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-----------------1) What's in here? 
An evolved version of the Mektek MW4 Mercs 3.1 free release.
It's standalone and compatible with win 10, some people even got it working on win 11, although i have it running on win 10 and Nvidia card. Stop asking support for AMD and win 11, i am not a dev house, i have no idea how to address those.
Overhauls the campaign mode making the missions a lot harder by adding mektek mechs into the campaign.
Rebalances the weapons so that their roles are more defined, using the cost as a balance factor.
Overhauls the sound and the music department, making the game a lot more immersive.
Makes the 4 factions really distinct in terms of free market tech available, adding value to a replay with a different faction.
Shuts down the repetitive "target destroyed" comments that the team mates do, so you can actually hear something and enjoy the game.

---------------2) How to set up?
First, enable direct play and legacy components
In the autoconfig, that you must run first, select the 1080p one (1920x1080) and, in the video adapter panel, select the second video card.
IF YOU USE THE "NO DGVOODOO" VERSION, you are good to go, i released this because some dudes just could not figure out how to tweak dgvoodoo.
IF YOU USE THE REGULAR VERSION, then you will have dgvoodoo and reshade: the mechlab will not be stretched and you will have better visuals: you must though open dgVoodooCpl.exe and follow my video. 

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(instructions video highlighted, because apparently a very famous team mate of mines from Pisa can't see it

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SUGGESTED CAMPAIGN PATH---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do not play Solaris early on: it will advance the time and give you access to better mechs too early, ruining your experience...also it's a money cheat.
Do play exclusively at  ---------ELITE--------- difficulty: you are meant to lose some mechs and team mates here and there, if you play at lower difficulties you will just find the salvage too generous.


MISSION ORDER:

Halloran
Eaton
Styk
Exford
Hesperus
Talon
Endgame planet of choice


---------------3)Factions, what's new?
A) Kell Hounds: nothing new, use this if you want the default MekTek free market experience
B) Wolf's Dragoons: mainly clan focused, bigger mechs are a lot less common and appear way later in the campaign, so you can't spam 8 Daishis and Behemoths straight away and ruin the game.
C) Grey Death Legion: mainly IS focused, bigger mechs are a lot less common and appear way later in the campaign, so you can't spam 8 Annihilators and Marauder IIs straight away and ruin the game.
D) Northwind Highlanders: cheat mode if you find that the game is too hard for your skills: better rewards, heavier starting mechs and 5 atlases available in the free market even before you touch the first planet.

---------------4) Known bugs
A) In built mouse acceleration that i am not able to remove
B) Extended view breaks very often: in order to activate it 100% every time you launch the game you must flag it off and on from video settings and then go multiplayer, video settings and again off on and then it goes: you are sure it is working when you point at the sky and it tells you "1300 meters" instead of "1000".
C) Firing the Large Beam Laser in camapign mode might cause your game to restart. After that it will work just fine.
D) In some cases (extremely rare and case sensitive bug) if you look at the dropship while it explodes the game might have a "restart crash": do not look at the dropship while it blows up.

--------------5) Join the Mechstorm Discord here
https://discord.gg/RZMP6pXUes

VERSION 1.1 CHANGELOG

---FACTIONS FREE MARKET
GRAY DEATH LEGION Increased amount of IS lost tech in the free market at the start (AssaultLas, HeavyRockets, HyperACs, LongTom, Heap-AGL, on top of the already present CAP-PPCs, Hgauss and XpulseLas))
WOLF'S DRAGOONS Added some HmedLas at te begnning 

---WEAPON TUNING
5class uac up cooldown to 1.4
LBX 5 coold up to 1.4, dmg from 7 to 5
Plasma cannon heat from 20 to 19
Artillery velocity toned down, it was causing the aim bug
HeavyRockets now have the proper cost, they were around 70.000 instead of 700.000
Minigauss range up from 1000 to 1300

TEAM MATES
silenced rubius and scrapper too, on top of beowulf, angel, hannibal, shredder, mags (i silenced the target destroyed comment and the roger comment)

