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This news totally flabbergasted me when it showed up on my discord notices. However, my first serious thought after it sunk in was that our dear departed Chris Meadows (aka Robotech_Master, aka GM_Cyclone) would have been over the moon at the news. So, in memory of him, and the other players in our community who have passed before us, I would like to take a moment to ;em_holdtorch for those who missed out on this auspicious news.

Had to download the launcher again; trying to update for the halloween event and it's stuck at 0%. 😕

Had the issue with starting the homecoming launcher after performing Big Sur updates on my Mac mini M1, used your instructions for replacing the launcher.exe, was able to launch and move the launcher window, and start up COH and log in with my character, so it appears to work now.

I’d like to note that, on Everlasting at least, there were so many contestants that the renderer dropped half of them for me (and I suspect, many others)! (not pictured: everybody on the other half of the steps...)

And done! With my new Mac Mini M1 sharing display and keyboard with my main desktop, there’s less barriers to me playing more regularly! ^_^

Exceptional

Well, I tried "command + return" when I was trying to figure this out, and it didn't seem to work then either. Maybe I should try and force it back to windowed and test it that way again, now that I know I can use a second keyboard to undo the issue. Now I just need to adjust to the higher resolution and graphics quality, and repositioning all my trays... 🙂

An update - by plugging in a separate keyboard (a standard ansi 102 key type), and using the "window icon" and "enter" keys together, I was able to get the correct window behavior to happen - fullscreen mode with the login available and characters loaded. This now persists over starts and stops of COH from the new launcher. I think it may be an issue with my older apple keyboard - even though it has a number keypad built in, those keys never seem to be recognized correctly in COH. So not insurmountable, but still annoying to have to do that.

I'm on a fresh new Mac mini M1 16 GB/512GB, straight out of the box. I've attempted the install instructions as listed in the first post. I can bring up the new Homecoming Launcher (dragging it from the upper left so it's fully visible). I can download the Homecoming client from the launcher (confirmed by seeing the installed files in the coh directory). I click the run button on Homecoming, and the minimized window appears in the upper left corner. However, entering "command" + "enter" (assuming the keypad "enter") does nothing. I look in the menubar and there's an option for "Fullscreen", but when I select that, the minimized window bar zooms large, then it becomes a black screen with no way out except for command-tabbing to other apps that are up. Then I have to quit it from the dock to remove it completely (though at least the launcher recognizes that it's been killed, and goes back to the "Ready" state for homecoming. I'm not sure what's going on here, or how it can be addressed further.

Done! Happy February!

Done! Happy Halloween, Homecoming! 🎃

Done again! Yay!

Made it again! 😇

My first time donating, and it feels so good!! ^_^

It would be nice if there was a customizable NPC option (similar to that used for AE mob design), to allow us to populate our bases with non-human inhabitants doing things (though still limited to the cycling emotes or just standing there). However I realize that's not very likely, given the nature of the code base.