(BAND-AID FIX) Turret and Drone Spotlights
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #83 of 1405 Visuals mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Adds a spotlight to most automated sentry turrets, both manned emplacements, and all types of guard dog drones, as well as a minor LUT edit to make the affected sentries's sensor/laser module emmissive to kinda look like the light is coming
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Note 2: Setting "Volumetric Fog Quality" to low will remove the visible light shafts. alternatively setting it to medium or above will make them visible. they look really good personally, and especially in a cinematic kind of way (like WW2 movies and their AA searchlights) but they can get in the way visibly and make it hard to see.
Applies to the following turrets as of 1. 5. 0
- A/MG-43 Machine Gun Sentry
- A/AC-8 AutoCannon Sentry
- A/MLS-4X Rocket sentry
- A/G-16 Gatling sentry
- A/LAS-98 Laser sentry
- A/FLAM-40 Flame sentry
- E/MG-101 HMG Emplacement
- E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement
- AX/AR-23 Guard Dog
- AX/LAS-5 Guard Dog "rover"
- AX/TR-13 Guard Dog "Dog Breath"
- AX/ARC-3 Guard Dog "K-9"
- AX/CAM-RA "Watch Dog" (it's the camera drone on flag missions)
- AX/FLAM-75 Guard Dog "Hot Dog"
- E/GL-21 Grenadier Battlement
The range of the spotlight is the same as their target detection/firing range minus the flame sentry, which is 50Meters despite having a tiny firing range. On emplacements the range is 100Meters minus the grenadier wall, which is 50Meters.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Shadows behave strangely
- This is an issue with the game's lighting engine. ... Turns out there was a reason only the sun was allowed to cast shadows! thankfully that reason as not performance.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Helldivers2 Mods
- Author
- WolfNyan
- Version
- 1.4.0
- Downloads
- 20,768
- Endorsements
- 483
- Category
- Visuals
- Created
- 9/27/2025
- Updated
- 5/9/2026
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