AH-64

The Gunship. A survivor that never lands.

The AH-64 permanently hovers a fixed height above the terrain and strafes like a ground character, trading footspeed and vertical freedom for a full weapons load and a gun that is always on target.

The kit

Passive — Fire Control Radar Paints the strongest nearby threat. The chin turret tracks independently of where you are looking, so the gun stays on target while you reposition.

Primary — M230 Chain Gun A fixed drum that reloads all at once rather than trickling. Tap at range to keep the burst tight; hose the whole drum up close where the spread stops mattering. The reload runs whether or not you emptied it, so top up before you commit. Attack speed helps the reload, not just the fire rate.

Variants: an M230 gatling, and a low-rate high-damage cannon.

Secondary — Hydra 70 Rocket Pods A ripple salvo spread over most of a second — hold your aim through it. Runs on its own cooldown and stays available while the primary is reloading.

Utility — Evasive Roll A climbing forward-diagonal barrel roll with i-frames through the motion. Hold jump for altitude; hold back or down to dump height faster.

Variant: a smoke backflip.

Special — AGM-114 Hellfire / Longbow Hold to paint radar locks while you keep firing the gun and the Hydras, then release to launch. Hellfire is available as a loadout variant.

Install

Install with a mod manager (r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager) — it will pull the dependencies for you.

Manual install: drop AH64.dll and the AssetBundles folder into BepInEx/plugins/, keeping AssetBundles beside the DLL.

All players in a lobby need the same version. The mod declares EveryoneNeedSameModVersion, so a version mismatch is a lobby rejection rather than a desync.

Credits

• Built on the Risk of Rain 2 survivor mod template (HenryTutorial lineage) and R2API.
• Airframe modelled from scratch in Blender for this mod. No third-party or ripped aircraft geometry is included or redistributed.
• Rotor audio: "Helicopter Rotor Loop", "Helicopter Loop" and "OH-58 Helicopter Loop" by qubodup on Freesound, all CC0 / public domain. Full provenance, source URLs and checksums ship inside the bundle as LICENSE_SOURCE.txt.
• All in-game sound effects other than the rotor beds are vanilla Risk of Rain 2 Wwise events.

Bugs & feedback

• Found a bug? File it on the issue tracker. Please include your BepInEx log (BepInEx/LogOutput.log) and your mod list — it turns "it's broken" into something fixable.
• Balance thoughts, ideas, or a quick question? Drop a comment right here on this Thunderstore page.

All players in a lobby need the same version of the mod, or the game will refuse to let you join together.