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WARDOGS Season 3 Arrives November 12 With New City Map Sabatulo and Limited Mode

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 11, 2026, 4:23 PM ET · WARDOGS · Gaming

WARDOGS' third Early Access season arrives tomorrow, November 12, after a maintenance window running from 13:00 to 15:00 UTC (8:00 to 10:00 AM EST). BULKHEAD published the full Season 03 patch notes on Steam today, and the headline changes are a new city map, a new mode built around fairer fights, and a deliberately slower season.

New Map: Sabatulo

Sabatulo is WARDOGS' first city map, built around tight streets, towering high-rises and plenty of destruction. Its key locations include a central hospital, a swimming pool, a power station and the river embankment, and the map is designed for a mix of urban firefights, close-quarters combat and vertical play, whether fighting room to room, street to street, or holding the high ground for oversight of the city.

New Mode: Limited Mode

Limited Mode caps the vendor at gear typically available early to mid season. There is no Hollow Point or Armor Piercing ammo, no Level 3 or Level 4 armor, no attack vehicles, no CIWS, Stingray, MG Nest or Drill Rig, and no anti-tank mines. BULKHEAD describes it as a small-scale warfare mode for players who want fewer endgame power items and fairer engagements, and for players joining later in a season. All progression and cash earned in Limited Mode carries over to the other modes.

Progression

The season now runs roughly three months, and overall progression speed has been slowed back toward Season 1's pace. An XP catch-up bonus and extended vendor discounts kick in week by week for low-level players, increasing through the season, so players with less time still get a shot at midgame items in each role. Shared items such as armor, backpacks, tactical vests and parachutes can now be unlocked from more than one role track, so they can be earned by playing the role you enjoy, and each role gets its role-adjacent items slightly earlier than the others. Tanks move later in the WARDOG track, from Driver levels 20-35 to 35-50 and WARDOG level 145 to 200. The Molotov moves earlier, from level 13 to level 8, while C4 moves from level 4 to level 5, the Large Hammer from level 8 to 14, Verba from 14 to 8, and the AMR 50 from level 35 to 41.

Weapons & Equipment

The Infrared Range Finder has been removed from the vendor entirely until BULKHEAD is happy with a redesign, after the Season 2 battery nerf failed to curb how dominant it was. Assault rifle torso damage returns to Season 1 values, with LMG torso damage now matching assault rifles: upper torso damage is up 13%, and middle and lower torso up 3%. The TCX-SPR gets reduced recoil and less side-to-side drift in full auto. Every DMR now kills an unarmored player in two body shots instead of three, and kills a player with no helmet in one headshot instead of two, with the SVD, BMR-308 and M14 needing one to two fewer body shots at every armor level. The Compound Bow's arrow speed is up 50%, so arrows reach targets faster and need less lead on moving targets. The Molotov Cocktail now sets victims ablaze, dealing damage and forcing them to drop their held item, and its unlock price drops from $25,000 to $12,500. The Basic Parachute is now an emergency parachute for bailing out of helicopters rather than jumping off towers, and its price rises from $500 to $1,250, while the Sport Parachute turns, glides and dives much faster and rises from $700 to $2,250.

Vehicles

Wheeled vehicles now roll downhill when off the throttle, with slightly improved traction on the Ural and Humvee, and reverse speeds are up across the board: the Bobcat goes from 16 to around 25 km/h, the Kodiak and Humvee from 33 and 35 to around 57 km/h, the Dune Buggy from 43 to around 50, the Ural from 15 to 27, and the Wolf-110 from 27 to around 40. Vehicle-mounted minigun damage against infantry rises by 50% to 78% depending on hit location, and Littlebird pilots and co-pilots get more cockpit damage protection. Tanks are now more resistant to grenades, which could previously destroy a tank's engine on their own. Several vehicle prices drop, including the Wolf-110 with M2 Browning from $7,800 to $6,800, the Kodiak with M249 from $6,750 to $6,250, the AH-6M Littlebird with miniguns from $12,000 to $10,480, and the Havoc from $28,000 to $26,000.

Charity & Cosmetics

For Movember, WARDOGS is selling a Tactical 'Stache DLC, with 100% of profits going to the men's health charity. The in-game mustache grows the more you play through November, and the DLC also includes a permanent Movember 2026 Scoreboard Badge. New Gold Market camos arrive for Season 3: the Defibrillator in Black and Gold for a limited time, the MAAWS in Two-Tone Desert, the Compound Bow in Digital Wood, and the M1911 and FAL in Chocolate Chip.

Season 3 goes live November 12 once the maintenance window ends, with roughly two hours of downtime expected.

Facts gathered from

• Steam

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