Wardogs: Bulkhead says Blue Team/Lonestar had a 10% win rate, later IGN mention says 15%
Bulkhead addressed Wardogs’ Blue Team/Lonestar issues in Season 2. Sources cite a 10% win rate, while a later IGN mention says 15%.
- A later IGN mention says Blue Team won 15% of Wardogs matches; the sources do not make clear whether this refers to a different time period.
- Bulkhead added temporary XP and cash bonuses for Blue Team in Season 2, but later removed them after balance and progression issues.
What happened
Wardogs is an early-access military sandbox from Bulkhead with three teams: Valkyra (red), Manticore (green), and Lonestar (blue). In the provided sources, Lonestar is explicitly linked to Blue Team, and that squad is the one that repeatedly lagged behind in the win-rate stats.
IGN reports that during the discussion around the “Blue Team bad” meme, Bulkhead said Blue Team won roughly 10% of matches. In a later IGN mention, Blue Team is said to win 15% of Wardogs matches. The available context does not say whether those figures come from the same period or from a different dataset.
Bulkhead tried to ease the Blue Team problem in Season 2 with extra rewards: players who chose Blue Team received 5% extra cash and 2.5% extra XP. According to the sources, those bonuses were later removed after the experiment did not work out as intended.
Separately, Season 2 also dealt with a driver XP progression bug that let players unlock tanks quickly. Bulkhead said, according to the provided context, that it addressed both that exploit and the Lonestar bonuses in a backend update, though the exact timing of those fixes is not fully broken out.
Timeline
2026-10-15: the provided context mentions Season 2 / Update 0.2 of Wardogs as the point when Bulkhead wanted to make balance changes around Blue Team.
Unknown date: Bulkhead reportedly tells IGN that Blue Team/Lonestar won around 10% of matches at the height of the “Blue Team bad” meme.
Unknown date: Bulkhead introduces a Season 2 bonus of 5% extra cash and 2.5% extra XP for players who choose Blue Team.
Unknown date: a later IGN mention says Blue Team has a 15% win rate in Wardogs.
Unknown date: Bulkhead removes the Blue Team cash and XP bonuses again in a hotfix.
Unknown date: Bulkhead reportedly tells Eurogamer that it addressed the driver XP bug, the exploit, and the Lonestar bonuses in a backend update.
Background
Wardogs is described in the sources as a military sandbox with three teams and a central combat zone. The teams have different colors and themes, but the same equipment, which makes Blue Team/Lonestar’s low win rate stand out even more in the provided figures.
The available sources do not provide a breakdown by region, map, or measurement method. That means the 10% and 15% mentions cannot be directly compared side by side, although it is clear that both figures refer to Blue Team/Lonestar and that Bulkhead wanted to adjust the balance in a later update.