Ever seen those disgusting, revolting gatekeepers, vagueposting and circlejerking?
How much 'better than you' they think they are, just for having access to cut content on a videogame?

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Now you can do it too!​

- This is a Work In Progress mod, you need to install it using the bat file that comes with it. (avoiding .exe files because antivirus trigger, you can read the bat and the ps1 files using notepad if you don't trust me)
- Replaces the gunner FRV model, so the civilian FRV spawned in colonies and cities also gets affected.
- Animations are ugly or non-existent, the thing was scrapped very early in development and animations aren't there (WIP), so using FRV's own animations
- The physics and hitbox are the original colony_rover entity's, not FRV's.
- The HMG is removed because it looks silly

Here's some footage:
alpha: (broken meshes)
beta: 0.1 (fixed meshes)
beta 0.2 (removed HMG)

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INSTALL​

1. Close the game.
2. If you used an older rover test (mod manager pack or entity_patch.py), remove it first:
disable it in the mod manager, and restore the entity table (or Steam > Verify files).
3. Double-click "Colony Rover Installer.bat"
(or right-click Rover-Installer.ps1 > Run with PowerShell).
4. Check the Helldivers 2 folder at the top (found automatically from Steam), click Deploy.

REMOVE​

Same window, click Restore. It puts the game's own entity table back and deletes only the files
it added (each checked by SHA-256 first). Keep this folder: the backup and receipt live in backup\.

WHAT IT CHANGES​

- data\<id>.patch_<n> (+ .gpu_resources, .stream) for the two FRV archives
0bdf199f7ac14f43 and 81da0125a3af89ee, using the first free patch number, so it doesn't
overwrite other mods' patches.
- data\game\generated_entities.dl_bin: replaced by the pre-built rover version
(payload\rover_entities.dl_bin). The original is copied to backup\ first.
Nothing else. No admin rights, no downloads, nothing left running.

LIMITS​

- Only one mod that edits generated_entities.dl_bin can be on at a time (e.g. the APC mod,
SHODAN entity edits). The installer refuses if that file isn't the game's own.
- After a game update the installer refuses (the table changed). Restore still removes the
model files; Steam > Verify files puts the table back.
- Multiplayer: other players see the normal FRV behaviour from their side.

KNOWN ISSUES (beta)​

- Driver camera is FRV-close (the camera is set in game code, not in the files).
- Rear standing seat still uses the gunner pose; no enter/exit animations for the rover.
- Rarely despawned at the Pelican drop.

ANTIVIRUS / "Windows protected your PC"​

The installer is a plain-text PowerShell script (open Rover-Installer.ps1 in Notepad to read
all of it); there is no .exe. If Windows blocks it because it came from the internet:
right-click the zip > Properties > tick Unblock > OK, then extract again.


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'ate vagueposting
'ate gatekeepers
'ate devs
'ate sweden
(not roicist, just dunt loik em)

luv me lads
luv baked beanz
luv me missus
simple as.