Logged in and it worked great... once

[Trueflight]

I went through the whole setup process and everything went smoothly.  Made a character and even played for a while.  The next day, when I tried to launch the game again, the Tequila launcher crashes as soon as it finishes verifying and never lets you launch the game.  Trying to launch the game directly from the COH folder opens a different version of the game with no server options, the login doesn't even work properly, and it freezes if you try to do anything.

 

I even tried uninstalling everything and starting over from scratch, but it does the same thing now, even on a clean fresh install.

[Ozium]

try clear the CoH registry entries then re-install

[The Fifth Horseman]

try clear the CoH registry entries then re-install

That won't do jack to help, just waste OP's time and bandwidth.

If destructive / time-consuming operations are your first call when you don't know what the problem is, you're doing something wrong.

It's simply not helpful - you don't know whether the operation you advised does (or does not) have a chance to address the problem and if you made the wrong call the only result will be a waste of OP's time and resources.

Exhaust all other options before you consider such course of action.

Trying to launch the game directly from the COH folder opens a different version of the game with no server options, the login doesn't even work properly, and it freezes if you try to do anything.

That part is actually normal... you ran the game without supplying it with patch date, patch directory or authserver IP. Tequila does that for you, but if you want to run the game without Tequila you should do this:

1. Open Tequila.xml in Notepad (or another text editor) and find the part where it says:

<launch exec="homecoming.exe" order="0" params="-patchdir homecoming -patchversion 2019.05.30 -auth 51.79.19.146">Homecoming</launch>

2. Copy the stuff from inside the quotes after params.

3. Open up Notepad (or another text editor) and type in start homecoming.exe , then put a space after that and paste in the bit you've copied from the XML. In our case, the result will be:

start homecoming.exe -patchdir homecoming -patchversion 2019.05.30 -auth 51.79.19.146

4. Save the file as homecoming.bat in the same directory as your homecoming.exe is located

5. Now double-clicking homecoming.bat will run the game correctly.

 

WARNING: Running the game in this fashion without using Tequila will prevent you from getting patches and may screw you over if the authserver IP changes.