macOS Catalina 10.15 Support Needed

[Kyle]

After Updated to macOS 10.15, the game was no longer supported (cant open).

It turns out that the new macOS doesn't support 32-bit application anymore.

Is there any way to work around this problem?

[n01known]

Yeah. I would like to hear about that as well

[mcbak]

I brought it up already in a nearby thread. They said there would be no updates to the game.

It must be noted, however, that macOS 10.15 still has OpenGL support. It's deprecated, but it hasn't been taken out entirely like Apple threatened.

Shadow Tactics is based off the Unity Engine and it does run on Mojave more or less well as long as you have a dedicated graphics card (not so much luck for integrated GPUs by Intel)

All that is needed (probably) is recompiling the whole Unity project for 64 bit.

[Jackie]

I also wait new version support macOS 10.15

[Frigidman]

Originally posted by JS_CD:

It turns out that the new macOS doesn't support 32-bit application anymore.

I really don't want to sound callous here, but its inevitable when I have to say: This should not have been news to you. Apple made its plans very clear, and were showing warnings on 32bit incompatible apps (not just games) for a very long while before they pushed 10.15 out.

A lot of mac gamers jumped the gun to Catalina, so many games out there simply will not run on it. If you had anything you wanted to play, you should have stuck with Mojave.

Originally posted by JS_CD:

Is there any way to work around this problem?

You could re-install Mojave on a new partition or external drive to boot from.

You could try a VM solution which lets you run an older macOS within it.

You could just go back to Mojave outright, ditching Catalina for now until more time has passed and you have cleared any game backlog to your satisfaction to move forward.

[KiPhish]

Also waiting for potential Catalina support

[mcbak]

The devs made it clear they won't be adding 64bit support.

Since 10.14 can read the contents of any 10.15 partition (APFS/HFS+) you only need to make a smallish ~12 Gb partition to keep 10.14 as your secondary OS for running 32bit games. You can keep the games themselves on any other partition, e.g. in the 'Apps' folder of 10.15, just symlink them to the 'Apps' folder of 10.14 when you boot into it.

[ZappBdot]

signed!

[chris.armour]

Whilst it's understandable that the developers don't foresee sufficient extra sales of this game to justify revisiting the Mac version to provide 64 bit support it unfortunately would discourage me from purchasing their future games knowing that they don't have systems in place to deal with the ongoing upgrade cycle.

Just staying on an old version is not an option for some.

[Ryu_Sheng]

How long do you expect them to support the game? It's 3 years old now, and is a single player experience so yeah theyre not going to support it indefinitly, especially for a minority platform.

If you really wanna play it do the above mentioned options, or dual boot windows, or parallels

[chris.armour]

The removal of 32 bit support was announced well over a year ago and Apple have been encouraging 64 bit support for quite some time. So no 64 bit support even 3 years on from release is disappointing. And maybe the game is 3 years old but if you bought it a year ago you'd be fairly disappointed to discover that it doesn't remain supported and you can no longer play it.

My point was that I wouldn't invest in future purchases from a company who doesn't intend to support my "minority" platform. Putting something out which within 2 years is known will be obsolete and continuing sales with no intention to update the product is not a great look.

[ess.seb]

+1

[AbangJenggot]

I love this game so much, i would love to play it again. But, since my macbook is also my workstation, i have to have the macos updated. Why developer, whyyy didnt you all make the game support the latest OS??

[Andris]

Please support 10.5.,. I don’t think it’s technically difficult. We paid money, like Windows users. !

[Andresturiweb]

We are still waiting for a version compatible with Catalina macOS Catalina 10.15...

[codehugger]

If the game is implemented using Unity why can't it simply be recompiled with 64-bit support?