Mechwarrior4 Free

[Melvin]

Anybody playing this?

In anticipation of the upcoming MWO, I was thinking about downloading this game to knock the rust off.

[SmokinLoon]

Indeed.  Not as much as I'd like to.  The amount of work that has been done with the MW-4 and MW-Mercs series is quite impressive, and none of it was down with the source code.  They had to pick apart the coding as much as they could and piece meal it back together.   

[PFactorDave]

Looks like the Mektek servers are wonky.  Link to the download appears to be broken at the moment.  I'll definitely be downloading it though.  I loved Mechwarrior 4!

[Tigger29]

I used to play MW4 online for hours and hours.. of course that all changed when people started cheating.  It was ridiculous you couldn't survive more than 5 seconds without getting hit by someone clear across the map.  Also "one hit kills" were getting more and more common - even while in the most heavily armored Mech available!

Aimbots and damage enhancers were becoming the norm and I refused to stoop to those levels and ended up quitting as a result.  It just wasn't fun anymore.  Every once in a RARE while you might find a game where most of the people didn't cheat but that was far from common.

[Melvin]

Looks like the Mektek servers are wonky.  Link to the download appears to be broken at the moment.  I'll definitely be downloading it though.  I loved Mechwarrior 4!

I was able to find the download here:
 http://www.fileplanet.com/211699/210000/fileinfo/MTX-Client-w/-MechWarrior-4:-Mercenaries-%28Free-Game%29

It took a looooooooong time, but everything seems to be working out fine. Multi-play pings are nice and low and my crappy system is running smooth on ultra high settings.

Looks like another game with a steep learning curve... again.

[WYOKIDIII]

got it....awesome

[F22RaptorDude]

Downloaded, taking a while