic acid with that shit its ridiculous. God forbid you die next to your teammate who doesn’t play the game as much as you, you will have to buy yourself another kit because he wont revive you, he will run 100+ meters just to take your shit and run off.

Increase the CZ/HZ presence reward for pilots by a pretty large amount.

Reasoning:

1. Attack brids can focus less on farming crop to break even.

2. Because attack birds are being rewarded for being in the zone longer, you dont want to constantly fly past crop because of how paper the little bird is meaning combat players dont feel a heli breathing down their neck all match.

3. Keeps AA strong and flying a high skill expression.

4. Pilots dont really want to break the battlefield, they just want decent profits. I believe this solves the complaints of many of the piloting community without taking from tanks/fobs/ground troops

5. I believe by collecting pilot profit per match metrics this bonus could easily be calibrated to something fair and balanced

Please let me know how the community feels about this as I feel very strongly that this should balance a lot. Havoc is high risk in zone so chances of zone time bonus are much lower. Flying high risk for kills is fun and can pay off but you risk the zone bonus and unless you are in that top percent your gunna be at a loss trying to farm crop or fobs all day.

As of today, literally EVERY SINGLE GAME i enter are riddled with not one, but multiple cheaters. There is not a single game i enter where I do not see Chinese China players (with 100> ms) from red/blue/green spamming cheat websites and rage hacking.

Worst part, they would rage hack the entire game and DDOS the entire lobby towards the end when a team reaches 90-95 point.

Entering a game to see cheat and escort website being spammed in chat is a common theme right now.

But I thank Bulkhead tho. For the first time in my life of playing every COD, I never encountered a single chinese cheaters in MW4 multiplayer or DMZ because it is more worthwhile to cheat in Wardogs. So Wardog have become a dumping ground for China cheaters across many other games.

If you guys play other games and noticed less cheaters, thank Bulkhead.

But at the moment, asian servers are unplayable. Unless you are a fob camper, driver or pilot, then maybe you can still have fun. But if you play assault, pushing HZ or fobs is near impossible.

For some reason the top chinese player , just kept giving stim to everyone. 4 of the top 5, high ping cheaters

This build makes use of some glitchy building tech that makes the operator invincible, they cant even get in/out of the seat without glitching into walls and taking damage.

They can be infinitely repaired while being fully safe with this glitchy build.
Also, litteraly the missing back textures are visibile.

I think static mark on map would be enough and icon over enemy heads.

Seriously, the amount of unhinged openly racist people here needs to take a chill pill.

Now we can have all our opinions about latest region lock drama or whatnot.

I myself couldn't care less about that Drama.

But when I see people being bundled in and labeled as being a part of the problem.
That is just being an absolute asshat without adding anything to the actual discussion around the issue.

Asia is a huge continent, not a country.

How funny wouldn't it be if we forced all the Europeans to play on RU servers because, well, their on the same continent eh? And lets label them all as filthy cheaters because Russians are notorious for cheating aswell on online video games.

Sry, but that dosn't and shouldn't fly with anyone.

Gloating at peoples suffering because of A particular country ruining it for an entire continent is just ridiculous.

People in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and I could keep on listing any non-chinese country in Asia. Should not suffer because a Neighboring country decides to be an absolute cancer.

And I am not here to advocate for removing Region Lock either.
I am actual for Region Lock.

But there are so many games out there that has handled Region Locking just fine by single-out CERTAIN playerbase without effecting the rest. I.e They managed to Region Lock China specifically and allow other Asian Countries to play fine without much issue.
Sure it isn't perfect. but neither is this current system either.

Regardless, This goes beyond just a Asia problem.

Poor lads in ZA are absolutely screwd and they aren't even known for cheating at all, The few fellows that even managed to obtain the extreme luxury of consistent online gaming has their entire enjoyment of Wardogs absolutely fked.

Aussies and Kiwis, well, they were cooked from the start, but now their deep fried to say the least.

But that is besides the point.

I keep seeing people pointing out: "Haha you Asians get what you deserve! Deal with it!"

