Automaton front PTSD simulator aka. Gunfire and Explosions SFX Overhaul
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.5% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #26 of 1004 Audio mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Reworks almost every single automaton gunfire & explosion audio to resemble traditional firearms more +some misc. SFX. Making firefights with them even more intense and immersive than it already is.
My greatest and most ambituous audio overhaul mod up to date.
Ever felt like fighting automatons was not intense or "immersive" enough? And using those god tier war-ambience sound mods for automatons wasn't enough, as when the firefight itself starts, your immersion gets broken by somewhat lackluster gunfire sfx they have? This mod attempts to fix that issue.
Mod makes automaton gunfire resemble traditional ballistic firearms more and gives them much needed reverb and punch. Changing every automaton weapon audio from trooper pistols to mortar turrets, cannons, bullet flyby noises and explosions.
Almost every single explosion and impact got more "oompf" + falling debris/ dust/ dirt edited in.
Bullet flybys and whizzes now make an audible crack noise (those of you who have played Arma, SQUAD, Battlefield with WarTape or CoD MW19 know this sound well)
Automaton units reworked in this mod
Lightweight dudes:
- All trooper variants
- (pistol, rifle, AR, bazooka, grenade, HELP! - flaregun)
- All devastator variants incl. variants from incendiary corporation
- (2-barrel, shoulder rocket pod, shield minigun, shield shotty, shield autocannon)
- All scout strider variants
- (2-barrel, rocket rack)
- Cyborg brothers - all weapons
- (3 barrel hand shotgun, arm cannon charged and normal mode)
Xtra Large lads:
- All hulk variants incl. variant from Fire nation
- (autocannon, rocket launcher, flamethrower, molotov launcher)
- All tank variants + turrets on top of pillars around the map (big overhaul)
- (MBT, SPAAG, MRLS/ katyusha)
- (engine and track audio, hull and turret mounted COAX machine guns)
- Gunships (big overhaul)
- (engine and flight audio, death and destruction xplosions, autocannon, rocket launcher pod)
- War strider
- (dual cannons, grenade pods)
- Factory strider
- (chin mounted mini guns, back mounted cannon)
- Vox Engine
- (side miniguns, rocket launcher pods, dual cannons, alarm)
- (version with music as standalone version)
Side quests:
- Detector tower
- (passive and aggroed scanning, rotation start, alarms for player spotted and lost of visual on player)
- Stratagem blocker spinner
- (singular pulse, environment reverb)
- Orbital cannon
- (cannon fire, I might add more sounds to this in the future)
- AA cannons base
- (cannon burst, environment reverb)
- HQ command bunker
- (top mounted turrets, superstructure mounted dual cannons)
- Mortar cannon base
- (mortar fire, mortar shell flying in the air and falling down (whistling), shell explosion)
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Helldivers2 Mods
- Author
- Banzaiwortex
- Version
- 2
- Downloads
- 33,620
- Endorsements
- 503
- Category
- Audio
- Created
- 2/1/2026
- Updated
- 4/21/2026
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