Support sarna. Smith and Tinker announced on 09 July that the MechWarrior 4 series of games and expansions will be made available for free via MekTek , this finally happened on 30 April However, with development stalling, Smith and Tinker going out of business, and the introduction of MechWarrior Online , MekTek ultimately dropped their license for MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries.
Download of the Free Release is now considered illegal. Computer games are explicitly excluded from the list of products that contribute straight Canon to the BattleTech universe while at the same time it was stated that the IP owners are "not in total denial about these sources either"; it has also been stated that fluff from certain official, licensed products namely certain computer games including those produced by FASA can be assumed to be part of the shared universe as long as it is not directly contradicted, and makes sense.
On this premise, MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries is considered to be an apocryphal product. The player takes the role of Spectre , a male commander of a small mercenary company. Trained under a pilot program on Outreach where smaller mercenary companies are "sponsored" by larger ones such as the Kell Hounds , Wolf's Dragoons , Gray Death Legion , or Northwind Highlanders , Spectre travels inside the fictional interstellar region of the Chaos March during the FedCom Civil War specifically during the time period from January 1, to late July The player makes a living earning cash and useful salvage from completing mission contracts for various factions.
With these resources, the player can purchase new weapons and BattleMechs, pay for 'Mech repairs, and hire additional MechWarriors for his or her company. The player has significant flexibility in which missions they choose and in what order. Accordingly, there are no firm dates for when any of the campaigns take place during the game's - timeframe.
Since many of the campaigns use events from throughout the - Federated Commonwealth Civil War as a backdrop, dates of related canonical events are noted.
