Smarter SEAF
They shoot bugs. Not you.
Smarter SEAF gives the SEAF soldiers a new brain. They stop shooting through you, stop wasting their one EAT on small bugs, and go for the enemies you ping.
Features
Options (Arsenal / HD2 Mod Manager)
Requirements
Bingus Shared Loader v19 or newer, last in the load order.
Install / update
Compatibility
Known limitations
How it works
It doesn't alter any game data. It's a Lua addon built on the Smarter Guard Dogs & Sentries engine: the game's own soldier AI stays in charge, and the mod only hides the enemies a soldier shouldn't shoot from his list and asks him to pick again. No DLLs, no patched game code.
Troubleshooting
Attach SmarterSEAF.log to your bug report. You'll find it in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\Logs (paste that into the File Explorer address bar and press Enter).
Source code
GitHub: Th3chef/Smarter-SEAF (bug reports welcome there too).
Support
All my mods are free and always will be. If you'd like to help me keep them working and build new ones, you can support me on Patreon.
Thank you for diving with me!
Credits
CowboyBingus for Bingus Shared Loader. Armor values: Helldivers Wiki.
They shoot bugs. Not you.
Smarter SEAF gives the SEAF soldiers a new brain. They stop shooting through you, stop wasting their one EAT on small bugs, and go for the enemies you ping.
Features
- Friendly Fire Safety: a SEAF soldier holds fire while you, a teammate, one of your sentries, another SEAF soldier or a civilian is in his line of fire, and picks another enemy instead. He also holds fire while his gun is pointed at a friend when he's staggered or getting up, so he doesn't spray bullets across his squad. The option chooses who is protected: Helldivers and other troopers, Only helldivers or Only other troopers.
- Armor Intelligence: soldiers know what their guns can hurt. Armor they can't get through is left for later while there's something else to shoot; with nothing else around, they shoot it anyway. Specialists keep their one EAT for Chargers and heavier, and for structures it can destroy (fabricators, bug holes, Shrieker Nests, Spore Spewers, Gazers, Lightning Spires, Warp Gateways). Nobody wastes ammo on a Detector Tower they can't damage.
- Ping Targeting: soldiers within 50 m of you go for the enemy you ping, for up to 20 seconds, if they can see it and hurt it. Soldiers farther away keep fighting their own fight.
- No shooting the dead or the unseen: a soldier moves on the moment his target dies or goes out of sight.
- Light on your PC: the brain runs about a tenth of a millisecond per frame on average, and a little more for a couple of seconds when a new squad drops in near you.
Options (Arsenal / HD2 Mod Manager)
- Smarter SEAF: the core. Keep this on.
- Friendly Fire Safety: Helldivers and other troopers, Only helldivers or Only other troopers. Turn off at your own risk: they will fire through anyone, as in the base game.
- Armor Intelligence: turn off to leave targets to the game.
- Ping Targeting: turn off to leave your pings alone.
Requirements
Bingus Shared Loader v19 or newer, last in the load order.
Install / update
- Install Bingus Shared Loader v19 or newer.
- Add Smarter-SEAF-1.0.3.zip in Arsenal or the HD2 Mod Manager and check the options you want.
- Purge, then Deploy (always both, every time you install or update), then restart the game.
Compatibility
- Only the SEAF soldiers run by your game are changed: when you host or play solo. When you join someone else's game, their game runs the soldiers.
- Works alongside Smarter Guard Dogs & Sentries.
- Don't combine it with other mods that change SEAF soldier targeting.
Known limitations
- Host only: the mod changes only the SEAF soldiers your own game runs, so it works when you host or play solo. When you join someone else's game, their game runs the soldiers and the mod leaves them alone.
- The game still decides when to shoot and where to walk. The mod only steers who a soldier may target, so a soldier blocked by a friend waits for a clear line rather than stepping aside.
- Line of sight updates about twice a second, so a soldier may briefly fire at cover or hesitate as enemies duck in and out of view.
- Grenades and mines aren't steered.
- After a game update the mod finds what it needs in the game's code again and remembers it for that game version. A part only switches itself off (changing nothing) when an update changes something it relies on, and the log says which.
How it works
It doesn't alter any game data. It's a Lua addon built on the Smarter Guard Dogs & Sentries engine: the game's own soldier AI stays in charge, and the mod only hides the enemies a soldier shouldn't shoot from his list and asks him to pick again. No DLLs, no patched game code.
Troubleshooting
Attach SmarterSEAF.log to your bug report. You'll find it in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\Logs (paste that into the File Explorer address bar and press Enter).
Source code
GitHub: Th3chef/Smarter-SEAF (bug reports welcome there too).
Support
All my mods are free and always will be. If you'd like to help me keep them working and build new ones, you can support me on Patreon.
Thank you for diving with me!
Credits
CowboyBingus for Bingus Shared Loader. Armor values: Helldivers Wiki.
