Wardogs — GameFeatures: Experiences

Extracted from cooked game data (UE 5.7 export JSON, read-only dump). Source folder: Plugins/GameFeatures/Experiences/ — 11 JSON files. Two experiences: KOTH (1 file) and SniperShowdown (10 files).

1. What This Folder Holds

Experiences are complete game modes. Each one is a GameFeature pack that sets match states, components, HUD widgets and data registries. Two are in this folder: KOTH (King of the Hill), and SniperShowdown, a sniper showdown mode with a stillness-detection mechanic.

Experience Files Mode
KOTH 1 King of the Hill (control zone)
SniperShowdown 10 Sniper showdown

2. KOTH (KOTH/Content/KOTH.json)

2a. Match states

Order Match state
1 WDMatchState_PreMatch_WaitingForWorldLoad
2 WDMatchState_PreMatch_WaitingForPlayerCount
3 ControlZoneRuntime.WDMatchState_Playing_KOTH
4 WDMatchState_PostMatch

2b. Components

Host Component
WDGameStateSession B_FactionSetup_CreateThreeTeams (three factions)
WDGameModeSession WDKOTHPlayerSpawnManagerComponent
WDGameStateSession WDItemRequirementsEvaluatorComponent

2c. Other

  • World Partition: EDL_KOTH (external data layer).

3. SniperShowdown

3a. Match states

Order Match state
1 WDMatchState_PreMatch_WaitingForWorldLoad
2 WDMatchState_PreMatch_WaitingForPlayerCount
3 SniperShowdownRuntime.WDMatchState_Playing_SniperShowdown
4 WDMatchState_PostMatch

3b. Components

Host Component Role (inferred from name)
WDGameStateSession B_SniperShowdown_FactionAssignmentComponent Assigns factions
WDGameStateSession WDSniperShowdownLastKillTrackerComponent Tracks last kill
WDGameStateSession B_SniperShowdown_MusicController Music
WDGameModeSession B_SniperShowdown_PlayerSpawnManagerComponent Spawns players
WDMoverPlayerCharacter B_SniperShowdown_ExplodeComponent Explode on defeat (inferred)
WDMoverPlayerCharacter B_SniperShowdown_LoadoutComponent Loadout
WDMoverPlayerCharacter B_SniperShowdown_OOBComponent Out-of-bounds handling
WDMoverPlayerCharacter B_SniperShowdown_StillnessSpottingComponent Stillness-based spotting
WDControlZone WDSniperShowdownControlZoneSeekerComponent Control zone seeking

3c. Player and widgets

Item Value
Pawn data SniperShowdown_PlayerData (WDPawnData): B_SniperShowdown_MoverPlayerCharacter
Scene registry UISceneData_Match → DT_SceneData_Match_SniperShowdown
Event feed UIEventFeedData → DT_EventFeedTypes_SniperShowdown
Tracker registries TrackerData_Minimap and TrackerData_TacticalMap → DT_TrackerData_Map_SniperShowdown
HUD: leaderboard UI.HUD.Element.GameModeLeaderboard → W_SniperShowdown_Leaderboard
HUD: timer UI.HUD.Element.Timer → W_SniperShowdown_Timer
HUD: status UI.HUD.Element.GameModeStatus → W_SniperShowdown_Empty
Persistent: fade out W_SniperShowdown_FadeOut, layer Upper
Persistent: revealed W_SniperShowdown_Revealed, layer Lower

3d. Event feed (DT_EventFeedTypes_SniperShowdown)

Row Self text Meaning
UI.HUD.Element.EventFeed.Type.SniperShowdown.StandingStill “Keep moving or you will be revealed.” Warning: standing still is detected
…Spotted “You have been revealed. Run.” You have been spotted
…MovingClear “You are now hidden.” Cleared by moving

These three rows confirm the stillness mechanic: standing still reveals you; moving clears it.

3e. Scene and UI assets

Asset Type Content
DA_SniperShowdown_FadeOut WDSniperShowdownFadeOutData Death text “Killed by {KillerName}”; blackout transition out 3.0 s; respawn text “Respawning in {Time}…”
DA_SniperShowdown_GameOverScene WDSniperShowdownGameOverSceneData “Next Round in {Minutes}:{Seconds}”; scoreboard view model WDUIScoreboardViewModel
DA_SniperShowdown_Leaderboard WDSniperShowdownLeaderboardData Present, empty in export
DA_SniperShowdown_Timer WDSniperShowdownTimerData Format “{Minutes}:{Seconds}”
DA_Tracker_Map_SniperShowdownZone WDUIMapTrackerData Text off, no map zoom scaling
DT_TrackerData_Map_SniperShowdown DataTable 3 rows: Trackers.Type.SniperShowdownZoneActive, …ZonePassive, …ControlZone
DT_SceneData_Match_SniperShowdown DataTable 1 row: UI.Scene.Match.EndgameMovie

4. How Values Combine

  • Each experience is a self-contained mode. KOTH uses the control-zone runtime. SniperShowdown uses its own runtime and also a control zone with a seeker component.
  • The stillness mechanic (SniperShowdown) is the only experience-level rule set in this folder. The event-feed rows make its three states explicit.

5. Still not pulled / limitations

  • Stillness thresholds. The time or distance that defines “standing still” is in the StillnessSpottingComponent, which is in BP code and not in this folder.
  • Explode and OOB rules. The rules inside ExplodeComponent and OOBComponent are not decoded here.
  • Music and timers. Timer durations and music cues are not extracted.
  • Leaderboard data. Empty in the export.
  • Unnamed keys. Localised strings use _aaa… keys; their values are shown where the source string is present.

6. Item grants at spawn, by mode

Static census in Round-12 spawn provisioning. No data asset lists a universal starting kit.

Source Where Items Label
Player inventory component defaults Native constructor, 13 container setups None (empty DefaultContainerItems) Native
SniperShowdown B_SniperShowdown_LoadoutComponent Added to WDMoverPlayerCharacter, server only; BeginPlay Id.Item.SmallBackpack, Id.Item.Glock17 (context Looted, amount 1) Data
Deathmatch weapon selection and ammo components Added to WDMoverPlayerCharacter Chosen weapon plus magazines, selection-driven Native + Data
KOTH, ShootingRange, Tutorial spawn managers WDGameModeSession No path into the item-add chain found Native (bounded)
Normal gear (vendor purchase) Server_ApplyLoadout continuation 0x6BD5860 Purchased request rows Native
Stash records WDStorageVaultComponent import 0x6CFE100 ITEMS and VEHICLES records Native
Rejoin Server_RestoreInventory Rebuilt from the duplicated session Native

Order of these routes on a first spawn is not traced.