WARDOGS players can be really friendly: in my first Season 3 match, a pilot landed his helicopter and came back to revive me after I jumped out early. Then he apologised to me over voice comms for not reaching me.
Key takeaways
- A helicopter pilot landed and came back to revive me after I jumped out of his MH-6 without a parachute, and he was the one saying sorry.
- Earlier in the same match, other players joined in when I started flooring our FOB, until the whole FOB was floored.
- All chat was rougher than voice comms, with “ez” after fights, a hacking accusation and plenty of insults.
What happened with the helicopter pilot?
It was 13 November, Season 3’s first full day, and my first match of the new season: Control mode on Sabatulo, the new city map, playing for Valkyra. I got into another player’s helicopter, an MH-6, and realised I’d forgotten my parachute. I was hoping the pilot could land me.
I didn’t wait for him to do that. I jumped out early, trying to land in the water so he wouldn’t have to land the helicopter for me, and I missed the water. The pilot landed the helicopter anyway and came back to bring me back to life.
He couldn’t. A bug had me stuck inside the ground, so he couldn’t get to me to revive me. Over voice comms he was very apologetic about it, even though I was the one who’d jumped out of his helicopter early. I told him he was a hero, thanked him anyway and told him not to worry, I’d respawn.
So I respawned, and this time I bought a parachute. It was cute: I was the one who’d left his helicopter, and he still landed, came back for me and said sorry when the bug stopped him.
Why did forgetting my parachute matter?
Parachutes changed in Season 3. The patch notes split them in two: the Basic Parachute is now an emergency parachute for bailing out of helicopters, and the Sport Parachute is for BASE jumps. Parachutes can also now be unlocked from every role track, along with armor, backpacks and tactical vests, so you don’t need to play one role to get one.
The emergency parachute is the one I needed and didn’t have. Without it, the only ways down were the pilot landing or hitting the water. If you fly the helicopters yourself, my WARDOGS helicopter controls tip is to switch flying to the mouse, which is what made flying make sense to me.
Did other players help build the FOB?
Yes, and that was earlier in the same match. I picked up the Small Hammer and started making a floor everywhere on the ground at our FOB, a bit more each time. Then other people joined in to floor the entire FOB, and even more people got started on building it as well, until the whole FOB was basically floored.
Floor is cheap to build. The piece I was laying is the Wooden Step, a quarter-height step that costs 13 supplies, and our FOB had around 19,000 to 20,000 supplies the whole match. So supplies weren’t a limit, which matches what I wrote about WARDOGS Season 2 build costs.
Building also levels you up. Each piece gave me 1 to 3 Support XP and finishing one gave 3 more, so by the end of the match I was Wardog level 10, with Support on level 6. Most of that came from the floor, and I wore out my Small Hammer doing it.
How did the rest of the match go?
We lost. Lonestar reached 100 and won, the green team finished on 77, and Valkyra came third on 41. My own scoreboard line was 0 kills, 2 assists, 5 deaths and 4 revives, so I wasn’t winning fights. I still made $81,531 in total profit from building and holding zones.
My match had all three factions, Lonestar, Valkyra and Manticore, fighting over the same zones on Sabatulo. That’s the three-team setup the developers chose to keep, so you get attacked from more than one direction while you build.
Servers were busy too. Season 3 launched on 12 November and peaked at 170,559 players at once on Steam on launch night, about half of the Season 02 launch peak of 336,202 but nearly three times the day before, when the peak was 61,857.
Is WARDOGS all chat as friendly?
No. All chat in the same match was a lot rougher than voice comms. Players typed “ez” after fights, one accused another of hacking, someone was told to go home, and there were plenty of insults too rude to print.
All chat goes to the whole server, from every team. The players I actually dealt with in that match, the pilot and the people flooring the FOB with me, were the friendly ones.
FAQ
Are WARDOGS players friendly? They can be. In my first Season 3 match, a pilot landed to come back and revive me after I jumped out early, and other players helped me floor our whole FOB.
Are WARDOGS players toxic? All chat had plenty of trash talk in that match, but the players I dealt with on voice comms and at the FOB were friendly.
Do you need a parachute in WARDOGS Season 3? If you ride in a helicopter, yes. The Basic Parachute is now an emergency parachute for bailing out of helicopters.
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