



On December 26, 2009, an open beta (version 0.1.0) was released via BitTorrent and other distribution methods. Mechwarrior: Living Legends (also known as MW:LL or MWLL) is an award-winning, fan-created, multiplayer mod, based in the Battletech universe, and using CryEngine 2 as its engine it is one of the few mods based on the Battletech universe (and its supporting Intellectual property) to have been sanctioned by Microsoft - who currently (as of 2011) owns the rights to the Mechwarrior video-game franchise - and additionally received pre-SDK support and sanctioning directly from CryTek, producers of the games' engine. Intel Pentium 4 (2.8GHZ for XP 3.0GHZ for Vista)
