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Let's keep this forum alive peeps... Damn Diablo's. Always getting high... Call out the Flying Squad to sort them out. Just a nice pic of ORION hitting a jump after me. C'mon peeps lets see some mta experiences.

How did you manage to use the hotring racer instead? it always started me in the sentinal, and any car i parked neaby as an alternative would be gone after the initial cutscene

Come along to irc.multitheftauto.com, join channel #mta-servers. we serve a guide aimed specifically at new peeps who cant figure out how to play, despite reading the faqs and scanning the forums etc, also there will usually be an actve server advertised that you can connect to with the guides help. We will try and help you by answering your questions etc when we can. Please note the rules in the DEVS chan (#gta3mta) and do not ask questions in there that can be found in the various faqs and forums. Also note that #mta-servers isnt an official mta dev channel, it is purely somewhere for new peeps, and peeps who are tired of all those ASE servers that say they are occupied, but turn out to be full of others who cant get ingame.

There is an alternative to ASE, come to irc.multitheftauto.com and join channel #mta-servers, there is usually an active server ip running on a timer in there. We also serve a nine step guide for new players, with easy to follow instructions and a few hints to help you get onto the server and more importantly, into the game. Alternatively if you have a server you would like to promote, and get some regular players, feel free to come in channel and run your ip details on a timer (instructions given)

Why does everyone have four except me? I was under the impression we were only to enter 3 stunts. Thats what xerox' original post said anyway.

Perhaps post a list of the BLASTA and VCK members you are yet to have 3 replays from warlord? Just edit it as you get submissions so we can keep track?

For those who dont know how to use the replay feature in vice city F1 - play back last few minutes F2 - save last few minutes F3 - replay Save Files are stored in my documents/gta vice city user files note: it only saves ONE replay, so rename one you want to keep before recording another. i.e from replay.rep to stunt3.rep

I think as long as at least one player is on the server it stays in the same 'state' but once its empty it resets.

For unlocking police cars see my Vehicle Overlay post in the bugs forum: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?t=2004

aad, i think you are missing the joke

I took eight in total, so I have trimmed the sequence down to the key moments I know lots of pictures can be a pain for dialup users as I am one. (I have to UPLOAD the things hehe) But to keep you happy here is a single shot. I was bored, nobody coming to the server, so I thought I'd hide some choice vehicles.....

Shortly after i jumped WarlordArchon in the taxi... (see cops and robbers post)

The quote at the top is inspired by gta3/VC. Listen carefully when u steal a car and youll see what i mean. (steal a police car the radio says 'suspect driving a..dark..saloon')

If you need an active server come to irc.multitheftauto.com and join channel #mta-servers. we run occupied ips on a timer in there, and peeps are free to advertise thier own servers too. server scanning isnt up 24/7 but we can find you a server to play on. Now wheres the screenshot?

I'm sure you have all had the experience of getting into a car only to have 1,2 or more 'pop out' of it and pile up on the roof before falling to the ground. I spent a few hours on a quiet server last night trying to find a fool proof method of unlocking the squadcars in mta and made some interesting discoveries. At first i tried blowing them up, uzi, pushing them onto roofs etc, they respawned but still locked. Then I tried parking a vehicle on the pavement roughly parrallel to the police car (Just look to the right and line up with it ) and blew it up once more. This caused the squad car to 'overlay' the mafia sentinal. i proceeded to overlay a taxi, and the banshee too. So ended up with 4 cars overlayed in one position. I then walked up to the cars and 'entered' the following screenshots show what happened. Here you can see that it chose to put me in the police car, which has just popped out of the roof of the others (NOTE my legs sticking out of the bottom. Then the mafia sentinal popped out and pushed the squadcar higher. The physics take hold and the cars slide off each other. (if you look closely at the taxi u can see the a-frame of the banshee still 'inside' it) and finally the banshee appears to the side of the pile (seems it can only pile 3 vehicles up, no matter how many are overlayed) From then on the police car was unlocked and usable to anyone. Now from this what seems to happen ingame is when 2 people crash/blow up very close to each other the cars are both sent to the nearest 'vehicle spawn' and overlayed, then along comes an unsuspecting player who tried to take one and POP the other flies out of the roof. Lag/desynch could also cause both players to try to re-enter 'thier' car, and you end up with 2 in the same vehicle and the desynch that causes.

Hmm no responses, come on peeps. If you too would like to see some tasters of whats to come, of how things are progressing and what ideas are being tried out then say so! As i'm sure no dev/tester is going to go out of thier way to post some screens purely for my benefit Add your voice and maybe we'll get a glimpse.

I've read the recommendations in the forum that peopleick with default 14k when connecting, but i'm dialup and seem to be getting a more stable session by connecing at 6k. Just wondering if its coincidental or if any other dialup users have found he same?

From the official gtat faq: Q: Can't see walking/shooting Animations! A: Not implented in 0.1a Q: Where i can get cars? A: Cars not supported in 0.1a And you say its better? rofl

The fact they had to resort to such desperate measures as sending you to mta's forum to get a plug in for thier release, preferably with a working link to thier web presence. Indicates to me that it is in fact thier product which is 'losing thier fanbase'. Therefore they turn to a more active community in desperation for an influx of users. M'lud

[police radio] " He's driving a.. red..sportscar. "

By popular request. (well, one request actually). More screenshots. Let's see how fast she can travel. oops. I over did it .. .. a little. Lets try another. On the overhead trainline. Perfect. Maybe not. Good on the road though. Please let me know if this is too many images to post at once. Seems to me theres not many been posted recently.

ADDENDUM: I'll be happy to show all those who have PM'd me for dodo flying lessons once ingame chat is sorted (i.e. once it isnt necessary to ALT-TAB out to use it) Meanwhile i am midway through writing a guide that will be available on a trigger in #mta-servers. I shall post in this thread once it is fit for human consumption. QUICKTIP. Takeoff. Find long road/stretch of smoot ground, push and hold 'down'. Accelerate until nose scrapes the ground. Release 'down'. Dodo will leap into air. DON'T PANIC! let it dive, it will swoop and rise. (Make sure you have your parachute packed)

The cracking/coding i cant help you with. the guy 'walking somewhere' and not dying is a lag issue, either desynch has struck (dont carjack anyone!) or he has lost connection/quit and the games not caught up yet. The 6 people on theroof (more than 6 in fact ) are 'the players to be' the models that are assigned to the player and moved into the map when you choose your team. The guy on top of the helipad, i presume u mean the 'choose teams' helipad would be for similar reasons to the wandering man, or the player may just have been afk. so the lag wont be helped by you being dialup, but id say its mainly down to mta beeing at an early stage of development. (i play via dialup too and it doesnt spoil my enjoyment)

Any chance we could see a few choice screenshots of the current build? to whet our appetites for the forthcoming release. Or is it that most of the changes aren't apparent from still images? I'm sure the rest of the community would climb over each other to see them. Hopefully, Bump

This is what can be achieved when u have a nice group on the server, who all know how to get uin and use ingame chat (IF you dont then come to #mta-servers on irc.multitheftauto.com and we will talk you through it Getting ready to start. We had a pretty succesful race from the end of the bridge in the picture to the docks and back, most took part, and those that couldnt keep up stayed out of the way of returning drivers. SO use your chat peeps, get things going ingame, and always check #mta-servers for an occupied server.