How to report a player in WARDOGS

How to report someone in a match

BULKHEAD’s instruction is short: “Use the reporting tool in the game. Pick the player, choose the reason, and add anything that helps us find it, such as the server name and roughly when it happened.” It does not say where the tool is. Players on the Steam board describe it from the scoreboard:

“Loads of cheaters!” — the scoreboard path, 4 Oct 2026 →

1. 01

   Open the scoreboard

   Tab, the same key that opens your inventory.

2. 02

   Click the player’s name

   “Go to Scoreboard click on the persons name and report”, as one player put it on 4 October.

3. 03

   Choose the reason and add details

   The server name and the approximate time are the two things BULKHEAD names.

What happens after you report

From BULKHEAD’s Player Safety page: reports “come to us, not to the server you were playing on”. A report may carry “a short extract of the recent text chat from that session, currently up to the last 50 messages”, which is reviewed with other reports about the same player and with gameplay and anti-cheat data. “Most reports are dealt with within a few days, and serious ones sooner.” You will not usually be told the outcome, and the reported player is not told who reported them. The Enforcement page adds that “a pattern of reports against the same player is evidence in its own right”, and that a player who draws repeated reports on one server may be barred from that server for a period.

BULKHEAD’s Player Safety page →

Voice chat is not recorded — give a time

Text chat travels with a report; voice does not. BULKHEAD says voice chat “is not recorded or stored, so we cannot go back and listen to something that was said”, which is why a voice report is “much easier for us to act on if you tell us the server and the approximate time, and if other players report the same thing.” For abuse in the moment, the same page points to the tools that do not wait on anyone: mute and block the player, or turn voice chat off in the game’s audio settings.

Proximity chat and squads in WARDOGS →

When the cheater is not on the scoreboard

The most common complaint on the Steam board in early October is that there is no name to click. Players report cheaters who do not appear on the scoreboard at all, a killfeed name that matches nobody in the list (5 October), and a player at the top of the scoreboard who began copying other players’ names mid-match (5 October). BULKHEAD has not addressed it publicly. What its policy does say helps here: the details it asks for are the server and the time, and reports from several players about the same incident count for more than one.

“Hackers Cloneing names mid game”, 5 Oct 2026 →

Community servers: two layers, two routes

On a community-hosted server the admins set their own rules and can kick or ban on the spot, which is why BULKHEAD’s pre-launch “11th Reason” post called them “the ultimate protection”. Their bans affect that server only, and BULKHEAD does not review them. Your in-game report still goes to BULKHEAD, whose suspensions and bans apply to every server, community ones included. A whole server being used to break the rules is reported to BULKHEAD too; it can remove a server from the browser.

WARDOGS community servers →

What BULKHEAD counts as abuse, and what it does

The Enforcement page lists cheats of every kind, macros or hardware that automate input, interfering with the anti-cheat, ban evasion, and abusing the report system with false or coordinated reports. The penalties run from a server restriction through temporary suspension to permanent and hardware bans, with progression and statistics removable. The economy has its own rules: Patch 0.11 set timed bans and a cash and XP reset for exploit abuse and permanent bans for XP-farming servers, and Update 0.1.2 on 30 September ended the leniency for first offenders. Since Season 1, cheater bans are announced in the server when match termination is turned off.

WARDOGS anti-cheat: what is confirmed →

• Only permanent account bans can be appealed, by email to appeal@bulkhead.com with your account name and platform; BULKHEAD aims to answer within 30 days.
• Unhappy with how a report was handled: support@bulkhead.com.
• Someone in immediate danger: local emergency services first, not a game report.

Common questions