The workforce behind Wardogs has confirmed that Lonestar, AKA the blue workforce, loses greater than different workforce, and is making large modifications in Season 2 to repair that.
Since Wardogs launched in early September, there have been no scarcity of memes mocking the sport’s blue workforce, 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 completely with IGN, Bulkhead confirmed that Lonestar’s win proportion is decrease than different groups in Wardogs, but it surely has truly elevated over time. Lonestar’s win price was roughly 10% throughout the sport’s alpha, however has risen to 20% 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 workforce’s popularity was a little bit of a PR concern.
“So initially, and that is key to not misquote, it was like 10% in the alpha,” he mentioned. “In order that then led to the notion: blue is dangerous, do not be a part of blue. After which everybody tries to click on on inexperienced and click on on crimson as a result of they’re aggressive and they need to win. So they are going on the higher workforce. Extra just lately, it is nearer to 15 to 20%. It is most likely nearer to 20% proper now, the place folks have actively been becoming a member of blue workforce to attempt and make them win, which is sort of entertaining to watch. Nevertheless it’s simple, they’re dropping greater than the different two groups due to that notion.”
Bulkhead is taking steps to treatment this with the launch of Season 2 subsequent 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 workforce’s popularity could have been compounded by the incontrovertible fact that they have been dropping considerably extra on Bakurani, presumably due to map points. In consequence, they’ve chosen to shake up all of the spawns.
“We have moved all three spawns, so it isn’t simply blue workforce have moved,” mentioned Allard. “It is blue, crimson, 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 inner assessments that it has evened it out. However yeah, as Howard mentioned, there’s a real PR concern with Lonestar, and there are a number of additional issues that we’re going to be doing to hopefully assist flip the tide of that, as nicely.”
A few of these “few additional issues” embrace 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 in the different groups’ spawns encouraging different gamers to change to blue workforce.
“Yeah, we’re doing a little enjoyable stuff,” mentioned Philpott. “We’re even placing posters like ‘Lonestar wants you,’ in the different groups’ spawns. So yeah, it needs to be good enjoyable.”
In a press convention, Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer joked that, “in case you’re not taking part in blue workforce, you’re in truth, a pu**y.” So with that mentioned, it’s now up to the gamers to take these buffs and modifications to attempt and change the notion of Lonestar.
Wardogs Season 2 launches on October 15.
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