MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available

Mr. Sketch writes with news that the free release of MechWarrior 4 has finally arrived. We've discussed the game in the past when it was announced, and later when its release was held up by Microsoft. Quoting the announcement: "One of the greatest features of MekPak3.1 and of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries in general, is the ability to customize. MechWarrior always has been about the Mechlab, especially multiplayer. The Mechlab truly distinguishes MW4 from a long list of shooters that have come out in the past 10 years. The ability to create literally thousands of configurations allows the game to continue in popularity over its lengthy life span. Since the Free Release not only comes with the original mechs and weapons of Mercenaries, but also with the Clan and IS Mech Packs and all the Mektek mechs and weapons, here is what you are getting ... for free."

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Happy to see it, release horribly mismanaged

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FTFS, 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. WTF? I've been downloading this fucking torrent for two days now. I'm grateful for this release, but this is just abusive.

By all accounts the new launcher is total shit, too. As in, "how could they think this was acceptable". And they didn't bother to upload the torrent anywhere, so I had to get the file from some other user via the forums.

The server exploding was just the icing on the cake. Using one of the many large download services for this release would have been a no-brainer. Hosting the torrent file through a cache like coral, likewise. Yet, apparently no brain was involved... Again, I'm grateful for all the time and effort spent on the game, and I only wish some brainpower had been spent on the release.