WARDOGS community servers: the 21 Oct 175 ping cap and region controls, seeding rewards, the Deploy screen, three approved hosts, XP-farm bans.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[720],"tags":[],"blog_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wardogs"],"acf":{"redactor":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"
WARDOGS<\/a> community servers are player-rented servers with admins who can ban cheaters on the spot. Patch 0.11 \u2014 announced 12 September 2026 and deployed in the 14 September maintenance (08:00 UTC) \u2014 gave them their own browser tab and, for one week in mid-September, a bonus 5% End of Match cash \u2014 a bonus BULKHEAD has not repeated since. This guide separates what the announcement promised from what is live; where we could not verify a feature in the client, it says so. Patch 0.11 also gave every community server a persistent ID you can join by, added text search, and tightened the rules on server names. Update 0.1.2 (30 September) then added a Deploy screen that points players to Infantry Mode and Low-Level community servers. Season 2 (15 October 2026) then added seeding rewards and per-region ping limits, and on 21 October BULKHEAD lowered the ping cap to 175 and started work on region locking. Below: how to find and join one, what Season 2 and the 21 October region controls changed, what renting costs at the five approved hosts, and which servers will get your account permanently banned.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" TL;DR<\/p>\n Community servers are WARDOGS<\/a> matches running on hardware rented by players and communities from one of developer BULKHEAD’s approved hosting partners, with a local admin team instead of studio matchmaking. The studio’s own anti-cheat advice is blunt about why they exist: report cheaters on official servers, and “for the ultimate protection, play on community hosted servers where admins can instantly ban bad actors”. Patch 0.11 opened with an admission that “Community Servers have been underserved and the server browser experience as a whole has been poor”, and the fix was structural \u2014 two separate browsers rather than one mixed list. BULKHEAD’s framing is that a game this size would realistically run on matchmaking, but it does not want community admins and hosts to suffer. Everything else \u2014 End of Match cash, XP and unlock levels, your loadout \u2014 is the same game you play on official servers, with the bonus-week caveat below.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"As of Season 2"},{"header_text":"Official servers"},{"header_text":"Community servers"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Browser"},{"cell_text":"Own tab, split from Community "},{"cell_text":"Own tab, split from Official "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Filtering"},{"cell_text":"Removed in Patch 0.11; Advanced Filters added back in Update 0.1.2"},{"cell_text":"Filters remain a Community-browser concept "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Text search"},{"cell_text":"Not listed in the patch notes "},{"cell_text":"Text-based search added "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Server IDs"},{"cell_text":"Not applicable "},{"cell_text":"Unique, persist between matches and restarts, much longer number "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Moderation"},{"cell_text":"In-game report function "},{"cell_text":"Admins can instantly ban bad actors "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Cash"},{"cell_text":"Standard End of Match cash "},{"cell_text":"No bonus announced; a 5% bonus ran for one week from 12 Sep 2026"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Ping limit"},{"cell_text":"Per-region maximum since Season 2; 175 from 21 Oct 2026"},{"cell_text":"Admins will set their own; whether 175 applies is not stated"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"How to Find and Join a Specific WARDOGS Community Server","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The route is the in-game Community browser, and the thing that makes a specific server findable is now its ID. Patch 0.11 states that community server IDs “will now persist, and each server will have its own unique ID so players can join via ID”, with the number “much longer for security reasons” \u2014 so an ID a community published before the patch is the short format the patch replaces. Search by name works on the Community tab, and an operator writing during launch week reports that matching happens on a substring, that three or four characters beat pasting a full decorated name, and that the search box keeps its text between sessions and patches \u2014 worth clearing before you decide the list is broken. That same source reports the most common reason a browser looks empty: selecting multiple regions at once has been widely reported to return nothing rather than the union of those regions. Server names themselves are now constrained \u2014 alphabetical regardless of special characters and numbers, and no more than one space at a time. The patch notes also add a Show Empty\/Full toggle to the browser quick bar and list improved reliability of filtering in the Community browser.