WARDOGS · PC · version Season 01–02Teammate markers vanish while manning a CIWS
UnconfirmedUnpatchedUpdated
Taking the controls of a ship's CIWS defence gun can hide every teammate and friendly vehicle marker for as long as the player stays on the gun, so friendly helicopters look like enemies and players have shot them down by mistake. Leaving the gun brings the markers back. The first reporter tied it to the weapon in hand when taking the controls, and another player saw it while using a scope. Players reported it from September 23 to October 26. Team17 support said it passed the report to the team, which is not an acknowledgement.
Lifecycle
Acknowledged · stage 3 of 5
36days open
Since first report
- Reported (reached)
- Confirmed (not yet)—
- Acknowledged (reached) · now
- Partial (not yet)next
- Patched (not yet)—
- Game
- WARDOGS
- Platform
- PC
- Affected version
- Season 01–02
- Kind
- Bug
- Confirmation
- Unconfirmed
- Patch status
- Unpatched
- First reported
- Last updated
- Latest fix or workaround
- None on the record
How we label issues
Kind
- Exploit: Repeatable and clearly advantageous to the player using it; essentially cheating.
- Bug: Everything else: crashes, launch errors, broken features, visual or audio faults.
Confirmation
- Confirmed: A developer or official account acknowledged it, an official known-issues board lists it, it appears in official patch notes, or 100+ corroborating posts on X were actually counted.
- Unconfirmed: None of the above yet. Press articles are reports and never confirm an issue on their own.
Patch status
- Unpatched: Known and open; no fix has been claimed.
- Reported as unpatched: Players credibly report it persisting, including after a fix claim that never appeared in patch notes.
- Partially patched: Official patch notes list a fix, but credible later reports say it still happens, or the notes only cover part of it.
- Reported as patched: A developer, official account or player says it is fixed, but no official patch notes list it.
- Patched: Official patch notes (a Steam news post or the publisher's patch notes page) list the fix, and nothing credible says it still happens.
Active means still affecting players: Unpatched, Reported as unpatched or Partially patched. Patched and Reported as patched issues are closed.
Estimated impact runs from 0.1 to 9.9 with one decimal. xploitr sets it from the rubric below. Factors: advantage to other players, reach, play blocked or progress lost, frequency, and whether a reliable workaround exists. Patched issues keep their historical impact.
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Impact bands
- 0.1–2.9 Low: Cosmetic, audio, text and UI glitches with no effect on play.
- 3.0–4.9 Moderate: Narrow gameplay bugs or small exploits, rare or with a workaround.
- 5.0–6.9 Elevated: Bugs most players in a mode notice: hit registration, desync, balance-breaking damage.
- 7.0–8.4 High: Widely abused competitive or economy exploits; crashes many players hit.
- 8.5–9.9 Severe: Launch blockers, widespread progress or item loss, exploits that break the game for everyone.
Each issue has a dated timeline of updates (report, acknowledgement, announcement, fix, workaround). Update summaries are our own words; quotes and excerpts are the source's words, or our English translation when marked.
Updates · 5
- Report
Sep 23: a player says all teammate and friendly vehicle icons disappear while they are on a CIWS and come back when they leave it; they shot down a friendly helicopter because of it.
Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
“There seems to be some condition under which the UI elements showing your team's icons above their head and vehicles disappears when using a CIWS. I found this last night when I ended up shooting down a chopper on my team. I leave the controls and icons return to every player and vehicle, I enter …”
Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Acknowledged
Team17 support says it has passed the CIWS teammate-marker report to the team to investigate.
Team17_Service · Steam · Forum reply ·
“Hi Essedus, Thank you for reaching out to us about the issue you found with using CIWS and having your teammates markers disappear, thus making friendly fire an issue. We understand this can be frustrating since you can no longer identify your teammates and this can cause issues with friendly …”
Team17_Service · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Sep 25: a second player has had the same problem.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“+1 Also experienced this issue.”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Oct 19: another player hit it and shot down a friendly helicopter by mistake.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“+1 I just experienced this, mistakenly killed a friendly heli...”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Oct 26: a player says friendly icon tags disappear for them while using a scope.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“I have had the same experience simply while using a scope. The icon tags on friendlies disappear and I have to be very aware of where they are. I thought it was a feature.”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
Sources · 51 Developer4 CommunityTeam17_ServiceSteam · Forum replyDeveloper+ 4 similar community reportsShow all →
“Hi Essedus, Thank you for reaching out to us about the issue you found with using CIWS and having your teammates markers disappear, thus making friendly fire an issue. We understand this can be frustrating since you can no longer identify your teammates and this can cause issues with friendly …”
- Community reportSteam · Forum threadOpen
“There seems to be some condition under which the UI elements showing your team's icons above their head and vehicles disappears when using a CIWS. I found this last night when I ended up shooting down a chopper on my team. I leave the controls and icons return to every player and vehicle, I enter …”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“+1 Also experienced this issue.”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“+1 I just experienced this, mistakenly killed a friendly heli...”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“I have had the same experience simply while using a scope. The icon tags on friendlies disappear and I have to be very aware of where they are. I thought it was a feature.”