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[2021] A Year in Recap and Season Greetings

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Hi people!

Same drill as usual. The year is nearing to an end, so here is a freshly baked summary post for you. Read on and learn about all the interesting things that happened in the MTA community in 2021.

 

2021 in Recap

  • Early this year, we have restructured our Moderation team a bit by adding the Specializations divisions (such as: Management, Tech and Infrastructure, Social Media). The aim of this was to refine extra talents of our Moderators and put them to a better use.
     
  • As one of the results of that, the Management division has introduced a new way for more-involved-but-not-quite-there-yet MTA supporters to contribute - a Helper role. Curious about what it is? Check out the post by Tut.
     
  • At the end of July, our developer and designer, Patrik, has revived the live streaming idea a bit and played some MTA:SA on our Twitch channel. He focused on visiting various servers ran by the community. In case you have missed it, you can check the stream capture here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2KcspT0F0A
     
  • There were a few recurring requests that you guys have kept asking us about over the years. One of them was to release the mobile version of MTA:SA - apologies, but unfortunately that is still not going to happen ?. But another request was to make it possible to buy some official MTA merchandise. And guess what - we have listened to you on that one! Patrik has prepared some neat designs and we have put them for sale - although please keep in mind, we do not make any profits of these sales. Want to see the goods? Check them out here: https://multitheftauto.myspreadshop.net/all
     
  • Not that long ago, in early October, we have released Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.5.9. This release was focused on wrapping up the contributions made to the mod so far and put them in a single package for your convenience.
     
  • Same month, Rockstar Games has announced an upcoming release of "Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition", a remake/remaster of the original 3D era GTA trilogy (GTA3, GTA:VC and GTA:SA). Not only was it a sudden announcement, but also the release was coming really soon.
     
  • The remastered games were released, but received mixed reactions from gamers and reviewers. Technical-wise, they are a feat, as games were remade in a different and well-established game engine and are available for multiple platforms. Sadly, the same could not be said about the actual quality of these games as it was inconsistent. Hopefully, the improvements planned by Rockstar will bring them up to the quality they deserve.

    It is important to note that MTA mods (GTA3:MTA, MTA:VC and MTA:SA) do not work with the remastered games from the GTA: The Trilogy.

    We currently have no plans of making them compatible, as it would require an insane amount of effort, considering the technical differences between the original games and their remastered equivalents.
     
  • Lately, our Development and Infrastructure divisions have been working on improving the reliability and performance of our web services. You may have noticed that for instance, our forums have been running faster - it is all a result of CiBeR's hard work.
     
  • One of our distinguished community members, Haxardous, has prepared a list of interesting MTA:SA servers. If you are looking for a new MTA:SA server to play on, then you might want to check out one of his recommendations. You can find them here.
     
  • ModDB has recently featured all of the mods that won the "Mod of the Year" award in the last 20 years. We had won this award ten years ago, so naturally we are on the list too!

 

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

 

[DM] NikotiN ft. Lost ft. Driver ft. SKooD - Enormous Cataclysm - video by CHRS / map by Nikotin, Lost, Driver and SKooD

 

MTA-SA: Welcome to San Andreas Trailer (WTSA) #1 by ヌルぽ / Nurupo

 

#MTA:SA: ~ TACTICS / STEALTH by notzz & the_bestteam

 

Grafuroam drift handling update by Unity

 

SHORT ONE | NON-STOP MTA DAYZ by BuczU

 

YouTube in Car - Interactive Dashboard (MTA:SA) by Chemical Creations

 

MTASA Dangerous Experiments by Toliak Purple

 

Current player counts and version fragmentation statistics

Type Amount of players Date / Time
Recent peak number of concurrent unique players 37 487 players 2021.12.19 (at 19.13 GMT)
Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players 52 098 players 2020.04.02 (at 18.00 GMT)
Recent number of daily unique players 148 783 players 2021.12.19 (Sunday)
Highest recorded number of daily unique players 185 818 players 2018.02.03 (Saturday)
Recent number of monthly unique players 626 613 players November, 2021
Highest recorded number of monthly unique players 805 903 players January, 2018
 
MTA:SA version or series Percentage of players using that version or series as of 25th of December, 2021
1.6.0 (alpha; custom) 0.2%
1.5.9 97.6%
1.5.8 1.9%
1.5.7 (and older)

0.2%

1.4.x + 1.3.x

0.1%

Still looking good.

 

On a side note, our community on Discord keeps growing. We went from 20k users last year to nearly 40k this year. Our presence on social media (Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Reddit) is improving too - thanks to work done by Patrik and the Social Media division.

 

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Enjoy the holidays and hope to see you back in the next year!

-- MTA Team

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Happy new year everyone! ?

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Happy Holidays & New Year everyone!

Thank you all for your continous support and contributions towards this project! :D

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Happy New Year everyone, hoping yall enjoying your best times! ?

- Thanks for mentioning my list :) -

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This year, we lost our position at MTA that we have been working for for 15 years, frankly, it has not been a good year for us. Moreover, the MTA manager did not help after stating that he would help, frankly, we were not taken seriously. I hope you won't have any problems like we did, hope the next year will be good.

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Merry Christmas to the ones who celebrate it! Happy holidays or just a generally nice time at the end of 2021 to everyone. We had quite the ride until today and we shall continue having much fun and strength as community.

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Damn,been playing MTA for like 11 years now and i never expected to be featured on one of this post,thanks a lot for that and i wanna also say thanks to my fellow teammates for making this thing possible. I wish you guys a happy new year.

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Happy new year! And thanks so many developers who bring interesting projects.

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Great recap, keep up the good work guys!

Happy New Year to you all.

 

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As I was on holidays I didn't have a chance to respond to this topic yet. So, happy new year to everyone in the community and I hope it'll be a great year for all of you and for MTA itself as well.

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