🎮 Tactical Ops Quick Join - AI Mod

A fast Windows server browser for Tactical Ops with favorites, map previews, player details, and a compact dark/light UI.

✨ Features

• 🌐 Real-time Tactical Ops server browser
• 📊 Ping display with color coding
• 👥 Player details with fake/min-player filler filtering
• ⭐ Favorites system
• 🎨 Dark/light theme
• 🔄 Auto-refresh
• 🗺️ Map preview on hover with cache and mirror fallback URLs
• 🎯 Improved map matching for common server display names
• ⚡ Single-server refresh including ping, status, player count, and player list
• 📦 Standalone Windows release build

📥 Installation

Standalone build

Download TacticalOpsQuickJoin.exe from the release package and run it.

The standalone build is self-contained, so the .NET Desktop Runtime does not need to be installed separately.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 x64
• Tactical Ops installed locally for joining servers
• Internet access for server list and map previews

🎮 Usage

Joining Servers

1. Select a server from the list.
2. Click Join Server, press Enter, or double-click the server.

Map Preview

• Hover over a map name.
• A preview window appears after a short delay.
• Move the mouse away to close the preview.

Favorites

• Click the star column to toggle a server as favorite.
• Favorite servers are sorted above regular servers.

Refresh

• Press F5 or use Menu > Refresh Servers to refresh the full server list.
• Right-click a server and choose Diesen Server aktualisieren to refresh only that server, including ping and player details.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
F5	Refresh server list
Escape	Minimize application
Enter	Join selected server

⚙️ Configuration

Settings are saved automatically:

• Theme preference
• Close-on-join setting
• Favorite servers
• Master server list
• Tactical Ops executable paths

🛠️ Development

Build

dotnet build TacticalOpsQuickJoin-Mod.sln

Standalone Release EXE

dotnet publish TacticalOpsQuickJoin.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -o .\publish\win-x64-single-exe

The standalone executable is written to:

publish\win-x64-single-exe\TacticalOpsQuickJoin.exe

🗺️ Map Data

Map metadata is loaded from the online custom_maps.json source and cached under:

%AppData%\TacticalOpsQuickJoin\maps.json

If a map is missing from the JSON cache, the app falls back to direct Tactical-Ops.eu mirror screenshot URLs.

Map previews are provided by:

https://mirror.tactical-ops.eu/map-screenshots/

🐛 Known Notes

• Map preview requires internet access.
• Some servers report fake/min-player filler entries. Known fake player entries are filtered from display and sorting.
• Firewall rules can block UDP server queries or Tactical Ops joining.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Tactical Ops community
• Tactical-Ops.eu mirror and map screenshots
• Original project inspiration: https://github.com/jilderthoekstra/Tactical-Ops-Quick-Join