Optics and magazines
Sight and magazine options recorded from the attachment menu. Two further attachment slots exist but have not been opened in any observed build.
Optics
| Sourcing | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vektor Frenix-X Micro Reflex Sight | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | $820 | 0.0 kg | Moderate improvement | Reported |
 Four Reticle Reflex | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | $580 | 0.1 kg | Moderate improvement | Reported |
 Compact T-2 Red Dot | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | $340 | 0.1 kg | Minor improvement | Reported |
 Holographic Sight | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | — | 0.3 kg | Minor improvement | Unconfirmed |
 Kobra Reflex | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | $520 | 0.4 kg | Moderate improvement | Reported |
 OKP-7 Reflex | Short | 1.2x | Fixed | $840 | 0.5 kg | Moderate improvement | Reported |
 Tricon 1.5x Compact Prism Scope | Medium | 1.5x | 100-200m | $650 | 0.2 kg | Minor penalty | Reported |
 CQ-2x Prism Combat Scope | Medium | 2x | 100-300m | $640 | 0.3 kg | Minor improvement | Reported |
 2.5x Combat Optic | Medium | 2.5x | 100-300m | — | 0.4 kg | Moderate penalty | Unconfirmed |
 Spitfire 3x | Medium | 3x | 100-300m | $790 | 0.3 kg | Moderate penalty | Reported |
 3x Tactical Prism Scope | Medium | 3x | 100-300m | $740 | 0.4 kg | Minor penalty | Reported |
 4x Combat Prism Scope with Reflex | Medium | 4x | 100-400m | $880 | 0.4 kg | Moderate penalty | Reported |
 Spectr 4x | Medium | 4x | 100-400m | — | 0.7 kg | Moderate penalty | Unconfirmed |
Short optics run a fixed 1.2x with no zeroing. Medium optics are magnified and zeroable. Sights displayed a $0 price in the alpha build. That was a display fault.
What attachments actually change
WARDOGS currently exposes two functional attachment slots:
- Optic
- Magazine
Two additional slots appear in the menu but have never been opened in any observed build. This page documents the two active ones; the others will be added when they exist in-game.
Optics: two honest categories
Optics divide cleanly into short and medium, and they serve different jobs.
Short optics
- Fixed 1.2×
- No zeroing
- They provide a sight picture, not magnification
- Their purpose is to make close-range work faster and more confident
Medium optics
- Magnified
- Zeroable to a range
- They turn long-range shooting into a calculation instead of a guess
Choosing between them is really choosing your engagement distance. There is no optic that is good at both close and far.
Magazines: capacity costs space and weight
Magazine upgrades follow one rule: more rounds cost more grid.
A drum carries more ammunition than a standard magazine, but it also consumes proportionally more pack space — and pack space is the binding constraint in WARDOGS. Extra rounds only matter if the alternative was running dry mid-fight. If you were not going to reload under pressure, you paid grid for nothing.
Before buying capacity, count how often you actually reload while being shot at.
Calibre synergy: STANAG is the quiet advantage
STANAG magazines work across all 5.56×45mm platforms. That single fact is a quiet argument for building a loadout around 5.56:
- One set of magazines feeds multiple weapons
- You buy fewer mags
- You pack fewer shapes
- Your logistics simplify themselves
Nothing else in the attachment list offers cross-platform value like this.