Every update, in your time
Each maintenance window BULKHEAD has scheduled since launch, when it was announced, and when services came back — with the start converted to your own time zone.
4 of the 5 scheduled windows since launch started at 08:00 UTC. That is the record so far, not a published schedule — each window was announced separately, between 29 min and 33 h 33 min ahead.
| Update | Scheduled (UTC) | Your time | Announced ahead | Back online (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0215 Oct 2026 | 08:00 UTC1.5 hours (to 09:30 UTC) | — | 17 h | 10:00 UTCExtended at 09:39 UTC; back online at 10:00 |
| Security & Stability Hotfix2 Oct 2026 | 08:00 UTC1 hour | — | 7 h 46 min | No postNo start or recovery post visible at 09:38 UTC |
| Update 0.1.230 Sept 2026 | 08:00 UTC1 hour | — | 1 h 3 min | 09:01 UTCOver at 09:01 UTC; close and update before joining |
| Security maintenance25 Sept 2026 | 11:00 UTCAround 1 hour | — | 29 min | 11:42 UTCServices coming back online at 11:42 UTC |
| Patch 0.1114 Sept 2026 | 08:00 UTCApproximately 1 hour | — | 33 h 33 min | 09:06 UTCDowntime began 07:53 UTC; servers back up at 09:06 |
The record so far: 08:00 UTC, about an hour
Since Early Access began, BULKHEAD has scheduled five maintenance windows, and four started at 08:00 UTC. That is a pattern in the record, not a promise: no post commits to a fixed day or hour, and the one exception came at 11:00 UTC with half an hour’s notice. Estimates were about an hour each time except Season 02, which BULKHEAD planned at 1.5 hours.
What each of these updates changed →
| Update | Date | Scheduled start | BULKHEAD’s estimate | First back-online post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 02 | 15 Oct 2026 | 08:00 UTC | 1.5 hours (to 09:30) | 10:00 UTC, after an extension at 09:39 |
| Security & Stability Hotfix | 2 Oct 2026 | 08:00 UTC | 1 hour | None visible at 09:38 UTC |
| Update 0.1.2 | 30 Sep 2026 | 08:00 UTC | 1 hour | 09:01 UTC |
| Security maintenance | 25 Sep 2026 | 11:00 UTC | Around 1 hour | 11:42 UTC (“coming back online”) |
| Patch 0.11 | 14 Sep 2026 | 08:00 UTC | Approximately 1 hour | 09:06 UTC |
How far ahead BULKHEAD announces it
Notice has ranged from half an hour to a day and a half. Patch 0.11 was announced at 22:26 UTC on 12 September for 08:00 on the 14th — 33 hours ahead. The Season 02 patch notes went up at 14:59 UTC the afternoon before, 17 hours ahead. The 2 October hotfix was posted at 00:13 UTC, nearly eight hours ahead. Update 0.1.2’s notes and its 08:00 window arrived together at 06:57 UTC, an hour before. The 25 September security maintenance was announced only on WARDOGS Updates, at 10:31 UTC, 29 minutes ahead. A patch can therefore go from unannounced to offline inside an hour.
When maintenance runs long
Season 02 is the one window that visibly overran. Maintenance began at 08:00:02 UTC on 15 October; at 09:39 UTC, nine minutes past the scheduled finish, @WARDOGS extended it without a new estimate; at 10:00:10 UTC WARDOGS Updates said Season 02 was live and services were back. On 2 October no start or recovery post appeared at all, which says nothing either way about the servers. After Update 0.1.2, BULKHEAD told players to close the game and update to the latest client before joining — the usual reason a game that worked before maintenance will not connect after it.
Changes that needed no downtime
Not every update takes the servers down. BULKHEAD’s IR Goggles & CIWS balance hotfix, posted at 15:39 UTC on 2 October, said regional servers would restart within 12 hours and required no client download or server downtime. Incidents are also outside the table: an incorrect Steam build on the morning of 24 September and a network disruption outside the EU that evening were unscheduled, and are recorded on the launch-status page.
