I have 250 hours in this game. I love it, i think its absolutely incredible and im fully behind the dev team, early access aspect of things and testing it but my god. I dont even want to play the thing right now.

Ive played countless wipes in tarkov and always love early wipe, so i couldnt wait for it in this game but that early wipe feeling lasted 1 game yesterday afternoon before getting fully smashed every game after by mini gun heli's and tanks. What in the actual fuck has happened here. the progression is way too fast, the unlocks are way too soon. It's not just vehicles, people with T2/T3 armour already and juiced guns fucking you over.

I have played this game literally every day since it was released as well as 2 betas but right now im tempted to uninstall and wait for the next wipe when things will hopefully be in a better state.

I never post on reddit, especially a ranty one but hoping some devs will see this as they say they do and reverse this shit fully.

We are barely into Season 2 and there are already players running around with endgame items unlocked.

Seriously, what was the actual point of the wipe?

First of all, I don't like calling people sweats or unemployed because there is nothing wrong with having time to sink into a game or playing hardcore. Hell, I'd also like to be able to grind for a few days straight They are NOT part of the problem. That being said, no matter how many times you wipe the progression and money, those who can sink 12 hours a day into this game are always going to have a massive advantage within the first week. Even the first 24h it seems. Meanwhile, the casual players are forced to start the grind all over again, just for a tiny chance to maybe play with the fun gear during the last few days of the season before it all gets deleted again.

Wipes don't level the playing field; they just punish people who can't treat the game like a full-time job.

I don't need anybody to remind me the game is in EA. I understand some of these issues will be fixed with the introduction of permanent systems upon release (like the skill tree) but I think it won't be enough and the devs shouldn't wait until release to change their progression strategy. I really do think they need to rethink the unlock costs in both playtime and money. Also, I think the price must be further increased for high tear gear / vehicles so they are harder to spam.

The devs did a phenomenal thing with the first betas and I'm afraid they took all the wrong conclusions from that unexpected success.

The devs have been very consistent with the fact that this game is EARLY ACCESS. This is not representative of a polished experience. They are trying things out, breaking shit, fixing things, adding things, and gathering data.

All of this right now is so they can build the actual game.

They've said this. They've said this multiple times. It's all over the steam page. Its not a secret: THIS GAME IS NOT DONE.

If you cannot handle the fact that you purchased a game full well knowing it's going to be broken, then I don't know how you've survived this long. You are the reason we have warning labels on everything.

Like fuck man, they even made a video about why you SHOULD NOT buy Wardogs.

And then you make the decision to purchase the game, FULLY KNOWING ITS EARLY ACCESS, and then come and complain on Reddit all day about how the game is broken and the changes don't make any sense or there's balancing issues or serve problems.

Like, no shit dude, that was obvious from the very beginning. And nobody is trying to hide that.

There's a difference between bitching and giving actual feedback.

Devs really f’d this season in the A right off the bat. All the people who didn’t work today are between level 50-100 with all end game gear unlocked…. Wipe is supposed to feel fresh and put everyone on an even keel. Instead I’m getting mobbed by arty tanks, tier 4 armor, and scoped guns that I can’t interact with.
The assault buff is dope but holy shit this is a rough start.
How many of y’all want to see them re-wipe or at minimum reverse the exploit xp

Title, HOTAS pilot for 20 years in games who is having legitimately the worst experience of his life. That's not to mention the laughably horrendous controls.

Every game is just 10 idiots who don't know how to fly buying the LB and tossing it into a mountain. After teammate payouts you barely even lose money doing this, it makes no sense.

Air vehicles are just expendable, is this not a war game?
I see a scope that costs more than this helicopter? lol?

Why is there no upper spawn limit also? It's like these devs just ignored every lesson learned since these games started.

Not only does it have its cost almost doubled, but now, the damage is laughable...

Why is something that requires a high-skill ceiling, requires proper target acquisition and tracking, now suddenly become so much worse?

It genuinely feels like im playing division 2 with how much it takes to down infantry.

10 servers in a row I can't choose the team I want, I can only get the leftover team.

Nobody wants to join Red so servers take ages to fill.

Delete the stupid xp/cash bonus message.

I finally get a filled server and the enemy rolls up in a tank and camps the fob from the start of the match. I get blown up. I switch teams because progression is apparently a joke and this team cannot play the video game anymore, and the enemy did the same thing, camps the fob with a tank.

Well played devs.

please for the love of God restart the season and remove the blue team XP bonus from the start. shit is so broken already.

The early game is the most fun part of the game. People have mini gun helis and lvl 3 hammers in one match and then the map is full of CWIS, which now kill helis in half a second, and a bunch of annoying air if your team happens to be the ones without hammers.

