MechWarrior: Living Legends

MechWarrior: Living Legends started in December 2006 as a free, fan-made total conversion of Crysis Wars, set in the BattleTech universe. It was multiplayer only and put 'Mechs, battle armour, tanks, hovercraft, aerospace fighters and VTOLs on the same battlefield.

The first open beta came out in 2009. ModDB readers voted it Players' Choice Mod of the Year for 2009, and in 2014 PC Gamer counted it among the top fan remakes you could play for free. The original team released its final version, 0.7.1, in January 2013.

That was not the end. In October 2016 the community released a Community Edition, and new developers from the community still put out versions; Sarna lists 0.18.2 in May 2025. The 2007 snapshot shows the early dev blog with a finished Clan Elemental; the 2010 snapshot the full site with fan kit and tutorials.