WARDOGS Patch 0.11 is live (14 September maintenance, 08:27\u201309:38 UTC observed): the +5% community server cash bonus, the split server browser, join by ID, and the permanent-ban rule for XP farming.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[720],"tags":[],"blog_tag":[19],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wardogs","blog_tag-patch-notes"],"acf":{"redactor":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"
Updated 14 September 2026, 10:00 UTC.<\/strong> The maintenance ran later and longer than the posted hour: Valve's player count fell to about 34,000 at 08:27 UTC and was back above 130,000 by 09:38 UTC, so the window was roughly 08:27\u201309:38 UTC. BULKHEAD has not posted patch notes beyond the 12 September announcement; community trackers report the patch as delivered with the announced scope \u2014 Community and Official browser tabs, join by server ID, the one-week 5% End of Match cash bonus on community servers, exploit bans, more server capacity in Asia \u2014 and nothing extra. Everything below is the announcement as published; if a notes post appears, this page will change.<\/p> WARDOGS<\/a> is going down for roughly an hour on 14 September 2026 to deliver Patch 0.11, a server browser rework that also comes with a one-week community server cash bonus and a hard new set of rules on economy exploits and XP farming. This guide breaks down exactly when the maintenance hits your timezone, what actually changed in the browser, and what the studio has said will get an account permanently banned.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" TL;DR<\/p> The maintenance window was posted for Monday 14 September 2026 at 08:00 UTC, approximately 1 hour, in the official Patch 0.11 post on Steam; in practice the servers emptied at about 08:27 UTC and refilled by 09:38 UTC (Valve player-count feed). BULKHEAD framed the downtime as necessary to ship the server browser rework, and paired the announcement with a thank-you to players: \"<\/em>Thank you for helping us hit 400,000 Peak Concurrent Users.\" That WARDOGS<\/a> milestone lands just days after the game's 10 September Early Access launch on Steam.<\/p>\r\n The post included a full regional breakdown so nobody has to do timezone math mid-patch. Here are the key zones pulled straight from that table:<\/p>\r\n\r\n If your region isn't listed here, the official Patch 0.11 announcement<\/a> has the complete table, including Mexico City, Brazil, Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\r\n\r\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Region"},{"header_text":"Local start time, Monday 14 Sept"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"US Pacific (PDT)"},{"cell_text":"01:00"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"US Eastern (EDT)"},{"cell_text":"04:00"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"UK"},{"cell_text":"09:00"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Central Europe (CEST)"},{"cell_text":"10:00"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Eastern Europe \/ Moscow (MSK)"},{"cell_text":"11:00"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Korea, Japan"},{"cell_text":"17:00"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"What Does Patch 0.11 Actually Change?","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Two things matter here: the money, and the browser. On the money side, BULKHEAD is apologising for what it called an underserved Community Server experience with a temporary payout bump. \"<\/em>for the next week community servers will offer a bonus 5% End of Match cash bonus,\" and the studio's own suggestion was blunt: \"<\/em>if you're looking to grind, we suggest jumping in a community server.\" The post does not say what the baseline End of Match cash figure is, so the 5% is a bonus on top of whatever a match already pays \u2014 for the actual dollar amounts behind that economy, the WARDOGS money guide<\/a> breaks down what a match typically earns and where that cash is best spent on a loadout buy order<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n On the browser side, the front end is now split into two separate lists. Here's what changed, item by item, straight from the patch notes:<\/p>\r\n\r\n Six more requested features are described as \"<\/em>not yet ready but are in the pipeline,\" with no release date attached: Community server favouriting, tiered priority queues for Community servers, a Message of The Day prompt, improved warmup activities, disabling AFK kicks during seeding, and team switching controls. The post is explicit that none of this affects Season 2 content, which is being worked on separately.<\/p>\r\n\r\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Was"},{"header_text":"Now, in Patch 0.11"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"One mixed server browser"},{"cell_text":"Split into two browsers, Community and Official"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Filters applied to Official Servers"},{"cell_text":"Filters removed from Official, since there are no Official modified game modes"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Community Server filtering was unreliable"},{"cell_text":"Improved reliability of filtering in Community Servers"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"No text search on Community browser"},{"cell_text":"Text based search added to Community Servers"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Community Server IDs wiped on map change or restart"},{"cell_text":"IDs now persist between matches and restarts, though the ID string is longer for security reasons"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"No quick way to hide full or empty lobbies"},{"cell_text":"Show Empty\/Full added to the browser quick bar"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Server names could use unlimited spacing, no set order"},{"cell_text":"Names sort alphabetically regardless of special characters, and no more than one consecutive space is allowed"}]}],"size":"default"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"What the New Economy-Abuse Rules Mean for XP Farming and Grinding","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":5409,"caption":"Illustration: Escalating barriers mark tiers of enforcement.","alt":"Three concrete barriers of increasing height stand along a foggy gravel road."