Install HellForge

A big update to the HellForge beta: many more editor fields, the editor in co-op, game settings import and a level-11 fix. Download HellForge-Setup.exe below and run it. On an existing installation it offers Update and keeps your game copy, profiles and mods.

Editor (F8)

• More fields, close to HD2R Editor's set:
• underbarrel weapons' damage and handling
• the K-9's rate of fire
• plasma weapons' charge
• sway and recoil for exosuit arms, emplacements, FRV machine guns and tank guns
• explosion damage taken on damage zones (vehicles, the ballistic shield)
• Hellpod payloads: choose what a call-in's pod drops (Resupply, support weapons, backpacks...), and how many.
• Armory and explosions:
• the armor penetration the armory displays
• the Epoch's and Railgun's overcharge explosion
• the Urchin's pulse explosion
• a set of smaller one-off fields
• Attachment changes are sent to the running game (respawn or re-equip to see them). If one doesn't show, it applies from the next session as before.
• Presets carry pod slots, arm swaps and armory labels too.
• Opens next to other overlays. Players with an overlay (Discord, RivaTuner/Afterburner, Overwolf, NVIDIA...) whose F8 did nothing should now get the editor.
• Easier to read:
• fire modes, burst rounds and rate of fire X, Y and Z sit together
• scrollbars in the choice popups are visible
• notes under some rows explain special values

Co-op

• A joiner's editor shows the host's changes, with the usual marks and the Changes tab, read-only. The joiner's own changes step aside while they are in the host's lobby and come back after.
• Attachments, exosuit arm swaps, pod payloads and the other choice rows now follow the host too.

Launcher

• Import settings from HELLDIVERS 2 (Profile page, Game settings): copies your options and, if you like, your key bindings from the normal game into the profile. Undo import takes it back.
• Vanilla Plus is bundled (on by default, switch it off on the Mods page): stratagem beacons stick where they land, hellpods steer over any ground, reinforcements land at their beacon.
• Updating replaces older copies of the bundled mods (editor, Hell Forge difficulty, Vanilla Plus), so you don't need to download them separately. Old copies are moved to mods-retired, with their settings kept.

Hell Forge (level 11)

• No more Eradicate as a main objective. Level 11 mixes two missions into one, and an Eradicate mission could still be picked as the second, adding its kill objective.

For modders

• SDK 9: set_stat (write one value of an attachment or other record live) and copy_row (copy a whole record from another, used for the Urchin's pulse). See docs/mods.md.

You need

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), and HELLDIVERS 2 on Steam, build 25480438
• Steam running and signed in to an account that owns the game or has it through Steam Family Sharing
• About 25 GB free on the drive you install to, and one Windows administrator prompt

Windows SmartScreen may warn that the setup is unrecognised: it is not code-signed yet (More info > Run anyway).

Found a problem? Report it in the Discord (link in the launcher's sidebar) or as a GitHub issue. The launcher's **Save logs to Desktop** button (Console page) collects what we need.

Share this release by linking to it, not by reuploading the setup ([licence](https://github.com/SkyeShade/HellForge/blob/main/LICENSE)). Mods made with the SDK are yours, under any licence (MIT-0 SDK).

SHA-256 of HellForge-Setup.exe: 94E3B5105B8956CE6D55ADC555B19D5454A10769843B090C58CBB04D0901DE41