---CAMPAIGN
.halloran offshore b added hollander and replaced a cobra with BJ ii
.fixed halloran escort finishing before some mechs were destroyed
.better spawn eaton merc alley, less trees, less jeeps, mainforce 07 now showing as hellspawn
.better spawn bandit hideaway and added infantry
.merc alley A mechs hiding and going to zimbabwe fixed
.exford 03 grizzly, deimos.
.governor mansion harder, rifleman added
.griffon base harder.
.hesp 2 mech works attack harder, added mechbay
.hacker run changed mechs added infantry
.hesp mech defense dropship, +2rifleman, twinmechbay
.eaton merc b, added 2 yeoman, fixed mission ending when relief01 to 04 destroyed and ignoring other mechs being alive.
.exford01 added jenner iic, bowman, canis
.eaton 04 added 4 shadowhawk, moved nav beta so it's actually useful
.exford02 added ares
.country life less rainbow camos
.tharkad checkmate added urbanmech IS and clan, battlemaster, shilone bombers, hauptmanns
.tharkad resupply repalced blackhawk with shadowhawk
.industry raid, fixed enemies not having the right skill
.backstab replaced ryokens with black lanners, fixed mech names
.assassination: if you try to align with liaos, you get punished like you should.

VERSION 1.2 CHANGELOG
*WHY SHOULD I PLAY IT AGAIN IF I ALREADY PLAYED 1.0?*
-Gray Death Legion with IS advanced tech is now an option for real, due to some IS buffs.
-Most dropships take off and come to catch you, most mid-late missions are a lot harder.
-More builds available due to hardpoint tweaks
-Hesperus and Talon have been edited A LOT to provide better mid-late game challenge.

-weapon rebalance: less alphastrike, faster cooldown or less heat for a lot of weapons, most IS acs weight less, MRM class weight less.
-hardpoint remake: a lot of mechs have more hardpoint options, thanks to TheNthJojo for showing the method
-music remake: a lot more soundtracks and a lot less silent moments: better immersion
-Gray death legion improved: more IS advanced tech available
-Wolfs Dragoons, added more clan based weapons, heavies and assaults delayed later in the campaign.
-Northwind Highlanders: added more starting mechs
-decal remake: now enemy mechs display proper decals rather than the default MW4 BK decal, thanks to Riv for showing the method
-Xplslas sound fix: now correctly triggering the laser hit sound, rather than the laser fire sound, thanks to Riv for profiding the fix
-most dropships can now fly, with few exceptions
-fixed new avalon spaceport bushwacker not showing up because too busy team killing half of his own team, causing the mission to stall
-fixed new avalon hacker run battle armors not having an AI
-fixed new canton griffon base annihilator in the middle of the desert without AI
-reworked exford, stormpatrol to avoid the part of the map with bad pathing, added 2 poptarts
-hesperus 2 is slightly more difficult, all the missions are revisited
-talon/wernke is now a lot more difficult, and more than hesperus 2, all the missions are revisited
-tharkad overlord added 2 poptarts
-tharkad resupply added 2 talon dropships
-tharkad checkmate added many poptarts, final surprise when you engage Nondi Steiner: get good or get rekt.
-new avalon spaceport: less walking, more enemies, closer nav points
-nerfed salvage on most missions
-added battlecobra, linebacker, arctic wolf nd shoadow hawk, thanks to eagle203 brute-force trying all the code combos one by one and providing the correct codes
-fixed a bug that crashed the game while the linebacker appeared in the free market

VERSION 1.2a
Simply copy paste the files on top of 1.2
-Nerfed PPC class weapon velocity from 4000 to 3300
-Nerfed ppc, erppc, cap ppc and lppc heat
-eaton merc b changed location where the reinforce lance aims at
-ppc,gauss and XPL weapon icons now don't stop glowing anymore once installed on the mech, the ammo arrows are still functioning even if invisible.
-mad II hardpoint remake
-anh hardpoint remake
-wodrag decal changed to JGx decal, 1st Jaguar Guards, given to me and my team in the MWO world championships 2018 by PGI in Mechwarrior Online.
-improved gdl decal