Gameplay Reforged is a customizable collection of gameplay and enemy changes for Helldivers 2. The mods rework various aspects of gameplay, big and small.
Multi-faction battles, larger reinforcements, shorter breaks between enemy and allied call-ins, mixed enemy lineups, broader Heavy SEAF support, and much more — Gameplay Reforged gives players SUPER™ freedom to customize the game experience to their enjoyment. These changes prioritize the fun factor through both buffs and nerfs across various aspects of gameplay. Choose the changes that suit you and your friends' playstyle!
What's included:
You may use either mod package individually or choose both. They do not depend on one another
Made with help from GPT-6 Astra
Requires Bingus Shared Loader v19 or newer
Installation and Game Updates:
During startup, players may encounter a longer black screen, stuttering, or a prolonged freeze.
A prolonged freeze on the ship can occur during initialization. Allow two to three minutes before assuming the game has stopped responding. The timing varies with your system and selected options. Wait for startup activity to settle before beginning your first mission. Stutters and freezes go away after initialization finishes.
Using either package alone generally reduces startup work, but does not guarantee a stutter-free or crash-free experience.
Enemy Balance and Behavior can be used in multiplayer and will apply its changes to enemies, regardless of whether you host or not. Gameplay Systems is also multiplayer compatible, but some profiles require the host to have the mod. I recommend all players have the mod installed and loaded.
Gameplay Systems is a more powerful mod and may cause moderately prolonged stuttering and stalling to persist even on a mission loading screen. This is because it intercepts mission data.
Gameplay Systems may cause rare crashes in specific situations. After extensive testing, I have documented most unresolved observable crashes and their causes below:
Running into problems with the mods?
Before reporting something as broken, please check:
Some in-game examples:
Automaton UFW Demo
Automaton Defense Demo
Terminid Combined Horde Demo
Terminid Combined Horde Demo
Illuminate Combined Fleet Demo
Enemy Balance and Behaviour -- Detailed CHANGES:
Illuminate
Crusher: Adjusts their helmet to compensate for how many crushers can spawn on Vote Snatcher missions. Also makes medium pen ballistics more useful as a niche
Wretch: Rewards headshots, which are hard to land with how much they move
Elevated Overseer: Moderate touch to their gun spread to prevent laser-accurate drive-by shootings
Overseer: Adjusts its melee swing power while preserving the bodycam-off fantasy. Now pushes players much farther away and lowers the chances of an unfun stun-lock
Harvester: Compensatory durability nerf considering how oppressive they can be and how frequently they spawn on certain seeds
Veracitor: Makes explosives useful against the Appropriator mechs, which otherwise shrug off explosive damage
Gatekeeper: Makes explosives useful against the Appropriator mechs, which otherwise shrug off explosive damage
Leviathan: Rewards precision AT fire and makes taking them down a worthwhile endeavour. Also nerfs their perfect vision
Reinforcement Warp Ship: Aligns its explosive vulnerability to that of a grounded warp ship
Grounded Warp Ship: Aligns its demolition to that of an Automaton Fabricator
Automatons
War Strider: Adjusts enemy spawn rate and stagger. Makes them more dangerous to fight head-on.
All Tanks: Massive buffs to their vision, tracking, and speed; further cements them as an oppressive unit that must be taken down quickly in fights. Also reduces the chance of barragers being useless
Shredder Tank: Gives its fusion cyclers a tighter spread to live up to its IFV / AA designation
Conflagration Devastator: Increases spread to lower the probability of cross-map 1-taps on players
Gunship: Mildly increases spread on their fusion repeaters, making them mildly less oppressive without feeling like playing into an aimbot
Automaton Rockets: Removes the ability to ragdoll Helldivers from splash damage. Direct impact will still ragdoll
Cyborg Radical and Agitator: Increases their threat level to solidify their trope as a blitz/commander unit
Vox Engine: Tightens the macro culverin spread, making the superheavy unit much more dangerous to fight head-on. Also raises encounter rate for a taste of Cyberstan
Terminids
Bile Spewer: Lowers the armor rating of its head on higher difficulties so they feel less of a chore to fight
Alpha Commander: Gets a less durable head to indirectly buff small ballistic weapons
Dragonroach: Mildly clips its wing durability to account for it being a bile titan that behaves like a mosquito
Chargers: Adjusts their ass so giving them backshots becomes more viable. Still much harder to destroy the ass than Hulk vents
Rupture Charger: The burrowing tank's head should not be tankier than that of a behemoth
Hive Lord: Lowers the tankiness of their plates and flesh so players have a slightly better time taking down this colossus for that dopamine rush. The Hive Lord remains just as lethal
Spore Burst Titan: Removes the ability for its vomit to ragdoll Helldivers from Narnia
Spore Burst Clouds: Lowers the movement speed buff to chaff spore burst units to mildly incentivize fighting instead of rundiving
Gameplay Systems -- Detailed CHANGES:
Universal Faction Wars: Universal Faction War mixes eligible patrols from different factions. Choose three factions at 50/25/25 or equal weighting, or two factions at 50/50 or 60/40. Two-faction modes let you select the second faction separately for each mission front. Enabling may result in marginally elevated instability.
