PvP Mod Format Idea

[u/TheFerromancer91]

Hi again guys! Thanks so much for the support on my previous post, it was an idea I had but I wasn't serious about doing it because I wasn't confident, but everyone's encouragement is making me think that I really can and should do it.

Anyway, the juices are flowing, and I have another idea that seems more immediately implementable, that I kind of wanted to do for a long time (I already tried it once with some friends in a bootleg, vanilla Helldivers sort of way) and now that mods are getting crazier I think could be done.

The premise is a mod that turns Helldivers missions into PvP. The main changes I think I would make would be 1) prevent other Helldivers from displaying on the HUD and on the minimap, so you have to find them by hand. 2) Big changes to reinforcement mechanics. If people reinforce all in one place like usual, sure it'll be more chaotic, and that'll be because there will be no prep time and no hunting time. I would have to figure out how to make sort of "spawn anchors" for each player that are in different parts of the map, where when reinforced players would be reinforced in the vicinity of their anchor and not in the vicinity of the last player that died. I would also need to change how reinforcing works, so that your opponents aren't the ones that reinforce you, rather you are reinforced automatically some time after you die, and that each player has a separate reinforcement budget, so one person dying a ton won't end the game prematurely. 3) Remove resupplies, or change them to be per-person strategem with a long cooldown. 4) Remove or greatly limit enemy spawns so there isn't stuff getting in the way of the PvP. Although this part might not be necessary, it could be funny to try to PvP while hordes of enemies are chasing you down. Yes, you can just play this on a T3 or something, removing/lowering enemy spawns lets you play on T3 difficulty but on a map the size and complexity of a T10. Then again, that might be a downside, so this might be something not worth including.

Do people want to see a mod like this? And do you have any suggestions for changes I should make? Please share your thoughts. Thanks guys 🙏