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#1 Stormwolf

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 04:00 AM

View PostCody Furlong, on 02 February 2014 - 01:22 AM, said:

Anyone know what happened to Mektek and what they were doing on the Mechwarrior 4 free release/mods? They were doing such great things, and were working on a mek pack 4, with even more mechs and a bunch of other features in it, But looking at their site now, it seems like they've completely dropped and stopped everything they where doing, even the forum seems to have been closed down. Did they move to a different site, or did they really give up on all the great stuff they where doing?


They quit Mechwarrior altogether and went on to develop a Heavy Gear game instead. I'm not sure how this is going since I never checked with them again.

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Posted 03 February 2014 - 10:57 AM

View PostStormwolf, on 02 February 2014 - 04:00 AM, said:


They quit Mechwarrior altogether and went on to develop a Heavy Gear game instead. I'm not sure how this is going since I never checked with them again.


You mean this?

http://www.heavygear.com/

Looks good, I want to play it. :unsure:

#3 CeeKay Boques

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Posted 03 February 2014 - 11:03 AM

Ugh. I'm afraid it will be a better simulator than MWO. Hopefully, they'll take their usual 10,000 years per patch and I won't have to worry.

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Posted 04 February 2014 - 05:14 PM

Mektek no longer has the legal rights to distribute the MW4 free release - and I'm not sure they have the rights anymore to distribute the mekpatches either.

When smith and tinker went under it apparently got very hard to nearly impossible for them to keep supporting the free release/patches legally; and at this point it's virtually out of their hands as to whether it will ever be legal to distribute again.

PGI probably could prod MS into allowing the free release or the patches out, what with PGI being the current lesee of MS's mechwarrior IP... if PGI wanted to. They're making money for MS on the IP and they would be the natural ones to say it's ok; given that it's an older release in the same series of games.

It is apparently legal, however, to keep and use any old copies of said MW4 free release you have. You just can't legally distribute it.

Now your only legal option, if you don't have the old free release/patches floating around ... is to buy the MW4 cds, and just live without all the hard work that the mektek crew put in for the MW community.

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 08:00 PM

Would it even be possible to find working copy of the game?

#6 Alaskan Nobody

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 08:08 PM

View PostDragonfett, on 21 April 2014 - 08:00 PM, said:

Would it even be possible to find working copy of the game?

It isn't much help, I know, but my disks still work (even on Windows 7...) :)

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 08:18 PM

I am on Windows 8.1...

#8 Werewolf486 ScorpS

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 08:24 PM

http://www.mektek.net/

Count down to Alpha testing.....dun dun daaaaaaa

Edited by Werewolf486, 21 April 2014 - 08:25 PM.


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Posted 21 April 2014 - 08:33 PM

View PostDragonfett, on 21 April 2014 - 08:18 PM, said:

I am on Windows 8.1...

Wish I could help, but I have yet to use that OS at all. :(





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