Just started playing through the MW4 games again. These games are such great nostalgia. I know everyone's favorite is Mercs, but I enjoy them all.

MechWarrior 4 Mercs is one of my favorite games because of its replayability. It is truely timeless for me.

@alumlovescake

3 жыл бұрын

yea a shame MW5 shot us in the head

@shnyxz8360

3 жыл бұрын

​@@alumlovescake yeah i dont think there will be another great game like MW4 was Piranha should not create another MW ever again

Watching this reminds me of helping out periodically in the multiplayer lab at Microsoft when these packs were being made. Basically I was a tester on MW4 and MW4: Black Knight but I moved over to Rise of Nations by the time Mercs and the 'mech packs were being tested. Still, a lot of the multiplayer testing happened in the same lab, so I'd be testing RoN back-to-back with testers (most of whom worked on MW4 with me) who were testing Mercs and the 'mech packs, and so periodically we'd just switch over and all play a 8-player multiplayer match. Fun times for sure. Still, looking back it seems like the quality of 'mech designs suffered a bit (probably a result of the sheer number of 'mechs they made. JEEZ there were a lot!)

This is one of the few games that I've played repeatedly from start to finish on quite a few occasions. The other being Freespace 2. It's a great game despite its age.

@valmirurban9607

7 жыл бұрын

p cha Lol they are terrible and Huge?

@Ghorum

6 жыл бұрын

DUDE, you just nailed the two games I usually come back to. Mechwarrior IV is a childhood to adult favourite, Freespace 2 I picked up a couple years ago. That first time you're flying through the nebula, and you see the enemy's capital ship illuminated only by its broadsides... Terrific.

@Pwnzistor

6 жыл бұрын

I can't get past the stealth mission.. ever

@paulgerg6879

4 жыл бұрын

Both Freespace games were great; I bought Freespace 2 on the day of its release because I had enjoyed Freespace so much - it plays better with a joystick than with a pad.

@paulgerg6879

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pwnzistor the stealth missions are all all about being as quiet as you can, firing your missiles (or taking your readings) and just getting out of there.

That Behemoth and Supernova. Those are my babies!

@valmirurban9607

6 жыл бұрын

Scott Wylie Mercenaries same!

@perun3706

5 жыл бұрын

we still play it on gameranger

The Behemoth was a beast, that railgun smashed everything in my way!!

@kodan7879

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, Behemoth is bes boy.

One thing I love about MechWarrior IV is how practical the 'Mechs appear. They aren't awkward looking like those in III or complicated like V, they actually look as though they could be used in real warfare.

@alumlovescake

3 жыл бұрын

Well thats one of many reasons this is the best mech game ever

I was immediately blown away by the awesome designs while music from MechWarrior 4: Vengeance played. Way past cool!!!

The Warthog definitely lives up to its name from it's appearance. I like...

2019

Completely insane, well done to the team behind this.

I love the Dash-HURRRRR! That out of the way I'm a big fan of Mek-Tek, gunna be getting Mek-Tek 4 pretty soon! Keep up the good work and here's hoping for another Mechwarrior game soon!

10 years later this is in my recommendations. I miss the music.

works fine on windows 7,no texture flikerings or stuff,amazing mod

The locust IIC looks like its trying to say "argh what is my miserable existence" with it's derpy little pods.

Yeah, that one does look interesting with that massive gun mounted in the torso! I might have to give it a try. I like the fact that they're available in the campaign - it could really liven it up for me again.

Playing this in 2012 and I'm STILL having a blast

That katapult looked sick

I remember back in MW2 Mercs, picking up the Crab as my personal mech. Guess it will always be one of my favourites.

So many! I wish I had gotten the chance to use MekTek. I used to play Vengeance, Black Knight and Mercenaries all the time, but ever since Windows stopped supporting Microsoft I haven't been able to.

@scoutderek3125

5 жыл бұрын

You still can. Head over to abandonware. You can find mw4 mercs with mektek 3.1 installed with a majority of these mechs

@nathang6376

5 жыл бұрын

@@scoutderek3125 - Thank you! :-)

@alumlovescake

3 жыл бұрын

Its still a pain to work in win10

Fafnir is still my favorite, those twin heavy guasses it mounts will shed your opposision in an instant (within 600 meters) especially when combined with Clan Large Lasers, i personally would've liked t see some ballistic hardpoints on it though.

