Using Command Line Arguments

Command line arguments are optional parameters that can be used to modify the behaviour of the game at launch.

Steam

In Steam you can specify command line arguments by

  1. Right click on Bad North in your Steam Library and select Properties

  2. Click Set Launch Options…

  3. Enter the command line argument you need

    • If you need multiple arguments, enter them all in this box, with a space between each

  4. You can now launch the game as normal from the steam client

Discord

Discord does not yet support command line arguments via the app, but you can set up a shortcut to run the game with command line arguments (see below, under “Windows”).

You will need to launch the game via this shortcut, rather than through the discord app to run the game with the argument active.

GOG Galaxy

In GOG Galaxy, you can specify command line arguments by

  1. Right click on Bad North in your GOG Galaxy Library and click Settings

  2. Under Custom Settings check the Add command line arguments

  3. In the box that appears, enter the arguments you need

    • If you need multiple arguments, enter them all in this box, with a space between each

  4. You can now launch the game as normal from the steam client

Windows

If you are not using any of the above clients, you can launch the game with command line arguments by using a shortcut or a command line.

  1. Find your game files

  2. Right click on BadNorth.exe, select Create Shortcut

  3. Right click on the new shortcut file and click Properties

  4. In the Shortcut tab, in the Target box, add your command line arguments after badnorth.exe, after a space, i.e. …\BadNorth.exe NoAutoPause

    • If you need multiple arguments, enter them all after BadNorth.exe in this box, with a space between each

Mac OSX

If you are not using any of the above clients, you can launch the game with command line arguments by using terminal, or by creating a script. See this guide for setting up a script to launch the game with command line arguments.

We recommend attempting to launch the game via terminal to test out command line arguments and then create a script afterwards if that is successful, as the process for creating a “shortcut” on Mac is quite a long process. Open terminal, and type the full path to BadNorth.app and add the parameter(s) afterwards

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