DRIVER HUD Tank and FRV Vehicle HUD

DRIVER HUD adds a compact vehicle-status HUD for Helldivers 2, focused on useful information that the game normally does not expose clearly to vehicle crews.

Version 1. 4. 4 supports both tank variants currently in the game, as well as the HMG and Supply FRV variants.

The mod is designed as a quality-of-life HUD rather than a gameplay modification. It does not change vehicle health, ammunition capacity, damage, reload speed, handling, or weapon behavior.

• Hull health displayed as current / maximum HP with a horizontal health bar.

• Support for both driver and gunner seats.

• Weapon ammunition information visible to the vehicle crew.

• Center-screen vehicle reticle.

• Reload-status indicator for manually reloaded weapons.

• Resolution-scaled HUD layout.

• Robust handling of temporary network-data gaps to avoid ammo values flashing to zero or disappearing unnecessarily.

• Main-cannon ammunition.

• Coaxial machine-gun ammunition.

• Main-cannon reload progress indicator.

• Gatling-gun current belt shown as a 0–300 ammunition bar.

• Six-segment reserve-belt display.

• Remaining missile ammunition.

• Gatling reload progress indicator.

• Manual reload behavior follows the game's actual weapon state, including interrupted reloads.

The fast-firing Gatling display intentionally uses a bar instead of attempting to present every individual round as a rapidly changing number. DRIVER HUD prioritizes stable, low-overhead vehicle telemetry over unnecessarily aggressive polling.

Supports both currently available FRV variants:

• Supply FRV

FRV HUD features:

• Vehicle hull health.

• Individual durability for all four tires.

• Separate tire-durability bars.

• Destroyed-wheel / hub-state indicators.

• Vehicle-outline HUD designed specifically for the FRV layout.

Wheel information is read independently so a problem with one wheel does not invalidate the entire FRV HUD.

REQUIREMENTS

Bingus Shared Loader v16

BSL must be installed separately:

Bingus Shared Loader at Helldivers 2 Nexus - Mods and community

BSL provides the shared script startup used by DRIVER HUD and helps avoid startup conflicts with other script mods.

INSTALLATION

1. Close the game.

2. Disable or remove older DRIVER HUD versions, test builds, and probe builds.

3. Import DRIVER_HUD_1. 4. 4.zip into Arsenal and enable Core.

4. Install and enable Bingus Shared Loader v16.

5. With Arsenal's default priority behavior, place BSL at the bottom of the mod list so that it receives the final effective override priority.

Bingus Shared Loader

If you use First-Mod Priority, the effective order is reversed. Adjust the list accordingly.

6. Run Purge.

7. Run Deploy.

8. Launch the game.

Do not enable multiple DRIVER HUD versions at the same time.

## HUD Unified settings

After starting the game once, use Notepad to open:

`%APPDATA%\Arrowhead\Helldivers2\driver_hud_settings.txt`

Save to apply in about two seconds. Keep every setting. Invalid, incomplete, duplicate or out-of-range dictionaries retain the entire previous configuration. UTF-8 and BOM-marked UTF-16 are supported.

| Key | Default | Meaning |

|---|---:|---|

| tank_offset_y | 155 | Tank bottom offset at reference resolution, 45–500 |

| tank_scale | 1 | Tank scale, 0. 5–2 |

| frv_x | 0. 714 | FRV center, left 0 to right 1 |

| frv_y | 0. 90 | FRV center, top 0 to bottom 1 |

| frv_scale | 1 | FRV scale, 0. 5–2 |

| alpha | 0. 76 | HUD opacity, 0. 1–1 |

| font | new | `new` geometry digits / `old` original game font |

| reload_ring | true | Tank reload indicator |

| reticle | true | Tank center dot |

| weapon_cache | true | Experimental cross-checked component reads |

| debug | true | Diagnostic logging |

| perf | false | Ten-second CPU/native-call summaries |

Existing `driver_hud.cfg` and `frv_hud_position.txt`/`.json` values are imported on first creation, including an existing font preference. Afterwards edit only the unified file. The packaged `.example.txt` is reference material and is not deployed over your settings. There is no external executable or shell configurator. Nexus scanning was not per