<\/p>\n Tip<\/p>\n If the Community list comes back empty, select a single region and clear the search box before anything else \u2014 multi-region selection returning nothing, and search text persisting across patches, are both reported launch-week behaviours rather than outages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Source"},{"header_text":"What you get"},{"header_text":"Requirement"},{"header_text":"Who it suits"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Community browser tab"},{"cell_text":"The live list, with text search "},{"cell_text":"PC copy; one region selected "},{"cell_text":"Anyone browsing for a home server"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Join by server ID"},{"cell_text":"The exact server, match after match "},{"cell_text":"The server's long post-0.11 ID "},{"cell_text":"Regulars and clan nights"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Community directories and Discords"},{"cell_text":"Names and IDs published outside the game "},{"cell_text":"A browser and a working search box "},{"cell_text":"Players hunting a named community"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Host a server button"},{"cell_text":"Links straight to the hosting page "},{"cell_text":"A payment method "},{"cell_text":"Would-be admins, not players"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Step-by-Step: Joining a WARDOGS Community Server by ID","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"steps","intro":"Five steps from the Deploy screen to one specific server.","steps":[{"title":"Hit Deploy and pick Community","description":"Since Update 0.1.2 the Deploy screen offers Official, Community, Infantry Mode and Low-Level; Community opens the community list.","image":""},{"title":"Set one region, the nearest to you","description":"Since 21 October BULKHEAD is cutting the maximum ping on a server to 175 (see the 21 October section below). Selecting several regions at once is widely reported to return an empty list instead of the combined one.","image":""},{"title":"Clear the search field","description":"Search text is reported to persist between sessions and between patches, so an old string can hide everything.","image":""},{"title":"Search a short substring","description":"Matching is reported to work on part of the full name, so three or four characters beat a full decorated server title.","image":""},{"title":"Join by the server's ID","description":"Each community server now has its own unique ID that persists between matches and restarts, and it is a much longer number than before.","image":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Update 0.1.2: The Deploy Screen, Infantry Mode and Low-Level Servers","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Update 0.1.2<\/a> (30 September 2026) changes how you get to a community server. BULKHEAD calls it “the first step intended to help signpost players toward servers running these modifiers”.<\/p>\n For server admins the same update adds a daily scheduled restart time (UTC), an RCON AllowedHosts setting, capped RCON message and broadcast lengths, and less detailed RCON responses by default. The notes do not say whether Low-Level servers have a level cap or how a server qualifies for the Infantry Mode or Low-Level list.<\/p>\n The Season 2 notes do not answer either question. The closest official thing to a low-level server so far is Limited Mode Servers, which BULKHEAD announced on X<\/a> on 15 October 2026 as coming soon: no power weapons and no vehicles. No date was given.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Season 2 went live on 15 October 2026 with Update 0.2.0<\/a>. The Season 02 patch notes<\/a> (14 October) add four things that matter when you pick a server.<\/p>\n On 21 October 2026 BULKHEAD said in an official post on X<\/a> that it has started controlling regions. What the post says:<\/p>\n Not stated: which regions are affected, how the lock will work (by IP address, by account or by routing), whether the 175 cap also binds community servers and so whether admins can still set the looser cross-region limits the Season 2 notes promised, and whether a Steam announcement will follow; as of 22 October there is none on Steam. Combined with the Season 2 kick rule above, the practical advice is to play on servers in your own region and to leave one where your ping sits close to 175.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"The 5% Community Server Cash Bonus Is Over: What Pays Now","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":5480,"caption":"Illustration: Grinding matches in the quiet hours before dawn","alt":"Soldiers move cautiously through a misty rural village street at dawn."