WARDOGS Season 03 goes live with Sabatulo, Limited Mode, and progression changes

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WARDOGS Season 03 is live now alongside Update 0.3.0, bringing a new map, a new ruleset, and several progression changes to BULKHEAD’s Early Access shooter. Servers are back online after the planned rollout.

The headline addition is Sabatulo, WARDOGS’ first city map. It’s built around tighter urban fights, high-rises, destructible spaces, and locations like a hospital, swimming pool, power station, and river embankment.

  • Limited Mode cuts out many late-season power items, including HP and AP ammo, Level 3 and Level 4 armor, attack vehicles, CIWS, Stingray, MG Nest, Drill Rig, and anti-tank mines. Progression and cash still carry over to other modes.
  • Multi-track unlocks let shared items, such as armor, backpacks, tactical vests, parachutes, and ammo types, unlock through more than one role track.
  • A catch-up system now adds XP bonuses and extended vendor discounts for lower-level players as the season goes on.
  • Season length has been increased to roughly three months, while overall progression has been slowed at launch.
  • The Infrared Range Finder has been removed from vendors while the team reworks it.

The patch also makes a broad set of weapon and vehicle balance changes. Assault rifles and LMGs have higher torso damage than in Season 02, DMRs have been buffed after what BULKHEAD says were overtuned Season 02 damage changes, and the compound bow’s arrow speed is up by 50%. Molotovs now set players on fire and force them to drop their held item, though their damage against armored vehicles and heavy armor has been reduced.

Parachutes have been split into clearer roles. The Basic Parachute is now more of an emergency option for bailing out of helicopters, while the Sport Parachute is tuned for BASE jumps with faster movement and a stronger flare. Vehicle handling has also been adjusted, reverse speeds are up across several wheeled vehicles, vehicle-mounted miniguns hit infantry harder, and Littlebird cockpit protection has been increased.

Season 03 also adds the Tactical ’Stache DLC for Movember. BULKHEAD says 100% of profits from the DLC go to Movember, with players getting a mustache cosmetic that grows as they play during November and a permanent scoreboard badge.

WARDOGS | Season 03 Trailer

Further reading: Official WARDOGS Season 03 patch notes