Realistic Resistances
Elemental resistances: fire, gas and arc, plus EMS. Beta (0.6).
In the base game, an armor passive's fire, gas or arc resistance only cuts the damage. You still catch fire the moment a flame touches you, you still stumble out of every gas cloud, and an arc still stuns you for the full time. Real protective gear doesn't work like that. With this mod, the passive's own resistance also works against the effect, scaled by how heavy your armor is.
It only covers the elements for now (fire, gas and arc). Other damage types may come later.
Fire
Gas
Arc
Options
In your mod manager (Arsenal / HD2 Mod Manager), each element is its own option with three choices:
In game: with Mod Options Menu (by CowboyBingus) installed, the three options are also under ESC > MODS > REALISTIC RESISTANCES (Off plus the same choices), and a change takes effect at once. The picks in your mod manager are the starting values.
Requirements
Bingus Shared Loader.
Optional: Mod Options Menu (by CowboyBingus) to change the options in game.
Install / update
Uninstall
Disable it in your mod manager, then Purge and Deploy.
Multiplayer
Compatibility
Known limitations
Troubleshooting
Source code
Source and every release are on GitHub: Th3chef/Realistic-Resistances
Elemental resistances: fire, gas and arc, plus EMS. Beta (0.6).
In the base game, an armor passive's fire, gas or arc resistance only cuts the damage. You still catch fire the moment a flame touches you, you still stumble out of every gas cloud, and an arc still stuns you for the full time. Real protective gear doesn't work like that. With this mod, the passive's own resistance also works against the effect, scaled by how heavy your armor is.
It only covers the elements for now (fire, gas and arc). Other damage types may come later.
Fire
- Harder to Ignite: fire-resistant armor takes a flat time in the flames before you catch fire, like real fire-resistant clothing. A quick brush with fire no longer sets you alight.
- Self-Extinguish: once you're out of the flames, the burn runs out sooner, by the passive's fire resistance.
Code:
Passive Catches fire (light / medium / heavy) Burn after stepping out
Inflammable 75% 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 s 0.75 s
Acclimated, KDM 50% 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 s 1.5 s
Desert Stormer 40% 0.65 / 0.85 / 1.05 s 1.8 s
Vanilla about 0.25 s 3 sGas
- Filtration Buffer: gas-resistant armor slows the gas build-up, by the passive's gas resistance and your armor's weight (50% resistance: twice as long in medium armor). Once you're out of the cloud, the stumbling wears off sooner.
- No Gas Slow: with 80% gas resistance or more (Advanced Filtration), the gas stumbling and slowing never takes hold.
- A full-strength hit (a gas strike's blast, a gas grenade at your feet) still takes hold as normal; the resistance works on lighter clouds.
Code:
Passive Build-up slowed (light / medium / heavy) Stumbling after stepping out
Advanced Filtration 80% 3.75 / 5 / 6.25x never (No Gas Slow)
Acclimated 50% 1.5 / 2 / 2.5x 2.5 s
Desert Stormer 40% 1.25 / 1.67 / 2.08x 3 s
Hazmat, Concussive Pad. 25% 1 / 1.33 / 1.67x 3.75 s
Vanilla 1x 5 sArc
- Resistance: arc-resistant passives take a quarter of the arc damage they did (Electrical Conduit 95% becomes 98.75%), and the arc stun is cut to match the passive's resistance. The electric effect also holds off and wears off sooner.
- EMS (part of Resistance): Electrical Conduit is never stunned by EMS. Other arc-resistant armor is stunned as normal inside an EMS field, but recovers sooner once you're out, by the passive's resistance (50%: 1.5 s instead of 3 s). The stamina drain inside an EMS field is unchanged.
- Grounded (Electrical Conduit only): arcs end at you instead of chaining on to your teammates.
Code:
Passive Arc damage resistance Arc stun EMS stun after the field
Electrical Conduit 95% 98.75% 0.075 s never stunned by EMS
Adreno-Defibrillator 50% 87.5% 0.75 s 1.5 s
Acclimated 50% 87.5% 0.75 s 1.5 s
Desert Stormer 40% 85% 0.9 s 1.8 s
Vanilla 1.5 s 3 sOptions
In your mod manager (Arsenal / HD2 Mod Manager), each element is its own option with three choices:
- Fire Resistance: Harder to Ignite and Self-Extinguish / Only Harder to Ignite / Only Self-Extinguish
- Gas Resistance: Filtration Buffer and No Gas Slow / Only Filtration Buffer / Only No Gas Slow
- Arc Resistance: Resistance and Grounded / Only Resistance / Only Grounded
In game: with Mod Options Menu (by CowboyBingus) installed, the three options are also under ESC > MODS > REALISTIC RESISTANCES (Off plus the same choices), and a change takes effect at once. The picks in your mod manager are the starting values.
Requirements
Bingus Shared Loader.
Optional: Mod Options Menu (by CowboyBingus) to change the options in game.
Install / update
- Install Bingus Shared Loader if you don't have it.
- Mod manager (Arsenal / HD2 Mod Manager): add the zip and enable it, pick your options, then Purge and Deploy.
Uninstall
Disable it in your mod manager, then Purge and Deploy.
Multiplayer
- Works hosting and joining. Nobody else needs the mod.
- Fire, gas and stun changes apply only to your own helldiver, wherever the fire, gas or arc came from.
- Arc damage and arc chaining are decided by the game that runs the arc. The arc damage boost and Grounded work on arcs your game runs: your own Tesla Towers and arc weapons, and enemy arcs when you host. Another player's Tesla Tower or arc weapon is run by their game, so it deals its normal damage to you and chains as normal.
- When you host, teammates wearing the same arc-resistant passive also get the arc damage boost against arcs your game runs (the game keeps one copy of each passive's values for everyone).
Compatibility
- Bingus Shared Loader script; it doesn't replace any game files, so it works alongside armor, model and sound mods.
- Mods that change the same status effects or armor passive values may clash.
- Patch-proof by design: it finds what it needs in the game's code at start-up, so a game hotfix doesn't break it. If it can't find something after a patch it turns itself off and says why in its log, rather than guessing. Grounded is optional: if only its part isn't found, everything else still works.
- It only changes the game's data (status effect timers and passive values), never the game's code.
- Light on performance: while you wear no armor it works on (or its options for that armor are off), it does nothing but check your armor every 2 seconds.
Known limitations
- Beta: everything listed here has been tested, but not every armor, weapon and enemy combination. Please report anything odd.
- Other players' Tesla Towers and arc weapons deal normal damage and chain as normal (see Multiplayer).
- An EMS field still drains your stamina, so you can't sprint inside one, even in Electrical Conduit. The stun grenade and explosion knockdowns are unchanged.
- Gas times depend on the cloud: a thicker cloud builds up faster, so it takes hold sooner. Fire catch times are flat.
Troubleshooting
- Nothing changes: check Bingus Shared Loader is installed, Core (required) is ticked, and that you Purged and Deployed after installing.
- Attach the log to a bug report: RealisticResistances.log in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\Logs (type %LOCALAPPDATA% into the File Explorer address bar). It lists your options, the armor passive and weight it found, and what it did.
Source code
Source and every release are on GitHub: Th3chef/Realistic-Resistances
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