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i think what cray meant by 'create your own' was a more freestyle kind of thing, for instance, today alone in servers there have been organised amongst players, Streetrace (set route, there and back, any vehicles u want, loser has to allow winner to destroy the losers ride) Follow the leader, set initial waypoint, leader at that time leads other s have to try and keep up, if u take the lead YOU choose where to go. Helicopter tag, this was hilarious, one heli was 'it and had to hit another heli who would then be 'it' sounds a bit dull and childish but it was a BLAST (shame helis dont take that many hits hehe) Kill SoRat. he did something to upset someone, i forget what, probably blew up cars at start of an organised race, so the shout ewent out to hunt him down and kill him.. result, 11 players searching for him in helis, cars bikes, followed by mad chases and massive gunfights..the best thing of all was the guy was a real good sport about it and didnt compain once. first to hunter. we all started on foot at spawn, was mad rush to get a vehicle withot being jacked, followed by any route we could to get to the hunter. at which point we had 4 people trying to get into it at once! lol Stunt show, obvious really, ging around as a group showing off stunts and places TO stunt. Stunt truck, one guy gets a stunt truck, and selects places to put it..often ending up with the stunters going straight into the river. Hold the Malibu.. as it says on the tin, 2 guys where in malibu at the bar, the rest of us had to try and get to the office while they tried to stop us. worked well. Destruction derby free-for-all.. any vehicle you like, only rule was not allowed to exit by any way other than death, ended with a 2 man shootout in the centre on foot as all vehicles where rolled ad shot to pieces Beach race.. as seen in the BetaMass test the evening before release. Rooftop jumps..starting in the office with the lft (near northernmost bridge, has heli on the ledge) we tried to follow the same route as the single player mission, jumping thru the glass window onto roof opposite and beyond..great fun with 3 people on pcj600 And this was just today! So, the possibilities are endless already, just get things going, other people want somethign specific to do too so use the chat!

dzedi, that is normal, i think its a little like 'jacking into the matrix'. i presume it is because we spawn in a place that wasnt originally intended, whereas in the single player the spawn points where pre planned and preloaded ready for you. The same effect was evident in gta3:mta version .3b

And dont forget #mta-servers, always at least 2 offical mta server ips being advertised in there, along with user-run servers. (feel free to advertise yours there if your looking for some players)

Then you either grabbed the wrong file from someone who took part in the 'mass beta' or you just havnt looked. readme.txt and clientreadme.txt and manual.pdf all in /mta/ directory,

Read the clientreadme.txt thats inthe /mta/ folder, it has instructions how to add VC to ase

Not as yet, unless you are experienced in scm coding. Besides, if youd read the doc's youd know the hunters weaps dont cause damage yet.

Why go to all the bother to post a question like this? READ THE readme.txt's and the Manual. CLOSED (if i could hehe)

For now you need to add MTA as a custom filter, read clientreadme.txt for instructions. Hopefully sometime today ASE will get round to distributing thier update to include mta:vc and the auto-start on double click, then browsing for the exe will function

As mentioned elsewhere on the forum it is recommended that the default speed setting of 14k be used by people of all connections, also note that .3b is very much alpha, released due to popular demand so people have something no matter how buggy that they can experience. Lag is inherent in that version (although i hear much less of an issue than in the previous beta releases) yet i play every day on dialup and dont notice it much on the most part. If it does get exceptionally buggy or laggy i simply restart it and continue the fun

Websites and forum are now working ok for me, still no irc tho, i get 'connection refused'. Unsure why this is as everything else seems to be up and running.

more.. (please note the wierd msg from me was an issue with my machine, NOT the mta:vc client)

If you are having difficulty following the directions heres a link to a replay.rep (gta vice city replay file) of me going to the egg. http://mysite.freeserve.com/heavenbbs/mta/easter_egg.rar instruction: unrar, rename to replay.rep (delete the 'easter egg' tag on the end of file) place in My Documents/gta vice city user files/ Run VC and hit F3 at any point to play the replay

This isnt a glitch as such, more an easter egg.. and the easter egg is..an easter egg! (bear with me, this does make sense) Go to the helipad on top of the TV office (north of the angels pub), walk to the corner that is closest to the building adjacent and jump through the window immidiately above the corner, it looks solid but it isnt. Inside you will find a large easter egg on a pedestal.

Tonight cray, sintax and testers had a 4/5 and 6 player session. Lots of issues to fix as yet, lots of crashes etc, but most inportantly LOTS of FUN. Here's a sample of the action.

*Awaits further breaking news and gametesting screenshots on irc*

No prob xerox, I'd be happy to pass any on to Warlord. Although I've not caught him on irc in the last day or so. (I've been trying to pass on bon3101s replays) Another possibility peeps, I know he always checks forums so maybe put the replay.zip's on your webspace, then pm him the url in here

You pulled me away from a supurb 5 player mta session to read this sillyness? Oh well, my driving hand was getting sore after two hours play anyway. Rhinox, i believe you must have been under the influence of a wayward woman when you composed those slanderous lines. Actually my freind, if you care to glance down a little way in the forums main menu to a small forum called 'screenshots' you will see that development has made some major strides in the last 6 or 7 days, this despite the team number being temporarily reduced by some well earned holiday time. Actually it go's in the root of your gta3 installation folder.. perhaps this would explain why you are unable to play it? Can i suggest a good therapist? He is highly regarded and I would be more than happy to pass his particulars to you. He specialises in delusions of grandeur with anamalistic overtones. OK, can i go back to the server now please?

Theres a GTA2 and 3? *gets back on police MC in gta*

Some more bike action from Cray. there was also a screenshot of a chainsaw fight, but its a little dark and you cant really see much, so i've left that one out for now.

Some more, This time from Cray Those bikes are looking sweeet

Hi peeps, Heres some shots from the last few days, mostly from Cray, a few from Sintax (sorry I just saved, didn't note who each time). These where seen first by peeps in the irc channel, so if u want faster scoops you know where to sit More to come as news breaks....

No, sorry. I play in 800x600 resolution, it struggles a little at anything higher.

rus a lot better for me at 6k too, less lag, stay on server longer etc. Ok i'm dialup but the info does recommend staying at the default 14k. i did post asking if others found this too, but no bugger answered. *chases tumbleweeds out of the thread*

Empty server, I'd broken my record for the Bump-Slalom, so thought id experiment with the overlay bugs again. I'd noted the vehicles destroyed at the mafia house tended to spawn in the same place, in fact larger ones (bus, dodo) will bury in the wall due to the angle they are spawned at (its not quite in line with the road and pavement). So, Equipment: Uzi. Lots of bullets. All the mafia sentinals at spawn. When they where all destroyed i want around the other side of the wall to see the following.. dissapointing, looked like only one had spawned. However when i got in i realised they where all overlayed, there was so many in fact it pushed me through the floor rather than onto the roof of the other car(s) Along with another empty sentinal. Lets see some more pics peeps! Any subject, Stunts, Cool views, Bugs, Weirdness or simply nicely composed views of ingame action