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Viper is a launcher and updater for [Northstar](https://github.com/R2Northstar/Northstar), and not much more than that.
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## How to?
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Besides this I've been considering adding some easy to use VPK modding tools so everybody can have fun with VPK modding even if you don't know how to do it the traditional way. However that is not at the top of the todo list right now.
+## Sidenote
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+Given that we already have so many Northstar updaters and launchers I urge people to instead of creating new launchers unless there's a very specific reason, just make a pull request on one of the existing, otherwise we'll continue to have new ones.
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+ Relevant xkcd:<br>
+ <img src="assets/xkcd.png">
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+Some of the existing launchers are listed below:
+ * Viper - A launcher with an easy to use GUI and CLI albeit missing some features
+ * [Ronin](https://github.com/MindSwipe/ronin) - a CLI only updater
+ * [laundmo's updater](https://github.com/laundmo/northstar-updater) - another CLI only updater
+ * [Juicy's mod manager](https://github.com/BigSpice/NorthStar-Mod-Manager-Ext-1) - an updater and manager for mods, most feature rich
+
+
## Credits
All credits for logos go to Imply#9781.