vitalised/ion

Extended, vanilla compatible Northstar fork. (releases repository)

Ion

Extended, vanilla compatible Northstar fork (that means you can play on Northstar and Vanilla if you're wondering, revolutionary)

It is also a cool kitchen sink of random things I like, they're mostly disabled by default but you can go check them out.

Extras

• Sort of EMM inspired menu
• Some rudamentary Demo playback UI
• Loading progress
• Some less crashes in places maybe
• Vanilla compat whilst maintaining security hooks
• Spruced up UI because it is very ugly (not done yet)
• Lots of HUD things.

Why

They won't merge my Vanilla compatability PR :(

If you're a Vanilla+ user, this is also an upgrade since this fixes match settings, pretty baller

Parity

Going forward, this project will keep versioning mostly in check with upstream Northstar, mods will still be named Northstar.* so you can host with Northstar players (Northstar.Custom being required and that).

The VANILLA const has been stripped, and has been replaced with NSIsVanilla(). This may be reimplemented in the future but only to Client and Server VMs for compat depending on demand.

For mod developers, an ION_VER const has been declared if you'd like parity across forks. You'll also want to replace Remote_RegisterFunction with NSRemote_RegisterFunction to prevent out-of-sync disconnects.

The B3, Wingman Eite and Softball, along with some other weapons will be extremely wonky on Northstar servers, nothing I can do about that unless the server you're on is also running Ion. SNS and some other modes probably wont work for Northstar players if you're hosting from Ion due to changes fixing this.

Build

You'll want to use the branch repositories, build steps should be basically the same as normal Northstar:

• Mods
• Launcher