[2019] A Year in Recap and Season Greetings

[jhxp]

 

Hello.

2019 is nearing to an end, so here is our traditional "A year in Recap" post for you. Below you can find the summary of what has happened this year - along with the current status of an entry (where applicable) and other things that might be interesting to you.

 

2019 in Recap

• Late January, we have refreshed our Forum Rules - we gave them a new look and rephrased a bunch of paragraphs to make them more clear and easier to follow.

• In May, we have decided to drop support for Windows XP and Vista in our future releases. These operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft and only a handful of our players still use them. We have advised our players to upgrade their PCs to newer Windows versions. While Windows 7 support will be soon ended by Microsoft as well, we still intend to support it in MTA:SA for a while.

• In July, we have opened an User Guides section on our forums, which aims to provide our users with quality guides and tutorials for various MTA-related topics. We are still looking into improving this concept.

• On 31st of August, we have released Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.5.7. This release was focused on performance improvements, minor scripting additions and bugfixes. It is still the current release and, as mentioned above, is the last main release for Windows XP and Vista.

• On the same day, we have asked you guys to help us re-design our community website. The work on the new community is currently on hold however.

• Later in September, Rockstar Games has released GTA: San Andreas for free on their launcher app (for a limited time). We have added support for it in MTA:SA shortly after.

• 26th of October marked the 15th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas original release on PS2. While it was not the game we started with, it was the game that allowed us to make MTA the successful mod it is today.

 

A bunch of interesting MTA:SA-related YouTube videos from this year

MTA SA: SAPDFR Online Gameplay 171 (Flaming in the Cold) - server SAPDFR.org, video by Armor23OnPatrol

 

[DM] NeiT ft. Gteatero ft. nX_ - Demons Skills 3 - video by GercszTV

 

FBX replace per element feature - concept and video by CrosRoad95

 

[MTA SA] Let's play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - server ex-zone.ru, video by TEDERIs

 

MTA:SA - Legend Mercy Tactics - video by TheGam3r23

 

MTA:SA Hydra Stunts 2019 [SW]Supa Innovation - video by SupaHotFire

 

 Current player counts and version fragmentation statistics

Type	Amount of players	Date / Time
Recent peak number of concurrent unique players	31808 players	2019.12.15 (at 17.30 GMT)
Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players	34653 players	2018.02.03 (at 17.30 GMT)
Recent number of daily unique players	132450 players	2019.12.21 (Saturday)
Highest recorded number of daily unique players	185818 players	2018.02.03 (Saturday)
Recent number of monthly unique players	531728 players	November, 2019
Highest recorded number of monthly unique players	805903 players	January, 2018

Player counts were lower than the ones from last year, but they're still large. Again, it's great to see that so many players are still interested in GTA:SA even though it's over 15 years old now!

 

MTA:SA Version or series	Percentage of players using that version or series as of 22nd of December, 2019
1.6.0 (old-alpha)	0.1%
1.5.7	97.80%
1.5.6	1.20%
1.5.5 (and older)	0.70%
1.4.x	0.1%
1.3.x	0.1%

The latest stable version is the most popular one - and that's good.

 

Status updates

Not much to say at the moment. Things have slowed down a bit, but we are working towards the next release.

 

That's it for now.
Happy Holidays and best wishes to all of you in 2020! 
-- MTA Team

[xLive]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Why isn't there a list of the most popular servers?

[Haxardous]

Viva MTA!

[TheGam3r23]

Merry Christmas and thank you for putting my video on your list! Happy holidays everyone!

[Falcon420]

Long live SW! Merry Christmas everyone 

[SupaHotFire]

Thanks a lot

[iiv03]

[DM] NeiT ft. Gteatero ft. nX_ - Demons Skills 3

was really best map in 2019

merry xmas all

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by xFabel

[Tut]

Merry christmas and happy new year.Thank you all for keeping the community going

Edited December 25, 2019 by Tut

[Jonas^]

Merry Christmas and may everyone have a successful 2020!

[Flatliner_]

Big thanks and happy Holidays everyone! For another creative year in 2020.

[Lord Henry]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone.

Feliz natal e feliz fim de ano para todos.
E um salve pros BRs

[ds1-e]

Merry xmas and happy new year 

[-ffs-PLASMA]

Its always a pleasure to see constant player count and development for this game/mod.

[Motar2k]

Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone

[NeiT]

Thanks for this! we'll still improving our ideas to bring you better and better maps!

[Adidas!]

Gteatero beast (((:

Glad to be here, let's keep it up.

[Bonsai]

Merry Christmas!

[Blast3r]

Nice to see the 31.8k playerbase figure on December 15, just some solid proof that GTA:SA is still not ready to die.


Keep it up guys and happy holidays!

[neves768]

It's even better If you compare to 2018 recap. You will see similar positive results =)

[Platin]

It seems that 2020 is going to be a good year for MTA. Congrats and thanks for all the patch contributors to let us keep expanding our servers in many numerous ways!