northstar-updater
Auto-updater for the Northstar Titanfall 2 client
Usage
Put the exe into your Titanfall 2 directory next to Titanfall2.exe Then, when running NorthstarUpdater.exe it will update and then start Northstar. I recommend setting it up as a external game in steam or as a shortcut on your desktop, instead of NorthstarLauncher.exe.
You dont have to have Northstar or any of the mods you configure installed, if you dont have them it will download them automatically.
Configuration:
After the first launch, it will have generated a updater_config.ini which you can edit to allow it to update mods.
[BetterServerbrowser]
repository = F1F7Y/Better.Serverbrowser
last_update = 0001-01-01T00:00:00
ignore_prerelease = true
file = Better.Serverbrowser/mod.json
install_dir = ./R2Northstar/mods
| key | explanation |
|---|---|
| repository | The GitHub username and repository of the mod (should contain releases) |
| last_update | by default this is 0, and will be overwritten whenever the updater has completed an update |
| ignore_prerelease | true by default, this will prevent the autoupdater from updating to a prerelease version |
| file | This is pointing to some file in the mod, used to verify the correct zip was downloaded and whether the mod is already installed. |
| install_dir | the directory into which the release will be unpacked. This is obviously different for other non-mod things like the updater itself |
| exclude_files | A pipe ( |
Working princple: The udpater is just a fancy automatic way to download and extract zip archives from github. It first fetches the releases and tries to determine whether there is a newer version available. Then, it tries to very naively guess which release asset to use, and downloads it. The downloaded zip file will get inspected whetehr it contains file to check that it was the correct one. Then, it will extract all fiels except those listed in exclude_files into the install_dir. The last step is calling NorthstarLauncher which will also be passed every commandline argument given to the updater.
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