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What I liked best about that short speech was its honesty. They didn't try to cover up the fact that it had bugs, and there was a full (and above all believable) explanation of why it seemed to be delayed. Unlike Valve, for example...

When you say 0.4, do you mean the client or the core? Thanks for the info, btw.

I don't think you should start badmouthing competing mods. /me hides under the table from the inevitable flame war

I don't understand - 14 is between 1 and 32 Edit: Oh, I get it now - you're saying why have 32 when the maximum is 26.

I was told that in Standard Form all positive thingies (e.g. 1x10^3) were capitalised and all negative er... things (e.g. 1x10^-3) were lowercase (Sorry, I can't remember what they're called).

Er... wrong forum, I'm afraid. Can a mod move this please?

Ah, did he mean 80 Kbits? It gets confusing because not everyone capitalises the KB in Kilobytes, so you're never entirely sure what they mean.

Hmmm... interesting. That would explain a lot.

Ye , cause the magazine they took the stuff out contacted them and told them to take it off , and wait until the magazine is released for people outside E3 Yeah, but the damage is already done. They can't make people forget, and they can't stop people from discussing it.

No, they have a contract with Sony that says that the next 3 GTA games (GTA 3, VC and SA) were to be PS2-exclusive (they managed to find a loophole in the clause and publish to Xbox too), so it must be compatible with the PS2. Hopefully they'll improve the graphics engine for the PC version (fingers crossed).

You don't get many public servers faster than that.

Perhaps I misunderstood, but the way you said it makes it sound as if that's the only thing you managed to sync. MTA has the advantage that the core features are implemented, and so they can concentrate on extra non-essential features like this.

Nope, you can't do that. Lives are infinite and cheats aren't supported. I think your weapons are based on your class also (they are in VC anyway).

Yeah, it's always puzzled me why people say "Oh, 0.4's taking forever" and then go on to suggest a million extra things that you could put in there, so it was quite wise to lock down the feature list.

*coughs in a slightly embarassed way* I think this is the problem: Interestingly, typing "http://vicemultiplayer.tk/home.html" into the browser window presented me with the same page.

Rockstar haven't officially said it, but it's been touted by a lot of "sources".

I can easily see this turning into a flame war, so: Lock request

I didn't like the whole "getting fat" thing first of all, but the physics should be pretty cool.

Prokopis means that the team want to be able to support mods in the future (note that I said "want to" and not "will be able to for certain"), but not with the current core, and probably not the next one either.

Yeah, the best anti-flame tactic is not to ask questions (on any forum). I don't, and I've managed to remain flame-free so far Edit: Hmmm.... it might have been wiser to keep that to myself, on second thoughts. Oh well, I'll see how it goes...

Yeah, it does seem a little early for a leak. I thought it best for Xanni to remove his link just to be on the safe side.

When you're a programmer, you're always trying to optimise things for ultimate efficiency, so issues like these will improve with each core release. The team don't need to be reminded of this because they take it for granted that these issues need improvement.

Because it is called like that. In England that is. Yeah, that's true. I did French Orals.

Yeah, but, legalities aside, it's like peeping at your presents before Christmas. The only difference is that the game is in an unfinished state so your first impressions of the game will be somewhat diluted. There's nothing better than getting a well-hyped game on the day of release, and running it to find that the hype was justified. Running a leaked version will have none of the gloss that the final version has, and it's no fun shooting placeholder models.

Well, presumably the version is the latest patched one (I think it's 25054 or something like that), in which case it doesn't need the CD in order to run. And what's the error message?