I've been playing pretty consistently for the past couple of years. No real issues. Every once in a while, there's some goofy lags in the launcher's load time from Island Rum, but otherwise uninterrupted play. I've preferred the older IR launcher, because I could virtually multibox from it, opening two instances of CoH at the same time. I couldn't do that with the new launcher.
That said, up until the past couple of weeks, I can launch the game pretty much whenever I want to. Recently, I've run into issues where the launcher never, well... launches. After 4-5 tries, maybe a machine reboot, I could get it to run. But tonight, no action.
I've spent the last few hours trying to troubleshoot as best I can. Steps I've taken:
rebooted the machine;
ran the re-scan in IR;
deleted CoH altogether, forcing IR to reinstall from scratch;
uninstalled Wine, Homebrew, and CoH completely, and started the process from a clean slate...
downloaded the new launcher and installed it fresh.
verified the IR manifest is https://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml
Island Rum (https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/islandrum-catalina.zip) is version 022720231, and clicking its blue arrow gets me the green checkmark, but after about 10 seconds, the checkmark fades away while never opening the HC launcher. I have repeated this ad nauseam—always the same result.
I tried the MacOS 12+ launcher (https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/islandrum-mac.zip), but double-clicking the packaged app gives me an error message. The file is incomplete and needs to be thrown in the trash.
New HC launcher (https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/mac-installer.zip) bounces the Statesman icon, but fails to open anything.
Has something changed in the last few weeks that has utterly broken HC on Macs? Is anyone else experiencing this complete application failure?
Is there anything I can do (besides ditch my Mac and buy a PC, you smartasses...)?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Zefligsamdoo