As Wardogs Season 3 looms, Bulkhead claims to have built 'one of the world's most sophisticated anti-cheat systems', assisted by 'machine learning and AI'

Wardogs enjoyed an incredible launch, but Season 2 was very much Bulkhead's 'difficult second album' phase of live service development. A cash-incentive experiment to rebalance the game's weaker blue team was dropped just one day it went live, while the studio's broader attempt to address player concerns ended up sucking a lot of the fun out of the military FPS.

Now, with Season 3 on the horizon, Bulkhead has addressed the mistakes the studio made with Season 2 and discussed how the new season will address them. It's a tale that involves a new map, new modes, new upgrade paths, and an AI-powered anticheat.

The Road to Season 3 video kicks off with a mea culpa from Bulkhead. "Whilst learning to adapt to running a live service, we decided with good intent to try to respond to negative reviews with actions rather than words," Howard Philpott, Bulkhead's UI/UX director, says in the video. …