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11 Every WARDOGS match is a three-way fight between three rival military factions. Players pick a side and join up to one hundred others split across the three teams, all contesting the same Control Zone. The factions give each side a colour and an in-world identity, though the moment-to-moment goal is the same for all three: hold the zone and out-earn the enemy through the cash economy.
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33 The Three Factions
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55 The three factions are Lonestar, Valkyra, and Manticore. Each is tied to a real-world-flavoured power bloc within the game’s fictional conflict.
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77 FactionColourIdentityLonestarBlueThe heavy-hitters in the Western paramilitary world.ValkyraRedA force that aims to return the Soviet People’s Republic to greatness.ManticoreGreenThe Kingdom of Persia, described as Tehran’s shadow army.
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99 Setting and the Fight for PV-1
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1111 The factions clash over the setting of Kolchia, a war-torn region set in the derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe. The conflict centres on PV-1, a rare resource that the game says has fuelled decades of Eurasian war. Kolchia contains multiple locations and points of interest where the contested zone can appear.
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1313 Faction identity is mostly a matter of side and flavour rather than separate rules. All three play by the same systems: the same buy menu, the same vehicles and building tools, and the same persistent funds. Squads coordinate through local proximity voice, and players can even build loudspeakers to broadcast faction propaganda at the enemy. How each side performs comes down to its players, not to asymmetric faction abilities.
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15+Lonestar and the Season 2 Experiment
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17+Ahead of Season 2, the studio said Lonestar, the blue side, has had a notoriously lower win rate than the other two. It accepted that complaints about Lonestar's uniform visibility and certain spawn positions were valid, but said that after looking at the data, sentiment around the blue team was the largest reason players did not want to play on it. Season 2, scheduled for 15 October 2026, runs what the studio calls a social experiment to see whether that changes Lonestar's win rate and reputation over the long term. It also adds a line to the faction's identity: Lonestar is an established private military company backed by one of the world's leading economies.
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19+Announced changeWho it affectsAll faction spawns moved on BakuraniAll three factionsUniforms made more desaturated, so they stand out less against the other factionsLonestarCash and experience win bonusLonestar, Season 2 onlyCash and experience multipliersLonestar, Season 2 only20 percent vendor discount while at least 40 points behind second placeAny losing teamPunishment for community server hosts found exploiting the faction bonusCommunity server hosts
1520 Faction Branding
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1722 Faction identity does show up in cosmetics. The optional Supporter Pack carries three weapon camouflage patterns, each branded to one side: an A-91 rifle pattern for Valkyra, a Bushmaster pattern for Lonestar, and a KH-2002 pattern for Manticore. A fourth camo, a taxi livery for the Littlebird helicopter, carries no faction branding. These are the first individual weapon models tied publicly to particular factions, and they are covered in more detail under Loadouts and Arsenal. The pack was sold only inside the $49.99 Supporter Edition before launch and has been available on its own since 10 September 2026 at $12.99, bundling a supporter icon for the scoreboard that can be hidden in settings, a grenade bobblehead, and a helmet bobblehead. Camouflage patterns are otherwise earned by playing rather than bought: the studio has said it will never let players buy camos directly, on the grounds that a camo should show that someone worked for it rather than paid for it.