After six months of heavy development the MechWarrior: Living Legends team proudly announces the public release of the MechWarrior: Living Legends 0.4.0 open beta!



MechWarrior: Living Legends is a total conversion modification for Crysis and Crysis Wars that buildes upon MechWarrior and BattleTech games of the past to provide players with an entirely new combined arms combat experience. Players make use of 'Mechs, tanks, hovercraft, VTOLs, aerospace and powered armour to engage in battle across massive otherworldly landscapes.

MechWarrior: Living Legends was the recipient of Editors Choice Multiplayer Mod of the Year 2009, Players Choice Mod of the Year 2009 and Honourable Mention Players Choice Mod of the Year 2010 from ModDB.

The 0.4.0 public open beta brings the following new features:

• Dual-platform support for Crysis and Crysis Wars
• New Game Mode :: Terrain Control
• New Unit :: Hephaestus Clan Hovercraft
• New Unit :: Morrigu Clan Assault Tank
• New Unit :: Thor Clan Heavy Mech
• New Weapon :: Clan Heavy Lasers
• New Weapon :: Inner Sphere X-Pulse Lasers
• New Weapon :: Clan Advanced Tactical Missile (ATM)
• 5 mode-specific maps; including 2 brand new ones for Terrain Control
• New Feature :: Game Files Build & Repair Utility
• New Feature :: Automatic Updater Utility for all future patches
• New Feature :: Extended League Mode Support
• New Battle Armour HUD interface
• Additional Custom Actionmapper Support
• Renaming of Game Mode :: Solaris Arena is now known as Team Solaris Arena
• Bonus Map :: TSA_Palisades
• Custom Remote Server Configuration and Control Interface

Terrain Control brings a new objective-based game mode centered on the capture and control of key locations on a game map. Kills and enemy damage are still a factor, but are weighed less than having terrain under your teams control. MWLL 0.4.0 Total Download Size :: 2.2 GB For a more detailed list including bug fixes and some known issues (not all of them) please refer to our Changelog page.

Since our initial release (Tuesday December 27) we have had two hotfixes to address unforseen launch issues, bringing the current release level to 0.4.2

Click here to visit our site for download and installation instructions.

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Time to hit this up again, for sure! I hear 0.4.2's already out! Speedy work guys!

Awesome! Time to install a clean copy of Wars and get going

This is epic!!! But... I can't connect to the server (the only server currently online) Connection time out all the time and its empty Fix pl0x Using Wars btw

0.4.2 didnt work. something about FlowGraphs.

guys,
nobody who has not played this mod yet should be scared by those two posts above. Hundreds of people have already played it without problems.
And if you have never seen why this mod became "MOD OF THE YEAR 2009", YOU HAVE TO TRY IT OUT. This is by far one of the most entertaining games/ mods right now and the community over at the forum of http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/ is even better and probably more active than Crymod by now.
So yeah, this is so good, I just have to advertise it.

I can't play online. Still problems with CDKey, which can't be me, because i can play normal Crysis Wars..

Support issues are better handled over at our dedicated forums: http://forum.mechlivinglegends.net

Many of the CD-Key related issues are due to faulty keys being handed out by Steam. This is a known issue and we have a support thread for it (but it has nothing to do with the MWLL mod specifically).

Most current version is 0.4.3, which has several fixes for the initial release and some balance tweaks. Use the autoupdater.exe included to patch your build up to the most current level.

The mod is really alot of fun. I can honestly say that there are more functions in our game then any other mod floating around here atm. Its a sim game and you have to control every aspect of your vehicle and radar while watching your heat level and fighting at the same time. We have so many functions that we are running outta keys on the keyboard for features. And we arnt even half done the mod yet....

P.S. We still need artists, lots of them. If you can model, texture or animate and have some experiance with ce2 then WE WANT YOU! (points finger like uncle sam)

I gave up with this, for an hour I was trying to run a local game over dedicated server, but all I was getting was the "modified files blabla return to original state bla" error. Googling, forum searching and following FAQ steps did nothing :S

I have a problem installing...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Mods folder cannot be found...

It gives some error about not finding the bin32 folder... I thought 0.4.0 worked for Crysis Wars? I also can't check off any install options before that, and I have tried multiple mirrors, and the autodetect says something about not finding the Crysis.exe. Also says space needed 3 MB since it will not let me check off "Install Core Files", they are all completely grayed out!

