KatieRouu and her 30-plus squad turned WARDOGS into their own personal money printer, stacking bunkers and sniper towers on an FOB edge, telling logi to hold ammo because it would be abandoned anyway, then straight-up ordering allies to let the enemy capture it so they could mortar the hell out of the place from a second FOB and farm assists off the ammo tokens. One session pulled $300-500k per player with some hitting $800k+, all while they TK'd friendlies trying to actually play the game and mass-reported anyone who blew up their exploit city. The squad even joked on stream about getting banned, and she straight-up asked if it was exploiting while keeping the VOD rolling.

Devs at Bulkhead weren't having any of it. CEO Joe Brammer called it exactly what it was — a cash loop with zero organic gameplay — and the official WARDOGS account dropped the hammer with a 170-day ban that they confirmed is final. They patched the exploit ahead of Season 2 and added tracking so this crap doesn't fly again. Katie's still crying foul, claiming "VTuber debuff" and demanding to know what the exploit was, but the receipts from her own stream make it crystal clear she knew the score.

Community reaction split between "she knew better" and "permaban the lot of them," with even longtime friends like Onepeg and Shroud calling it out as deliberate exploitation. The game already warned players cash/XP abuse wouldn't be tolerated, and this squad turned an entire team into a non-contributing mortar battery for personal gain. Skill issue? Nah, this one's a self-inflicted ban wave.