Wardogs players, your wishes have been answered: you're getting your precious loadouts, even if the developers really don't like what you're probably going to do with them.

In a detailed reply to a Reddit user imploring developer Bulkhead to add custom loadouts to Wardogs, the company's CEO, Joe Brammer, confirms that the feature is coming and explains why it's taking so long. The TLDR is that the developers specifically opted out of loadouts to force players to experiment with their kits, which impedes public testing. For that reason, Bulkhead is holding off on adding loadouts until they feel everything's been put through its paces.

"Internally, we deliberately never gave the team loadouts," says Brammer. "If we had, everyone would have gravitated to their favourite setup and only ever tested with that. Withholding them forced the team to play with everything, which meant far more of the game got properly tested. The same thinking applies to players right now."

An issue with Wardogs' rebuy feature, which lets you quickly buy the same gear you used before you died, also informed Bulkhead's thinking on loadouts. As Brammer explains, during pre-alpha testing, the rebuy button appeared as a pop-up, and players were quick to use the feature even if they were repeatedly getting their asses kicked. "We’d expected them to go hunting for better weapons, and they didn’t," says Brammer. "They kept getting beaten, and a lot of them put the game down quickly.

"So we removed rebuy for a few tests, and lo and behold, feedback from new players got much more positive.

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