Black Market Edition is a multi-purpose community enhancement mod for Titanfall game, featuring various quality-of-life changes and improvements.
NOTE: It is NOT yet finished (but is getting very close there), there are a few chore tasks needed before so. However it works as-is for the most part.
Open sourcing this for now regardless, because I slowly worked on it since 2019 and I am not sure if I will ever get a chance to finish it in the current situation.
Just grab the latest version's installer from the Releases page and run it in order to install BME.
Installers are built with Inno Setup using scripts from installer/ folder and they automatically detect game installation folder to which they can unpack the files.
- loadout editing mid-match
- very detailed Discord rich presence + basic invite/join support
- basic rich presence in Origin itself
- bigger max FOV scale in graphics settings; hovering FOV option will play a video that helps to see what difference does this setting make (in scale of 70 to 90)
- real-time synchronization of private match settings (apply and refresh instantly): no more people fighting and overriding each other's settings
- you can start pilot/titan training on any arbitrary stage
- private match settings preset for competetive CTF (PUG/tourney), set all settings in two clicks
- announcement alert made smaller to not obstruct the player view, but kept noticeable (after feedback from many players)
- "RETURN TO BATTLEFIELD" text removed, counter moved a bit away from the center of your screen to let you normally aim (remember to return to battlefield before the timer runs out though!)
- normally dead playlists (that is: not attrition, frontier defense or campaign) will have an exclamation mark on the left side if they happen to have any players, to easily notice this fact when viewing them
- fixes of various small bugs in scripts (that could result in you getting kicked out to main menu with an error)
- last used gamemode loadout will be correctly focused if one was used (instead of always selecting general loadout 1); last used loadout will be always focused, even if using keyboard (so you can confirm it with Enter key, just like you can with A on controller)
- enable in-game console accessible with
`key (enriched with output from Squirrel's print and svc_Print netmessages) - execute Squirrel code with
script_clientandscript_uiconsole commands - when you're a party leader, change default in-game option for leaving from "Leave with Party" to "Leave Solo", to prevent accidentally pulling out your teammates with you when you want to leave alone
- see raw mouse sensivity value in mouse/keyboard settings
- remove minimum mouse sensitivity limitation
- start private matches alone by yourself
- see who's in a party with whom in public matchmaking
- hitch alerts to indicate various connection problems analogous to what Titanfall 2 and Apex have (for example: "OUT OF SNAPSHOTS", "NET CHOKED")
- separate launcher exe that alleviates issues when Origin acts up and refuses to launch the game otherwise
- enable Unicode input in text chat (so you can type non-English characters; note: font used for some game locales cannot display many non-Latin characters)
- fix "XSS" in game invites (malicious join secrets could execute arbitrary client commands)
- unlocks
fps_maxcvar and allows default detected monitor refresh rate to be higher than 144 Hzfps_max -1(default) defaults to monitor's refresh rate limitfps_max 0uncaps the frame rate to unlimited (not recommended, will have adverse effects on network upload and will cause your client to lag and experience various glitches)fps_max <value>caps the framerate to specified value
- mitigate performance issue that caused the game to drop FPS by wasting too much time in CPU (and leaving GPU idle) by warping HUD by overriding
hudwarp_chopsizefrom60to120- further performance improvement can be achieved by increasing that cvar value even higher
- the best performance can be achieved by setting
hudwarp_disable 1, but this has adverse effect of not warping the HUD visually at all anymore, and broken fade-in effect of HUD on the game start
- allow to go on DLC playlists despite not having DLCs (by adding Ignore button to the playlist dialog)
- this allows you to play the game (more-less) even if you couldn't obtain Deluxe Edition or Season Pass keys
- as soon as a DLC map comes up in the rotation, you will be kicked out of the lobby upon its launch: still, that's better than not getting to play on the playlist at all
- pressing M to activate burn cards seems to activate the full screen map instead for some reason
- registering custom new Squirrel functions in native code doesn't work, but we don't really need it currently
- setting private match settings sliders to the edge unprecisely might apply a wrong setting (which will be shown within a second)
Main menu:
Discord rich presence:
FOV scale settings with extended range and background preview video:
In-game console during map loading (activate it with `):
Possibility to edit loadouts mid-match (either with Y on controller or right-click on the loadout with mouse):
Editing a pilot loadout mid-match:
"RETURN TO BATTLEFIELD" text removed and counter moved to the side to not obstruct the aim view:
Announcement text made smaller to make it less annoying and obtrusive:
"Invite friends" button opens a dialog that allows you to select a platform to invite your friends on:
Presets in private match that allow to quickly change settings to a predetermined set (in this case for competetive CTF games):
Missing "Apply" button in private match settings, because the settings are now synchronized real-time, which prevents people from overriding each other's settings when they edit them at the same time:
Training can be played in whole or started from any arbitrary stage:
Arbitrary training stage selection:
Mouse sensitivity value visible in settings:
- Clone the repo with
git clone --recursive --depth 1 -j8 https://github.com/p0358/black_market_edition.git - Run
generate.batto generate Visual Studio project files - Run
copy_scripts_to_r1_modsrc.batto copy needed files frombme_scriptsintor1_modsrc. - Run
build_assets.batto packager1_modsrcdir contents intoinstaller/source/bme/bme.bspand generate file list header file - Build the solution (
./build/bme.sln) in VS 2022 (alternatively runmsbuild build\bme.sln -m). - Look at
installer/installer_simple2.issto figure out which files go where (copybme.dllandTitanfall_alt.exemost importantly). - Optionally build the installer (instructions below).
After doing the steps above, with Inno Setup compile out installer/installer_simple2.iss (or use build_installer.bat script if you have iscc in your path). The resulting installer will be in installer/bme_installer.exe.
To build an installer for full mod, you need to look into the file installer/installer_simple2.iss and copy the required files into installer/source dir manually.
Under source/bme, copy the compiled bme.dll and create an empty file bme.log. Also create bme_channel.txt with the value release. Get bme.bsp from latest release in the Releases section (this file contains the filesystem replacement contents, that is scripts and some UI elements, into PakFile as lump 40 in bsp format, which can be easily mounted in the engine). Copy the built launcher.dll into source/bin/x64_retail/.
Parts of code from TTF2SDK by James Wilkinson and Will Donohoe were used.
Black Market Edition makes use of the following third-party libraries:
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