This is a team survival game that follows an arcade style, whereby you score points for kills, rescuing civilians, and completing events. Includes SAVE/LOAD. The action is intense but forgiving.

Players can revive each other, and there are ways to revive all players simultaneously. Players can access tanks.

Version 1.13 trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiWL88hA_-M&fmt=35

Other features -
2 play modes and 4 spawning modes that can be combined for up to 8 different modes of play
97 enemy types including 17 bosses and 21 minibosses
5 endings
66 different items/powerups
10 classes
Game difficulty automatically adjusts for the number of players in the game and the players' status
Extensive randomization
Ability to save your rank and access new innate abilities in future games
10 additional abilities to select based on rank
Ability to interact with many parts of the environment

Battle.net channel: Nightsong

More info at http://www.nightsongoperatives.com !

NOTE: MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE DASH AND EXTRA STRING OF NUMBERS THAT COMES AFTER '_OPT' IN THE MAP FILE NAME. The proper file name is
'NightsongMercenaries116b_opt.w3x'...without the quotes.

Patch notes for Nightsong Mercenaries 1.16b
Changelog can be found here - http://nightsongoperatives.freeforums.org/post3.html

Please email me at brized@gmail.com with any issues you find!

Nightsong Mercenaries .96, archived on 28/06/08
Nightsong Mercenaries .98b, archived on 19/07/08
Nightsong Mercenaries .98b, archived on 13/09/08
Nightsong Mercenaries .99, archived on 22/12/08
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.00, archived on 21/03/09
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.01, archived on 13/05/09
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.02a, archived on 24/05/09
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.03a, archived on 04/07/09
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.06a, archived on 08/09/09
Nightsong Mercenaries 1.07, archived on 22/12/09