WARDOGS Party System Explained: Join & Party With Friends
To party up in WARDOGS:
- Open up the Server Browser and confirm a server number with your friends
- Join the Server queue together and attempt to select the same faction color
- Once you’re on the same team, open up a squad by pressing Escape and selecting “Create a Squad”
- Invite your friends to the Squad or set it to open to allow them (and anyone else) to join freely
What are Squads in WARDOGS?
A Squad is a type of party setup for players to better communicate and spot each other in the game. In WARDOGS, you have a local voice chat and a squad-only voice chat. As a result, you’ll want to have your friends and party members in a Squad with you to better communicate so enemies can’t hear you.
Know the ground before you land on it. The WARDOGS interactive maps mark towers, settlements, and Control Zone routes across every battleground in rotation.
Explore the Maps
How to squad up in WARDOGS
To squad up in WARDOGS, simply press “Escape”. You’ll have a “Create Squad” open at the top, or you can simply join an open squad. If the squads are locked, including your friends’ squad, simply have them select you from the “Unassigned Players” list and invite you.
Price your kit before you are standing at HQ under pressure. The WARDOGS loadout builder lets you plan a full spend against your starting cash ahead of time.
Build a Loadout
Why should you party up in WARDOGS?
Partying up into a squad helps everyone on the team get a good idea of who is playing with who. With the help of squads, you can quickly identify where each squad is holding up or moving to.
Additionally, within your own squad, it’s much easier to identify each other due to the gold coloring of your squad mates. If a party member is down, you can see their revive icon as gold instead of green. On the mini-map, your squad members’ arrows are gold, too.
See how your faction actually stacks up. The WARDOGS leaderboard tracks rankings match to match across every server.
View the Leaderboard
How to play with friends in WARDOGS
The best way to play with friends in WARDOGS is:
- Have a friend join a server and the faction of your choice
- Once the friend is inside, make sure they create a squad for the party
- With the squad created, go to your Steam friends list and have all your friends join the player that’s inside the match by right-clicking them
- If done correctly, you’ll auto-join the same server, same Faction (if there’s space), and same squad, all at once!
This is currently the fastest way to party up in WARDOGS and get your friends in the same game, faction, and squad as soon as possible. It sure beats staring at the server menu or faction menu!
Once you’ve got a squad together, these MetaForge tools cover everything else you’ll need for the match ahead:
- LFG: find like-minded players and forge a squad from our LFG page if you’re starting from scratch.
- Item Comparison Tool: weigh gear side by side in the comparison tool before your squad spends its cash.
- Database: check current stats and prices in the WARDOGS database.
- Ballistics Tool: model weapon performance with the ballistics tool if your squad is planning loadouts around range.
- XP Tables: track how squad play speeds up your climb through the XP tables.
Want more of this? The WARDOGS guides hub collects every beginner walkthrough, build, and mechanic breakdown MetaForge has published.
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