blog: Northstar 2nd anniversary post (#10)

Adds a post for Northstar's second anniversary

_posts/2024-01-08-two-years.md

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+title: "Frontier News Network: Oh hey, it's two years now!"
+header:
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+tags:
+  - FNN
+author: GeckoEidechse
+last_modified_at: 2024-01-09T18:00:00-01:00
+---
+
+Yes, that's right.
+Northstar is over two years old now! :O
+
+For those unaware, Northstar had it's first public release on the 24th of December 2021 which makes it over two years old now :eyes:
+
+<img src="{{ 'assets/images/posts/two-years/first-release-github.png' | relative_url }}" alt="Screenshot of the first Northstar release" />
+
+Now most of us tend to be busy over the Christmas Holidays so we moved the "official" anniversary to January 8th ;)
+
+### Mod-Auto-Download
+
+With that out of the way, we wanna celebrate Northstar's second anniversary, by giving a first preview on the Mod-Auto-Download functionality we are working on.
+
+This feature allows you to automatically download any mod (that has been verified to be secure) required by a server as you join it.
+And while there are still some a bunch of things to figure out and reverse in the game to allow for example custom maps and other assets to be loaded as you join a server, it already works well enough for things like custom gamemodes.
+
+### Parkour
+
+As such we are already temporarily enabling Mod-Auto-Download in its current state to bring to you the **Parkour** gamemode.
+
+Race your friends and a global leaderboard and try to come out on top in this new mode as you go from checkpoint to checkpoint in the shortest amount of time.
+
+To celebrate it, we also got not just one but two trailers highlighting the mode, check them out:
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TODOREPLACEME" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NLTfQwUpvJs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+### Closing words
+
+With all that said, we are always constantly working on both improving the existing Northstar code and adding new features. Northstar is huge community with over a hundred different contributors and we couldn't do anything without them.
+
+If you wanna join us and help build the future of Titanfall2, check out our source code on GitHub and hop on in into our Discord server.
+We are always happy to have more people joining the project and we are more than happy to help if you have any questions.
+
+So enjoy the new parkour mode for a limited time and see you on the Frontier, pilots o7