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WARDOGS: IR Goggles & CIWS Balance Hotfix (Oct 2, 2026): what changed
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TL;DRThis WARDOGS hotfix disables IR Rangefinders in the vendor until Season 02, when they will need batteries, because BULKHEAD agrees with players that they are too overpowered. It also makes the CIWS destroy the Havoc in about 6 seconds instead of 12, after the previous patch overcorrected it.
Who this matters to
IR Rangefinder users
IR Rangefinders can no longer be bought from the vendor once your region's servers restart. They return in Season 02 and will need batteries.
Havoc players
The CIWS now destroys the Havoc in around 6 seconds instead of 12. No new client download or downtime is needed.
All 2 changes
IR Rangefinders
VendorRemoved
IR Rangefinders are disabled in the vendor until Season 02, when they will require batteries. BULKHEAD agrees with players that they are too overpowered.
Source line
the IR Rangefinders will be disabled in the vendor until Season 02, where they will require batteries to use.
- In this instance, we agree with player sentiment and they cross the line into being too overpowered.
CIWS
Buff
Time to destroy the Havoc
The CIWS now destroys the Havoc in around 6 seconds instead of 12.
12s→6s
Source line
The CIWS also now destroys the havoc in around 6 seconds as opposed to 12.
- We acknowledge we overcorrected this in the previous patch and have hotfixed the issue this morning.
Structured by Nerf Radar from the official notes (curated by hand). Short prose hotfix post on Steam, curated by hand. The post's title says IR Goggles while the text says IR Rangefinders; the change uses the wording from the text. Servers pick up the change as they restart across regions within 12 hours of the post. Source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1867240/view/1845383656386801 · fetched Oct 7, 2026.