MechWarrior 4 Workarounds

The recent free release of MechWarrior 4 has gone about as smoothly as the run-up to the launch of the free version of the mech game, which is to say not particularly. The Mektek website is currently showing an Apache placeholder page (presumably recovering from demand-related overloads), and many users have reported problems attempting to obtain and install the game. A post on this site has instructions on how to try and get the game client as a straight torrent download, as well as a couple of tips on how to get it to run. It's not clear where things stand right now, but hopefully that can help some of the folks having problems with this.