7:35 the strider performing a tactical slide

3xCLBX10 Ares was my ride of choice back then from the MEKPAKs.

Because Mektek redesigned the mech so that it could be able to torso twist; most if not all other mechs have that function in this game.

I remember time playing vengeance online. Tactics,cap the flag,team play, Mech counters, scouts, runners, snipers, rabbits and missleboats,electronic warfare and ambushes,and that feeling of suspense and tension when thers no one around and ur feeling being watched, or feeling of dread when team mates get wasted around u and ur left alone.Good times.

They made Mechassault for the first Xbox, and that was fairly successful. Honestly, I could see a real Mechwarrior game coming to consoles.

From a visual standpoint, the Talos just won my heart over O_O

mechs... more mechs .... MORE MECHS?!?!? thank you GOD!

i wish people still played this online,i loved this game

I have the mektek pack for my copy of MW4 Mercs. But it seems like it's missing some camo variants from MW4 Vengance. I may be wrong as it's been about 6 years since I played MW4 Vengance, and it's only been about 3 days since I got a cracked MW4 Mercs release with the mektek pack. Is there any add-on camo skins you can get?

@PanzerKonigstiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Agent DoubleOG We still play MW4 Mercs in GameRanger if you are interested =)

@Viciouslyvicious

5 жыл бұрын

@@PanzerKonigstiger Holy Shit! in so much videos i have seen you recluting all this men. Are they still playing? (sorry if i wrote something wrong, my english is so bad.)

Love the Blood Asp.

@raby760 because these were added in the Mek Paks - made by mektek. If you go to their homepage you will fine MW4 free to download with the IS and Clan packs + the around 50 added mechs. You also get new weapons and the multiplayer servers provided by them are very active

2018 still love that video, its a shame PGI cant animate mechs properly till this day

Vulture IIC and Wildcat are perfect

I can't wait for Mekpak 4 to come out this summer!

@alumlovescake

3 жыл бұрын

.......

I fucking love the Deimos, that thing is a BEAST.

Considering how awesome and intimidating the competition is, the old battlemaster really hasn't aged well from it's high point in Mechwarrior 1.

behemoth (the stone rhino) was immense lol that iggantic mechs are awesome a to new future!#techno!

The Annihilator looks like a chubby kid having a hard time walking

I wish that this game was on Steam. The music track at 3:25 sounds like a remix of some Pokemon battle music. The main menu music at 5:20, funnily enough starting with my boy; the Catapult, brings back memories of playing a MW4 demo back in the day.

Deimos and the Talos were two of my favorite 'Mechs

the blood asp looks a helluva lot sweeter on here than it does on Mechassault 2 Lonewolf, and best part, no plasma ppc for it, pure cold guass

@NyxOOX oh, i agree. they are amazing.

Awesome music XD love this game

I want to play this game again.. Man, could you imagine either of the behemoth assaults wading through your home town one morning?

Miss this game.

I prefer mechs like the Blood Asp, Ryoken, Vulture and Hauptmann. I've never really liked the Atlas, Daishi, Warlord and other 100 tonners simply because of speed. Especially in the case of the Blood Asp, a 90 tonner, you can have a very good layout (including dual Gauss on the dorsal cannons) and have good armor, but still keep some speed (if you upgrade the engines). I love the mechwarrior games, and will never stop playing them until my hands turn into dust. Even then, i'll find a way.

@Pupwiz Yhea i agree,i love the Marauder II,abselout machine of mass destruction.

The Supernova Assault "Mech is my favorite!

MekTek FTW good job guys

The Warlord is the Atlas with Omni bays. ME GUSTA :D

@K0HIJIN What is the name of the metal song that starts when the Mech list starts? I remember it's from MW4, but I don't remember what is was called. Awesome video by the way, big improvement since MW3.

Uziel and Awesome mechs are still my favorites

5:28 AHHH The days of playing the Vengeance demo....

Love the Orion :)

Cyclops is one of my all time faves

@mechwarrior4fan97 Agree with your there. The profile alone on the Behemoth just looks nasty. Great looking mech there.

