Rogue Division Help
Answers to the questions people actually ask. If yours isn't here, ask on Discord.
Joining
How do I join the clan?
Fill in the form at /apply — no site account needed. Rogue Division is 18+ only. An officer reviews applications, usually within a couple of hours, and gets in touch via Discord.
Do I need an account to use this site?
No — roster, news, events, clips, and applying are all readable without one. You need an account to RSVP, manage a dog tag, post in Comms, or use Play Now/Going Live.
Accounts & sign-in
What are my options for signing in?
Three ways, all on /login: a normal username/password account, Sign in with Discord, or Sign in with Steam. First time using either button creates your account automatically — no separate registration step. If you're already signed in and click one, it links that Discord/Steam identity to your existing account instead of making a new one.
I have a password account — can I still add Discord/Steam?
Yes. While signed in, use Link Discord / Connect Steam in the nav bar. Linking Steam also unlocks a personal API token for Stream Deck buttons — see Events, Play Now & Going Live.
Site roles & clan ranks
What's the difference between a site role and a clan rank?
Two separate ladders. Site role (member → contributor → editor → admin) controls what you can do on this website — editor and up can review applications, moderate Comms, and manage the roster. Clan rank (recruit → private → corporal → sergeant → lieutenant → captain → major → leader) is your standing in the clan, shown on your roster dog tag. They're independent ladders — a brand-new site account can belong to a long-standing major, and vice versa.
How does my clan rank actually get set?
Discord is authoritative — whatever rank role an officer gives you in Discord is what shows on your dog tag, synced within about a minute. If you're linked but hold no rank role in Discord yet, the site pushes your current dog-tag rank as a starting point instead. Get a rank role in Discord before you've ever touched the site at all, and a roster entry gets created for you automatically — it links to your account the moment you sign in here.
Discord
What can the bot actually do?
/profile / /whois look up a dog tag, /weapon /
/loadout / /strat pull armoury and Strat Vault data,
/favweapon updates your favourite, /roster lists active
members, /report-result logs a match for officer review,
/report privately flags suspected cheating, /lfg posts a
quick "looking for a group," and /steam drops the Steam group link.
Officers additionally get /award-grant, /reportlist, and
/reportclose.
Two ways to link Discord — which do I use?
Either works, pick whichever's easier. Sign in with
Discord on /login links it in one click if
you're signed in, or creates+links a new account if you're not. The older route: run
/link in the Discord server, the bot DMs a short code, then enter it at
/link within 10 minutes. Both end up in the same place —
your Discord identity tied to your site account.
Why do I have a private squad voice/text channel?
Squads get their own 🎯 Squad voice channel and matching
#squad-name text channel automatically, visible only to that squad's own
Discord role plus officers (captain and up) — nobody outside the squad can see or join
them. Set on Manage roster (officers) — the
matching Discord role and channel access follow automatically within about 10 minutes,
no manual Discord setup needed. Change squads and the old channel access is removed,
new one granted, same pass.
Roster, dog tags & squads
What's a dog tag?
Your profile card on the roster — callsign, rank,
squad, favourite weapon, bio, and stats. Edit yours at
/roster/<id>/profile once you're linked to your account (or an
officer can edit it for you). Browse by squad instead of rank at
/squads.
Why does it say "self-reported," and what's the Steam ✔?
WARDOGS has no public stats API pre-release, so K/D and favourite map on a dog tag are
just what you typed in. Hours played is different if
you've connected Steam (Connect Steam in
the nav) — once linked, your real WARDOGS + Playtest hours sync in automatically and
show a "✔ Steam" badge instead of being typed in. Win/loss records are separate again:
submitted via /report-result, only counted once an officer confirms them.
I'm a recruit — what's the checklist on my profile?
A short onboarding list — read the rules, post an intro in Comms — plus two things that check themselves automatically (linked Discord, joined the Steam group) and one an officer signs off on. It disappears once you're promoted past recruit.
Comms
Can anyone read Comms?
No — Comms (the forum board, including Ops Planning) is roster members and officers only, not just anyone with a site account. Signed out or not yet on the roster, you'll be asked to sign in or told it's roster-only. This is deliberate — ops-planning talk shouldn't be readable by outsiders. Comments on public news and event pages are a separate, still-public thing.
Events, Play Now & Going Live
How do RSVPs work on a scheduled event?
Open any event's page and pick Going, Maybe, or Can't make it — you can change it any time before the event, and everyone's status is visible on the page so officers can plan seats/squads off the real list rather than guessing.
What's "Play Now" on the Events page?