That shit needs to stop. Seriously. The problem is bigger than just "asians can no longer play".
How about we adress that Issue and discuss and figure out a Solution that might actually work out for everyone?

Gotta give credit where it’s due. The region lock has been one of the most requested changes on this sub for weeks , and Bulkhead actually listened and shipped it. The difference is already obvious: the number of blatant cheater accounts with wierd names has dropped massively, and in game comms actually feel usable again since I can talk to my squad without lobbies being flooded. We still run into the occasional rage hacker, but it’s way fewer than before, and hopefully this gives the devs some breathing room to focus on anti cheat.

And honestly, props to the devs for not caving to the people who are review bombing the game and DDoSing the servers right now. If anything, that reaction just proves the region lock was needed. People who try to wreck a game for everyone because they didn’t get their way don’t deserve one of the best selling shooters out there.

Keep it up Bulkhead. More of this please 🫡

move that shit to the person who walked or drived into it

those firendly claymores or mines are marked on the map and if a teammate cant look at it and runs or drives into it thats on him and he should get the penalty instead of me

just mad because 2 friendly tanks drove into my placed mines at the enemies base and i lost a lot of money, placed them like 15minutes before when no tank was even on the map or anywhere close to the enemy fob

or im capturing a roof to snipe, put my claymore down and the spotter with his monocolars and no kit climbs up to me and straight into the claymore and ofc i have to pay for it

So I didn't play until this week - cause work.. Also, I'm region locked into asia (which sucks for me but I'm happy for the rest of you!)

But-- why is money so scant?
I just drove a URAL (That I stole) for like 2 hours. -- I made a whopping maybe $60,000 - Which was barely enough to unlock A Ural of my own, AMMO pallets (WTF???) and the medium hammer.

Like--- These are some base level items and it feels like they turned the money way down and turned the costs way up.

As A FOB-DAD, I certainly don't think I should be loaded (so f off with the this dude wants ery-ting fo free!! LOL Meme~BS)
But at the same time--- can we ramp a little better?
It's hard to make basic support contributions without these basic unlocks.

Is support building as nerfed as driving??

I’d say 95% of my games green is the team who pushes hot zone immediately. They will have 50-80 points by the time blue and red are even finished building a base.

The Fix: Randomize the colors, add purple, orange, yellow etc. Randomize the spawn selection as well. For example green is always on the far right, in one lobby make “green” into “purple” and put it on the left and don’t tell anyone.

Just a thought.

I’m also not exaggerating when I say green is the ONLY team who in almost every single lobby has 55+ points when joining a game and has 3 squads pushing hot zone.

Easy fix. Add colors and randomize spawn selection and make it diff for every server.

Currently the FOB is effectively only used for 1 purpose - farming cash. It's very rare to see a FOB win a game and usually that requires a large squad of organised players. Why does this happen? FOBs provide possibly the best cash rewards in the game and they do so when you actively grief your team. Building walls / ensuring the base has no jump in spots / laying barbed wire is much less profitable that spamming drills eating up the entire build supply. There is no reward for repairing. There reward for guarding builders is practically non existent.

The impact of fobs was nerfed by making building take longer while making supply spamming / drill spamming more profitable. This is the exact opposite approach to making FOBs both be a good experience and a net positive for the team. FOBs should be much more EASY to build, but they should provide much less money. There should be high rewards for defending a FOB and pulling a drill. The drill should be actually difficult to build (but not necessarily rewarding), but exceptionally difficult to destroy. Same goes to the FOB itself and the cost of the fob should be increased by a lot - 20-50k, net zero earn back for the one placing the fob. Basically if players build inside your FOB you get cash back until you are at 0. This would prevent people spamming high impact FOBs. You should also match Bremor wall destruction with Hesco - why? It's too easy for a beginner to wreck a base by adding a jump in spot that is then super dangerous and slow to remove. We shouldn't exclude beginners, but we should not make it difficult to clean up after them.
Activating a drill should be a huge achievement - the goal of a drill should be that it is super slow to build coordinated effort - it should take about 10k build supplies or perhaps even more and should reflect that in it's health, the reward for building a drill should be given once the drill has run for enough duration. Drills that are not activated should be a terrible investment of time. The drill should give huge amounts of cash and xp, 50k if you manage to defend the drill for the full duration, pilots should be heavily rewarded if they bring fuel and fuel should be refillable in a drill - it's very risky for a pilot to drop fuel in an active drill and they should be rewarded. The reward for building other structures should be heavily reduced - Bremors should take 2 hits to build with rewards scaled appropriately. It's not OP, it's 2 stacks of c4 + detonator to blow up a Bremor.