How to know when the next one is
Every window so far was announced in at least one of three places: the Steam News feed for WARDOGS, the @WARDOGS account on X, and WARDOGS Updates, the service account on X. Only WARDOGS Updates carried the 25 September window, so it is the one to follow if you want the shortest-notice posts. When this page was checked on 17 October 2026, no new window had been scheduled.
What is not established
No BULKHEAD post publishes the following:
- A fixed day or hour for updates. 08:00 UTC is what four windows used, not a commitment.
- Why that hour was chosen.
- Whether regions come back at the same moment. Recovery posts are global; on 15 October BULKHEAD said servers would restart across regions.
- When the next update or Season 03 maintenance will be.
Common questions
What time does the WARDOGS update come out?
There is no fixed time, but four of the five scheduled maintenance windows since launch started at 08:00 UTC. Season 02 went live at 10:00 UTC on 15 October, after maintenance from 08:00 overran its 09:30 estimate.
What time is WARDOGS maintenance?
Usually 08:00 UTC so far — 30 September, 2 October, 15 October and Patch 0.11 on 14 September all started then. The 25 September security maintenance started at 11:00 UTC.
How long does WARDOGS maintenance take?
BULKHEAD estimated about an hour for every window except Season 02, which it planned at 1.5 hours. Recovery posts came 42 minutes to 2 hours after the scheduled start.
When is the next WARDOGS update?
Not announced when this page was checked on 17 October 2026. Past windows were announced between 29 minutes and 33 hours ahead, on Steam News, @WARDOGS or WARDOGS Updates.
Do I need to update WARDOGS after maintenance?
After a client patch, yes. Following Update 0.1.2, BULKHEAD told players to close the game and update to the latest version before joining servers.
Sources & verification
Every time on this page is transcribed from a BULKHEAD post — the Steam announcement that scheduled the window and the posts on @WARDOGS or WARDOGS Updates that started and ended it — each already cited on this site’s patch pages. The Steam announcement feed was re-read on 17 October 2026; no new window had been scheduled. Local times are computed in your browser.
| Source | Type | Read |
|---|---|---|
| BULKHEAD · WARDOGS Season 02 Patch Notes, 14 October 2026Published through Steam at 14:59:37 UTC on 14 October (Steam News API gid 1846651706674560; the complete 45,824-character post was read). It schedules maintenance on 15 October from 08:00 to 09:30 UTC — roughly 90 minutes of downtime before Season 02 goes live — and publishes the season's weapons, vehicles, buildables, balance changes, role-track XP and unlock changes, reward changes and a complete vendor price list. It does not use the words wipe or reset, and publishes no gold-bar exchange rate. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-14 |
| @WARDOGS · Season 02 maintenance started, 15 October 2026Published at 08:00:02 UTC. BULKHEAD said the scheduled Season 02 maintenance window had begun and repeated the 1.5-hour estimate. This is a timestamped start notice, not a recovery statement. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-15 |
| @WARDOGS · Season 02 maintenance extended, 15 October 2026Published at 09:39:08 UTC, nine minutes after the scheduled 09:30 finish. BULKHEAD said the maintenance window was being extended and existing servers would restart across regions. It gave no revised ETA or technical cause. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-15 |
| WARDOGS Updates · Season 02 live and services back online, 15 October 2026Published at 10:00:10 UTC. The official service account said Season 02 was live and services were back online after the extended maintenance. @WARDOGS repeated the same recovery at 10:01:51 UTC. These are timestamped recovery notices, not continuous uptime measurements or proof that every region and connection path remained healthy afterward. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-15 |
| BULKHEAD · Security & Stability Hotfix notice, 2 October 2026Published at 00:13:55 UTC. BULKHEAD scheduled a hotfix for 08:00 UTC on 2 October, with one hour of expected downtime, to address minor security and stability issues affecting some players. At 09:38 UTC, the complete Steam News feed and public @WARDOGSUpdates timeline showed no start or recovery notice. The post publishes no symptoms, build number, code changes or affected-platform list. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-02 |