@Blowfeld20k this music is from the MW4 Vengeance and Mercs soundtracks.

One shame is that to my knowledge they have never had melee mechs in any of these games.

@thuggeegaming659

Жыл бұрын

Getting melee to work would be annoying. The problem is that in the lore of Battletech, you control the mech with your mind via neurohelmet. But this is contradicted by the fact that they also use traditional inputs like joysticks, throttle, pedals, etc. But the arms of the mech are supposed to be controlled by the mind of the pilot, which is why they can aim their arms off axis, drop their arms to the side, etc, but in most of the games they can't do this, although Mech 3 did it a little bit (but mostly not). Doing this in a game isn't impossible but would require quite a few changes, and the game would have to essentially make it a core feature, instead of it being just one out of innumerable weapons. Because of that, it's typically not worth doing. With that said, it's in Battletech the video game.

@Fenris77

Жыл бұрын

@@thuggeegaming659 Indeed and it might take more memory capacity for such a feature. To me it would be worth it though. But I do also agree that a game developer might just put too much emphasis on such a feature... *Sniff* Though in for example the three original Fallout games there are features galore that the player may never think of using... Like a TV dinner LOL I do remember the first Battletech game I played "The Crescent Hawk's Inception" where I could direct the mechs and go and kick another mech.

@thuggeegaming659

Жыл бұрын

@@Fenris77 It's not so much that the developer would put too much emphasis on melee, they essentially would have to put a lot of emphasis on it. It's not something that can merely be tacked on as a side thought if they wanted to implement it properly, but then that would take away from the other mechanics that are much more important to a Battletech game. Melee is definitely easier to implement in an over the head turn-based tactical game.

@Fenris77

Жыл бұрын

@@thuggeegaming659 Indeed. Damn now I start thinking about playing Fallout 1 and 2 and TYactics again, the death animation when you use a ripper (A sort of chainsaw sword I think) is utterly hillarious.

I need some help with this game. My team mates / lance mates hardly seem to engage the enemy. They will shoot missiles / lasers etc every now and then but will miss half the time. Any tips?

@vjetty

6 жыл бұрын

Patty get better lancemates. More weapon density. More weapons. More shooty. Better lancers. Better shooties

Always loved Hunter OSC Mech music.

Nice Strider drift 7:30

Huh, never seen a Crab before but I like it already. Dasher reminded me of a Firemoth.

Annihilator with 4 Clan Gauss Rifles... deadly

3 mechs on here i truly love Blood Asp Behemoth Annihilator

It would be really cool if there was a movie made about the Fed Com Civl War. Which takes place in the game so probably we’ll see Specter take place in the movie.

Actually, tactics is going to be a lot like the tabletops, turn-based with automatic dice rolls, animated, with objectives and pretty sweet looking.

Gotta luv that hardcore metal

Even though MTX has been shutdown for unknown reasons, I downloaded MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries and it already has a current version of MekTek, which has new and more interesting 'mechs for me to pilot them.

I loved Mechwarrior. My problem with 3.1 was that there were too many mechs. Overkill. And if I remember right, the installation wiped out all of the mech configs you had prior to the install and altered some of the pre-existing mechs enough so that you could never configure them the same way again. I did enjoy MekTek's map packs prior to this update though.

Mechassault is somewhat based on Mechwarrior universe, the game play is simplified for console gamers. The best thing about this game you can hop out your crippled mech and hijack a another one.

MechWarrior 4 online community -> Mech4Rebirth.boards.net Come on our discord, that's where most of us are online in between mech games.

OMG annhilator, and avatar, i wish i could play this again so bad

i agree, the songs are from the game.

@Lavos2007 Its ok i just had to edit the short cut destination so it wouldn't show the intro. Hmm

ahhhhhhhhhhh the commando!

Shadows of Empirion has a simple MW4 Mercs Free Release Installer that does not require MTX, and is also the latest version.

scuse me, but i need to ask something. some of those mechs, especially the behemoth have updated graphics on their models, how come these in the vid do and mine dont?

