DBF Reforged - Automated Stratagem System (ASS) R50-hellforge.11

A Mod for Helldivers 2
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DBF Reforged — R50 HellForge edition

Automated Stratagem System (ASS)
For HellForge 0.4 / game build 25480438.

Your stratagems. In the game. Select from a wheel or list and DBF enters the code for you; you throw the beacon yourself.


Features
  • Native eight-slot wheel, expanded wedges and List Select, with in-game icons and cooldown displays.
  • Mouse and controller selection, with optional Select on Release. Return to the center before releasing to cancel.
  • Three cooldown layouts: icon dock, compact overview and compact row. Weapon status appears beside its silhouette.
  • An editor for settings, controls and blacklist management. Settings and diagnostics stay separate from the native gameplay HUD.

Install
Close the game, import divers-best-friend-R50-hellforge.11.zip directly into HellForge, enable DBF and restart. Import the DBF ZIP once; NEST is included automatically. There are no inner ZIPs to extract or import.

NEST (Native Extension and Settings Toolkit) provides DBF’s shared menu, input and rendering services. It is bundled with DBF and can serve future mods without a separate overlay for each mod.


Controls and optional mods
  • F7: open the DBF editor.
  • Page Down: open NEST.
  • Open the normal stratagem menu to select a stratagem, then throw the beacon when its code finishes. Default list controls are scroll down for Next, scroll up for Previous and left-click to confirm.
Configure selection, bindings, exclusions and HUD appearance in DBF. Ctrl+F searches the editor; F9 applies reviewed changes. Fresh installations use arrow entry for terminals; Instant is available in Settings. Existing preferences carry forward.

Existing BSL can remain enabled for other mods, with no BSL version requirement. The optional HellForge edition of DBF-MCM edits the same DBF preferences.

Upgrading: If standalone NEST 0.8.1 is still enabled, disable it and restart once. DBF starts its bundled NEST automatically. A compatible standalone NEST 0.8.2 is reused.


Media gallery
Historical native-selection demo (R24)


Historical controller and Select on Release demo (R30)


Cooldown displays
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Stratagem selection
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Controller selection
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Stratagem demo
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Settings demo
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Credits and feedback
Thank you to CowboyBingus for the shared loader, bindings/settings infrastructure and wider modding groundwork that made this possible. This is a separate project by Goose / HWG90; please report ASS-specific problems here or through GitHub Issues. Include the revision, game build, mode/layout and reproduction steps.

Thank you to everyone using the mod and saying such nice things. I really appreciate it.

This project was developed with AI-assisted coding and hands-on game testing. Full credits | Source code | MIT license for the project code. The game and separately installed dependencies retain their own ownership and licenses.
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AkiraMaseki

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Sep 28, 2026
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At this current point in time, Diver's Best Friend is not working. The strategem wheel is coming up, but I cannot select anything at all. I can only input manually. Hopefully it gets fixed
 

Rosensterner

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Sep 29, 2026
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Bingus said the mod author needs to fix it. Please look into it, I can't play without it anymore... It's like switching a car back to a manual shifter
 

5432

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Sep 26, 2026
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Hm suddenly doesnt work with either versions.

edit: i think it may be because cowboy updated his mod bindings and mod options mods. I ought to not needlessly update stuff.
 
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Bigboi1337

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Sep 13, 2026
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Well, let's go back to the good old binds, scripts and other things =D
 

Paegus

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Sep 5, 2026
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You can just roll back Vanilla Plus mod pack by clicking on it's Old Files at Nexus. IDK if that'll break anything else but it worked without any issues for the 2 matches I tested it under.
 

h4shik

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Sep 21, 2026
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Hi, your mod is currently incompatible with the latest version of Mod Bindings Menu (2.1)—could you fix that? Oh, and thanks for the work—the mod is awesome.
P.S. Btw, I switched back to version 2.0. Everything is working fine; I just decided to let you know.
 

ngotranh

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Jul 9, 2025
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Nexus just banned this mod! Those damn grunts
 

SillyFilly

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Sep 17, 2026
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Can confirm that the megapack update is what is causing the wheel inputs to not work