PapaKow
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Are clans farming the Clean Sweep achievement on official WARDOGS servers?

Are clans farming the Clean Sweep achievement on official WARDOGS servers?

Yes, at least on one OCE server on Monday 21 September 2026. PapaKow joined an official casual server where a coordinated clan was running an Apache, chopper gunners and mortars together, and a squad on their side said they were trying to hold both enemy teams to zero points for the Clean Sweep achievement on Steam.

They didn't get it. They still flattened the whole lobby.

What is the Clean Sweep achievement in WARDOGS?

Clean Sweep is the Steam achievement for winning a match without the enemy scoring at all, a 100-0 finish. A WARDOGS achievement guide on MMOexp puts it at around 0.1% of players unlocked, which makes it one of the rarest in the game. That rarity is exactly why a clan would go looking for a lobby it can roll.

How did I know they were going for it?

A mate of mine joined our server but couldn't get onto our team, so he went Red, which is where the clan was. He ended up in a squad whose stated plan was to keep both other teams at zero. So it wasn't a guess. They told him.

What is it like playing against a coordinated clan in WARDOGS?

Rough. I couldn't push up at all without getting chopper-gunned, hit by the Apache or sniped. Everything was covered. My teammates left one by one because it just wasn't enjoyable, and I spent 50k before I rage-quit.

In a game where every death costs you money, 50k is not nothing. I'm trying to save up here, and paying to get farmed isn't fun.

Is it griefing?

I think it's another kind of griefing, even if it's within the rules. And yes, that makes me a little salty and a little bit of a crybaby. I'll own that. But casual servers are the official servers in WARDOGS. They're where people who just want to hang out with friends end up. A full-force clan rolling one of those lobbies for an achievement is a very different game to the one everyone else signed up for.

To be fair to the clan: they used their vehicles properly. The coordination was impressive. The problem isn't that they're good. It's where they chose to be good.

Is anyone else talking about clan stacking in WARDOGS?

Yes. On the Steam forums, a player in the community servers thread described clans that gather everyone on one team and play coordinated over Discord, and another said they're fine "unless I'm on the team that particular little former Arma clan plays on." A separate team balance thread is mostly about the Blue team losing because of map routes and spawns, but it's the same underlying question: how do you keep lobbies fair when the player base now knows the game this well?

Where does WARDOGS go from here?

Balance, and figuring out who the official servers are for. In one night I went from solo players doing their own thing on the edges, to a normal squad night, to a clan army. That's three completely different games inside one lobby. The devs have all that information spread out on the table now. It's about refining it.

I don't want them to punish clans for being good. Something like capping squad stacking on official casual servers, or giving organised groups their own space, would do more than any nerf.

If you've been on the receiving end of this on OCE, tell me in The Clutch Club. I'll keep recording what I see, with dates.

You gotta stay gaming.