Just dropping a line to anyone interested in Battletech/Mechwarrior. Microsoft gave MekTek Studios to go-ahead to release Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries for free, along with the two expansion packs. MekTek has already added an impressive amount of content to the game, which they are also offering for download. Total count of assets is somewhere around 100+ 'Mechs, 100+ weapons, and 50+ maps, all for free.
The popularity of the free release crashed their servers, but when they come back up, you can get more info and find the download here: http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/
Their servers are currently slammed from over 100,000 requests and it's been down for the past three hours (at least).
Reminds me of the demigod release...
Anyway, you can see information about a workaround torrent and way to make the program work without their client here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=29766804
There is a megaupload link about half way down for the .torrent file and also the setup program for their propriatary client
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Moderators: this game was released via torrent and it's also free. Not talking about pirating it.
Wow I thought this was never gonna happen. I'm stoked to finally play it now. Thanks for posting the workaround there hedgie!
Finally got it working through the torrent and it looks good. Though that MTX thing still fails to do anything but open.
MTX isn't working because mekteks servers are still down :/ Hopefully they're back up soon.
Edit: The servers are back up! should work now
I was waiting for this release and I'm glad it's out. I spent a while and struggling through the various stages of the install process with MTX but I'm giving up for now. According to the homepage they are going to release a non-MTX version in a few days, which they probably should have done to start with.
Great! I loved MW 3. I must definitely try this one.
Sounds cool. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the post. Karma points for you my friend.
The End.
Woops. Never did update my thread. Oh well.
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