What is in the WARDOGS Supporter Edition?
The WARDOGS Supporter Edition costs $49.99 against $39.99 for the standard edition, and the $10 buys cosmetics only: three faction-branded starter weapons, a Littlebird camo, a supporter icon on the scoreboard that can be hidden, and two bobbleheads. It gives no gameplay advantage and no queue priority — Bulkhead describes it as the single exception to its promise not to monetise WARDOGS during Early Access.
$49.99 against $39.99, and the ten dollars buys cosmetics. Bulkhead's own framing on the Steam listing is that the Supporter Edition exists for players who want to help fund development, and that it is "the sole exception" to a promise of no monetisation during Early Access.
What is in it
- Starter weapon camos, three of them, one per faction: a Valkyra-branded A-91 rifle, a Lonestar-branded Bushmaster and a Manticore-branded KH-2002.
- A Littlebird "Taxi" camo for the light helicopter.
- A supporter icon beside your name on the scoreboard, which can be turned off in settings.
- Two bobbleheads, grenade and helmet.
That is the whole list. There is no extra content, no early access to anything, no progression boost and no currency.
Does it get you into the queue faster?
No. Nothing in the edition touches the login queue, and nothing in it is described as a pass, a priority or a place in a line — the listing is a list of eight cosmetic items and a supporter icon. On launch night the queue ran in front of the main menu for everyone who owned the game, in whichever edition, and Bulkhead admitted players in batches as servers filled.
The joke that went round that evening — that the extra ten dollars bought a fast lane — is a joke. If you bought the Supporter Edition expecting one, Steam's refund window is the thing to know about, not a setting.
What it commits Bulkhead to
The same listing carries three statements the studio put in capitals, which are worth keeping because they are the yardstick for every future monetisation argument about this game:
- No monetisation of any kind during Early Access.
- In-game cash and gold bars will never be purchasable — they have to be earned.
- Camos will never be directly purchasable, because a camo should show that a player unlocked it rather than that they paid for it.
The Supporter Edition's own camos are the exception those three sentences are written around: they are branded starter-weapon skins sold once, not a store.
Labelled Confirmed — Stated by Bulkhead, Team17, or the official Steam page.