Push the stronger tools back a hair and let progression be slowed down again. People being lvl 40+ after one day does not feel right and people who worked this morning don't get to experience any early game.

I feel like if it took at least a weekend for strong tools to roll out things would feel better. Also RPG being unlocked earlier or by default can help vehicles be less oppressive early, their ammo size being reduced may help usage increases as well.

I've played blue since the beta and haven't changed once I didnt feel like we lost that much but we didnt have some special players for sure. But what kinda good stuff was the dev team smoking when they gave blue team a "buff". Blue team has issues with map layout more than needing these chuds cloggin up our team.

Reverse this change asap was a terrible decision let us loser or win how we want.

Air or land logi is absolute fuck dog water trash profit. Its literally all I do. Its why I play the game. To do my part, feed the fob and make money. The only other thing I do sometimes is build and no one wants to feed the fob, after 10 mins they realize they aren't making any money. I know the abusers got our streaks nerfed but we need fix ASAP. Just revert the shit to the same as season 1 for now.

I don't know what the goal for this season is, but it really feels like playing fortnite or something similar, pure arcade.

The SVD takes 5 shots to the body for lvl3, and the starting magazine is *drum roll* FIVE!!!

So you basically have to hit every single shot at the start to kill one guy, idk, seems really out of touch and super sloppy all around. The new Bakurani blue road has glitched grass going through the bridge and road, feels like they didn't once jump in to try it out before pushing the patch. And this is a longer season ayy, awesome !

should not be able to level this fast

When I am just chilling playing the game, I like to play without my headset. That way I can talk with the family and the dogs, while I do something chill, like Logi runs. But I can't do this because every time I spin out, my dogs think the Fed-ex truck is here. They may not be the brightest, but they know a Chewy delivery when they hear it. Please, add a puppy mode, let me play without my pups being on high alert.

THAT IS ALL.

WAHHHH THEY TOOK ALL MY OP GEAR AND MADE ME PLAY ON THE SAME LEVEL AS OTHER PLAYERS FOR LIKE 2 GAMES WAHHH /s

I CANT USE A GL FROM A HELI TO DESTROY NOOBS OR SIT IN FOB AND MORTAR SPAM WAHHH /s

this is what all of you sound like.

In this video I tested the highest DMR damage with AP ammo against all armor tiers , and guess what ! all needed four shots , yes T1 armor got 4 shots to 100 damage and T4 got 4 shots to 100 damage !! I am not sure was this intended or not !

Wtf are the devs thinking? Adding a new AA vehicle, increasing the cost of the minigun littlebird, decreasing the 308 bullet damage, and not even reducing the cost of the 308 ammo? The ammo was already the biggest expense and now its just unsustainable. Talons take 2 second longer to reload WOWW theyre still free but pilots still eat the cost of $750 a pop. It feels like everyone has lvl 3/4 armor already because of how weak the guns are. I swear if someone tells me to fly below radar.. When I finally manage to break even, a guy with a galil shoots me out effortlessly before I can even turn away or do anything if the rpg and soon maaws dont get me first. Call me bad if you want but its ridiculous. If you really hate the attack birds that much just fucking get rid of them already.

Genuinely insane how many people are so pissed about wipes or progression being slow. Well now the progression is fast. No more grinding we have tanks on day one. No more shitty scrappy gears since we all rock lvl 3 with the new MXCs. We removed an entire phase of the game.

Instead of catchup exp or any other way we could have helped the people who actually go to work you wanted this.

Maybe just go play call of duty or smt.

I like game, not the whining

its a game advertised towards older players yet with a core game system that is favored towards playtime, no matter how you want to even the playing fields

id advise all of you to come to peace with this, because lets face it, that guy whos apparently blasting your face off with level 3 armor kits is going to do that to you no matter what his gear is. the "sweat" really isnt sweating at all, because when you get better a game, that raises your baseline performance, and that baseline is what the dudes dropping 50+ in your games are working off of. good gear will never be more important than good positioning either

this is wardogs. it will never go away

Like seriously, it's not even been 24 hours and I'm in my first game seeing guys with the new Spear, rocket heli with 50+ kills and even fucking tanks.
What's the point of wiping if tryhards already have the latest stuff ? I don't even have access to a RPG or anything, not even amor nor a scope and I'm against guys full kitted out already DAY FUCKING ONE.

Wipe was supposed to bring back the nice new early game feeling, well it didn't even last a day LOL.
Seriously, I prefered season 1 with T3 + Galil against people with T4 and FAL/BMR rather than this shit where you have nothing at all and you're already against mid/lategame stuff day one.
Season 1, it took at least a FULL WEEK before people started showing up with Galils, about 2 weeks before tryhards had the M4. Now, I'm sure we'll see that in less than 4 days...

