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.
