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    UnMechUpdater

With the rapid development of UnMech, there where issues.
Lots of people wanted to try out this new Unity Rebuild of MechWarrior 3 that a lot of people joined in for a round of Multiplayer.
Every day there whas time spend between members about how to install UnMech, what the latest version was, where to get the latest update.

It was time for a change. To write something simple that our community members only needed to point to.
Having experience with self deploying batch scripts before, it was time to write:
 UnMechUpdater.bat
This batch script would fetch for the user the latest update and install it. It was even be able to give warnings when there where issues. It is as easy as it sounds.

But there where issues, the technology and skill where oldschool, using FTP, with a Microsoft FTP client that has been a part of Windows since windows2000. A lot of virus scanners and even Windows Defenser was giving issues. A lot of fancy features had to be removed.

Creating Shortcut on the desktop, Gone.

Attaching a icon to the progress window, Removed.

Look up MechWarrior3 installation folder from Registry, Denied.

Verification if user is Admin to warn user that batch has no write access to /Program Files, Not possible in Windows:Home

But we got it working for most people, a nearly one stop sollution to update, if only.. Well let ask Sake906 for some help.
Now there is a buttin inside UnMech that starts the Updater and Exits UnMech.
Triggering updates is now possible from inside the game.


    Revisions...

Because it had been a while since i had last written in Batch Script, a lot was trail and error was needed.
Particularly because Windows Defender, Windows:Home and other Anti-Virus programs.

Early version even included a check for High sound quality pack was installed as Rip version had issues with UnMech, but this was later resolved by UnMech.
While debuggin even wrote a way for a seperate developer branch distribution, incase of future trouble shooting.

At the end of 2022 the Updater was rewritten to use HTTP instead of FTP.
 
 
 

A lot of people still aske about Anti-Virus warnings or stated not to thrust Batch files. Totally understandable.
_{Note; all Temporary files UnMechUpdater uses are located in '%TMP%\UM3' (C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\UM3)}

If you still have trouble or doubt, use the alternative download and do the Manual installation, it is there for a reason.

 
    Current Versions...

Currently UnMechUpdater is on Version '15'
To get the latest version you can download it from eledore.info:8080