Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries for free

BarbaricSoul · Apr 22, 2010

Well, even though I had lost hope for this happening, Microsoft has finally cleared MekTek to release MW4 Mercenaries to the public for free download.

Dare we say it? Free release of Mechwarrior4 cleared for launch

Posted by Vam, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:48 Comments(0), Read all
If you've been following the drama surrounding the free release of Mechwarrior4, than you would be aware that the initial announcement, made last summer, was a bit premature. After nearly a year since the announcement came, MekTek Studios is pleased to announce, that Microsoft Legal has given the all clear for the free release of Mechwarrior4. This hallmark movement by Microsoft Games couldn't come at a better time, as the Mechwarrior community is attempting a rebirth, amidst announcement of a Mechwarrior Reboot. Thank you Microsoft.

A few weeks ago we stuck our neck out and announced that our studio was struggling to see this release through to the end. We also released our MekPak 3.1, through our distribution and patching system MTX, which gave our developers an opportunity evaluate any unknown bugs. We're glad our announcement and release worked, and we have many to thank for raising awareness, as the release of Mechwarrior4 is now imminent.

Some of the people we'd like to thank, to name a few, are those reporting gaming news such as Joystiq, Bluesnews, BigDownload, Fragland, Gamespy, IGN, Shacknews, and Slashdot. We'd also like to thank all major gaming forums for keeping this topic in discussion and not letting people forget about the promise of a Mechwarrior free release. Of course, we'd like to thank our partners for pressing Microsoft to allow for the release of Mechwarrior to the community including Smith and Tinker, INC., Virtual World Entertainment, LLC., and Catalyst Game Labs. And finally we'd like to thank our community and the Mechwarrior fans for standing behind MekTek when things appeared to be at their worst. Thank you for your continued support. Please stay tuned for the release launch!

http://mektek.net/

shevanel · Apr 22, 2010

will it suck? thats the question.

Mussels · Apr 22, 2010

i cant see any links to actually download it

BarbaricSoul · Apr 22, 2010

shevanel said:
will it suck? thats the question.

The game is old, originally released in 2000. IMHO, it is the best online multiplayer thier is.

Mussels said:
i cant see any links to actually download it

It's being released this weekend

brandonwh64 · Apr 22, 2010

im downloading mechwarrior 2 for some nostalgic play!

LifeOnMars · Apr 22, 2010

Anyone who loves Mechwarrior and has crysis should try the mod at this site http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/
It has joystick compatibility and a good amount of keyboard commands. All you need for it to be truely authentic is a card overlay to sit on your keys and you are good to go :laugh:

Tatty_Two · Apr 22, 2010

Was the last official release way back when called Vengence? (I thought that was 4?)..... anyways I still have it and loved it, although I havent played it for years.

TVman · Apr 22, 2010

this should of been posted in the free games thread

FordGT90Concept · Apr 22, 2010

Vengeance was the original MechWarrior 4. Mercenaries is a stand-alone expansion to MechWarrior 4: Vengeance. IMO, Mercenaries was much better than Vengeance just because it had the Daishi (I :love:

Daishi). There's also that bonus of taking other mechs with you for those rare occassions one Daishi ain't enough. :roll:

RejZoR · Apr 22, 2010

SO TRUE!!!!!11111

I just love the BattleTech universe ever since i come in contact with it back in the 90's when i bought Mechwarrior 2: Pentium Edition.
Nothing beats the voice feedback from a mech, heavy thumping explosions and skin crawling tribal music. Just awesome!

FordGT90Concept · Apr 22, 2010

Too bad that picture didn't have an Awesome:

That pic has a Mad Cat.

RejZoR · Apr 22, 2010

Mad Cat and Mad Dog are my favorite mech's. Mostly because of the design. Especially Mad Dog.
Otherwise i like small and agile mech's like Jenner. Armed with the most powerful engine you can mount on it and two medium sized lasers. Preferably pulse based (like in MW3) so you can target easily at higher speeds. It goes so fast you can dodge missiles at long range by running at 90° away from them. You don't even need to mount AMS

Then you just run around like crazy and chew slow and clunky mechs that take half an hour just to rotate

Works well on rough terrain and doesn't all that much on open wide terrain.

keling · Apr 22, 2010

Vengeance was too easy even on the Elite difficulty. Mercenaries is a whole new playing field with the Free Market system and tournament. I took me several retries for each level compared to a single playthrough for most of Vengeance campaigns.