Increased Patrol Frequency: All patrols now spawn 25%-100% more frequently, depending on the toggle. Good luck.
Universal Eagle Storm: Adds the DSS Eagle Storm modifier to all planets. Air superiority (and more casualties)!
DSS Eagle Storm Multi Eagle Payload: Choose which payload Eagle Storm strikes use (Strafing Runs, Gas Strikes, or Rocket Pods), or enable all three. When all three are enabled, Eagle Storm randomly shuffles the attack order, delivering each payload exactly once per cycle. The same payload will never strike twice consecutively, even between cycles.
Illuminate Combined Fleet: Adds significant variety in Illuminate enemies across all Illuminate missions
Leviathan Outside Cities: Makes life miserable by allowing Leviathan spawns on ALL Illuminate missions. Pairs well with the Leviathan balance adjustment
Hive Lord in Normal Missions: Now spawns one Hive Lord in every Terminid mission. Good luck
Dragonroach in Normal Missions: Now spawns roaches in every Terminid mission
Heavy SEAF Presence: Attaches the Heavy SEAF Presence modifier across almost ALL missions, making pelican SEAF reinforcements spawn everywhere. Does not work in megacities.
Quick SEAF Reinforcements: Reduces the cooldown interval between each pelican SEAF reinforcement by 20% or 50%, depending on toggle
SEAF Active Wave Cooldown: A separate cooldown toggle that reduces the duration between each wave of SEAF spawns (default, 20%, 50%). Works together with Quick SEAF Reinforcements for rapid SEAF responses!
Increased Enemy Presence: Increases ALL factions' encounter population budget by 25%, 50%, or 100%, which allows certain enemy spawns (like reinforcements) generated by the game to be larger, contain heavier units, or both. This stacks with increased reinforcement size
Reinforcement Size — All 3 factions: Separately toggleable +50% and +100% enemy reinforcement sizes for Automatons, Terminids, and Illuminate. Especially nasty on the Terminid front. This stacks with increased enemy presence
Increased Defence Wave Budget: Increases the scripted reinforcement size for Eradicate and Evacuate High-Value Assets missions. May choose between +25%, +50%, and +100%.
Limit Terminid Breach Waves: Limits repeat batched waves from standard Terminid reinforcements, letting breaches start and end faster. Recommended to enable alongside Increased Enemy Presence and Increased Terminid Reinforcements.
Enemy Call Cooldown: Reduces the cooldown (20% or 50% reduction) between enemy reinforcements. Keep em coming!
Combined Automaton Fleet: Allows all automaton units to spawn in every eligible mission. You can find war striders, tanks, factory striders, vox engines, cyborgs, scout striders, conflagration units, and jet brigade units all in one mission.
Combined Terminid Horde: Allows EVERY terminid ground unit across EVERY faction to spawn in one mission. Includes an option to block Spore Burst Units from spawning (does not affect native Spore Burst maps). Does not include dragonroaches, hivelords, and shriekers.
What's Next (goals, not promises):
Multi-faction battles, larger reinforcements, shorter breaks between enemy and allied call-ins, mixed enemy lineups, broader Heavy SEAF support, and much more — Gameplay Reforged gives players SUPER™ freedom to customize the game experience to their enjoyment. These changes prioritize the fun factor through both buffs and nerfs across various aspects of gameplay. Choose the changes that suit you and your friends' playstyle!
