Each recurring issue in r/WarDogs is listed like a stock. Its price is the share of posts about it, so you can see at a glance what players are raising more, or less, than usual.
Reading the board
- 24h share
- Of the new posts in the last 24 hours, the percentage about this issue. A post can be about several issues, so the shares don't add up to 100%.
- Change
- Today's share minus the issue's average daily share over the previous 7 days, in percentage points. Anything under half a point either way shows as flat.
- Dev word
- Days since the developers last said something that addresses this issue (see Sources).
Which posts count
A day's share is only as good as its sample. Once we hold 100 or more new posts for a day, we use every one of them. For earlier days only the month's top posts are available, and those lean toward popular threads. A day with fewer than 15 posts is marked as a thin sample.
Posts sampled per day
Sorting posts into issues
Every post and comment is read by Jev, a classification model from TypeSafe AI. It doesn't write anything: it answers set questions with a probability from 0 to 100%. We ask the same questions of every post:
- Does it say anything about the game?
- For each of the 14 issues, is it genuinely about that issue? A passing mention doesn't count.
- What kind of post is it (bug report, complaint, suggestion, question, praise, meme…), and how does the author feel about the game?
- The rule
- A post counts toward an issue when Jev gives it 40% or more. A post under 30% on "about the game" (a bare "lol", a lone link) still counts in the day's total, but toward no issue.
- Consistency
- All of the history was labelled by the same model version, jev-1.13.0, so old and new days are measured the same way.
- Featured posts
- Posts shown under an issue (its headline and thread lists) get a stricter second question: is the issue a main subject, not a side remark? A headline's title must also say what the post is about on its own.
- Limits
- Keyword rules stand in for anything Jev hasn't labelled yet. Like any model, Jev can misread sarcasm or very short posts, so treat small moves with care.
Sources
- Reddit
- Public r/WarDogs posts and comments, collected every few hours. Reddit's feeds carry no vote counts, so a post's rank in the month's top list stands in for engagement.
- Steam
- The studio's announcements, plus the General and Report a Problem forums. Steam is never mixed into the Reddit figures.
- Official word
- Steam announcements and developer replies count as first-hand. Statements relayed on Reddit are counted but not verified. Patch markers on the charts come from Steam announcements and "Update x.y.z" post titles. Keyword rules spot possible official posts from their titles; Jev then rules out the ones that clearly aren't (a player saying "the devs haven't answered my ticket" isn't the developers' word), and decides which issues each statement addresses.
Other figures
- Gold price
- The price players quote most often on a day, shown only when three or more posts agree. It's what players report, not an official figure.
- Faction tone
- The balance of positive and negative words in the past week's posts that mention a team colour, from −1 (all negative) to +1 (all positive). A rough but consistent signal, not a verdict.
- Words on the move
- Words used more (or less) in the last 5 days than before.
What we publish
Only totals and links to public posts. No usernames or post text appear on the board. This is independent analysis, not affiliated with Bulkhead, Reddit or Valve.