Ion is a Northstar fork for Titanfall 2 which adds a variety of enhancements for Vanilla and Northstar.
Some of the notable features included are:
If you find any bugs please open an issue at https://github.com/R2Ion/Ion, or you can message me directly (@sonny.tel) on discord or in the Official Discord Server
You can grab a copy from the releases page.
Installation is basically the same as regular Northstar, just follow their manual install instructions here. If you have an existing Northstar install, you might want to backup and delete/move any files in R2Northstar/mods or R2Northstar/packages, as there's a chance there might be problems.
If you own the game via steam, right click on Titanfall 2, then hit "Properties" and add -northstar to the "Launch Options" field
For EA App users, click on Titanfall 2 on the left side, then hit the "Manage" button, then "View properties" and add -northstar to the "Advanced launch options" box
You can get the Ion docker image at: ghcr.io/R2Ion/ion-dedicated
In a Northstar private match, you can get your P2P address in the footer, players can use this to connect from the server browser's "Direct Connect" dialog.
If you're not interested in using any of the features offered you can still benefit from using this image as opposed to the official one since it runs a much newer Alpine Linux image with Wine 10, which lets you run Northstar plugins.
Servers running Ion can send unverified mods to clients to download. Some notes on this:
To create a schema, create a file called servermodschema.json in the root of your profile folder (e.g Titanfall2/R2Northstar)
Here's an example schema that will download Titanframework to your clients
{
"Peepee.TitanFramework": {
"Version": "2.4.3",
"URL": "https://gcdn.thunderstore.io/live/repository/packages/The_Peepeepoopoo_man-Titanframework-2.4.3.zip",
"Checksum": "6d075d2f7a5764627f949cc757e5e034c528fb4711777a364cb1f788b694ff3a"
}
}
{
"Peepee.TitanFramework": {
"Version": "2.4.3",
"Platform": "thunderstore",
"DependencyString": "The_Peepeepoopoo_man-Titanframework-2.4.3",
"Checksum": "6d075d2f7a5764627f949cc757e5e034c528fb4711777a364cb1f788b694ff3a"
}
}
If you find any mods that don't work you can open an issue, please document any script errors in the console or logs I'll look into making compatability patches.
Parity is mostly in touch with Northstar, versioning and mod names are the same. Any existing mods using UI script stuff that do #if VANILLA probably won't work but that's about it.
In order to check for vanilla in script you should use NSIsVanilla()
Ion also introduces a variety of extra script functions for handling demos and raw input. If anyone actually cares about this let me know and I'll document it somewhere.
For mods making Keyvalue patches, special preprocessors have been added. You can use ///if VANILLA, ///if NORTHSTAR and ///endif (no ///elif or ///else yet sorry). Here's a provided example below
// example basically just ripped out of Northstar.Custom ( you can also use ///if VANILLA ) but there's no ///else or ///elif
WeaponData
{
///if NORTHSTAR
Mods
{
sns
{
explosion_damage "50"
damage_near_value "50"
damage_far_value "50"
ammo_clip_size "1"
projectile_launch_speed "7500"
}
}
///endif
}
You'll want to use the branch repositories, the steps should be basically the same as for normally building Northstar: