Hello fellow Guild Wars players,
i’ve been messing around with Guild Wars 2 command line arguments lately and developed this very simple launcher. It lets you select most of the available command line arguments before launching the game. Check out the attachments to see what it looks like!
If you want to hide the official patch UI (command line argument -nopatchui), you will have to enter your account login data. Feel free to run any virus scans on the executable to confirm that it is legit. The launcher does not need internet access at any time. I have included a link to the C# source code (git repo), so if you don’t trust the binary you can build it yourself. Feel free to modify the program to your own needs, however please do not publish any modified versions! Code is quite messy at this point, apologies for that.
Also, you can use the launcher without entering your login data, all features except “-nopatchui” will be working!
If you decide to enter your login data it will be encrypted and stored locally. The encryption is fairly straightforward and should not be super hard to break, but it probably will be good enough to protect you against greedy roommates. If you build your own binary, don’t forget to set your own encryption keys in ControlLoginManager.xaml.cs.
The Unofficial Guild Wars 2 Launcher does not modify the Guild Wars 2 Client in any way. It does nothing else but starting the Gw2.exe with command line arguments. Have a look at the official wiki page for further information.
So far i have not really done any testing on other machines, so please feel free to give feedback on wether it works as expected or not (or if it works at all
).
Have Fun!
Dixon
Download: Binary File (Microsoft .NET v4.0 required)
Source: Git Repository
Attachments:
(edited by Hedge Dixon.5816)