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WARDOGS Guide

Mouse wheel switches weapons while scoped

Symptoms

Section titled “Symptoms”
  • You aim (RMB) with a variable-zoom scope, scroll the mouse wheel — the magnification doesn’t change.
  • Instead of zooming, the wheel switches weapons.
  • The “Reset to default” button in the controls settings doesn’t help.

Cause

Section titled “Cause”

The bug appears once you rebind any action to the mouse wheel in the settings — most often minimap zoom or weapon switching. After that, the scope zoom actions lose their key in the settings file, and the wheel goes to other actions.

In GameUserSettings.ini the broken entries look like this — the zoom has no key (Key=...):

((TagName="Input.NamedActions.Player.ScopeZoom.Increase"), (PrimaryKey=(bIsCustom=True)))
((TagName="Input.NamedActions.Player.ScopeZoom.Decrease"), (PrimaryKey=(bIsCustom=True)))
Section titled “Fix 1. Edit the settings file (recommended)”

The rest of your settings are kept.

  1. Close the game completely. Otherwise it will overwrite the file when it exits.

  2. Press Win + R, paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\Wardogs\Saved\Config\WindowsClient and press Enter.

  3. Back up GameUserSettings.ini — for example, copy it to your desktop.

  4. Open GameUserSettings.ini in Notepad.

  5. Press Ctrl + F and search for ScopeZoom.

  6. Replace both entries with these — bound to the mouse wheel:

    ((TagName="Input.NamedActions.Player.ScopeZoom.Increase"), (PrimaryKey=(Key=MouseScrollUp,bIsCustom=True)))
    ((TagName="Input.NamedActions.Player.ScopeZoom.Decrease"), (PrimaryKey=(Key=MouseScrollDown,bIsCustom=True)))

    Only the part inside PrimaryKey=(...) changes: you add Key=MouseScrollUp, or Key=MouseScrollDown,. Leave the rest of the line alone.

  7. Save the file (Ctrl + S) and launch the game.

Fix 2. Delete the settings file

Section titled “Fix 2. Delete the settings file”

The quickest fix, but it resets all your settings: keys, graphics and sound.

  1. Close the game.
  2. Open the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Wardogs\Saved\Config\WindowsClient (Win + R).
  3. Delete GameUserSettings.ini.
  4. Launch the game — it recreates the file with default settings.

Fix 3. Delete just the zoom entries

Section titled “Fix 3. Delete just the zoom entries”

Players report this also works: close the game, delete both the ScopeZoom.Increase and ScopeZoom.Decrease entries from GameUserSettings.ini entirely (with their surrounding brackets and one comma), then launch the game. It restores the zoom with its default keys.

This one needs care with brackets and commas, so we recommend fix 1.

How to check

Section titled “How to check”
  1. Launch the game and take a weapon with a variable scope, such as 3x–6x or 6x–10x.
  2. Aim (RMB) and scroll the mouse wheel — the magnification should change.
  3. Without aiming, the wheel still switches weapons — that’s intended.

Keep it from coming back

Section titled “Keep it from coming back”
  • Don’t bind other actions to the mouse wheel, especially minimap zoom. That’s what breaks scope zoom.
  • If the bug comes back, repeat fix 1.