Problem: Several weapons have bipods included in their models, although the bipods themselves are useless and cosmetic-only. 
Solution: This mod.

With "Bipods That (Actually) Work," you can now use the Lion Bipod weapon attachment and deploy them on the following five weapons:

* Gecko 7.62 Assault Rifle (Galil)

* Gewehr Assault Rifle (G3)

* JP36 Assault Rifle (G36)

* Thanatos Sniper Rifle (Barrett M95)

* Lebensauger .308 Sniper Rifle (WA2000)

Gif demonstration! Note the more forgiving bipod camera lock, and the lack of "breathing" scope sway and removed recoil-induced crosshair bucking.



Note: This mod also removes all of the (ridiculously strict) restrictions on where you can place your bipods. This is actually a bug, but enjoy it while you can.

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I have also made the Lion Bipod attachment on these weapons incompatible with other weapon attachments that would remove the bipod model. 
Weapon attachment compatibility blacklist:

• Galil/Gecko 7.62:
      -Fabulous Foregrip
      -CQB Foregrip
      -Light Foregrip
  
  
• G3/Gewehr: (All foregrips forbidden except standard/unmodded foregrip)
      -Precision Foregrip
      -Tactical Foregrip
      -Wooden Foregrip
      -Plastic Foregrip
  
  
• G36/JP36: (Only allows the Long Foregrip from the Gage Spec Ops DLC)
      -Standard Foregrip
      -Compact Foregrip
      -Polizei Foregrip
  
  
• Barrett M95/Thanatos:
      -No incompatible mods
  
  
• Wa2000/Lebensauger .308:
      -No incompatible mods
  

This mod is in beta. It is very new, and most of the bugs from my proof-of-concept are still there. However, none of them should involve crashing.

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Download Custom Firearm Mechanic for Custom Weapons by Alcat101, which will allow you to apply the bipod to custom weapons. Install with Bipods That Actually Work for functional bipods.

Currently supported weapons include:

• Cheytac M200 by >:3
  
  
• Hecate AMP by Alcat101
  

But you can easily add bipods to other weapons in
, and this mod will ensure bipod gadget functionality in-game.

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This mod is best used in conjunction with the following mods: 

• LMG Steelsights by Iron Predator, dotoo, anonymous, Feelgood, Noep, and KarateF22 (Highly recommended. Enables using steelsights or scopes when using LMGs or other bipod-deployed weapons.)
  
  
• Bipod for G3 by Alcat101 (Cosmetic- unfolds the bipod on the model of the G3)
  
  
• Bipod for G36 by Alcat101 (Cosmetic- adds an unfolded bipod onto the model of the G36's Long Foregrip)
  

Other important information:

- This mod should not mark you as a cheater. In-game, you probably won't be visibly bipodded, but it still works regardless of whether or not you're the host. 

- If you want to uninstall this mod, remember to remove all of the Lion Bipod attachments from the affected weapons, or you'll probably lose them!

- In the pre-planning loadout screen, other players will be able to see if you have bipods equipped on these weapons, as usual.

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• No animations. Custom animations are not currently possible in PAYDAY 2 modding.
  
• This mod lets you deploy your bipod anywhere except in the air. Seriously. Faceplanting into a wall, on your teammates' backs, looking straight up, standing on a flat surface with nothing around you, you name it. 
  
• Incorrect bipod axis point- When in bipod mode, you may notice that you swivel around a point on the gun that is not necessarily where the bipod is. This is a base-game issue, and I probably won't fix this.
  

• [Ongoing] First-person model positional tweaks
  
  
• Bipods for more weapons?
  
  
• Other things that are related to bipods?
  

This whole mod is basically a series of huge workarounds for the convoluted Bipod system, so it's the best I can do right now. 

Contact me for help, feedback, questions, answers, or the average rainfall of the amazon basin. In order of priority: I will reply to Discord, reddit and Steam messages most quickly, as I check those the most often, followed by modworkshop comments/messages, clubpenguin messages, FarmersOnly messages, and messenger pigeons. 

Have fun!

9 June 2018 v1.22
- Temporarily disabled some more internal code stuff to stop crashes with custom bipod weapons. This mod will still work in the meantime, so don't worry, you can still use bipods on any weapons you have.

3 June 2018 v1.21
- Rolled back some code in order to stop crashes with custom bipod weapons

23 May 2018 v1.2
- Enabled bipod "place anywhere" placement for ALL weapons, including LMGs, because heck off Overkill >:( (Might add proper ray checks later, using Cpone's custom attachment point mod)
- Removed duplicate base-game functions that made some crashlogs wrongly point to Bipods That Work. It wasn't my fault, I swear!
- Added more efficient checking for custom-bipodded weapons
- Removed a ton of misc old code
- Improved compatibility with other mods

28 Nov 2017 v1.1
-Enabled custom weapon support for bipods, added rudimentary and poorly worded instructions in the mod description

10 Nov 2017 v1.0
-Fixed an annoying persistent bug where the mod wasn't written or uploaded to modworkshop