dafzor/bnetlauncher

Enhancement: Allow manual opening of games

scarrken opened this issue · 2 comments

What I mean by that is: if you don't input any shortcuts (ow, wow etc.) it will just open battle.net and whatever game is manually selected afterwards.
I know this is possible from a bug, actually. Older versions of bnetlauncher would let you do this unintentionally. This is useful (at least from what I can use) to open Overwatch PTR through steam, letting me fully use the steam controller without fiddling with other programs.

Though I use the hacky way to do it (just using an old version)

I suppose it would be one way to support ptr. And in the current beta it's actually fairly straight forward to do.

You need is to create a gamesdb.ini file with the following config:

[owptr]
name=Overwatch PTR
client=battlenet
exe=Overwatch.exe
options=nolaunch

and place it next to bnetlauncher.exe or in %localappdata%\madalien.com\bnetlauncher folder. Then use owptr as the launch option.

Oh that's actually a neat solution