What's included:
| Package | Contains | Remarks |
| Enemy Balance and Behavior | Independently selectable enemy weakpoint, accuracy, stagger, vision, awareness, spawn rate, and spawn eligibility changes | The tamer starting rebalance changes for a fun experience. Please read the stability notes. |
| Gameplay Systems | Multi-faction Warfare, Global DSS Eagle Storm, Increased Patrol Frequency, Combined Illuminate Fleet, Combined Automaton Fleet, Combined Terminid Horde, Universal Leviathans, Leviathan Altitude, Universal Heavy SEAF Presence, Faster SEAF Reinforcements, Increased Enemies, Increased Enemy Reinforcements, Increased Defense Reinforcements, Lower SEAF cooldown, Lower Enemy Reinforcement cooldown, Hive Lords on All Bug Maps, Dragonroach on ALL Bug Maps, etc | Contains more impactful and aggressive changes. Please read the stability notes before deploying these mods |
You may use either mod package individually or choose both. They do not depend on one another
Made with help from GPT-6 Astra
Requires Bingus Shared Loader v19 or newer
Installation and Game Updates:
- Download Bingus Shared Loader V19 or newer and install it at the highest priority order (usually bottom of a mod manager)
- Disable earlier versions of Gameplay Reforged mods if you have them.
- Import Enemy Balance and Behavior and Gameplay Systems, and deploy the latter at a higher priority (put Gameplay Systems right below Enemy Balance and Behavior)
- Done
, you can choose what profiles to deploy inside any mod manager - Both mods are vanilla update-flexible; most vanilla game updates will not break either mod, and even if they do, it usually only affects certain toggles within both mods.
During startup, players may encounter a longer black screen, stuttering, or a prolonged freeze.
A prolonged freeze on the ship can occur during initialization. Allow two to three minutes before assuming the game has stopped responding. The timing varies with your system and selected options. Wait for startup activity to settle before beginning your first mission. Stutters and freezes go away after initialization finishes.
Using either package alone generally reduces startup work, but does not guarantee a stutter-free or crash-free experience.
Enemy Balance and Behavior can be used in multiplayer and will apply its changes to enemies, regardless of whether you host or not. Gameplay Systems is also multiplayer compatible, but some profiles require the host to have the mod. I recommend all players have the mod installed and loaded.
Gameplay Systems is a more powerful mod and may cause moderately prolonged stuttering and stalling to persist even on a mission loading screen. This is because it intercepts mission data.
Gameplay Systems may cause rare crashes in specific situations. After extensive testing, I have documented most unresolved observable crashes and their causes below:
| Issue | Suggested Solution |
| Players may crash on city maps due to enabling Heavy SEAF Presence | Enabling Heavy SEAF Presence while playing a city mission causes this. Disable HSP before playing a city map. |
| Players may occasionally crash when enabling Illuminate Combined Fleet and playing on a vanilla Vote Snatchers map | Vote Snatchers has very janky semantic relationships. Recommend either only enabling Vote Snatcher Focused Illuminate Combined Fleet or outright disabling the combined fleet mod when playing against Vote Snatchers. |
| In an otherwise stable game, assuming all players have Gameplay Systems, a non-host player who interacts with a terminal can rarely experience a crash | TBH I have no clue why this happens; I'm trying to find a fix. Ideally, keep interactions with terminals to a minimum if you are a non-host player. Disabling Gameplay Systems prevents this altogether. |
| In a multiplayer match, players without Gameplay Systems may experience a crash | Don't play with randoms or join a random lobby |
Running into problems with the mods?
