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Key binds will not save

WARDOGS: key bindings will not set or will not save

Published Updated Data as of Season 1 · 10 Sept 2026

This one is on your machine

Edit the key config file directly. It lives with your other settings under %LocalAppData%\Wardogs, and the game has to be closed while you do it.

What you see

The controls menu refuses to accept a new binding, or accepts it and loses it again the next time you start the game.

Also reported as: keybinds not saving · cannot rebind keys · controls not saving

Fixes, in the order worth trying

Work top to bottom and stop when the game launches. Each step is labelled with how much evidence sits behind it, so you can skip the guesses if the first ones work.

  1. 01 Close the game completely first

    Confirmed

    The config is written out on exit, so an edit made while the game is running is overwritten the moment you close it.

  2. 02 Edit the key config under %LocalAppData%

    Confirmed

    Press Win+R, enter %LocalAppData%\Wardogs\Saved\Config\WindowsClient and press OK. The key configuration sits in that folder alongside GameUserSettings.ini, which holds the rest of your settings.

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A small fault with an annoying shape: the binding you want is usually accepted in the menu and then quietly reverted, so it looks like you did it wrong rather than like the game dropped it.

The folder is worth remembering for its own sake. It is where the language setting lives that fixes the audio selection screen, and it is the first thing to check whenever a setting in WARDOGS refuses to persist between sessions.

If you rebound reload and now mortars and other built weapons will not reload, that is its own bug with its own one-line fix: can't reload built weapons.

If instead your aim feels heavy rather than a setting failing to save, that's a different, confirmed bug — see WARDOGS mouse feels sluggish, which is V-Sync.

Source

WARDOGS Discord, #beta-fixes ↗

If that did not do it