# MA5C Magazine and RPM v1.2.0

By Miker and ChatGPT/Codex.

Ships with **60 rounds per magazine** instead of 32. Fire rate defaults to **640 RPM**, the documented stock rate. Starting and reserve magazine counts, damage, penetration, spread and recoil are not edited.

## Installation

1. Close Helldivers 2.
2. Replace the previous MA5C 60-Round Magazine package with this ZIP in HD2 Arsenal.
3. Enable Bingus Shared Loader v15+ / API 1 (including v18), then Purge / Deploy.
4. Launch the game and allow the startup scan to finish. Check the MA5C after reloading or equipping a fresh weapon.

Do not enable an older version alongside this version. Avoid other mods editing the MA5C magazine or fire-rate fields: whichever writes last may win.

## Settings

On first launch the addon creates:

`%LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\MA5C60Mag\settings.ini`

Close the game, edit that file, then launch again. `settings-example.ini` in this ZIP is a reference copy; editing the ZIP's example does not change the active settings.

| Setting | Shipped value | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `magazine_rounds` | `60` | Bullets per magazine. Stock 32. Whole numbers 1–1000. |
| `rpm` | `640` | Rounds per minute (stock rate). Values 1–5000; optional 0 leaves the game value untouched. |

The supplied SHODAN MA5B Conversion v1.0.0 documents the MA5C's stock rate as 640 RPM. For example, `rpm=900` requests 900 RPM; `rpm=640` explicitly requests 640. Leaving `rpm=0` also preserves any game-side stock-rate changes in future updates. Input limits are validation limits, not gameplay-tested ranges.

Invalid settings stop the addon before any writes. Details and scan results are in `STATUS.txt` beside the INI. If the status says INCOMPLETE or FAILED, provide that file when reporting the issue.

The addon scans during startup with a small per-frame time budget and a reusable search buffer. It retries incomplete scans up to three total passes, then stops scanning. It does not continuously enforce values or scan after successful completion. A game restart may be needed if the game subsequently recreates the data tables.

## v1.2.0 changes

- Adds documented magazine-capacity and RPM settings.
- Ships with 60 rounds and 640 RPM.
- Resolves MA5C records through their entity hash and validated table geometry instead of requiring the old exact bucket/record counts.
- Checks the current target value, writes only the selected four-byte field, verifies the whole record and attempts rollback on failure.
- Rebuilds the archive with correct Lua resource lengths.

Offline tests cover configuration, both edits, default 640 RPM configuration and optional RPM preservation, varying table size, unchanged surrounding fields, failed-write rollback and rejection of invalid targets. ZIP integrity, resource lengths and extracted Lua syntax are checked. In-game behavior on loader v18 is not yet verified.

Changes are in memory only. Close the game and disable the mod, then relaunch to return to normal. Editing the INI while the game is open does not undo or reload changes.

## Credits and technical notes

Memory access and scanning are adapted from our Jump Pack addon and its M6C/Dagger-derived reader. The MA5C RPM field and keyed-table layout validation were informed by SHODAN's supplied MA5B Conversion v1.0.0; its damage, spread, reserve-magazine and penetration changes are not included.

MA5C entity: `4DBD74F49C8FFC13`. Magazine table: `FB8D88A3`, 160-byte record, unsigned capacity at +136. Fire-rate table: `45171B68`, 616-byte record, float RPM at +8. These layouts remain version-dependent; validation does not guarantee compatibility with every future game update.

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