The group behind Wardogs has confirmed that Lonestar, AKA the blue group, loses greater than different group, and is making huge modifications in Season 2 to repair that.
Since Wardogs launched in early September, there have been no shortage of memes mocking the game’s blue team, Lonestar. For no matter purpose, Lonestar tends to lose quite a bit, and there are a plethora of movies displaying Lonestar gamers crashing helicopters at base and making fools of themselves.
Talking solely with IGN, Bulkhead confirmed that Lonestar’s win share is decrease than different groups in Wardogs, however it has truly elevated over time. Lonestar’s win charge was roughly 10% throughout the sport’s alpha, however has risen to twenty% in latest weeks. Bulkhead co-founder Howard Philpott famous that that is partially a results of gamers selecting to assist Lonestar as a result of they see it as an underdog problem. He even joked that blue group’s repute was a little bit of a PR subject.
“So initially, and that is key to not misquote, it was like 10% within the alpha,” he stated. “In order that then led to the notion: blue is dangerous, do not be part of blue. After which everybody tries to click on on inexperienced and click on on purple as a result of they’re aggressive and so they wish to win. So they are going on the higher group. Extra just lately, it is nearer to fifteen to twenty%. It is in all probability nearer to twenty% proper now, the place individuals have actively been becoming a member of blue group to attempt to make them win, which is sort of entertaining to observe. But it surely’s simple, they’re dropping greater than the opposite two groups due to that notion.”
Bulkhead is taking steps to treatment this with the launch of Season 2 next week. The largest change is that they’re adjusting spawns and rebuilding bases for all groups on the map Bakurani. Senior producer Kane Allard famous that blue group’s repute could have been compounded by the truth that they had been dropping considerably extra on Bakurani, probably attributable to map points. Because of this, they’ve chosen to shake up all the spawns.
“We have moved all three spawns, so it isn’t simply blue group have moved,” stated Allard. “It is blue, purple, and inexperienced. They’ve all moved. The precise scorching zone of Bakurani hasn’t been modified. It is simply the spawn zones. It is sort of revitalized the map, and we have seen from an information standpoint with our inside exams that it has evened it out. However yeah, as Howard stated, there’s a real PR subject with Lonestar, and there are a number of additional issues that we’ll be doing to hopefully assist flip the tide of that, as effectively.”
A few of these “few additional issues” embody altering the saturation on Lonestar’s uniforms to allow them to mix in higher, money and XP bonuses for taking part in and profitable as Lonestar, and even posters within the different groups’ spawns encouraging different gamers to modify to blue group.
“Yeah, we’re performing some enjoyable stuff,” stated Philpott. “We’re even placing posters like ‘Lonestar wants you,’ within the different groups’ spawns. So yeah, it must be good enjoyable.”
In a press convention, Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer joked that, “in case you’re not taking part in blue group, you’re the truth is, a pu**y.” So with that stated, it’s now as much as the gamers to take these buffs and modifications to attempt to change the notion of Lonestar.
Wardogs Season 2 launches on October 15.
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