},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" BULKHEAD used the same post to lay out how it will punish players who exploit the cash economy, and split the response into three distinct tiers rather than one blanket rule.<\/p>\r\n The studio said it will respond with a timed ban whose length depends on prior offenses, and \"<\/em>We will reset your cash and XP to 0\" for the offending account.<\/p>\r\n Posting a guide or video that tutorialises an economy exploit without reporting it first is treated as advertising cheats, and \"<\/em>will result in a permanent ban.\" BULKHEAD drew a line between alerting the studio to a bug and actively promoting how to abuse it.<\/p>\r\n \"<\/em>This will result in the most serious bans.\" The post says the studio tracks every server an account enters and already knows which ones are being run purely to farm XP: \"<\/em>we will ban your account permanently\" if a player is tracked joining one of those servers for more than a few minutes.<\/p>\r\n Warning<\/p> The line between safe and account-ending is repetition, not discovery. BULKHEAD's own wording: \"<\/em>If you figure something out and test it once or twice, no biggy.\" Doing it once is treated as QA help. Doing it repeatedly on a server the backend has already flagged as an XP farm is a permanent ban, and there's no stated appeal path or ban-length range for that tier.<\/p><\/div>\r\n Nothing in the post defines exactly which servers count as XP farming servers beyond \"servers we track,\" and there's no confirmed list of specific exploits that have been patched. What is confirmed is the time window on the other, legitimate option: the +5% community server bonus only runs for the one week following this 12 September post, so if the goal is faster progress toward the higher tiers on the Season 1 XP curve<\/a>, that bonus period is the entire confirmed opportunity. The post says nothing about what happens to community server payouts after the week is up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Other Fixes and What's Still Coming","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The rest of Patch 0.11 is a short list: \"<\/em>Various cash exploits have been fixed,\" \"<\/em>More GPU crashes addressed,\" and server capacity in the Asian region has been increased to handle demand from that region. That capacity bump follows the launch numbers that pushed WARDOGS to the peak concurrent player counts covered after Closed Beta 2<\/a>, which the studio says have since climbed to 400,000.<\/p>\r\n\r\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Our Take: Are WARDOGS' Anti-Farming Bans Too Harsh?","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Our Take<\/p> Permanent bans for XP farming sound severe until you remember the economy is shared across the whole playerbase.<\/p> By our reading, a cash-and-XP economy that ties into a wider meta only works if the numbers behind it stay honest, and a three-tier system that separates an honest bug report from repeated abuse is a reasonable way to enforce that without punishing people who stumble onto something once. What this actually changes for anyone trying to level up is simple: the safe path is normal matches, official or community, not hunting for a server built to exploit the payout loop. The one-week community cash bonus is the sanctioned shortcut here, not a workaround.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" This table separates what the studio has confirmed from what comes out of press previews, and what is still just circulating. Every link below was fetched before publishing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Tier 1: Abusing a cash exploit or bug<\/h3>\r\n
Tier 2: Making content that teaches the exploit<\/h3>\r\n
Tier 3: Joining a known XP farming server<\/h3>\r\n
Sources and Confidence<\/h2>\r\n
Claim<\/th> Where it comes from<\/th> Status<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Maintenance runs Monday 14 Sept 2026, about 1 hour, from 08:00 UTC<\/td> Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr> Community servers get a bonus 5% End of Match cash bonus for a week<\/td> Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr> Server browser split into Community and Official, filters removed from Official<\/td> Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr> Three-tier economy-abuse policy includes permanent bans for XP farming<\/td> Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr> WARDOGS<\/a> credited developers with hitting 400,000 peak concurrent users<\/td> Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr> WARDOGS is developed by BULKHEAD and published by Team17<\/td> Steam store page (official)<\/a><\/td> Official<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"faq","items":[{"question":"When exactly does WARDOGS go down for Patch 0.11?","answer":"Monday 14 September 2026, starting at 08:00 UTC, for approximately 1 hour, per the official Steam announcement."},{"question":"How much extra cash do community servers pay right now?","answer":"An additional 5% on End of Match cash, on top of the normal payout, for one week following the 12 September post. The post does not specify the baseline amount that 5% is calculated from."},{"question":"Can I get banned for playing on a community server during the bonus week?","answer":"No, playing on a community server is exactly what BULKHEAD recommended in the post. The ban risk described applies specifically to exploiting cash bugs or joining servers built to farm XP, not to using the bonus as intended."},{"question":"What happens if I test an exploit I find by accident?","answer":"According to the post, trying something once or twice and reporting it is treated as informal QA help, not abuse. The bans described are for repeated use, tutorialising the exploit publicly, or joining a known XP farming server for more than a few minutes."}]}],"bottom":[{"acf_fc_layout":"more_articles","heading":"","posts":"","count":10},{"acf_fc_layout":"chat","heading":""}],"meta_description":"WARDOGS Patch 0.11: 14 Sept maintenance times, the +5% community server cash bonus, server browser changes, and the new permanent-ban rules for XP farming."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"blog_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_tag?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}