It's great to see an classic to be treated this way. Kept alive by fans and modders all these years, updated and to be given free!

Ive wanted to feel like piloting a real Mech so I'm playing Mercenaries with a combo of a Logitech flight stick controller, a Logitech MOMO steering wheel and a mouse. I'm a lefty but I use the mouse with my right hand and I've been using the flight stick with my left since the beginning.

I'm a Vulture pilot. It's not that powerful compared to a Mad cat or Daishi but I love the feel and look of it.

KainXS · Apr 22, 2010

one reason I love the MW team is that, after about 10 years they still support their product and do updates for it, thats just . . . . . . i don't even know what to say

cadaveca · Apr 22, 2010

BarbaricSoul said:
It's being released this weekend

Reading skills, boys..currently downloading via thier MTX client, as the directions on the landing page say... :rolleyes:

We also released our MekPak 3.1, through our distribution and patching system MTX,

:shadedshu

I got all my disks still anyway, but nice to have the HD res support already added in....

kg4icg · Apr 22, 2010

MechWarrior Living Legends makes MechWarrior 4 seem like a Atari 2600 game. Oh by the way I've been playing MechWarrior since MechWarrior 2 days. In all the releases, you couldn't do what you can currently do in MWLL, which is drive armor and fly aircraft.

KainXS · Apr 22, 2010

yup, the game is available free right now I think, download it peoples

http://www.mektek.net/mtx/beta/SetupMTX1.0.1.7.exe

RejZoR · Apr 22, 2010

Just for the record, their distribution system is just horrible. Why can't they just use good old torrent system so i could DL it with nice and small uTorrent!? Not this fat skinned load of bugs.

cadaveca · Apr 22, 2010

working fine here, but update is not properly seeded ATM.

Wrigleyvillain · Apr 22, 2010

LifeOnMars said:
Anyone who loves Mechwarrior and has crysis should try the mod at this site http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/
It has joystick compatibility and a good amount of keyboard commands. All you need for it to be truely authentic is a card overlay to sit on your keys and you are good to go

2009 Mod Of The Year

Yeah we had a very active thread about it going here around release time but I can't find it anymore. I happened to try it again for the first time in months just the other day as I just got a 5850. Played Beta 2 for the first time; some nice fixes and changes. Looks and runs great on the new card too.

Trigger911 · Apr 22, 2010

MW has always played well and the original xbox port was pretty awesome too

Tatty_Two · Apr 22, 2010

Wrigleyvillain said:
2009 Mod Of The Year Yeah we had a very active thread about it going here around release time but I can't find it anymore. I happened to try it again for the first time in months just the other day as I just got a 5850. Played Beta 2 for the first time; some nice fixes and changes. Looks and runs great on the new card too.

Might this be it.........

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=76155&highlight=living+legends

Wrigleyvillain · Apr 22, 2010

Thanks but no this was one that was begun to advertise and discuss the actual release...

El Fiendo · Apr 22, 2010

Wrigley: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=111315&highlight=MWLL (Also, have I shot at you in the Reddit BC2 servers yet? I piss around on a couple of them but I'm not sure if I've seen your name)

I'll be downloading Mercs this weekend. Thanks!

FordGT90Concept · Apr 22, 2010

RejZoR said:
Mad Cat and Mad Dog are my favorite mech's. Mostly because of the design. Especially Mad Dog.
Otherwise i like small and agile mech's like Jenner. Armed with the most powerful engine you can mount on it and two medium sized lasers. Preferably pulse based (like in MW3) so you can target easily at higher speeds. It goes so fast you can dodge missiles at long range by running at 90° away from them. You don't even need to mount AMS Then you just run around like crazy and chew slow and clunky mechs that take half an hour just to rotate Works well on rough terrain and doesn't all that much on open wide terrain.

Problem is, an assault mech can slaughter anything medium sized and down in one salvo. The only way a little one could chew down a big one is if the big one is piloted by someone with very bad aim.

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