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WARDOGSWARDOGS · PC · version Early Access Season 2

Graphics tweaks reveal enemies through fog and shadows

UnconfirmedUnpatched

Updated

Players report that some display tweaks, low ("potato") settings or edits to the settings file, remove fog or shadows and make enemies much easier to see. Players who use them can spot and shoot people who think they are hidden in bushes, fog or shade.

Lifecycle

Reported · stage 1 of 5

13days open

Since first report

  1. Reported (reached) · now
  2. Confirmed (not yet)next
  3. Acknowledged (not yet)—
  4. Partial (not yet)—
  5. Patched (not yet)—
In current stage 13d
Workaround none yet
Game
WARDOGS
Platform
PC
Affected version
Early Access Season 2
Kind
Exploit
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.

Estimated impactEstimated impact 5.5 out of 9.9, ElevatedOur estimate from how many players it reaches and what it costs them.

Updates · 4

  1. Report

    Asks whether people use potato settings or a settings-file edit to see through fog, after being one-shot at 117 m with a slug while prone in a bush in fog and rain.

    @H0tl0ads on X ·

    @H0tl0ads on X · · View post

  2. Report

    Asks whether a "shadow exploit" that players use to see enemies more easily, shown in a video, is an exploit.

    @vjweed21 on X ·

    @vjweed21 on X · · View post

  3. Report

    Oct 22: calls for disabling the low-shadow 'potato' setting.

    @ReachTeaYT on X ·

    @ReachTeaYT on X · · View post

  4. Report

    Oct 22: a player says the developers are debating removing the low-end graphics setting; this is unverified.

    @Kaelath_The_Red on X ·

    @Kaelath_The_Red on X · · View post

Sources · 44 Community@Kaelath_The_Red+ 3 similar community reportsShow all →
Kaelath The Red 🔞@Kaelath_The_Red
“@Uniting_ps @WARDOGS @Brammflakes You're abusing a setting intended for extremely low end potato PC's to use and the devs themselves said they're debating removing that ability because of fucks like you.”
  • @vjweed21View post

    Asks whether a "shadow exploit" that players use to see enemies more easily, shown in a video, is an exploit. (Our summary of this post, not the author’s words.)

  • @H0tl0adsView post

    Asks whether people use potato settings or a settings-file edit to see through fog, after being one-shot at 117 m with a slug while prone in a bush in fog and rain. (Our summary of this post, not the author’s words.)

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