},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" As an apology for underserving community servers, BULKHEAD wrote on 12 September 2026 that “for the next week community servers will offer a bonus 5% End of Match cash bonus” and told grinders to jump in a community server. It was a cash bonus, not XP, and “the next week” was all the precision given \u2014 no start hour and no end time. That week ended in September. Update 0.1.2<\/a> (30 September), the two hotfixes of 2 October and the Season 2 patch notes (14 October) do not mention a community-server cash bonus, so as of 18 October 2026 none is announced. What Season 2 does add is a reward for seeding empty servers, covered above. Whether community-server cash matches official servers outside that week is not stated.<\/p>\n What matters for cash now is the season clock. Season 02 started on 15 October 2026, and the in-game Gold Exchange panel, as quoted by community sources, says cash resets at the end of a major update cycle and leftover cash is exchanged for Gold Bars \u2014 our Season 2 guide<\/a> covers what carries over. The next reset may come sooner than a full season: on 17 October BULKHEAD wrote on X<\/a> that it is looking at “significantly bringing forward Season 3”, with no date yet. If you are turning cash into gear, our WARDOGS loadout buy order guide<\/a> covers what to buy first.<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"How to Rent a WARDOGS Server and What the Approved Hosts Charge","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" There are five. The first three came with the pre-orders: “Community Hosted Servers are available to pre-order now through our 3 Approved Hosting Partners; QONZER, BisectHosting and xREALM”. The studio named QONZER and BisectHosting on 7 September via the official X account and added xREALM on the 8th. On 26 October it approved two more hosting partners<\/a>, GG Host and 1of1 Servers, and said it will announce more features for server admins soon. Since the Season 1 changelog the in-game Host a server button links straight to the hosting page. Secondary reporting of the studio’s 29 August thread says BULKHEAD does not release its server code to anyone, which means there are no public dedicated-server files and, as far as any published source shows, renting from an approved host is the only route today; a hosting company that does not sell WARDOGS says the same thing independently. Other companies took WARDOGS pre-orders in August without the code \u2014 trackers name GTXGaming, Game Host Bros, Survival Servers and Loafhosts \u2014 so a booking with them is for a server that cannot exist. Prices are set by the hosts, not the studio, which reportedly takes no revenue share.<\/p>\n Two things to hold onto before paying. QONZER sells by dedicated hardware resources rather than slot count and states it does not limit slots or branding, so the 60\/80\/100 framing used elsewhere maps onto its resource tiers rather than appearing as slot packages. And the aggregator price lists genuinely conflict: one roundup prints xREALM at $69.99\/$79.99\/$114.99 with BisectHosting not printing monthly prices, another prints \u00a364.99\/\u00a373.99\/\u00a3105.99 for xREALM and \u00a371.99\/\u00a383.99\/\u00a395.99 for BisectHosting, and neither matches xREALM’s own “from \u20ac59.99”. Read the vendor page, in your own currency, on the day you buy.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Host"},{"header_text":"Published price (own page, checked 13 Sep 2026)"},{"header_text":"Sold as"},{"header_text":"Notes"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"QONZER"},{"cell_text":"\u00a349.95, \u00a359.95 and \u00a369.95 per month (GBP) "},{"cell_text":"8, 10 or 12 CPU threads, no-limit DDR5 and NVMe "},{"cell_text":"0% monthly, 5% quarterly, 10% semi-annual, 15% annual; pre-order notice warns of extremely high demand "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"BisectHosting"},{"cell_text":"Listed as starting at $71.99 per month (USD) "},{"cell_text":"Per-tier figures not printed on the page we could read "},{"cell_text":"Its blog describes its own control panel; that is vendor marketing, not the studio's tooling "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"xREALM"},{"cell_text":"From \u20ac59.99 per month (EUR) "},{"cell_text":"60, 80 or 100 player packages "},{"cell_text":"Automatic patch deployment from BULKHEAD, AMD EPYC hardware "}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"GG Host"},{"cell_text":"Starting from $64.99 per month (USD), checked 27 Oct 2026"},{"cell_text":"60, 80 or 100 players"},{"cell_text":"Own GG Nexus control panel; DDoS mitigation included by default"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"1of1 Servers"},{"cell_text":"$69.99 per month for 60 slots (USD), checked 27 Oct 2026; 80 slots +$19.99, 100 slots +$29.99; $66.99 quarterly, $61.99 semi-annual"},{"cell_text":"60, 80 or 100 player slots"},{"cell_text":"Ashburn and Dallas (US) live; London, Frankfurt, Sydney, Singapore and Johannesburg listed as coming soon"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Which WARDOGS Community Servers Get Your Account Banned","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":5481,"caption":"Illustration: Unseen oversight watching from a distance","alt":"An empty watchtower stands on a ridge overlooking a hazy valley at dusk."