[quote name='Nogib']Well that doesn't make any sense. The subtitle for Mechwarrior 4 itself has always been Vengeance! I can understand not including the Black Knight expansion or the two Mech Packs but to say MW4 won't include itself? lol[/QUOTE]
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[quote name='jehosephat2k']
Despite what Gwartsbane said, we will not be releasing Vengeance or BK. We do not have the technology to support it or the capabilities to remove the copy protection and everything else that goes along with these.
What we will be able to do is release our MP3 with the ability to push autoupdates as things get changed, in particular MP4 when it is ready.
After MP4 has been released (few months after 3.1 is release in a few weeks based on current progress), we may release a "vanilla" PR1+ in the same manner. This would be raw PR1 with a few necessary changes to remove CD check and a few other things as well (autoupdater for that).
So, look for, in this order
1) MP3.1 released in .iso format. It will likely use the old Mercs installer to make it easier.
2) Autoupdate of MP4 when it is available
3) PR1+ release (maybe).
4) An SDK next year maybe?
Anything else isn't really feasable.
Also, old players need to keep in mind we will not be releasing a a 3.02b->3.1 patch or anything like that. So everyone will need to install from scratch. This is the only way we can guarantee that everyone is starting off from the same page, it will minimize headaches for all of us. As the size of the playerbase is likely to multiply quite a bit, we have to take this into consideration, and the way we have been doing things over all these years isn't going to work in any practical sense.[/quote]
[quote name='jehosephat2k']
Vengeance and BK will not be possible for a whole load of technical reasons (e.g. - not being able to remove the copy protection, not having any sort of zone server for MP matchmaking etc).[/quote]
[quote name='jehosephat2k']
[We estimate that we'll be able to release this in] More like 3-5 weeks. We have ALOT of work to do to put this together. Keep in mind we found out about this just a day earlier than everyone else did. MP4 development has been put on hold in order to get this released. In addition, the few folks that will be doing the work on this (me, Vam, and maybe one or two others) have Real Jobs and families and other things that get priority over this work, regardless of how much we just love doing it for y'all. And, yeah, right now we are the only people on the face of the planet that CAN do it, so be patient. Good things comes to those that wait patiently.[/quote]
[quote name='whitefeather'] just wanted to state that though it seems as though it will not be possible for us to release Vengeance and Black Knight with the initial release of Mercs, we will continue to look into the possibility of releasing them, or at least their campaigns, at a later date. Hopefully using the built-in patcher that we are developing.[/quote]
In short:
- Included in this release: MW4: Mercenaries, IS Mech Pack, Clan Mech Pack, MekTek Mech Pack 1, 2, and 3
- Distribution: Direct Download, BitTorrent
- File Format: ISO
- ETA: 3-5 weeks
- MW4:V & MW4:BK possibly available at a later date
