Overview
- Bulkhead removed the Lonestar (Blue) cash and XP bonus on Friday after the incentive caused many players to switch teams and gave high‑hour players a competitive edge that skewed match balance.
- A Driver XP exploit let players repeatedly drive out and back to their HQ to gain progress quickly, which enabled some users to unlock tanks and Tier‑4 gear within days and prompted a backend patch to stop the loop.
- The studio slowed vehicle progression back to Season 1 rates as an immediate countermeasure while it monitors other contested changes to progression.
- Bulkhead said it issued 24‑hour bans and cash/XP wipes for clear, extreme exploiters, estimating fewer than 1,000 accounts affected, and will not perform an immediate full reset.
- As longer‑term fixes the developer plans a mid‑season 'limited mode' to cap high‑tier weapons and vehicles and is considering bringing Season 3 forward to give players a fuller fresh start, a move that will be detailed in its next dev vlog.