Multi Theft Auto Update Released

Chris McArthur writes "The MTA Team proudly announces the release of the highly-anticipated updated version of Multi Theft Auto:Vice City. MTA:VC 0.2 adds many new features and fixes in its effort to perfect the ultimate unofficial Grand Theft Auto PC online experience, including improved Netcode (up to 50% in some cases), a new chat system, a fully functional scoreboard, 30 additional playable vehicles (making a total of 80), and much more." We've previously covered this intriguing unofficial PC add-on, which has had a few stability problems, but is nonetheless an amazing hack.

pretty stable

[Dreadlord]

Ive been lan-ing this like crazy since its release and I can say it's pretty stable right now, and it's lots, lots of fun, highly recommended for those how own the game.
The new cars are awesome, and a great feature that isn't mentioned in the post is player name and health display, really very useful, and I like the new score system.
Bottom line: if you own the game, go and download it ASAP!

Re:pretty stable

[Directrix1]

This has been out for at least a few months now hasn't it?

Re:pretty stable

[Anonymous Coward]

The mod? The first version for Vice City came out in August. The GTA3 mod has been out since at least March.

hmm...

[ddd2k]

does this mean convicts get lan parties now?

Whats the point?

[MMaestro]

Whats the point of a multiplayer GTA:VC? Admittedly, the idea of driving around doing drive-by shootings against human players online is a pretty nice idea, but GTA:VC was all about being 'the ultimate badass in town.' Whats the fun in playing an online version of a game that was designed to be a single-player game only?

If this mod was really that great, Rockstar Games would already be talking to the MTA team to create a Value-Counter-Strike-like relationship.

Re:Whats the point?

[cbirdsong64]

I imagine Rockstar has people already working on a GTA multiplayer mode.

Re:Whats the point?

[Jay Cornwall]

Vice City wasn't all about being 'the ultimate badass in town'. That's just about the most boring way to play the game, and certainly leaves little room for multiplayer gaming. The fun in Vice City is in setting up incredibly stupid stunts, spending hours trying to pull them off and then recording it to show your mates when you finally manage it. Having your mates online with you opens up no end of possibilities for crazy multi-person stunts. :D

e.g. the 5 PCJ bikes up two vertically-stacked packers leaping

I hope the crashes are fixed

[Micro$will]

I played around with it a while back and it was buggy as hell. I did a search for another multiplayer mod for GTA3 which I believe was the GGM Mod. [guardians.ch] It was stable, it had NPCs, and best of all you could gain stars, the cops would come, but they wouldn't shoot at you. Yup, you can go crazy and get 6 stars, and you'll be able to pick up as many M16s and Rhinos as you want.

It was fun, but armored bumper cars gets old after a while. Rockstar needs to get going on an official multiplayer mode with interesting

Kewl Kiddy Koders

[kyz]

At least it keeps them off the streets, eh?

In my day, all us kiddy coders did with our games was crack the protection and give it to our friends.