My sources (and by that I mean me lurking in Discord) tells me that MekTek even plans for yet another MekPak expansion for MW4: Mercs. Now if you’ve got a working copy of MechWarrior 4: Mercs you can take your big stompy robots into battle online once again.
Just a few days ago, another post on Reddit (and in the MekTek Discord) announced the return of MekMatch. The scuttlebutt is that they plan on bringing MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries back from the dead, updating it to work on modern hardware, and re-establishing MekMatch to give the game multiplayer capabilities. I’ve been lurking there for a little while trying to see what’s going on, and from what I can tell, MekTek has big plans. Not a word on the MekTek Facebook, LinkedIn, or official website.īut now, all of a sudden, MekTek has returned.Ībout a month ago, a Reddit post announced the return of the MekTek Discord server. Heavy Gear Assault stopped receiving updates in August of 2017. I’ve never played it, but the Steam reviews are mostly negative saying that the game’s servers have shut down and you can’t actually log in or create an account. Called Heavy Gear Assault, the game was released on Steam Early Access way back in February of 2017.
You can’t download it for free now, and even if you could, getting it to work on a modern PC is a bit of a technical nightmare.Īfter MechWarrior 4 had run its course, MekTek moved away from the BattleTech franchise to make a stand-alone game using the Heavy Gear license. Their second great accomplishment was acquiring the rights to MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries and then freely distributing it on their website. I loved that thing, even if it wasn’t a “cannon” design. These greatly expanded the number of ‘Mechs you could pilot in the game, and some of my fondest memories in MechWarrior 4‘s Solaris matches was me running around in a Tenchi.
Their first great accomplishment was the MekPaks, a series of unofficial expansion to MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. For those who weren’t as big into MechWarrior 4 as I was, MekTek is a collective of MechWarrior fans that got together to make their own development studio.