Before reporting something as broken, please check:
- Stability notes
- Bingus Shared Loader is v19 or newer
- Your mod manager load priorities are correct
- Another mod isn't conflicting with the same system
- You gave the mod time to finish its initial startup work
- You aren't using one of the known incompatible option combinations detailed both below and in the mod profile
Some in-game examples:
Automaton UFW Demo
Automaton Defense Demo
Terminid Combined Horde Demo
Terminid Combined Horde Demo
Illuminate Combined Fleet Demo
Enemy Balance and Behaviour -- Detailed CHANGES:
Illuminate
Crusher: Adjusts their helmet to compensate for how many crushers can spawn on Vote Snatcher missions. Also makes medium pen ballistics more useful as a niche
Helmet:
- AV4 (heavy) -> AV3 (medium)
- EXDR: 30% -> 0%
- HP: 300 -> 390
Head:
- Head is now fatal
Main gun:
- Spread: [125,125] -> [150,150]
Main weapon:
- Melee push force: 20 -> 50
Hip joints:
- AV3 (medium) -> AV2 (light)
- EXDR: 100% -> now 40%
- Durability: 70% -> 50%
Cockpit:
- EXDR: 100% -> 0%
Cockpit shield:
- EXDR: 100% -> 0%
Cockpit:
- EXDR: 100% -> 0%
Shield:
- EXDR: 100% -> 0%
Vision:
- Halves the Leviathan's vision, so its guns' detection range is shorter. To be honest, it is still ridiculously large
Main:
- HP: 15,000 -> 6,000
Warp disk:
- Destroying the warp disk now kills the leviathan (fatal)
- EXDR: 100% -> 0% (rewards players if they somehow manage to inflict explosive damage on the disk)
- HP: 3000 -> 2000
Reinforcement Warp Ship: Aligns its explosive vulnerability to that of a grounded warp ship
Main:
- EXDR: 0% -> -100% (similar to grounded warpship and allows 1-shot from weapons like the ultimatum and c4)
Main:
- Demo Force: 50 -> 40 (can be destroyed instantly by C4, spear, giga grenade, dynamite, etc)
Automatons
War Strider: Adjusts enemy spawn rate and stagger. Makes them more dangerous to fight head-on.
Encounter rate:
- Choose between default weight or -100%, -50%, +50%, +100% relative selection weights. Fixed war strider placements may still occur.
- MUST disable Combined Automaton Fleet and Automaton Reinforcement Size profiles under the Gameplay Systems mod if you enable changes to encounter ratings
Main guns:
- Explosive stagger force: 15 -> 30 (will ragdoll players)
- View attachment 35220
- Doubles the forward sight of all tank variants
- Increases the side and rear sight of all tank variants by 50%
- Tanks now track players for twice as long after losing sight
- All tank speeds increase by 100%
Main gun:
- Spread: [150,100] -> [100,75]
Main gun:
- Spread: [150,150] -> [200,200]
Main gun:
- Spread: [50,50] -> [75,75]
- Explosive stagger force: 30 -> 20
Movement speed:
- Choose movement speed buffs in 10% increments, from +10% to +100% (Adam Smasher)
Melee attacks:
- Fist punch's push force: 15 -> 25 (shared with all devastator and crescent overseer melees)
- Kung-fu kick's push force: 25 -> 50 (they will punt you like a stray football)
Vox Engine: Tightens the macro culverin spread, making the superheavy unit much more dangerous to fight head-on. Also raises encounter rate for a taste of Cyberstan
Main guns:
- Spread: [160,160] -> [120,120]
Encounter rate:
- Choose between default weight or -100%, -50%, +50%, +100% relative selection weights. Fixed war strider placements may still occur.
- MUST disable Combined Automaton Fleet and Automaton Reinforcement Size profiles under the Gameplay Systems mod if you enable changes to encounter ratings
Bile Spewer: Lowers the armor rating of its head on higher difficulties so they feel less of a chore to fight
Head:
- AV3 (medium) -> AV2 (light)
Head:
- Durability: 70% -> 35%
Four wings:
- HP: 1500 -> 1000
- Durability: 100% -> 50%
- Regular's bum: 80% durable -> 40% durable
- Behemoth's bum: 100% durable -> 50% durable
- Spore's bum: 100% durable -> 50% durable
- Rupture's bum: 80% durable -> 40% durable
Head:
- AV5 (tank 1) -> AV4 (heavy)
Armor plates and fins:
- AV5 (tank 1) -> AV4 (heavy)
Exposed flesh:
- Damage transfer to main: 100% -> 150%
- EXDR: 100% -> 50%
Spit attack:
- Explosive stagger force: 25 -> 20 (no more ragdolling from splash)
- Movement speed bonus from gloom spores is reduced by 30%. The duration of the buff remains unchanged.
Gameplay Systems -- Detailed CHANGES:
Whereas Enemy Balance and Behavior changes individual enemy characteristics, Gameplay Systems enhance and broaden both encounter and reinforcement behavior
Universal Faction Wars: Universal Faction War mixes eligible patrols from different factions. Choose three factions at 50/25/25 or equal weighting, or two factions at 50/50 or 60/40. Two-faction modes let you select the second faction separately for each mission front. Enabling may result in marginally elevated instability.
- Foreign Terminid patrols exclude Impalers, Hive Guards, Scavengers, Bile Spitters, and Pouncers. Foreign Illuminate patrols exclude Voteless and Obtruders. Foreign Automaton patrols exclude all small infantry besides the Commissar. These exclusions do not change the native mission faction and subfaction’s patrol roster.
