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Higgs Guitar
Higgs' guitar from Death Stranding 2: strum a wave of sound, or play a solo that calls up a beam of fire (battery powered). Carry it on your back.Higgs Guitar
Higgs' guitar from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach as a weapon for Lethal Company.
- Played, not pointed. It hangs in front of you the way a guitar is played: the left hand holds the neck from underneath in a chord grip, the right hand hangs loose over the strings. It sways with your steps, and taking it out swings it round from your back.
- Sonic blast. Use the item: the right hand rakes the strings (the guitar kicks, ripples leave the strings) and is flung off them, forward and down, opening as the body turns into the stroke; a wave of heavy sound leaves along your view. The left hand moves to the next chord. The wave hurts and briefly staggers every enemy in its cone, sets off landmines and makes turrets go berserk, like a shovel hit would. It is loud; enemies that listen will hear it from far away.
- Solo and fire (Q). Higgs' way: a wild solo, the guitar swung round neck forward, and after the run up a beam of blue, violet and orange fire shoots from the head of the guitar along your view and bursts where it lands. It burns everything in the beam and the burst for as long as the solo lasts and the battery holds; charge the guitar at the ship's charger. With a flat battery the solo still plays, just without fire. Press Q again to cut it short. No strikes while the solo is on.
- Rides on your back. Switch to another inventory slot and the guitar hangs across your back instead of disappearing.
Everyone in the lobby needs the mod.
Usage
Buy it in the terminal: higgs-guitar (typing higgs is enough). 75 credits by default.
It takes a normal inventory slot, not the utility belt.
Config
BepInEx/config/reagan.higgsguitar.cfg, created on first launch. The file is re-read while the game runs:
with a guitar in the world, save the file and the new values apply within a second, which makes the
Hold, FirstPerson and Back sections easy to tune by eye. LethalConfig works too.
| Section | Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | Price |
75 |
Price in the store. |
| General | Scale |
1 |
Size; at 1 the guitar is 1.35 units long (a player is about 2.6 tall). |
| General | MaxSmoothness |
0.8 |
Lower it if the guitar looks too shiny. |
| Blast | Cooldown |
1.5 |
Seconds between blasts. |
| Blast | Range / ConeAngle |
12 / 50 |
Reach and full opening angle of the wave. |
| Blast | Damage / CloseDamage / CloseRange |
1 / 2 / 4 |
Damage, and damage under CloseRange. A shovel hit is 1. |
| Blast | StunSeconds |
0.5 |
Stagger time; 0 turns it off. |
| Blast | FriendlyFire |
false |
Let the wave hurt players. |
| Blast | HitHazards |
true |
Let the wave hit landmines and turrets. |
| Blast | NoiseRange / Volume |
30 / 1 |
How far enemies hear it, and how loud it plays. |
| Solo | FireSeconds |
16 |
Seconds of fire in a full battery. |
| Solo | FireStart |
1.2 |
Seconds of run up before the fire comes. |
| Solo | FireRange / FireAngle / FireSplash |
14 / 14 / 2.2 |
Reach and width of the beam, radius of the burst where it lands. |
| Solo | FireDamage / FireTick |
1 / 0.2 |
Damage to each enemy every tick. |
| Solo | Volume |
0.85 |
Loudness of the solo. |
| Solo | FireColorA / FireColorB / FireColorC |
3A5BFF / A040FF / FF7A22 |
The fire's blue, violet and orange. |
| Hold | BodyRight / BodyUp / BodyForward |
0.1 / -0.36 / 0.34 |
Where the pickups sit relative to the upper chest, as others see you. |
| Hold | NeckAngle / FaceTilt |
25 / 15 |
How far the neck points up, and how far the front is tilted towards your face, in degrees. |
| FirstPerson | Right / Up / Forward |
0.14 / -0.3 / 0.34 |
Where the pickups sit in your own view, relative to the camera. |
| Back | ShowOnBack |
true |
Carry the guitar on the back while it is pocketed. |
| Back | ShowOwnOnBack |
false |
Draw your own guitar on your back in first person too (otherwise only its shadow). |
| Back | Tilt / Height / Side / Gap |
32 / -0.38 / -0.06 / 0.03 |
Placement on the back. |
| Back | ModelSuitInset |
0.2 |
Moves it closer to the body on model replacement suits, which have no air tank. |
| Effect | WaveColor / WaveBrightness |
FF7A1E / 3 |
Look of the wave. |
Notes
- The item is assembled when the game starts, not loaded from an asset bundle.
- There is no guitar animation in the game, so all of the above is animated by the mod itself, every frame: arms, fingers, upper body and the guitar. Legs keep the game's own walking.
- The strike is synthesised; the solos are cut from "One Last Fight" (Death Stranding 2 OST, as played by SirBarryGameX); the fire's roar and the fire itself are the Old Bird's blowtorch from the game, recoloured.
- Solos are
guitar_solo_1.wav,guitar_solo_2.wav, ... in the mod's folder (16 bit PCM). A solo lasts as long as its file; replace them to play your own.
Credits
- This work is based on "Higgs' Guitar | Death Stranding 2" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/higgs-guitar-death-stranding-2-b2903e7569ea41a689fda898d9fd5f73) by MadlessHatter (https://sketchfab.com/MadlessHatter) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The model was rescaled, merged into one mesh and its textures packed into one atlas.
- Original design: Kojima Productions, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. This is a fan mod and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kojima Productions or Sony Interactive Entertainment.
- LethalLib by Evaisa.