laundmo / northstar-updater

UI-less auto-updater for the Northstar Titanfall 2 client and its mods.

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northstar-updater

Auto-updater for the Northstar Titanfall 2 client

Installation and Usage

• Download the latest update from https://github.com/laundmo/northstar-updater/releases
• Put the NorthstarUpdater.exe into your Titanfall 2 directory next to Titanfall2.exe/NorthstarLauncher.exe
• Run NorthstarUpdater.exe and will update and then start Northstar.

You can run it without Northstar installed, and it will install it.

Configuration:

After the first launch, it will have generated a updater_config.ini which you can edit to allow it to update mods.

Add one of these sections to it. The Github Repository needs to utilise releases for this to work.

[BetterServerbrowser]
repository = F1F7Y/Better.Serverbrowser
last_update = 0001-01-01T00:00:00

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 (optional, default is true)	true by default, this will prevent the autoupdater from updating to a prerelease version
file (optional)	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 (optional, default is ./R2Northstar/mods)	the directory into which the release will be unpacked. This is obviously different for other non-mod things like the updater itself
exclude_files (optional)	A pipe | seperated list of files to exclude when extracting the zip. can be useful for config files.

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.