What is the WARDOGS trust score?
It is a planned score on your account that decides which servers you can join, like a credit rating. Server admins and Bulkhead would set a minimum score per server. Turning on TPM and Secure Boot, or verifying your ID through PlaySafe ID, would raise it. Nothing is forced. Bulkhead has put it in 2027 and it is not live yet.
The trust score is a planned rating on your WARDOGS account that decides which servers you can join. It is not in the game yet, and Bulkhead has put it in 2027. The studio compares it to a credit rating. Each server would have a minimum score, and you would raise yours by turning on PC security features or by verifying your identity, all optional. Bulkhead explained it on episode 2 of its Hotzone podcast on 10 November 2026 (Confirmed as planned).
How would the trust score work?
In Bulkhead's example, everyone starts at 100. Server admins, and Bulkhead for its own servers, would choose the score a player needs to get in. That would split servers into high-trust and low-trust ones. The studio also floated no-trust servers: in future it might lower a cheater's score so they end up there instead of banning them outright.
The point, Bulkhead says, is that admins stop choosing settings one by one. Rather than "only players with Secure Boot on", an admin would ask for a score of 120 and let the score account for everything.
How do you raise your trust score?
| What you do | Effect, per Bulkhead | Forced? |
|---|---|---|
| Turn on TPM | Raises your score | No, except for players already flagged as suspicious |
| Turn on Secure Boot | Raises your score | No, except for players already flagged as suspicious |
| Turn on the rest of the PC security settings Bulkhead mentions (it calls them five settings in all) | Raises your score further | No |
| Verify your ID with PlaySafe ID | Raises it substantially (Bulkhead's example: +20 points) | Never, Bulkhead says |
Bulkhead has not published the full list of settings or the points for each. It says it will make that transparent when the system arrives (Unconfirmed until then).
Does Bulkhead see your ID?
No, according to Bulkhead. PlaySafe ID is a separate company that checks your identity document, the same kind of check a bank does. Bulkhead says it only receives a token confirming you passed, and that it does not want your personal data. It also says it will never force anyone to verify their ID.
Will the trust score stop cheaters?
Not by itself, and Bulkhead does not claim it will. It says about 80% of the cheats it sees already get around TPM and Secure Boot. The score is meant to sit alongside the bans, the hardware-ID tracking of alt accounts, and player reports, not replace them. It also lets players who hate cheaters choose stricter servers without Bulkhead forcing those settings on everyone. Bulkhead says a Valorant-style requirement for all players would cost it about 60% of the player base. What else Bulkhead said about anti-cheat → · How WARDOGS anti-cheat catches cheaters →
Labelled Confirmed — Stated by Bulkhead, Team17, or the official Steam page.