Your stream never goes dark. Get downed and it cuts to a squad mate's POV until you're back up; get a good kill and the clip saves itself. One free OBS plugin for streaming WARDOGS, made by The Kennel — and built to run with the Kennel.gg Discord, where the bot tells it who in your squad is live.
Sombrero goes down on stream. The picture cuts to a squad mate's POV, and the moment the revive lands it cuts back. No black screen, no dead air.
Clip: Example of POV switching — WARDOGS OBS Tool · twitch.tv/sombrero
Two jobs — keep the stream watchable when you're down, and catch the moments worth keeping — plus the pieces that make both automatic.
Downed? Your stream shows a squad mate's POV until you're back up, then cuts back the instant you're revived. Detection reads the damage log on your own screen — no latency, and it works with the companion app closed. Your mic is never touched.
Your squad plays in a Discord voice channel and Go Lives. Pop their streams out, press Add pop-outs, and each becomes a squad mate captured by that exact window. The Kennel Ops bot tells the plugin which channel you're in and who is live, so only people with a picture are ever shown.
With more than one feed, the game's NEARBY list decides which POV comes up: the squad mate who is actually next to you. If nobody near you is live, another live squad mate is shown.
Whoever is on screen is the one feed with sound on your stream; everyone else stays muted, and the unmute moves with the picture. One button on the dock turns it off.
In a tank or a Havoc with a crew mate: your own POV stays up and theirs sits in a small framed window with their name, placed where that seat's HUD leaves room (presets for tank driver, tank gunner, Havoc pilot and Havoc gunner). Forced by hand from the dock, or opened by itself when ClipHound sees you get into a vehicle.
Save OBS's replay buffer on demand and name the file with tags — from a hotkey, the dock, automatically when you get downed, or from ClipHound on a notable kill. Clips within 45 s of each other are numbered as a run. Works with Aitum Backtrack too.
The companion app OCRs the kill feed with the weapon icons matched at any resolution, reads the NEARBY list while you're down, reads the vehicle seat, and can post the clip straight to Twitch.
Optional name tag, camcorder frame, film grain and vignette over the squad mate's feed, so the cut reads as a deliberate camera change rather than a glitch.
Feeds are kept warm — enabled but transparent and muted between switches — so the swap is instant.
Everything reads the OBS source that shows the game, so it works the same whether that's a Game Capture on the PC you play on or a capture card on a streaming PC. On a two-PC setup the plugin and ClipHound install on the streaming PC, and the game PC needs nothing at all.
Discord gives no program a way to ask who is in a voice call. The Kennel Ops bot answers that question for the plugin — but only for members. That one fact is the difference between a tool you drive and a tool that drives itself.
Install, tell it where the game is, sit in voice with your squad, pop their streams out. The first time you get downed you'll see it work.
Close OBS and run the installer. Windows will warn that the file is unsigned — More info → Run anyway. Keep ClipHound ticked for kill-feed clips.
Start OBS. Setup opens: pick the source that shows WARDOGS (or one click creates a Game Capture), then the Discord page. Your Discord username is filled in from the Discord app when it's running.
Squad automation runs through the Kennel Ops bot in the Kennel.gg Discord, so join if you're not in yet — the dock's Discord button does it. Pop-outs and every manual control work either way.
Sit in voice with your squad, pop out the streams of the people whose POV you might show, press Add pop-outs. Get downed once: the dock turns red and your stream shows the squad mate; it comes back the instant you're revived.
Under View → Docks. Top to bottom: the state pill (watching, showing, off), Add pop-outs and Show pop-outs, one button per squad mate who is live (press it to force their feed up, again to come back), the squad-mate box with Auto switch and Closest, Show friend's POV, Back to me and POV sound, the Dual POV row, then Squad, Setup, Settings, Logs and Discord, ClipHound start/stop, Save clip, and the last events.
Settings live under Tools → Kennel.gg Wardogs OBS Tool: Switch, Dual POV, Look, Detect, Clips, ClipHound, Logs and Help.
WARDOGS lists the squad mates near you in the bottom-right of the HUD, with a distance each, and that list stays up while you're down. From the moment the damage log appears until you're back up, ClipHound reads it and the plugin makes the nearest live squad mate the active one just before your stream cuts to them.