No love for the Firefly then. I loved those in MW3 - stick a MASC in, strip down armour and weaponry to one laser, bump up the engine as high as it would go and tear about the place ridiculously fast killing Daishis and Atlases with the death by a thousand cuts. In single-player of course. MPs in Assault mechs would have trashed me as easily as a Bulldog. ;)

MASTER CHIEF MECH AT 3:01

totally awesome game!!!!

@Arzaker the behemoth is the stone rhino's inner sphere codename

The Avatar's design predates MW3. It's original design was using Clantech captured during Luthien. And it was in a TRO long before MW3.

Amispoppia-let the bodies hit the floor!

"Khorn Demon 8 months ago why all these mechs looks so terrible??models are awful...design is a total crap!!!!!!" Because its based on Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries that was released in 2002, and it was an awesome game, so dont knock it untill you've played it.

@TheVerybad01

9 жыл бұрын

512x512 max textures, largest model 755 points IIRC. Engine wasn't released and had to be figured out without help from the designers. People bitching about quality of mods in a 12 year old "unmoddable" engine really need to show what they can do.

@pirotess2

8 жыл бұрын

+Craig Harborne Oh please, MW4's engine can't handle current gen texture and polycount.

@KhalainBear

8 жыл бұрын

pirotess2 erm, I wasn't saying it did I was pointing out that it was an older game and that's why it didn't look very good.

@monolithicfist

7 жыл бұрын

Add to that the caveat that it doesn't look good by TODAY's standards... Back in the day, it was be-a-utiful. And, as always, there is just something unique about the mechanics about a walking tank game that makes it such a thrill to play. Old school mech-heads shouldn't have to explain ourselves to children, but how else will we pass the experience on to the next generation and keep the franchise alive?

@trabalhosodonto1799

6 жыл бұрын

because is based on 2.1 old mechs!they are much terrible too,but with no sofisticated Aspect like plane,or truck but much horrible!

The Nova in MW4 Mercs also has 12 medium lasers.

Cool video......... Elm st.....

@pinhead61187 Outside the mod the Mad Cat MK2 is my personal favourite, but you have to admit that those are all awesome mechs.

i remember the maurader..always got my damn legs blown off...stick me with a masakari,war hammer or a executioner and your done for..also have a sweet setups for other mechs like argus in hardpuncher or a cutter for executioner

I'm aware, although not familiar with all the different names. Admittedly, the mechs of the same classes don't look the same in each of the Mechwarrior games as they do in the Battletech ones. (MW2's "Timberwolf" may be a Madcat, but it looked skinny and dinky. MechCommander's and MW 4's Raven looks like a fat-headed medium mech, but is registered as a light, and is much skinnier in most TT pieces and the latest MWO.)

@awesomemann1234 actually the MekTek release is legal. Smith and Tinker, the new owners of the Mechwarrior rights to release it for free.

do you have packs only for mercanaries or you have for vengeance to ?

@TearsOfWar1 The more menacing-looking 'mech fer me would definitely be the Atlas, meh classic fave :)

boy oh boy im getting an X52 pro in a couple of days and im going to reinstall this!

Of The Mechs in this Video, Only Ones i recognize That's in MWO is 1.) Centurion at 2:51 2.) Commando at 2:59 3.) Hunchback -2C at 5:07 (Note that While the Hunchback is in the Game, The 2C Is not) 4.) Jenner -2C at 5:15 (Same Note as the Hunchback Above) 5.) Katapult at 5:24 (Spelled with a C in Game, Not K) 6.) Stalker at 7:13 7.) Trebuchet at 8:24

how can i make the mekpak include coop in lan games? will the mercenaries mod work with it or is there another way?

Is it possible to play this on win10? I founded MW4M at myabandonware but Im not sure...dont dare to download it, a mektek version isnoffered bit don't know what to make of it ...Im not a tech guy

I think Warlord looks like the most menacing mech. What do you people think the most menacing looking mech is?

you have to have a bit of finese and timing but you'll do a lot of damage. The damage is equal to two LLs and you can get off three pulls of the trigger in 9 seconds before the heat becomes critical. Make sure that you are on an escape vector on the last shot so you had head for cover to allow the heat to die down. Then re-engage. My prefered prey were Assaults and Heavies so i always got up close and personal.

I just installed this, ready to blow shit up.

@valmirurban9607

6 жыл бұрын

Mario Martínez Beltrán mind blowing!