Helldivers 2 Stratagems

Put your Helldivers 2 stratagems on your Stream Deck. The plugin reads your loadout from the game's screen, shows each stratagem on a key with its cooldown, and calls it in when you press the key: it opens the stratagem menu and enters the arrow code for you, with your own key bindings.

What the keys do

- Your loadout, found by itself. When a mission starts, the plugin opens the stratagem menu once and fills the keys in menu order: Reinforce, SOS Beacon, Resupply, your four stratagems, and the ones a mission hands out.

- Cooldowns you can trust. A key fills up like the game's icon while its stratagem cools down, and turns ready when the game's own timer reaches zero. Call-ins on their way, unavailable stratagems and counters (reinforcements left, uses of the Orbital Laser) show too.

- One press to call in. Hold or toggle menu, arrow keys or WASD: set it once to match your game. A stratagem that isn't ready is refused, and nothing is ever typed into another window.

- A Scan key with a radar that shows whether the game is being read (yellow on the ship, green in a mission), and becomes a start button that launches the game through Steam when it isn't running.

Light on your PC

A scan reads only the column of stratagem icons: about 13 ms every 150 ms in a mission at 2560x1440, and under 1% of one CPU core while the game is closed.

Good to know

- The plugin only looks at the screen and presses keys, the way you do. It never opens the game's process, memory or files.

- Cooldowns are read from the game's text, so the game needs to be in English for them to show. Recognising and calling stratagems works in any language.

- Tested at 2560x1440 with the default HUD; other resolutions are scaled.

Requirements: Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck 7.1 or later, Helldivers 2 on Steam.

Free and open source: guides, source code and support on GitHub (https://github.com/xiaodoudou/streamdeck-helldivers2-stratagems-plugin).

A fan project, not made or endorsed by Arrowhead Game Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment or Elgato. Helldivers 2 and its stratagem names and icons belong to their owners.

0.5.6

Keys no longer go into cooldown while a stratagem you threw by hand is still on its way: the cooldown starts once it has landed.