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War Dogs queue — is it down?

The first question is always the same: is it everyone or just me. Below, readers mark queue, disconnect, crash, or will not start. On 30 September the studio deployed Update 0.1.2 from 08:00 UTC for about an hour — a queue in that hour is not a broken PC.

Patch desk — 30 September, Update 0.1.2, the studio's words.

  • From 08:00 UTC services were offline for about an hour while 0.1.2 deployed. That is not a green light.
  • The studio ties WD-L020 after Windows 11 KB5124010 to this patch. Take the Steam update first.
  • Cash and XP exploits in the post are closed on their side. We do not write how to do them.
  • Client will not even open and the counter is quiet — walk the crash order. Crash → · Update 0.1.2 on the news page →

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How is it for you right now?

This is reader self-report, not telemetry. One browser gets up to four marks an hour. We keep the rows 48 hours and tie them to no account.

What the studio posted on 10 September

Steam carries a post titled Launch Stability Hotfix #1. The studio's wording, not ours: a small client update is meant to address being unable to join, unexpected kicks, and a long login queue. Everyone already in-game was logged out. Steam news →

  1. Close WARDOGS and restart.
  2. Take the client update in Steam.
  3. After launch everyone returns to the login queue.
  4. The studio lets people in in controlled batches.
  5. They say they will raise the batches as people start getting in.
This is not a green light and not 'servers are up'. The studio described a queue and waves. If the client will not even open and the counter is quiet — then the crash order.

Before you start fixing your PC

A mass outage and a broken install are fixed in opposite ways, and half a lost evening goes into repairing a healthy computer. One sign splits them: does your symptom match what everyone else is marking in the same hour.

  • The counter above is quiet and your screen is black — almost certainly local. Walk the crash order.
  • The counter is red and the symptom matches — leave the drivers alone and do not reinstall. That costs an evening and buys nothing.
  • A queue at the door is its own case. The client is alive, anti-cheat came up, you are simply not being let into a match. There is nothing to fix.

What the beta taught

On 21 August thousands queued at the open and half the internet decided the servers were dead. The studio walked through it in the recap: the culprit was a Twitch-drops and DLC grant bug on their backend. Drops were switched off and the queue moved. Match servers had been working the whole time. Studio recap →

The lesson is simple: a queue and a dead backend are not the same thing, and confusing them is expensive. That is why the counter keeps them on separate buttons.

Where the studio actually answers

WARDOGS has no status page. When something breaks, the answer shows up in three places, usually in this order.

  1. Discord — the fastest. In the beta that is where the drops-off notice went up.
  2. Steam — storefront news and discussions. Slower, but it is the official record.
  3. Our diary — we fold what the studio said into one feed so you do not reread three channels.
We are not the studio and not support. The counter shows what readers marked and nothing else. If it disagrees with an official message, believe the official one.

If it is your PC after all

11 September diary The hotfix and queue line. Crashes on launch Safe order, no anti-cheat bypass. No Play button The button sat below the screen edge. Specs and anti-cheat Kernel EAC — from the Steam page.

Short answer

How do I tell whether WARDOGS is down or my PC is?

By whether your symptom matches everyone else's in the same hour. The studio publishes no status API: on /status/ readers mark queue, disconnect, crash, or will not start. On 10 September it posted Launch Stability Hotfix #1 — a login queue after the client update is not a broken PC.

The studio posted a hotfix — what do I do in the queue?

Close the client, take the Steam update, rejoin the login queue and stay there. In Launch Stability Hotfix #1 the studio said it is letting people in in controlled batches. Do not leave the queue and do not reinstall if the counter shows the same thing for everyone else.

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