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[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

I think I read somewhere on their forums that they were gonna release an installer separate from MTX.

At least I hope so

Seems you are correct.

We are very aware that some of you are having problems using MTX to download and install the free release of Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries. We are currently preparing a self extracting executable to install the game without using MTX.

This new release will require a new download, but should alleviate any of the issues of installing via MTX.

This new release will contain some bug fixes for Mercs, and we will prepare a patch for those of you who have been successfully installing and updating via MTX as well as executable patches to bring any version previously downloaded, up to date.

Once this new version clears our beta team, it will be made available for download in your BitTorrent client of choice. Please be patient as this may take a few days.

We will continue to work on ironing out the bugs in MTX, until then, we will provide an alternate way to acquire the game and updates through the self installing executables.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Good hunting.
The MekTek Team.

[Arclight]

I loves mah Timberwolf.

Oh sorry, "Mad Cat".

[onelifecrisis]

Would someone please explain to me what this is about? I was a MW4 league player back in... whenever that was... but I've never heard of MekTek and I don't understand what this "free" (!?) mech sim has to do with MW4?

Help!

[Raptor1]

This is MechWarrior 4. MekTek is the home of the multiplayer community at this point, they're the ones who released the MekPaks, which were the standard mods for multiplayer for quite a while, and now they're the ones who are distributing the free MW4 (Which comes with their MekPaks, naturally).

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

This is MechWarrior 4. MekTek is the home of the multiplayer community at this point, they're the ones who released the MekPaks, which were the standard mods for multiplayer for quite a while, and now they're the ones who are distributing the free MW4 (Which comes with their MekPaks, naturally).

So it's a heavily modded multiplayer free downloadable version of MW4?

I used to play vanilla, and it had some balance issues. Basically everyone would fit their mechs with jump jets and as many large lasers as they could fit, and spend 30 minutes peeking over hilltops and sniping at each other. The large laser was just stupidly imbalanced. Have problems like that been sorted out, or is it still a sniping game?

[Raptor1]

It's a heavily modded complete version of MW4: Mercs. The SP is still in and contains a lot of the new stuff.

There are still some jump snipers about, but usually I see only a handful of them in each game. They are hampered by the LOS radar too, because they don't know where anyone is until they actually clear whatever they're hiding behind.

[onelifecrisis]

Sounds good. Does it work on Vista?

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Seems you are correct.

+100 points for the MekTek team So far it seems I'll still be trying to download this bloody game by the time they release that installer.

I had uTorrent running last night trying to at least get the .mtx file... about halfway through the download apparently I lost all connections and it's still at about 65%. *nyaagggghghghhraugghahg*

[Raptor1]

[Arclight]

Awesome.

Totally geeking out on the customization again. Spending more time in the lab than on missions.

[Oberon]

I think I'll grab it through the installation file when they put it up.