},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The rule is stated plainly in Patch 0.11: BULKHEAD tracks every server you enter, knows which ones are XP-farming servers, and if your account is tracked as joining one of these for more than a few minutes, the account is permanently banned. Discovery is not the target \u2014 “if you figure something out and test it once or twice, no biggy, thanks for helping us QA” \u2014 but repetition is, and early luck is not evidence of safety, because the studio says its backend data flags abusers shortly after. Do not read that as permission to “have a look”: the rule as written is a permanent ban for being tracked on an XP-farming server for more than a few minutes, and BULKHEAD decides what counts \u2014 the only safe number of visits is zero. XP-farm servers are the third and most serious of three economy-abuse tiers in the same post; the other two, for cash exploits and for content that teaches exploits, are set out at the end of this section.<\/p>\n Recognising a farm server is mostly reading the listing. Public directories today carry rows advertising no-rules grinding \u2014 one is described as a “Laid back server to grind with no rules” \u2014 and listings that advertise adjusted earnings coefficients; that language is the signal to keep scrolling. A normal community server sells its ruleset, region and admin presence, not your earnings rate, and no official post says a modified server pays more, so there is no reason to go looking for one. If you are chasing levels rather than cash, our Season 1 XP curve breakdown<\/a> covers the legitimate side of that.<\/p>\n Warning<\/p>\n More than a few minutes on a server BULKHEAD classes as an XP farm is a permanent account ban, and “I only joined to look” is not a documented defence beyond a one-or-two-time test. Abusing cash exploits also resets cash and XP to 0 alongside a timed ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"The Three Economy-Abuse Tiers in Patch 0.11","tag":"h3"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" BULKHEAD split its response to economy abuse into three tiers in the Patch 0.11 announcement<\/a> rather than one blanket rule. The server rule above is only the third of them.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Tier"},{"header_text":"What triggers it"},{"header_text":"Penalty, in the studio’s words"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"1"},{"cell_text":"Abusing a cash exploit or bug"},{"cell_text":"A timed ban whose length depends on prior offences, and “We will reset your cash and XP to 0”"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"2"},{"cell_text":"Posting a guide or video that tutorialises an economy exploit without reporting it first \u2014 treated as advertising cheats"},{"cell_text":"“Will result in a permanent ban”"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"3"},{"cell_text":"Being tracked joining a known XP-farming server for more than a few minutes"},{"cell_text":"“The most serious bans”: “we will ban your account permanently”"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The line in tier 2 is between alerting the studio to a bug and actively promoting how to abuse it. For tier 3 the post gives no appeal path and no ban-length range, and it does not define an XP-farming server beyond the servers the studio tracks; nor does it name which exploits were patched beyond “various cash exploits have been fixed”. Update 0.1.2 (30 September) adds that the leniency for first-time offenders is over: players now risk a permanent ban without warning for abusing repeatable exploits.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Community Server Features Promised but Not Shipped","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Patch 0.11 lists six community-server features as in the pipeline and not in this build: Community server favouriting, Tiered priority queues for Community servers, Message of The Day Prompt, Improved Warmup Activities, AFK kicking during seeding disabling, and Team Switching Controls. The studio says these came from a priority list gathered from communities, are not yet ready, and sit in a short-term quality-of-life track separate from Season 2 content, with no date attached to any of them. Season 2 ships something close to two of the six. Pre-match entertainment is the nearest thing to Improved Warmup Activities, and team switching is now limited for everyone, though the notes mention no admin controls for it. The other four (favouriting, priority queues, the Message of The Day and the AFK change) are not in the notes; seeding gets a reward instead, covered above. So a player who finds a server they like still has no in-client way to favourite it \u2014 the persistent ID is the workaround. Patch 0.11 also fixed various cash exploits, addressed more GPU crashes and increased server capacity in Asia.