ForcedFriendship

ForcedFriendship

A R.E.P.O. mod that punishes wandering off alone. If you aren't within a configurable distance of another player, you start taking damage over time — and the farther away you are, the faster the damage ticks. Stick together. Choose whether your lifeline is the nearest player or the nearest cart, and a colored tether beam shows you how safe you are at a glance.

Configuration

Config file: BepInEx/config/darkharasho.ForcedFriendship.cfg. All numeric settings are whole numbers.

| Key | Section | Default | Meaning |

|-----|---------|---------|---------|

| Enabled | General | true | Master on/off switch |

| AnchorMode | General | Buddy | Buddy = stay near the nearest living player; Cart = stay near the nearest hauling cart |

| SafeDistance | General | 20 | Units within which your anchor keeps you safe (1–100) |

| BandWidth | General | 8 | Units per additional damage band beyond the safe radius (1–100) |

| DamagePerBand | General | 5 | HP per tick, multiplied by the band number (1–100) |

| TickInterval | General | 2 | Seconds between damage evaluations (1–30) |

| IncludeHeight | General | false | If true, vertical distance counts; default false so different floors of one tall room stay safe |

| GracePeriod | General | 30 | Seconds of safety after leaving the truck before damage can start (0–60; 0 disables) |

| Enabled | Beams | true | Draw a tether beam from each player to their anchor |

| ShowAllPlayers | Beams | true | Show every player's beam; if false, only your own |

| AlwaysShow | Beams | true | Always draw the tether; if false, the beam hides while safe and only appears in the warn/danger zone |

| WarnPercent | Beams | 25 | Outer % of SafeDistance where the beam turns yellow before red (0–100; 0 disables yellow) |

| Width | Beams | 2 | Tether thickness (1–20; 1 = thinnest, approximates the grab beam) |

| Opacity | Beams | 40 | Beam opacity % (1–100; lower is more translucent) |

| Colorblind | Beams | false | Colorblind-friendly palette (blue/yellow/red) instead of green/yellow/red — local to you |

| StatusIndicator | Beams | false | Subtle screen-edge border tinted by your current safety color — local to you |

The gameplay rule (Enabled, AnchorMode, SafeDistance, BandWidth, DamagePerBand,

TickInterval) is taken from the host and synced to everyone, so each client's beams match

the host-authoritative damage. Beam display prefs (Beams/*) are local to each client.

A tether is always drawn to your anchor — your nearest buddy in Buddy mode, your nearest cart

in Cart mode — and its color tells you how safe you are (green safe, yellow approaching the

edge, red taking damage). Standing in the extraction truck is a safe zone: no damage, and

the beam stays green. The mod is active during level gameplay only (not the shop or lobby), and

dead players are never damaged.

Dependencies

• BepInExPack

Installation

Install Mod Manager / r2modman, or manually place ForcedFriendship.dll in BepInEx/plugins/ForcedFriendship.

Building

GAME_DIR="/path/to/REPO"./package.sh

Builds the DLL and produces a -ready zip. Install the zip via r2modman.