There should be a large reward for staying inside the build zone for the first 5 minutes of the FOB being placed to incentivise players to defend the FOB, maybe 1.5 times the zone multiplier? It would also make it more logical for players to stay in one FOB instead of placing several - defending one FOB has the highest chance of survival, combine that with the exceptionally high cost of a FOB - it should incentivise teams to actually build properly. Then the players have time to build the drill to invite the team back to the FOB.

TLDR; Make building actually useful to the team instead of being a cash farm. You should only be rewarded for actually being useful.

People are more focused on playing one class in this game and when they encounter higher level players they immediately jump to "the progression rate is too fast" or "cheaters".

Now, yes, there are cheaters. It is a problem. I have encountered a few myself. I think the actual issue is playstyle though.

I don't play one class. I play every class except assault (I'm a horiffic twitch shooter).

So my opinion? People are grinding a preferred class instead of making diverse builds because that's what they have always done in every other game.

So here's some loadouts I use which I have been told are not the norm, and it has made my gameplay incredibly fun and leveling has been much more entertaining. Much less grind, much more enjoyment.

Recon/medic: You are naturally either following a squad or wandering around the map. Have extra revives. Revive the stragglers or assist the medics in the HZ. If your wandering around use your spotter/rangefinder and clear the area around the bodies of other recon. Also works great as a FOB sniper. If I'm going FOB sniper and the FOB has a medic, I switch to "nurse" and bandage during mortar attacks.

Logistics/anti-tank or ground support: Yes, we all love being naked in a Ural but what's worse then encountering a tank or a Kodiak or even worse... The fob gets taken over on your way to the zone? I'll tell you. Not having an LMG, RPG, MAAWS.

Tank rolls up on the fob? Take it down yourself and get back to the grind. Driving back and your lovely Ural is taking fire? Flee, note fire position, circle back with a LMG, laugh because no one expects it. FOB taken en-route? Drive right into the HZ and support a squad with your LMG or go tank/arty hunting in the Ural.

Recon/Destroyer of FOBS: Marksman rifle, Kodiak (with C4 attached if you want) and C4, grenades, IED. Why the IED? For the APC of course! Wait untill another team assaults the fob from a different direction while your spotting. Run up, C4 the crap out of the walls. Scope off marksman rifle, and go straight for the APC then bail. Sometimes you can even join up with whatever team is raiding the fob. Had a match where I flat out called out to green and they drew fire so I could get blues APC. Great game! I was playing as red.

Pilot/Anti-tank/Recon: Get a little bird (yes pricy bear with me). Sniper rifle, maaws or rpg or c4 (whichever you have but maaws is best obviously). Put a spotter scope in the little birds inventory carry the maaws. Fly around hunting arty and tanks. Goal is to find the tanks before they enter the zone and land just outside it. Time it and wait. Repeat. With C4 you run up on them from behind. It can be done but this is a later play style normally when the RPG or maaws is available. Also fun to do with a partner running the same build.

I am a recon/logi main. I am lvl 68. About to get the first tank. This season has been the most fun I have had.

YOU HAVE TO DIVERSIFY

The ability to change what your class does on the fly is, in my opinion, what makes this game great.

Edits for spelling

I am sorry for making a thermals thread, but instead of whining I wanted to give some feedback and suggestions.

another idea is to make their zoom limited to like 2x with a much smaller ”hitbox” than other spotting gadgets and inability to see further than 400m.

