Combined Arms Launcher

A launcher and updater application for OpenRA Combined Arms built with C# .NET and Avalonia UI.

Features

• Automatic Updates: Checks for new releases and automatically downloads them when enabled
• Version Management: Download and manage multiple versions of Combined Arms
• Version Selection: Choose which version to launch from a dropdown
• Portable Installation: Downloads and extracts portable releases to a Releases subfolder

How it Works

1. The launcher checks the GitHub API at https://api.github.com/repos/Inq8/CAmod/releases for new releases
2. It filters for Windows portable releases (files ending with -x64-winportable.zip)
3. Each release is extracted to Releases/{version} folder
4. The launcher can start any installed version by running CombinedArms.exe in the respective folder

Building

1. Ensure you have .NET 8.0 SDK installed
2. Clone this repository
3. Run dotnet restore to restore packages
4. Run dotnet build to build the application
5. Run dotnet run to start the launcher

Usage

1. Version Selection: Use the dropdown to select which version to launch
2. Play: Click the Play button to launch the selected version
3. Manual Update Check: Click "Check for Updates" to manually check for new releases
4. Update Now: Click "Update Now" to download the newest release
5. Include Test Releases: Toggles whether to include DevTest and PreRelease versions

Settings

Settings are automatically saved to settings.json in the application directory:

• Auto-update preference
• Selected version
• Last update check time

Dependencies

• .NET 8.0
• Avalonia UI 11.0.10
• Newtonsoft.Json 13.0.3