Skip to content

HellForge 0.1.2 BETA

Pre-release
Pre-release

Choose a tag to compare

View all tags
@SkyeShade SkyeShade released this 18 Oct 17:38
v0.1.2-beta
4bc2dd8

An update to the HellForge beta: co-op fixes, the editor in DirectX 11, and Steam Family Sharing. Download
HellForge-Setup.exe below and run it. On an existing installation it offers Update and keeps your game copy,
profiles and mods.

Co-op: everyone in a group should update to 0.1.2. The fixes below run on every PC (the Shredder Silo) or on the
host's (rejoining after a crash).

New

  • Steam Family Sharing: if you play HELLDIVERS 2 through Steam Family Sharing, setup and sessions accept it now.
    Steam still checks your licence, and Steam's own rule applies: one family member plays a shared game at a time.
  • The in-game editor (F8) works with DirectX 11 (Settings > Launch options: --use-d3d11). Before, it never opened.

Fixed

  • Co-op: a friend's Shredder Silo now launches and explodes on everyone's screen. The others heard its countdown but
    never saw the missile or the blast, only what it left behind.
  • Co-op: a player whose game crashed couldn't join the lobby again until the host restarted. They can rejoin now.
  • The Mods page counted Local Stats in "friends need the same N gameplay mods". It isn't compared (in co-op everyone
    plays with the host's stats), and the sentence now says so.

If a session won't start

  • Windows never asked for permission to add the firewall rules: look for a flashing shield in the taskbar, or start
    HellForge once with Run as administrator. The rules stay, so later starts need neither.
  • "Required loopback/egress controls failed": something on your PC is letting traffic past Windows Firewall,
    usually a VPN with a kill switch or another firewall (Kaspersky, Norton, Bitdefender, ESET, Portmaster...). Close or
    pause it and start the session again.

You need

  • Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), and HELLDIVERS 2 on Steam, build 25480438
  • Steam running and signed in to an account that owns the game or has it through Steam Family Sharing
  • About 25 GB free on the drive you install to, and one Windows administrator prompt
  • Windows Firewall switched on for every network type (setup checks and tells you)

Windows SmartScreen may warn that the setup is unrecognised: it is not code-signed yet (More info > Run anyway).

Support, news and mods: the Discord link in the launcher's sidebar.

Share this release by linking to it, not by reuploading the setup (licence). Mods made with the SDK are
yours, under any licence (MIT-0 SDK).

SHA-256 of HellForge-Setup.exe: DE26944422250764A6007B7F65890AFECC35134BBF6A61987ECF70DA2E28949F

Assets 3
Loading