- Excluded units have their patrol weight redistributed to heavier ones, allowing for deadlier patrol compositions.
- Patrols with unit exclusions are also guaranteed to spawn at least one heavy unit (Harvester, War Strider, Behemoth Charger)
- Percentages describe patrol selection weights, not guaranteed enemy counts. UFW does not turn ordinary reinforcement calls into mixed-faction reinforcements.
- Universal Faction Wars is compatible with all other profiles, including Combined Fleets. When both are enabled, Combined Fleet's effects also apply (you may get patrols with subfaction-unique units)
- Furthermore, Factory Striders and Vox Engines may spawn on Terminid and Illuminate missions when Combined Automaton Fleet is enabled
- Crushers and Wretches may spawn on Terminid and Automaton missions when Combined Illuminate Fleet has the Vote Snatcher option selected
- Spore Burst units will not spawn on Automaton and Illuminate missions if the Combined Terminid Horde Spore Burst Blocker is enabled
Increased Patrol Frequency: All patrols now spawn 25%-100% more frequently, depending on the toggle. Good luck.
Universal Eagle Storm: Adds the DSS Eagle Storm modifier to all planets. Air superiority (and more casualties)!
Illuminate Combined Fleet: Adds significant variety in Illuminate enemies across all Illuminate missions
- Default Profile: Allows all eligible Illuminate units to spawn, barring the Great Host, Leviathan, Wretch, and Crusher
- Vote Snatchers Profile: Instead focuses on spawning Vote Snatcher units across all missions
Leviathan Spawn and Flight Height: Separately configures the initial spawn and ongoing flight height of the Leviathan, with lower values placing Leviathans closer to the groundHive Lord in Normal Missions: Now spawns one Hive Lord in every Terminid mission. Good luck
Dragonroach in Normal Missions: Now spawns roaches in every Terminid mission
Heavy SEAF Presence: Attaches the Heavy SEAF Presence modifier across almost ALL missions, making pelican SEAF reinforcements spawn everywhere. Does not work in megacities.
Quick SEAF Reinforcements: Reduces the cooldown interval between each pelican SEAF reinforcement by 20% or 50%, depending on toggle
SEAF Active Wave Cooldown: A separate cooldown toggle that reduces the duration between each wave of SEAF spawns (default, 20%, 50%). Works together with Quick SEAF Reinforcements for rapid SEAF responses!
Increased Enemy Presence: Increases ALL factions' encounter population budget by 25%, 50%, or 100%, which allows certain enemy spawns (like reinforcements) generated by the game to be larger, contain heavier units, or both. This stacks with increased reinforcement size
Reinforcement Size — All 3 factions: Separately toggleable +50% and +100% enemy reinforcement sizes for Automatons, Terminids, and Illuminate. Especially nasty on the Terminid front. This stacks with increased enemy presence
NOTE: MUST DISABLE war strider and factory strider/vox weight profiles if using combined automaton fleet
Increased Defence Wave Budget: Increases the scripted reinforcement size for Eradicate and Evacuate High-Value Assets missions. May choose between +25%, +50%, and +100%.
Limit Terminid Breach Waves: Limits repeat batched waves from standard Terminid reinforcements, letting breaches start and end faster. Recommended to enable alongside Increased Enemy Presence and Increased Terminid Reinforcements.
Enemy Call Cooldown: Reduces the cooldown (20% or 50% reduction) between enemy reinforcements. Keep em coming!
Combined Automaton Fleet: Allows all automaton units to spawn in every eligible mission. You can find war striders, tanks, factory striders, vox engines, cyborgs, scout striders, conflagration units, and jet brigade units all in one mission.
NOTE: MUST DISABLE war strider and factory strider/vox weight profiles if using combined automaton fleet
Combined Terminid Horde: Allows EVERY terminid ground unit across EVERY faction to spawn in one mission. Includes an option to block Spore Burst Units from spawning (does not affect native Spore Burst maps). Does not include dragonroaches, hivelords, and shriekers.
What's Next (goals, not promises):
- Optimization and stability (I will keep this a priority when maintaining this mod)
- More gameplay and encounter changes (will incorporate new ideas that I may have, as well as player suggestions)
- Gonna get back to working on polishing a visual mod I've been trying to finish for a while (hint: it's showcased on this page!)
