BF2AutoSpectator v0.6.2

This is the v0.6.2 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Fixes

• Don't ignore next_player command if player rotation is paused

Maintenance

• update dependency pywin32 to v305
• update dependency psutil to v5.9.4

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

BF2AutoSpectator v0.6.1

This is the v0.6.1 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Features

• Ignore next_player command if we just switched players
• Don't exit on critical game errors when using controller

Maintenance

• update dependency psutil to v5.9.3
• update dependency pillow to v9.3.0

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1

BF2AutoSpectator v0.6.0

This is the v0.6.0 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Features

• Switch to socket.io to enable real-time communication with controller

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

BF2AutoSpectator v0.5.0

This is the v0.5.0 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Features

• Add team detection for Battlefield Pirates 2 mod
• Add spawn coordinates for Battlefield Pirates 2 mod maps
• Add default camera view detection for Battlefield Pirates 2 mod maps
• Speed up legacy mouse reset

Fixes

• Ignore clicks if cursor is not on game window, fixes #11
• Properly handle in-game cursor when checking position
• Use 900p histograms for Battlefield Pirates 2 mod
• Spread randomly generated spawn points wider
• Add file overrides for Battlefield Pirates 2 mod

Full Changelog: v0.4.3...v0.5.0

bf2-auto-spectator v0.4.3

This is the v0.4.3 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Features

• Detect whether spawn menu is open based on close button
• Detect map rotation game mode
• Use randomly generated spawn coordinates for unsupported maps

Fixes

• Try to rotate to next player on (false) default camera view

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.4.3

bf2-auto-spectator v0.4.2

This is the v0.4.2 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Fixes

• Add missing psutil requirement

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2

bf2-auto-spectator v0.4.1

This is the v0.4.1 release of the BF2 auto spectator.

Features

• Purge server history before starting a new game instance (significantly speeds up game launch)
• Add handling for game restarts due to mod changes
• Basic support for Special Forces (team detection, map detection/spawn coordinates, default camera view detection)

Fixes

• Launch game instance directly instead of launching via shell
• Always reset default camera view iteration counter if no longer visible
• Don't treat 404 as when controller does not have a server to join
• Unpause player rotation after respawn/round end

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1

bf2-auto-spectator v0.4.0

This release fixes a lot of minor bugs, adds handling for spawning on any flag and significantly speeds up the menu handling.

Other changes/improvements:

• add respawn controller command
• start spectating directly on servers with freecam enabled (skip spawn-suicide)
• restart spectating after round restart
• add version info to executable

bf2-auto-spectator v0.3.1

This release introduces auto-spawn support for all remaining map-size variants of the vanilla maps.

Other changes/improvements:

1. fix two imports causing issues in some cases
2. recommend a much newer version of tesseract

bf2-auto-spectator v0.3.0

This release mostly contains minor improvements for users, only introducing three new controller commands. It does, however, contain significant changes/improvements to the code structure.

The three new controller commands are:

1. pause_rotation (pause the rotation between players for 5 minutes)
2. resume_rotation (resume rotating between players)
3. next_player (immediately/manually switch to the next player)

It is also the first release consisting of a single file instead of a .zip-archive.