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WARDOGSWARDOGS · PC · version Early Access Season 2

Screen briefly freezes with a red icon, crashing aircraft

UnconfirmedReported as unpatched

Updated

A pilot reports that a red icon appears at the top of the screen and the image freezes for a moment before returning. While flying, that freeze can send the helicopter into the ground. They say it isn't a hardware problem.

Lifecycle

Reported · stage 1 of 5

8days 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 8d
Workaround none yet
Game
WARDOGS
Platform
PC
Affected version
Early Access Season 2
Kind
Bug
Confirmation
Unconfirmed
Patch status
Reported as 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.

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Estimated impactEstimated impact 4.0 out of 9.9, ModerateOur estimate from how many players it reaches and what it costs them.

Updates · 8

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  1. Report

    A red icon appears at the top of the screen and the image stops before coming back, making them lose helicopters and crash into the ground; they rule out hardware.

    @PsykoDz on X ·

    @PsykoDz on X · · View post

  2. Report

    Oct 21: a freeze caused a heli crash with 10 aboard.

    AnEpicPiggy · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “This issue has started to happen to me, followed all the guides and still nothing. It worked for the first few points into the game then all of a sudden, I crashed a heli into the floor with 10 people due to the game freezing. everyone lost roughly 20k each.”
    AnEpicPiggy · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
  3. Report

    Oct 21: periodic freezing and stutter since Season 2. Others in the thread say 'same'.

    MAN · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “The game's optimization has honestly gotten way worse! :( Season 1 ran so much better, almost perfectly. Ever since Season 2 dropped, it’s been stuttering and freezing periodically...”
    MAN · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
  1. Report

    Oct 22: while flying, the helicopter suddenly rubber-bands and crashes as if inputs got stuck; it has happened more in the past few days.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “Been happening way more often past couple of days, but I'll be flying the 'kota in, when all of a sudden my heli rubber bands and crashes, as if my inputs got stuck and the game desync'd.. Happen to…”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  2. Report

    Oct 24: a pilot says short random stutters make the helicopter repeat the last input or flip over, usually ending in a crash.

    Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
    “It seems that the game likes to sporadically hiccup and stutter for a second or two at seemingly random intervals. These freezes cause the helicopter I'm flying to either continuously input my last…”
    Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source
  3. Report

    Oct 25: a player on official servers still gets the freezes in Season 2, on foot as well as when flying.

    Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
    “Was a problem for me in season 1, still a problem for me in season 2.”
    Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
  4. Report

    Oct 25: a player says lag while flying replays the last input many times over and crashes the helicopter.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “As the title suggests, I've had this issue happen to multiple times and would like to bring it to the devs attention.. The heli whilst flying will encounter game lag and randomly input whatever…”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  5. Report

    Oct 25: a PC player's controls lock to the last input during a stutter every few minutes, leaving the helicopter upside down.

    Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
    “My gpu is a 4070 super 12gb vram and cpu is a AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6 core processor. I’ve had issues where about every 3-5 minutes my game stutters and my controls are locked to the last input, after…”
    Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source
Sources · 88 Community@PsykoDz+ 7 similar community reportsShow all →
bondy_DZ@PsykoDz
“@Brammflakes @CtrlAltDelrith And a red icon appear on top of screen than it comback to normal due this im losing alot of helis flight for nothing and i crash to ground because the image stopped ifs not hardware issue cause i invisitage this for days without result”
  • AnEpicPiggySteam · Forum replyOpen
    “This issue has started to happen to me, followed all the guides and still nothing. It worked for the first few points into the game then all of a sudden, I crashed a heli into the floor with 10 people due to the game freezing. everyone lost roughly 20k each.”
  • MANSteam · Forum replyOpen
    “The game's optimization has honestly gotten way worse! :( Season 1 ran so much better, almost perfectly. Ever since Season 2 dropped, it’s been stuttering and freezing periodically...”
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