| BULKHEAD · IR Goggles & CWIS Balance Hotfix, 2 October 2026Published at 15:39:32 UTC. BULKHEAD says IR Rangefinders will be disabled in the vendor as regional servers restart within 12 hours, then return in Season 02 with a battery requirement. It also says the CIWS now destroys the Havoc in around 6 seconds rather than 12, correcting an overcorrection in the previous patch. No client download or server downtime is required. The title spells the emplacement “CWIS”; the body uses “CIWS”, which is the spelling retained by this site. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-02 |
| BULKHEAD · WARDOGS Update 0.1.2, 30 September 2026Published at 06:57:06 UTC. Schedules an 08:00 UTC maintenance window estimated at one hour and publishes the complete 0.1.2 change list: a fix for the recent KB5124010-linked WD-L020 crash, named cash and XP exploit changes and enforcement, a four-way Deploy flow, browser/admin controls, stability, Havoc, buildable, throwable, crosshair and localisation fixes. The maintenance window is an announcement, not a live recovery signal. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-30 |
| @WARDOGS · Update 0.1.2 maintenance complete, 30 September 2026Published at 09:01:02 UTC. BULKHEAD says the Update 0.1.2 maintenance window is over, players can update their clients and join servers, and the game must be closed and updated to the latest version before joining. This is a timestamped recovery instruction, not a continuous uptime guarantee. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-30 |
| WARDOGS Updates · security maintenance notice, 25 September 2026Published at 10:31:07 UTC. The official service account scheduled an 11:00 UTC maintenance window estimated at around one hour, with services offline while a small number of security updates were deployed. It published no patch number, client-download instruction, security detail or affected-platform list. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-25 |
| WARDOGS Updates · services returning after security maintenance, 25 September 2026Published at 11:42:16 UTC. The official service account said services were coming back online after the 11:00 UTC maintenance window. This records a staged recovery statement at that time; it is not a continuous uptime guarantee and does not publish the contents of the security updates. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-25 |
| WARDOGS Updates · incorrect Steam build incident, 24 September 2026Published at 09:18:53 UTC. BULKHEAD says an incorrect build was pushed to Steam that morning and affected a small number of players. Players still in the queue were told to close the game and redownload it through Steam; the stated download was approximately 16 GB. This was incident guidance, not a new storage requirement or a normal patch size. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-24 |
| WARDOGS Updates · non-EU network disruption notice, 24 September 2026Published at 21:36:29 UTC. The official service account says WARDOGS services are experiencing network disruption in non-EU regions, primarily North America, and warns of connection issues while the team works to mitigate it. No cause, affected component, workaround, ETA or recovery is stated. No official resolution was visible when rechecked at 00:46 UTC on 25 September. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-25 |
| BULKHEAD · Scheduled Maintenance & Patch 0.11, 12 September 2026Published 22:26:39 UTC. Schedules approximately one hour of maintenance from 08:00 UTC on 14 September and details server-browser, community-server, crash, capacity and economy-enforcement changes. Planned features are explicitly not part of this patch. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-14 |
| @WARDOGS · Patch 0.11 maintenance start notice, 14 September 2026Published 07:53:41 UTC. The official account said downtime was imminent and servers were being taken down for approximately one hour to run maintenance and deliver an update; its link resolves to the Patch 0.11 Steam announcement. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-14 |
| @WARDOGS · Servers back up after Patch 0.11 maintenance, 14 September 2026Published 09:06:38 UTC. The official account said the servers were back up after the short maintenance window. This is a timestamped recovery notice, not a guarantee of uninterrupted service after that moment. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-14 |
| Steam · WARDOGS developer announcements | Publisher stated | 2026-09-11 |