For "anyone free right now" moments that don't deserve a scheduled event — a roster member posts they're free to play (optionally with a note, e.g. what game/mode), other members click I'm in to join, and the post shows every name that's joined, live. It's public to view (same as the rest of Events — no strategy content, just "who's around"), but only roster members can post or join. Posts drop off the list automatically 30 minutes after posting — nothing to clean up by hand.
What's "Going Live"?
Announces you're streaming right now, using whichever Twitch/YouTube link is already
on your dog tag profile — nothing to type at the moment you go live. Shows as a
pulsing "live" banner on the homepage (clicking it opens your actual stream) for 4
hours, and posts to Discord too. If you haven't added a stream link yet, add one at
/roster/<id>/profile under "Elsewhere" first — the button will tell
you exactly that if it's missing.
Can I trigger these from a Stream Deck (or similar)?
Yes — generate a personal token to get real working links for Play Now and both Going Live platforms, no browser needed at press time. Works with any tool that can fire a plain HTTP GET request, not just Stream Deck — that page has exact setup steps, a recommended free plugin, and matching button icons. One thing worth knowing: it's not instant — the site checks for new posts to relay to Discord roughly every 60 seconds, so there can be up to a minute's delay between pressing the button and seeing it in Discord (the site itself updates straight away).
The field manual
Where's the wiki / weapon stats?
Hidden for now on purpose. The weapon/ammo/attachment data we have pre-release is third-party sourced (fan sites), not our own — it comes back once we've got real data to put there instead.
Strat Vault
A members-only tactical map — click to drop a named callout (grid reference, a short label) for other members to see. Signed-in roster members only, on purpose — it's the one part of the site with genuinely tactical content, alongside Comms. Anyone can add a callout; deleting one is limited to whoever placed it, or an officer.
Loadouts
Pick a weapon plus any attachments, name the combo, save it to your dog tag as a build you're showing off or planning around. Deliberately not a stat calculator — attachment effect data (recoil, ADS speed, etc.) isn't public pre-release, so combining it into one number would mean inventing figures, which this site doesn't do anywhere else. It shows the weapon's own real base stats plus your attachment list, with an honest note about why there's no combined score.
Clips
Paste a YouTube, Twitch (clip or VOD), or Streamable link and it embeds properly — anyone can watch, submitting needs an account. New clips also post to Discord with a 🔥 reaction people can vote with; an officer picks Clip of the Week from the roster (the reaction count is treated as input, not an automatic winner — same as every other "best of" on this site).
Awards
Small recognition badges (Founding Member, MVP, that kind of thing) shown on a
member's dog tag with a hover tooltip. Always an officer's judgement call tied to a
note — never computed from stats or votes, same as Clip of the Week. Officers grant
them at /admin/awards on the site or with /award-grant in
Discord.
Brand & stream kit
The quick way: get everything at once
/brand has a "Download everything (.zip)" button right at the top — one file with every logo, Discord asset, sticker, OBS scene, and Stream Deck icon, sorted into folders with a README. Grab that if you just want the lot; the breakdown below is if you only need one specific thing.
Logos
The crest (icon, transparent), a horizontal lockup (crest + wordmark, for banners), and a solid-background avatar version (for anything that composites badly on transparency, like profile pictures). All drawn for a dark background — don't recolour, stretch, or put them on a light one. For members representing the clan, not official WARDOGS/Bulkhead/Team17 merch.
Discord server icon & banner
The icon is the avatar logo, already sized right (512×512) — Server Settings → Overview → Server Icon. The banner is a separate 1920×1080 image matching the site's look — Server Settings → Overview → Server Banner, but that option only appears once the server hits Boost Level 2; it won't show below that.
Discord stickers
Three ready-made 320×320 stickers (logo, wordmark, dog tag design) — upload as-is, no resizing needed, at Server Settings → Emoji & Stickers → Upload Sticker. Discord will ask for a name and a couple of related emoji per sticker when you upload; that part's a manual Discord step, not something we can pre-fill.
OBS / streaming scenes
Four 1920×1080 images, all matching the site's look (same tick-mark/crosshatch board style): Starting Soon, Be Right Back, and Stream ending are full scenes — add each as an Image source in OBS and switch to it as a scene. The fourth, Overlay frame, has a genuinely transparent centre — layer it as an Image source on top of your game capture and it won't cover anything, just adds branded top/bottom bars and corner brackets around the edge.
Stream Deck icons
144×144 button icons — Play Now, Going Live, and a plain brand icon for anything else (open Discord, open the site). Drag one onto a button as its icon image in the Stream Deck app. The Play Now and Going Live icons are meant to pair with real working buttons — see /account/api-token for the actual links to wire them up to.