Season 3: tweaking graphics with third-party tools will be bannable

From Season 3 the game will start detecting prohibited graphics settings. Joe Brammer warned about it first, then the official WARDOGS Updates account clarified the rules. Players also reposted the clarification in the Steam discussions.

What’s prohibited: Nvidia Inspector and other third-party tools that remove smoke or grass or change textures. In Season 3, if such settings are active, the game won’t let you into a match and will show a popup asking you to close the game and change them. Forcing a way around that warning is what gets you banned.

Shadows are a separate case. The in-game “potato shadows” option is only offered on minimum-spec PCs. In Season 3 it will be reset on every launch, and forcing it on stronger hardware will also be bannable. The studio stresses this is about potato shadows only, not potato mode as a whole. Brammer explained that the setting gives low-end PCs 10–20% more performance. The rules will be repeated in the Season 3 patch notes due this week. Before the November 12 launch, check that you haven’t edited config files by hand.