Dive in shallow water. Works after the EAC update.
Recommended: Medic Mod Manager - one app for all your Helldivers 2 mods. Settings-file mods that change the same game file are merged so they all work at once, with no clash with Chef Shared Loader.
Stock, a dive into shallow water gets cancelled: your Helldiver stumbles instead of diving. With this mod you can dive in water up to about 1.3 m deep (CowboyBingus' maximum setting), and you get 10 seconds before drowning instead of 5.
It uses the values from CowboyBingus' Shallow Water Diving (Vanilla Plus Megapack). That version needed the Bingus Shared Loader, which stopped working with the October 20 update. This one changes the game's settings file instead, so it needs no loader - only the mod manager.
Pick a download
There are three zips under Files. Download the one you want (about 47 MB each):
What changes
Install (HD2 Mod Manager or HD2 Arsenal)
Uninstall
How it works
The mod replaces the game's boot script, which is empty in the stock game. On exit, that script backs up data/game/generated_entities.dl_bin and swaps in the modded copy carried in the mod. It refuses to write over a file it doesn't recognise, for example after a game update or with another mod that changed the same file, and then it does nothing. A log is written to HD2FileMods.log in the game folder.
Each download is about 47 MB because it carries a full modded copy of that file.
Requirements and compatibility
Changelog
Credits
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Recommended: Medic Mod Manager - one app for all your Helldivers 2 mods. Settings-file mods that change the same game file are merged so they all work at once, with no clash with Chef Shared Loader.
Stock, a dive into shallow water gets cancelled: your Helldiver stumbles instead of diving. With this mod you can dive in water up to about 1.3 m deep (CowboyBingus' maximum setting), and you get 10 seconds before drowning instead of 5.
It uses the values from CowboyBingus' Shallow Water Diving (Vanilla Plus Megapack). That version needed the Bingus Shared Loader, which stopped working with the October 20 update. This one changes the game's settings file instead, so it needs no loader - only the mod manager.
Pick a download
There are three zips under Files. Download the one you want (about 47 MB each):
- Shallow Water Diving (main file) - this mod alone.
- Shallow Water Diving + Consistent Vaulting - both mods in one file. Use this if you also want Consistent Vaulting, and remove the separate Consistent Vaulting mod (both change the same game file, so only one of them could be active otherwise).
- Shallow Water Diving + High Climb - this mod plus Consistent Vaulting's High Climb: climb ledges up to 4 m and grab them from 2 m away, sliding stays stock. Remove the separate Consistent Vaulting mod.
What changes
- Water reference raised (-1.3 -> -2.2, its second reference -1.6 -> -2.5): dives work in water up to about 1.3 m deep.
- 10 seconds before drowning (stock 5).
- Side effects: standing, you wade about 0.9 m deeper before you start swimming, and when you swim in deep water your head stays under the surface.
Install (HD2 Mod Manager or HD2 Arsenal)
- Add the zip to the mod manager. Both options start ticked - leave them.
- Deploy.
- Launch the game, wait for the main menu, then exit the game normally (Esc > Quit). The file is swapped on exit.
- Launch again. The mod is now active.
Uninstall
- Untick Shallow Water Diving, keep Uninstall helper ticked, and deploy.
- Launch the game and exit normally. The original file is put back.
- Disable or remove the mod.
How it works
The mod replaces the game's boot script, which is empty in the stock game. On exit, that script backs up data/game/generated_entities.dl_bin and swaps in the modded copy carried in the mod. It refuses to write over a file it doesn't recognise, for example after a game update or with another mod that changed the same file, and then it does nothing. A log is written to HD2FileMods.log in the game folder.
Each download is about 47 MB because it carries a full modded copy of that file.
Requirements and compatibility
- A mod manager (HD2 Mod Manager or HD2 Arsenal).
- Made for the current game version (October 29 update 7.2.2, build 26251122; also recognises the October 20 and October 22 builds). After a game update it changes nothing until this mod is updated.
- Changes data/game/generated_entities.dl_bin, the same file as Consistent Vaulting: use a combined download instead of both mods.
- Works together with Stratagem Balls Stay Put 1.0.3 or newer - different file, same installer, tick both.
- Doesn't work together with other mods that replace data/game/generated_entities.dl_bin (most weapon buff packs, JAR-5 Buff Pack and similar) - only one of them can be active in HD2 Mod Manager or Arsenal (Medic Mod Manager merges them). The installer then changes nothing and says so in the log.
- Tested solo. Easiest install, and no clash with loaders like Chef Shared Loader: Medic Mod Manager.
Changelog
- 1.0.2: split into three separate downloads (smaller). New Shallow Water Diving + High Climb file. The Consistent Vaulting combo now uses Consistent Vaulting 1.1.0's values (fixes knee- and waist-high vaults).
- 1.0.1: deeper dives, up to about 1.3 m (was about 0.8 m). Fixes dives failing in some waist-deep spots.
- 1.0.0: first release.
Credits
- CowboyBingus, for the original Shallow Water Diving (0BSD).
- Me... Duh.
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