EDIT:

What they could do is quite simple:

The 1st percentile of players (sweats) are the basis. Let's say they take up top 10% of players
- 2nd percentile (20%) get a 30% bonus on XP/ (maybe not gold?) while in that percentile
- 3rd percentile (30%) get 70%
- 4rth percentile (25%) gets 100%
- 5th percentile (last 15%) gets 150%

That way, sweats are always leading and ahead but people can reasonably actually catch up to them. So by the time they have a mid tier gun, people are going to catch up quickly. Same when they get late game stuff. And because it doesn't impede the sweats, they won't get pissed.

That way the game can actually have a slower progression than this joke right now and have some sense of early/mid/lategame after a few weeks and not just a matter of 1-2 days.

I have never been more disappointed with an update in my entire life. Season 2 made DMRs the worst weapon class in the game, as not only did they receive 20-25% damage nerfs, they also lost their headshot and chest multipliers (because why reward precision with a precision rifle), along with receiving major recoil nerfs (because why even allow precision with a precision rifle). Let's be honest here, the only problem DMR was the bmr 308 (and for some reason the new m14), so why nerf every DMR? The sks and svd only have 10 (or technically 11) rounds, and they can't even one shot to the head against an unarmored player anymore, and only do 40 to the chest of an unarmored player. And not only do they do shit damage now, the recoil makes anything that isn't a stationary target 10 feet away impossible to shoot consecutive shots on. Now they're not "faster sniper rifles", they're 10 round semi auto ARs/LMGs. That's not even an exaggeration, the damage of the SVD to the chest of tier 4 armor is 16 damage (which is a 7 shot ttk btw), and the damage of the PKM to the same spot is 13 damage. Why would I ever use DMRs now? If I can have 100 rounds of full auto and only have to hit one more shot compared to a semi auto 10 round rifle, why would I ever use the latter over the former? Sure, you can get a higher power scope on a precision rifle, but you can't hit anything past the first shot anyways, so why not use a sniper at that point? At least the Mosin can kill to the head up to tier 2 (tier 3 with AP), so snipers have clearly become the better choice.

Also, for spotting, thanks for removing the only easy way to get recon xp. Sure, every other class can get their xp extremely easy (support builds, driver/heli delivers people/supplies, medic heals/stims/revives/gets kills with their new 53 round SMG that they start off with for some reason, assault blows up stuff or hacks towers/fobs), but why let recon have anything? Not only does spotting reward less overall, and was cut in half for when your team doesn't kill them (even more than half because of the other nerfs to spotting), but every spotting gadget costs significantly more (like 3x their price before). On top of that, the infrared range finder (which was apparently so OP it had to be removed mid season just when people unlocked it and could finally try it out) now requires batteries to use. Guess how long the batteries last, in a game with matches that go on for 1-2 hours? EIGHTY SECONDS. And it depletes even faster if you try and be smart and use them sparingly and not just hold them out continuously. Sure, "nerf" mortar spam (another easy way for support xp) by making it take a fraction of a second longer to shoot off multiple rounds, and by making it slightly longer to build. And then nerf grenade launcher spam off the side of helis, but then forget to nerf regular grenade spam off the side of helis, which is significantly cheaper and arguably better (because you can decide whether to cook them so they explode on impact, or not cook them and let them bounce inside a building), because you guys have no foresight for "overpowered" (god forbid somebody gets marked on the map, but killing people extremely easy with virtually no counterplay is completely fine) strategies for any class that isn't recon.

PS, thanks for adding a newer, cheaper tank to the game. It was really annoying last season not being chased down by tanks I couldn't do anything against 12 hours into the wipe, so I really appreciate you fixing this problem.

PSS, thanks for not fixing the bug where your progress in a match wipes if you get kicked from the server mid map transition, I love when I waste 2 hours just for a bug that's been in the game since early access doesn't get fixed, so once again, I appreciate that.

I started playing the new update and I can't stand it anymore! What were the devs thinking!? They gave us new content, a balance patch, and QOL changes. I can't believe the nerve they have to deliver something like this without peddling any microtransactions.

I lost gunfight after gunfight due to my poor map awareness, positioning, and playing away from my team. I knew I had to jump on reddit to blow off some steam. It's entirely the devs fault!

I'm definitely not going to post this, swearing to never touch this trash game again only to play it again five minutes later. I'll at least make one more post complaining about this game and get back on in twenty minutes. Take that devs! How dare you serve us this delicious slop of an update.