<\/p>\n Three things nobody has answered: whether BULKHEAD will run another community-server cash bonus, whether cash and XP on community servers count identically to official servers, and when BULKHEAD’s own RCON admin tool ships or what it exposes. We have not seen that panel, so we are not describing it; BisectHosting’s published description covers its own control panel, not the studio’s tooling. Reporting of the studio’s pre-launch comments says day-one admin control is deliberately limited, starting with map and mode choice, with the RCON date still unpublished.<\/p>\n None of this applies on console: WARDOGS is PC-only in Early Access with consoles stated for 2028, there is no console community-server offering, and none of the approved partners sells one.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Common Misconceptions About WARDOGS Community Servers","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Secondary sources quoting BULKHEAD’s 29 August thread report the studio saying it does not release its server code for anyone to host a server, and an unrelated hosting company states WARDOGS has no public dedicated-server files, so self-hosting is not possible today. No Steam-news primary for that line was found, so treat it as well-corroborated reporting rather than a patch-note quote.<\/p>\n Four companies took WARDOGS pre-orders in August without the server code, and BULKHEAD’s wording \u2014 “These providers do not have access to the game or server code as we have been so protective of it” \u2014 was aimed at exactly that. Only QONZER, BisectHosting, xREALM and, since 26 October, GG Host and 1of1 Servers are named as Approved Hosting Partners.<\/p>\n Patch 0.11 removed filtering from Official Servers because there are no Official modified game modes; filtering stays a Community-browser concept. If you went looking for a mode filter on the Official tab and could not find it, that is the change, not a bug.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Our Take: Are WARDOGS Community Servers Worth It?","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Our Take<\/p>\n Worth playing on, expensive to run, and genuinely risky if you shop for the wrong kind of server.<\/p>\n As a player, the case is simple: instant admin bans are a real answer to cheaters while anti-cheat matures, and since Update 0.1.2 the Deploy screen leads straight to Infantry Mode and Low-Level servers. The 5% cash week is over, so play there for the rules, not for a bonus. As an admin, it is a different conversation \u2014 the cheapest published tier at QONZER is \u00a349.95 a month and the smallest size anyone sells is a 60-slot server \u2014 a slot count, not a minimum head count, so six friends can rent one and play on it, they just pay for the capacity, and most of the quality-of-life features admins were promised are still not in the patch notes. The part that should make you careful is the ban rule: permanent, tracked, and triggered by a few minutes on the wrong server. Read the listing before you click join.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" This table separates what the studio has published, what the hosting partners publish on their own pages, and what rests on secondary reporting. Every link below was fetched before publishing.<\/p>\n\n
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What Season 2 Changed for Community Servers<\/h2>\n
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What is not known<\/h3>\n
Consoles<\/h3>\n
Myth: you can self-host a WARDOGS server if you rent a box<\/h3>\n
Myth: any host advertising WARDOGS can sell you one<\/h3>\n
Myth: the Official browser still needs filters<\/h3>\n
Sources and Confidence<\/h2>\n
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\n \nClaim<\/th>\n Where it comes from<\/th>\n Status<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Studio tells players community servers give admins instant bans; names 3 approved hosts<\/td>\n Steam Community (official WARDOGS announcements)<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n GG Host and 1of1 Servers approved as hosting partners; more admin features “soon”<\/td>\n X (@WARDOGS), 26 Oct 2026, 15:08 UTC<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n GG Host from $64.99 a month; 1of1 Servers $69.99 a month for 60 slots, US locations live<\/td>\n GG Host order page<\/a>, 1of1 Servers order page<\/a>, checked 27 Oct 2026<\/td>\n Host pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Patch 0.11 splits the browser, persists server IDs, adds a one-week 5% cash bonus (from 12 Sep 2026) and the