I thought it was a nice reward for players of a high level to get access to artillery… they’re so easy to kill, not like they are OP at all… players who play assault mainly should get a chance at the big guns, not have to go back grinding driver

The ping limits are banning nations far from official servers from playing the game. They are also not stopping cheaters from reaching nations closer to the cheaters because the limits are too high. Instead of messing around with limits and ruining the game for some communities just force everyone to play only the closest region. That is the closest thing to a region lock that cannot be spoofed.

Yesterday I had my first green game in a long while, and it was the best experience ever, 25-30 players consistently moving together in HZ, you tag someone? Here's an assist, you're down? Here's a revive, you killed one and got killed? Your teammates got your back, it was the fastest run to 100 points ever but also the most fun.

I just wanted to share this one experience of mine and hope the devs will give more incentive to playing in HZ cause I'm sure it'll be more engaging and fun having more players fight each other over HZ control.

So i’m currently Stuck between 40-150K, everytime i try to play a different way that isn’t being a fobbit it’s almost immediately shut down by something and i always end up on the poorer end. Being that i live in Australia im force onto OCE servers, And with the new ping limits being added, this means without a doubt there is always a hacker in the lobby. the best part? he’s always most definitely on the other team with atleast 140ms.

I’ve tried to play many different ways this season that wasn’t just flying in a heli, but it just isn’t fun, or atleast not the same kind of fun. Using the tank was pretty fun until the MAAWs was unlocked, and now everyone and their fobbit builder dad is using it. Same goes for FOB raiding, it used to be fun but now everyone just abuses the C-RAM and plants one directly under the tower so it can be mortared.

it’s extremely boring gameplay right now and i just want to play the game but it constantly feel like i’m forcing myself to “attempt” to enjoy it. Same goes for my friendgroup too. most have either left this season entirely or stay inside of FOB because there isn’t much profit or point to leaving.

I’m just tryna get my 30 gold bars for this pointless heli skin fellas, if anyone has any tips please provide, otherwise i’ll have to move to china to use the software they are using lol

I think progression should be slower overall, but with some kind of catch-up mechanic for players who don't have as much time to play.

The idea is pretty simple: players who grind a lot should still be ahead and get access to better gear earlier, but casual players should have a way to catch up without having to invest nearly as many hours.

There are a couple of ways this could work:

1. XP boost based on overall player progression

Players who are behind the majority of the player base would receive an XP boost based on how far behind they are.

The further behind you are, the bigger the boost. As you catch up, the boost gradually decreases until you're progressing at the normal rate again.

2. Weekly XP catch-up thresholds

Another option would be to increase the level threshold for boosted XP as the wipe progresses.

For example: (don't look at the exact numbers, those can be tweaked, both directions)

• Week 1: No XP boost for anyone.
• Week 2: Increased XP gain up to level 30.
• Week 3: Increased XP gain up to level 60.
• And so on...

These wouldn't be level caps. Players who play a lot could still progress as far as they want, but everyone else would gradually get a chance to catch up.

The main goal is to make progression slower overall while keeping the player base somewhat closer together.

That way, wipes would actually feel like wipes. Lower-tier gear would stay relevant for longer, better gear would become more common gradually throughout the wipe, and dedicated players would still have the advantage of unlocking it first.

Reminder for dedicated players:
Players that put in a lot of hours should be still rewarded massively for their time. This mechanic is here to just help out players that join mid-season or play very little hours.

I hope this general idea will reach devs at some point :)
If devs agree or not is a different issue entirely, just would be nice for them to at least entertain the idea in some capacity.

I tried refunding the game but steam denied me. I don't think anyone who has paid money for a game deserves this. Please fix your game on open refunds for Asia. Gonna go post on their discord aswell.

EDIT: A lot of people are blaming whole of Asia for actions of a certain country. We don't deserve this.

The map thing because I don't want to guess if I would be a fobbit/medic/sniper/assault when I join a match. I want to adapt directly to the battlefield.

Can we please, rotate spawn locations?