What are the symbols in the top right of the WARDOGS screen?

The six indicators in BULKHEAD's official legend

Match the icon on your screen to a row. Each glyph is cropped from the complete 1280×720 image attached to the 22 September post, and the labels are transcribed from it. The final column stays deliberately narrow: the studio names the detected condition but publishes no trigger value, sampling window or severity scale.

Official label	What the glyph shows	What the label establishes	Still not published
Server Performance	A stack of three server units with a warning triangle over the lower left	The detected issue is associated with server performance	Which server metric or threshold triggers it
Packet Loss	Two overlapping document shapes, one outlined, with three short marks on the right edge	The detected issue is packet loss	The loss percentage and sampling window
High Ping	Four rising signal bars with a warning triangle over the left	The detected issue is high ping	The latency threshold and measurement endpoint
Connection Stalled	A chain with its two links broken apart in the middle	The connection has stalled	How long without traffic triggers the warning
Ping Instability	Four rising signal bars with a large X over the left	The ping is unstable	The variation or jitter threshold
Saturated Bandwidth	A half-circle gauge with its needle pushed far to the right	Available bandwidth is saturated	The direction, throughput or utilisation threshold

A status indicator is not an error code

BULKHEAD calls these HUD icons and says they indicate that a network-performance issue has been detected. An error code is a string the game hands you when something has already failed, usually with a dialog and a button. These icons are the running game's network warning layer: the official legend gives them names, not numbers.

The error-code index, for the ones with numbers →

Why older reports named only three

Before the official legend, five dated Steam threads between 16 and 20 September were the only public record located. Players repeatedly named Server Performance, High Ping and Packet Loss because those were the warnings they saw; that was evidence of three observed labels, not a complete inventory. BULKHEAD's six-icon image now supplies the inventory and adds Connection Stalled, Ping Instability and Saturated Bandwidth. The older reports remain useful for the reported top-right position and for showing the warnings in use, but no longer set the count.

Colours and thresholds are still unpublished

A thread of 18 September says the icons appeared yellow or orange, and a thread of 20 September describes a red Packet Loss icon. BULKHEAD's new legend is monochrome and names no colour. That means the community reports no longer have to supply the icon names, but they still do not establish whether yellow, orange and red are formal severity steps or what value moves an icon between them.

• Yellow and orange — reported in a Steam thread on 18 September 2026.
• Red Packet Loss — reported in a separate thread on 20 September 2026.
• No numeric threshold, colour scale or severity order appears in the official post or graphic.

They are network warnings, not a frame-rate readout

The official post now settles the category: it says these icons appear when a network-performance issue is detected. A 20 September player report had already pointed the same way by describing the icons while frame rate stayed between 80 and 100. Graphics settings may change FPS, but no source says they clear any of these six network conditions.

Settings and performance, for the things that do move frame rate →

What to do when one is lit

Read the label first: it distinguishes a server-performance warning from Packet Loss, High Ping, a stalled connection, unstable ping or saturated bandwidth. That is as far as BULKHEAD's post goes. It publishes no remedy and does not say whether a particular warning originates on your machine, your route, the host or the game service. If it persists across matches and servers, the connection guide covers the checks and failures that do have dated evidence behind them.

Connection failures that do have dated reports →

Where they sit: beside the compass

Players describe the same icons two ways, and both point at one spot. The earliest reports say the top right of the screen; a 21 September thread, opened the day before BULKHEAD's legend, places them “to the right of the compass” and calls them yellow. That thread's opener first guessed they were spotting warnings. Replies the same day read them as connection warnings, and the official legend a day later settled it: they are network-status icons. If something appears beside your compass while the game stutters, match it against the six rows above.

When they light up: big fights, distant servers, busy connections

BULKHEAD has not said what triggers any icon. What exists is a handful of dated player accounts, and they cluster around three situations. Each row is one person's report, not a measurement, and none of them says which of the six icons it saw.

Is it your connection or the server?

Only one label names a place. Server Performance points at the server, so nothing you change at home will clear it. The other five name a condition, not a location: high ping, packet loss, stalls, unstable ping and saturated bandwidth can all start on your machine, your line, the route or the host. BULKHEAD publishes no remedy, so the right-hand column is ordinary networking practice, not studio guidance. It helps you tell your end from theirs; it fixes nothing on the server.

The server browser's REGION list and the 150-ping guidance →

Yellow, orange or red: which icon is it?

Players search by colour — “the yellow icon”, “the warning symbols” — but colour does not identify the icon. Shape does. Find the shape you saw in the left column; the label is BULKHEAD's, from the 22 September legend, and the right-hand column repeats where that label points, from the section above.

• Yellow or orange: one 18 September report says all three icons it saw were “pinging yellow or orange”, and a 21 September thread calls them yellow indicators beside the compass. Which of the six can show in which colour is not published.
• Red: one 20 September report describes a red Packet Loss icon. Whether red means worse than yellow is not published.
• BULKHEAD's own legend is monochrome and defines no colours, so this table matches on shape only.

Season 02: sustained high ping now gets you kicked

Season 02, live since 15 October, added region-based ping limits to official servers. BULKHEAD's patch notes say players who “consistently exceed a server's ping limit over a sustained period will be automatically kicked”, that server-side lag spikes are excluded from the measurement, and that a player kicked for high ping cannot rejoin the same server until the next map transition. The studio calls the first values “quite lenient” and publishes no number. The server browser gained maximum-ping tags and filters, and community server admins set their own limits. The patch notes do not mention the High Ping icon, so nothing official says the icon is a warning before a kick — but if it stays lit all match, a closer server is now worth more than it was.

The Season 02 patch notes, ping limits included →

• Kicked for high ping: the same server will not take you back until the map changes. Pick a server in your region instead of waiting.
• Community servers can set their own limit, stricter or looser, so the official servers' rule is not the only one.

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