Tick Closest on the dock, drag the blue box round the NEARBY list on the Detect tab, and give each squad mate their in-game name. A swap to a nearer person waits 4 s and only happens within 50 m, so nothing flaps.
The squad mate on screen is the one feed with sound; the dock's POV sound button (and a hotkey) turns that off. Discord hands OBS one track for the whole call, so for Discord squad mates that track is what turns on and off; one stream's own level is the slider on its pop-out.
The plugin saves OBS's replay buffer and names the file
{date} {time} {title} {tags} {source}; every clip is logged to
clips.csv. Sources: the hotkey Kennel.gg Wardogs: save a clip now, the
dock's Clip now, clip on downed, or ClipHound on a notable kill. Clips within
45 s are one run — "[1 of 3]", "[2 of 3]" — and Twitch clips get "part 2", "part 3".
For a crewed vehicle: your POV stays up and your crew mate's sits in a small framed window with their name, placed where that seat's HUD leaves room. Presets for tank driver, tank gunner, Havoc pilot and Havoc gunner, or drag it anywhere. Auto opens and closes it with the vehicle; Force Dual POV does it by hand.
The plugin goes to C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins\kennelgg and, with the
ClipHound component ticked, the app to C:\ProgramData\Kennel.gg\ClipHound
(self-contained, Tesseract included, no Python install). The zip has the same plugin files
for a manual install: copy its kennelgg folder into
C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins\.
Discord Go Live is the simplest, because the bot can tell the plugin who is live. The rest work when Discord isn't an option.
| Feed | Latency | Your friend's setup |
|---|---|---|
| Discord Go Live | ~0.5–1 s | Go Live in the call; you pop their stream out and press Add pop-outs. 720p without Nitro. |
| Twitch / Kick stream | ~2 s with low-latency mode | Nothing — they just stream (their mic is in it). |
| YouTube live | ~5 s+ | Nothing; the channel has to allow embedding. |
| VDO.Ninja (WebRTC) | ~0.3 s | Opens one link in Chrome/Edge, shares the game window with system audio. |
| OBS source | depends | Anything already in OBS — a capture card, a second PC. |
Everything since 0.7.3 is in the 0.10.7 release notes and CHANGELOG.md.
No. The squad mate on screen is the one feed with sound on your stream; your mic and your own inputs are never changed. You can choose to mute your own game audio while a squad mate is up if you don't want both game sounds at once.
Yes. Downed detection lives in the plugin itself — it template-matches the damage-log header on your own screen — so the swap works with the companion app closed. ClipHound adds kill-feed clips, the Closest pick from the NEARBY list, and vehicle-seat detection.
Nothing. It's free, made by The Kennel, the WARDOGS community at kennel.gg.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and OBS Studio 30 or newer. Squad automation through the Discord roster is for members of the Kennel.gg Discord; everything else works without it.
The downed search is template matching on an 800 px frame — near zero once locked on, and about 1–2 % of one core while you're alive. ClipHound's OCR is the heavier part: roughly 10–20 % of one core while kills are being read, a few per cent between them.
Yes: Twitch, Kick, YouTube live, VDO.Ninja (WebRTC) or any source already in OBS. Discord Go Live is the simplest because the bot can tell the plugin who is live.
Yes. On the Clips tab, tick the OBS hotkeys to fire on every clip — Backtrack works alongside the replay buffer or instead of it.
Yes. Install the plugin (and ClipHound) on the streaming PC, the one running OBS. Point Setup at the source that shows the game — a capture card, NDI, whatever you already use — and downed detection, the kill-feed reader and the NEARBY reader all work from that picture. Nothing is installed on the gaming PC. Discord pop-outs are captured on whichever PC runs OBS, so keep Discord open there. With a capture card that carries audio, game sound comes with it.
Because it is — code-signing certificates cost money and this is a free community tool. Click More info, then Run anyway. The installer's SHA-256 is printed on this page so you can check the file you downloaded is the one we built.
That's the whole setup. The bot sees your channel, the plugin sees the bot, and the next time you go down your stream is already showing the squad mate standing next to you.
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