Episode 609: WARDOGS Season 2 Backfired, So Season 3 Is Coming Early

WARDOGS Season 2 came out on October 15, and two days later Bulkhead said its faster progression was the wrong call. Players had Tier 4 armor and main battle tanks within days, so the wipe never really felt like a fresh start. Bulkhead isn't doing another reset. They're bringing Season 3 forward instead. We go through the Season 2 patch notes first: the TCX SPR, PP-19 Bizon, M14 and new LMG, Molotovs, the level 4 helmet nerf, the rain weather preset, squad intent, the Wager vendor, and the new anti-air vehicle. Then the drama. The Lone Star cash and XP bonus worked so well it got pulled after a day, players who used the driver exploit to get tanks early got 24-hour bans and lost their progress, and Joe Brammer is in the replies. Raz thinks bringing Season 3 forward is the right move. Jake thinks Bulkhead should have seen this coming and is worried they're already trying to please everyone. We also talk about a time-gating idea for gear and the 209K players still on Steam. Then the Modern Warfare 4 campaign. It's getting called the best since MW2019, and Raz still doesn't care, because nobody plays Call of Duty for the campaign. Plus DMZ, and why Call of Duty should split Warzone and DMZ into their own games. 0:00 - Intro 1:39 - What's on today 2:20 - Patreon trivia night + upcoming games episode 4:40 - WARDOGS Season 2 is here 5:41 - Big Bear and Mount Ski Bump 6:49 - GTA 6 final trailer 8:01 - Season 2 patch notes: four new guns 10:19 - Words we learned from video games 12:10 - Molotovs and rangefinder batteries 14:31 - Defibrillator PSA 15:03 - Level 4 helmet nerf and suppression 17:12 - New vehicles and anti-air 19:22 - New buildables and rain 21:01 - Gold bars and the Wager vendor 23:25 - Squad intent, loadouts, pre-match football 26:31 - The Lone Star faction experiment 31:58 - T-shaped vs Y-shaped spawns 35:01 - Compound bow, controller fixes, faster leveling 37:10 - Blue bonus pulled: "We f***ed up" 42:03 - Driver exploit bans 46:52 - Limited mode servers 48:53 - Is Bulkhead's honesty refreshing? 52:25 - The X post: Season 3 is moving up 54:35 - You can't please everyone 58:23 - "Nobody is enjoying the climb" 1:01:35 - Fix idea: time-gating gear 1:06:21 - Joe's replies and the Twitter crybabies 1:13:17 - Tarkov and how long seasons should be 1:17:19 - 209K players: does the drama matter? 1:22:57 - MW4 campaign early access and the staggered launch 1:26:00 - Best CoD campaign ever? 1:28:12 - Two campaigns: Korea and Price 1:30:00 - Movable optics 1:31:06 - Best since MW2019 (and BO7's floating head) 1:32:05 - The JoeWo face and DMZ dread 1:33:39 - Split Call of Duty up 1:38:04 - The campaign's one silver lining 1:39:07 - Wrap: gloating next week _Note: timestamps may be slightly misaligned on podcast apps (but not on YouTube) due to dynamic ads._ The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast) every Saturday morning at ~9 o'clock Pacific Time. We typically start the stream 30 minutes early to answer viewer questions, banter, and chat. Links for everything are below. Thanks for checking us out! 🔹Streaming schedule (Pacific time): 🔸Saturday ~9 AM: Gaming news and stories of the week 🔹The Dropshot: 🔸Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot 🔸Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=YVR98VF4S945G 🔸Website: https://www.thedropshot.com 🔸Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDropshotPod 🔸Discord: https://discord.gg/B4Nsarq 🔸YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedropshotpodcast/ 🔸TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedropshotpodcast 🔹Razinon: 🔸Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/razinon 🔸Twitter: https://twitter.com/razinon 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/razinonttv 🔹Jakedown: 🔸Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jakedown_ 🔸YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jakedown #TheDropshot #GamingPodcast #PodcastClips #GamingTalk #WARDOGS #Bulkhead #ExtractionShooter #MW4 #ModernWarfare4 #CallOfDuty #DMZ #Warzone #EscapeFromTarkov #ArcRaiders #WARDOGSSeason2 #MW4Campaign #GTA6 #GamingNews #HotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices