WARDOGS Community Servers Guide — Browser, Hosting, and the Cash Bonus Week

What are community servers in WARDOGS?

Servers run by players and communities rather than the studio’s official infrastructure — rented hardware, live admins, house rules. BULKHEAD’s framing in the Patch 0.11 announcement is unusually warm: community servers are “the lifeblood of FPS games like ours… who keep a game running well beyond its peak player days.” The studio’s 11th-reason post (September 8, 2026) goes further on cheating: report on official servers, “and for the ultimate protection, play on community hosted servers where admins can instantly ban bad actors.”

That is the whole pitch: same game, same maps, human moderation.

How do you find one after Patch 0.11?

The September 14 patch rebuilt the front end around them. The single browser split into two — Community and Official — so community servers no longer compete with official ones for list position. Inside the Community browser:

• Text-based search finds servers by name.
• Filtering is more reliable than at launch.
• A Show Empty/Full toggle on the quick bar hides full or dead servers.
• Server names now sort alphabetically regardless of special characters and numbers, and names can’t stack multiple spaces to game the list — both enforced by Patch 0.11.

The Official browser, meanwhile, lost its filters entirely — with no official modified game modes, the studio judged them unnecessary.

How do you join by server ID?

Patch 0.11 made Community Server IDs persist between matches and restarts. Previously they were wiped on map change; now each server carries its own unique ID you can join by directly. The trade-off the studio named: the number is “much longer for security reasons.” Grab it from your host or community, type it in, and you land on that exact server — no more hunting the list after a restart.

Who actually hosts them?

Three partners, named in the September 8 post: QONZER, BisectHosting, and xREALM. Server rentals were open for pre-order ahead of Early Access launch and remain the sanctioned route — the in-game Host button now directs to the correct location (a Patch 0.11 fix). If you are weighing the monthly cost against the cash economy you will be grinding inside it, the money guide has the payout math.

Why play on one this week?

Two reasons, one with an expiry date:

• The 5% week. For one week after Patch 0.11 deploys, community servers pay a bonus 5% End of Match cash — an apology for how underserved they were at launch. Stacked on the payout streams, that is extra money for the same match.
• Admins. Instant bans for cheaters, versus the report-and-hope loop on official servers — the studio’s own “ultimate protection” advice.

What community servers do not change: the match itself. Scoring, zones, and towers work exactly as documented in the map mechanics guide.

Which servers should you stay away from?

The same policy bans cash-exploit abuse (timed ban plus cash and XP reset to zero) and publishing exploit tutorials (permanent ban). The full three-tier breakdown is in the Patch 0.11 patch notes.

What is still coming for community servers?

Announced September 12 but explicitly not in Patch 0.11 — “not yet ready but in the pipeline”:

The studio says none of this displaces Season 2 content — the broader arc is on the Early Access roadmap.

Where are the official details?

The Patch 0.11 announcement (September 12, 2026) for the browser split, IDs, bonus week, and ban policy; the 11th-reason post (September 8, 2026) for the hosting partners and the admin-moderation pitch.