XP-farm ban rule<\/td>\n Steam Community (official WARDOGS announcements)<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n QONZER lists WARDOGS tiers at \u00a349.95, \u00a359.95 and \u00a369.95 per month<\/td>\n QONZER order page (qonzer.com)<\/a><\/td>\n Vendor page (checked 13 Sep 2026)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Third-party price roundups for the three hosts conflict with each other<\/td>\n wardogservers.com hosting roundup<\/a><\/td>\n Unconfirmed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n BULKHEAD does not release server code, so there is no self-hosting<\/td>\n wardogshub.gg relaying the studio’s 29 August X thread<\/a><\/td>\n Unconfirmed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Update 0.1.2: revive checks server-authoritative, vehicle fly-through rewards capped, buildable rewards scale with build progress, reduced pallet rewards outside the zone, permanent bans without warning; Deploy screen with Official, Community, Infantry Mode and Low-Level; Advanced Filters back on Official<\/td>\n BULKHEAD, Update 0.1.2 patch notes, Steam, 30 Sep 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Season 2: seeding rewards, pre-match entertainment, region ping limits, admin-set ping limits, team-switch limits<\/td>\n BULKHEAD, Season 02 patch notes, Steam, 14 Oct 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Season 2 went live with Update 0.2.0 on 15 Oct 2026<\/td>\n BULKHEAD, Season 02 is now live, Steam, 15 Oct 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Limited Mode Servers (no power weapons and vehicles) coming soon, no date<\/td>\n WARDOGS on X, 15 Oct 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n BULKHEAD is looking at bringing Season 3 forward significantly<\/td>\n WARDOGS on X, 17 Oct 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n BULKHEAD starts controlling regions: 175 maximum ping on a server, region locking in progress, stricter on mixing regions<\/td>\n WARDOGS on X, 21 Oct 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official (X post)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"faq","items":[{"question":"Is the 5% community server cash bonus still active?","answer":"No. It was announced on 12 September 2026 \"for the next week\" as a 5% bonus to End of Match cash (not XP), and that week is over. Neither Update 0.1.2, the 2 October hotfixes nor the Season 2 patch notes (14 October) mention a new one, so none is announced as of 18 October 2026."},{"question":"How do I join a friend's community server directly?","answer":"Use its server ID: each community server now has a unique ID that persists between matches and restarts, and the number is much longer than before for security reasons. "},{"question":"What is the maximum ping on a WARDOGS server now?","answer":"175. BULKHEAD announced the cut on X on 21 October 2026, to take effect over the following hours. The post does not name the regions involved or say whether community servers are covered."},{"question":"Can I run a WARDOGS server on my own PC?","answer":"Reporting of the studio's own comments says the server code is not released to anyone, and an independent host states there are no public dedicated-server files, so, as far as published sources show, renting from one of the five approved hosts (QONZER, BisectHosting, xREALM, GG Host or 1of1 Servers) is the only route today."},{"question":"What exactly gets my account banned on a community server?","answer":"Being tracked on a server BULKHEAD classifies as an XP-farming server for more than a few minutes is a permanent ban; testing something once or twice is explicitly tolerated, and cash-exploit abuse carries a timed ban plus a reset of cash and XP to 0. "},{"question":"Are there community servers on console?","answer":"No \u2014 WARDOGS is PC-only in Early Access with consoles stated for 2028, and none of the approved partners sells a console server. "},{"question":"How do I find Infantry Mode or Low-Level servers in WARDOGS?","answer":"Since Update 0.1.2 (30 September 2026), hit Deploy and choose Infantry Mode or Low-Level. The patch notes do not say whether Low-Level servers have a level cap. BULKHEAD has also announced Limited Mode Servers (no power weapons and vehicles) as coming soon, with no date."}]}],"bottom":[{"acf_fc_layout":"more_articles","heading":"","posts":[],"count":10},{"acf_fc_layout":"chat","heading":""}],"meta_description":"WARDOGS community servers: the 21 Oct 175 ping cap and region controls, seeding rewards, the Deploy screen, three approved hosts, XP-farm bans."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","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=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7895,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/7895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"blog_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_tag?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}