WARDOGS Revive & Looting: Why Teammates Can Strip Your Body for Free

One of WARDOGS' most controversial mechanics: when you go down, other players — including teammates — can take your gear at no cost. A 45-reply Steam thread exists purely because players keep losing expensive kits to "friendly" looting. Here is what is confirmed, and the one trick that protects you.

#The quick answer

If you are downed or dead, your equipment can be looted without any cost or permission check (community-reported). The community-discovered defense: open your backpack while you are downed — players report this blocks others from stripping your gear.

#How the looting works (community-reported)

• Gear on a downed/dead player's body is free to take — no money changes hands, no consent prompt.
• This applies to teammates too, which is the core complaint: your squad can legally rob you while you bleed out.
• The counter-trick: opening your own backpack/inventory while downed prevents others from looting you (community-reported — treat as a workaround, possibly an exploit-adjacent bug that could be patched).

#Practical rules until this changes

1. Downed? Open your backpack immediately. Make it muscle memory.
2. Don't bring your best kit with strangers. In a game where gear is bought with grind money (see the money farming guide), a T4 loadout looted is hours deleted.
3. Play with a squad you trust — see how squads work.

Whether BULKHEAD considers free teammate-looting intended design or a bug is not yet confirmed; the thread argues both ways.

#Sources

• Steam thread: Teammate corpse looting (45 replies) — free looting mechanic and the open-backpack trick

Community-reported as of 2026-09-25, Season 1 post-wipe. This mechanic is controversial enough that a patch could change it at any time.