Victory!

The South African WARDOGS community’s petition to bring official low-latency servers to ZA has reached a major milestone. With over 1,100 verified signatures, the campaign highlighted the need for local hosting (Johannesburg/Cape Town) so players no longer face 150–250+ ms pings on EU/ME servers.⁠Change

As Season 2 begins on 15 October 2026, community servers (including Boet’s World and WDZA) are migrating to physical South African hosts. This delivers the low-latency play the petition fought for, proves the local player base can fill servers, and strengthens the case for official Bulkhead/Team17 ZA regions going forward.

ZA players, the fight paid off — local servers are here. Pack up and get in.