0.3.2. was working fine for me and now this version wont install correctly, some help would be appreciated! I am completely stumped by this, since 0.3.2. installed just fine, but this one won't work correctly.

Is there any way that I can just download the RAW files and put them in my above directory, would that work correctly?

I did not expect this headache, but I am sure that there will be a solution that I did not think of.

I really wanna try this mod but the "online game" button doesn't work. I click it and noting happens. Same with the quick game button. Any ideas as to how I can get past this? I really wanna play!

Did you try loading the launcher and clicking check for updates? Mine updated to 0.4.2. but I had to click it again to get to 0.4.3. I had the same problem until I did that.

It's a really good mod, some things still need fixing though, like how the Aerospace fighters Handle (they are a bit better but still iffy, I would definitely take a lesson from Battlefield 2 flying, along with some space sims for that), or how If i try to invert the mouse on Aerospace fighters It just disables the Axis completely instead.

Aside from some quirks, it's very polished, could almost pass as a real game If the menu UI didn't look so similar to crysis

There are some known issues that are peripheral to the actual installation of MWLL 0.4.0

Things we have discovered:

1. Many players bought Crysis Maximum Edition from Steam during our release. Come to find out that the Steam CD-Key system doesn't format the key properly. We have a fix for that.

2. The mod requires that you have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Update installed on your machine to correctly use our compiled DLL. Some users may have this installed from other games, but if not you will likley see a strange green pattern overlayed on your MWLL loading screen and be unable to join games. Get the redistributable installer here.

3. Some users are still getting AUTHENTICATION FAILED (3) messages. This usually means that your CD-Key is not loaded properly. Due to some voodoo that we do not understand, you cannot load the CD-Key for a fresh install of Wars or Crysis with the MWLL mod loaded. Unload the mod, join a regular Crysis or Crysis Wars server (one that requires a key, look for a Punkbuster enabled one) and at the prompt enter your key (INCLUDING THE DASHES IN THIS FORMAT: 1a2b-3c4d-5e6f-7g8h). After you can successfully join a "vanilla" Crysis or Wars server, shut down your game and then load from the MWLL launcher executable.

4. If you are playing on Crysis your game must be patched up to 1.21

5. If you are playing on Crysis Wars your game must be patched up to 1.5

Get the necessary patches here in Crymod, you know you love the search right?

Use the 0.4.0 installer to pull the primary game setup package (this will start an embedded torrent to pull down the game files from our server). After the installer completes, run the autoupdater.exe in the /mwll directory of your /Mods folder and then have it auto-update to 0.4.1, then 0.4.2 and then once more to 0.4.3

6. If the installer cannot find your /bin32 directory for Wars then your installation is probably atypical and you will need to guide the installer to your Crysis Wars directory manually. It will prompt you.

7. Modified files message should be a thing of the past if you are using our installer binary and auto-updater system. The auto-updater has an integrated repair facility to identify missing, modified or corrupted files and remove them or replace them from our mirror. If you still can't get around a modified files message (this would be the first I've heard of it for 0.4.0) then please post in our forums for direct developer support.

8. DX10 does not yield a great deal of benefit for MWLL and we recommend that players force DX9. This is especially true for earlier DX10 capable cards with lower texture memory counts, they seem to suffer great performance drops when using DX10 and find salvation using DX9 and CCC for Wars. I personally use this very combo and it easily looks better and runs better than DX10. The MWLL launcher executable has a checkbox option to force DX9 so you don't even need to know any mystical command line params.

For extended support and debug help I HIGHLY recommend that you come over to our forums at http://forums.mechlivinglegends.net and browse for solutions. Most of our community has gotten MWLL 0.4.0 running without a great deal of issues, easily our smoothest release yet, from a technical standpoint.

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We are planning on replacing the launcher Flash menu in the near future with our own custom version. This should remove most of the Crysis-esque elements.

Thanks for that list.

My issue is that the installer options are grayed out though... And the directory C:\Program Files(x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Mods does not work, while it did for 0.3.2. Is there a different spot that I should put it?

I can't even get the 0.4.0. installer to work so that I can get the mod and update to 0.4.3.