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There are a few key points you need to know about the weapons behaviour at the moment. The key factor to remember is that many things are not syncd yet, meaning what you see isnt necessarily what others see (hunters weapons firing for example) so when you see your shots hit and blood spurt from the other guy this is not a sure sign that you are in fact hitting them. In short ignore the blood and take note only of the health bars, if they reduce you are hitting him. Offset: the aim isnt that accurate at certain distances (you may have noticed players constantly shooting to one side of you instead of hitting you) This offset varies depending on the distance between both players. This is something you will learn to estimate the more you play. Molotovs and grenades: although you are able to hold the throw button for variable amounts of time to vary distance thrown, in-game to all others they will ALWAYS go the same distance, around a car length from yourself. So to your game you may have thrown it 50 yards and expect it to have hit the opponent, in everyone elses it landed just in front of you. Both shooting: occasionally you can get into a standoff situation, you see you bullets hitting the opponent, therefore he is not shooting at you, to him it is reversed, he sees HIS bullets hitting YOU and therefore does not see you shooting him, this results in both people standing there firing with no effect on each other. Often a dropped packet will cause a break in someones shooting and BLAM the other guys shots start to register at last. Then finally there is the lag issue, always take a quick look at you opponents ping, and try to aim ahead accordingly, the higher the ping the firther ahead you will have to shoot.

We'd love to concentrate 100% of our efforts into the foundation of the mod, building a stable netcode and client and eliminating those few remaining bugs. Unfortunately thanks to the stupid pricks like yourself who spread cheats and hacks and try to justify it with some half arse 'but i wannna do whatever i want to mommy' comments we are diverted from that and have to attempt to combat them to maintain a fair and level playing field for all players. Don't you dare pretend you feel any kind of support or love for MTA, if you did you wouldnt go out of your way to ruin it for many. Locked, banned, and if theres any justice in the world, going to fall foul of some great big bruiser of a psycho in real life cos of his 'i want to do what ever i want' attitude.

*put his money down and waits*

Straight from the manual: How you could have missed both that and every other location that mentions it (faq, sbs, forums) is beyond me.

Serves him right for attempting to use a hacked/cheat client. Use GENUINE mta:vc from mtavc.com downloads section and you wont have those problems. Closed cos cheats are idiots

What a morbid thread

We have a forum called 'useful topics'. It isnt named that for nothing. If you can't be bothered to use the filter detailed there simply look in 'other' in ASE

He was on IRC offering all and sundry hacked clients and altered handling files. An IRC ban does not effect your ability to play on game servers.

I voted for blokker. Cos i hate hotdogs. I dont feed my scripts cos that keeps them 'hungry'. besides, blokker looks like he could use feeding up a little

Cerbera said: Removing it? We have done no such thing, as has been said many times before the mod is in its early stages, the core is still being developed, throwing thousands of variables in that we have no way of tracking would defeat the whole object of releasing public betas in the first place. Also note it has NOT been said we will never allow customisation of the final product, merely that right now we are not ready to entertain the idea. As for this poll its a little like making one saying 'I'd like to have free food and rent free housing and 2 complimentary crates of beer delivered to my doorstep every day' Of course you would, we all would. But is it feasable? no. Also note that comparing mta to Unreal Tournament or Quake is pointless, they are games built from the ground up with multiplayer enabled, and feature map change handling and modifications from the word go. Whereas gta3 was never intended to be multiplayer, has a fixed map to all intents and purposes (yes i know it can be customised, even replaced with a lot of work but it was NOT designed for such replacements). Not to mention the fundamental fact that the aforementioned games where developed with full access to the source, (obviously as they where the ones writing it), and no open beta releases in the way we release mta. If you would like an open to all multiplayer modification with no control over its content or methods then i strongly suggest you begin to develop one. I'd be most interested to see if you follow up your words and make it open source.

Talidan said: I do wish you would read the manuals provided. Manual says: Nuff' said

You seem to have missed the vital fact that the Hunters weapons have no effect at all in MTA, they are not synchronised so any damage you appear to be doing is merely illusion, to all other players you are just hovering near them.

Disturbing reports that PLASTA copycat gang BLASTA have been overstepping the planetary borders http://bbspot.com/News/2004/01/mars_rover_spammer.html

This was discussed by the team many moons ago and rejected at that time for much the same reasons, too easy to use it for victimising people. There is however the possibility it could be player set, i.e. the person who is marked on the map chooses to do so himself, and decides who is able to see it. Time will tell

Your post made no sense once id removed his. Ill also delete both this and you post above once youve had time to read it

I'm bored.. But.. this thread makes boredom interesting, Therefore I'm no longer bored. Which means i can't post that i am oh shit, paradox (no thats not a painkiller)

As you said bluescreen i presume you are using windows98 or ME, mta isnt compatible with either as is stated ALL OVER THE PLACE

artigamer: we know you meant peds. It was choice of flaming you and locking the thread for asking a question thats been answered many times, straight deleting the thread, or having some fun, we chose the latter.

I think that was a pretty clear brief, the standard of the editing and the videos themselves were outstanding, I'm merely pointing out that one showed virtually no stunting, and would have won had it done so. as for: That is patently rediculous, why do you think we dont like being asked release dates, and never set them? It's because we do not know when the next version will be ready. If you are suggesting we held back release of 0.3 merely to allow the videos in the competition to be 'current' then thats even more rediculous. You where the one who pushed for a deadline to be set, I had been quite happy to leave it open until that point.

under 'alias mta.text {' in your script.mrc elseif ($3 == !countdown) { mta.say $1 Count down! .timer 1 1 mta.say $1 5 .timer 1 2 mta.say $1 4 .timer 1 3 mta.say $1 3 .timer 1 4 mta.say $1 2 .timer 1 5 mta.say $1 1 .timer 1 6 mta.say $1 GO go go go! }

Pets, hmm, interesting idea. Perhaps start with a small rodent like a hampster or field mouse, and work you way up through guinnie pigs and stoats towards small lapdogs like datchunds and chihouhas. Finally attaining the most saught after pet, the pot bellied pig. Skinnable of course.

Well I said 3 entries as Curlys was a joke entry. Wasn't it? and errm.. whats that about websites?

* MrBump sets mode: -b

The movie comp has been thrown into disarray by the release of 0.3 with its extra animations etc. We have 2 options, judge the 3 entries that where recieved but that will probably now not be offered on mtavc.com due to them being out of date or extend the competition and ask that there be mta 0.3 action featured. If we go for the latter I have a few pointers for the previous entrants, the standard of two of the entries was superb but they still lacked in certain areas, namely showing the full range of activities possible in mta, the other, Curlies, was basically a long and rather dull car chase. So, I'd like to hear from the previous entrants as to which way you would like to treat this as I understand you spent a lot of time working on your previous entries and splicing in new 0.3 action/starting over may be a lot toask.

I don't like the idea of encouraging killing in the stunt servers.