WARDOGS · PC · version Early Access Season 2Ground vehicles flying across the map
ConfirmedUnpatchedUpdated
In Season 2, ground vehicles such as Ural trucks and APCs are being flown around the map. Players use it to get squads to the hot zone faster, ram helicopters and stay out of reach of anti-vehicle fire. The developers acknowledged it as a bug on October 20, said a server-side hotfix is in progress and warned that abusers will be permanently banned. No fix had been announced as of October 21.
Lifecycle
Acknowledged · stage 3 of 5
9days open
Since first report
- Reported (reached)
- Confirmed (reached)—
- Acknowledged (reached) · now
- Partial (not yet)next
- Patched (not yet)—
- Game
- WARDOGS
- Platform
- PC
- Affected version
- Early Access Season 2
- Kind
- Exploit
- Confirmation
- Confirmed
- 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.
Signed-in community members can report new issues and suggest status changes, such as Fixed or Still unpatched, with their platform, version and a source. Every report and suggestion is reviewed by an editor before anything on the record changes. A new issue is published only when the report has at least three independent sources (distinct accounts, or distinct sites for web pages, after blocked sources are removed), unless the owner approved that issue by hand. Approved input appears as a dated Update from the xploitr community source on the issue's timeline, credited to the member's username (reports can opt out and stay anonymous); nothing is counted or published automatically.
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 · 10
- Report
Replying to a question about getting players to travel by road: there is a new hack where you can just fly the Ural.
@YureiBoys on X ·
@YureiBoys on X · · View post
- Acknowledged
Acknowledges a subset of players exploiting a bug that lets ground vehicles 'fly' around the map. A server-side hotfix is being worked on; anyone caught abusing it in the meantime will be permanently banned.
@WARDOGSUpdates on X ·
@WARDOGSUpdates on X · · View post
- Report
Being killed by flying APCs, on top of the Havoc problems.
@AgedRebel24185 on X ·
@AgedRebel24185 on X · · View post
- Report
Video, quoting the acknowledgement: an APC flying in Season 2.
@SonnyOGx on X ·
@SonnyOGx on X · · View post
- Report
Explains why it hurts matches: moving people to the hot zone much faster, ramming helicopters and no risk of being blown up.
@nobccash on X ·
@nobccash on X · · View post
- Report
Saw a cheater in a flying Ural on an NA official server last night; chat had been talking about it.
@2prtsviper on X ·
@2prtsviper on X · · View post
- Report
Oct 23: a player says they lost $7,900 in a match to a flying truck.
Killbo · Steam · Forum thread ·
“Devs... come on. How is this ♥♥♥♥ not live-banned. Lost $7900 to a flying truck. ♥♥♥♥ anti-cheat system.”
Killbo · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Acknowledged
Oct 25: WARDOGS CEO Joe Brammer, replying to a clip of players flying, says a fix is coming in Season 3, the team can see these players in its data and bans them often, and it is a bug being abused, not hacks.
@Brammflakes on X ·
@Brammflakes on X · · View post
- Report
Oct 26: a player says flying vehicles are still being used to kill players and asks for a patch.
Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
“Players getting targeted by flying cars, this streamer just got killed by this exploiter.”
Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source
Sources · 101 Official1 Developer8 Community@WARDOGSUpdatesOfficial+ 8 similar community reports and 1 official postHide
“We acknowledge there are a subset of players exploiting a bug with ground vehicles that allow them to 'fly' around the map. We are actively working on a server sided hotfix for this. In the meantime, anyone caught abusing will be perma banned. You have been warned.”
- @BrammflakesDeveloperView post
Oct 25: WARDOGS CEO Joe Brammer, replying to a clip of players flying, says a fix is coming in Season 3, the team can see these players in its data and bans them often, and it is a bug being abused, not hacks. (Our summary of this post, not the author’s words.)
- @SonnyOGxView post
“Flying APC in WARDOGS Season 2... 💩”
- @Fuzettv_View post
Oct 24: a clip shared on X shows a tank flying. (Our summary of this post, not the author’s words.)
- @YureiBoysView post
“@UncSupply @WARDOGS Well there is a new hack bro you can just fly the ural.”
- @nobccashView post
“@_prmie @WARDOGSUpdates moving people to hotzone much faster, ramming helis, no risk of getting blown up etc.”
- @2prtsviperView post
“Saw a cheater in a Flying URAL last night on NA Official Server @wardogs Chat had been talking about it but it was much later I saw it. If TPM anti-cheat will help turn it on, turn everything on.”
- @AgedRebel24185View post
“@WARDOGS @Brammflakes Youve got a BAD Cheating problem. And I'm coming from Siege and Tarkov I'm usually the guy saying "its not as many as you think" "all games deal with cheaters" But when I am dealing with flying APC kills and other BS ONTOP of dealing with Havocs already..”
- KillboSteam · Forum threadOpen
“Devs... come on. How is this ♥♥♥♥ not live-banned. Lost $7900 to a flying truck. ♥♥♥♥ anti-cheat system.”
- Community reportSteam · Forum threadOpen
“Players getting targeted by flying cars, this streamer just got killed by this exploiter.”