MTA Team jhxp Posted December 31, 2014 MTA Team Share Posted December 31, 2014 The end of the year is near, so it is time for a little progress update for you guys. We are working hard towards our next release, but for now, let's recap the most important things that happened this year: We had released a point update for the MTA:SA 1.3 series - 1.3.5 in February, which fixed several issues present in the mod. Few months later, after a long development time we had finally released the MTA:SA 1.4 at the end of July. This release, aside from bug fixes, brought you some fantastic and long-time requested features such as Lua OOP (Object-Oriented Programming), user interface translations (known as l10n or localization) or the updated anticheat system. Along with the 1.4 release, we had set bounties for finding security flaws in our mod and cheats that can bypass our anticheat system. No software is perfect, and our mod is definitely not an exception, so we hoped that this would encourage third parties to help us make the mod more secure. Speaking of security as well, the MTA:SA 1.4 release had enforced the use of our Lua online compiler for compiled scripts. The online compiler, while being highly controversial (and rightfully so), seemed like an only viable solution to a security problem that was much bigger than convenience at the time or the compatibility with already compiled scripts. It was all explained later in Talidan's lengthy post. The transition went fairly smooth - those who were not using compiled scripts were not affected at all, and those who were just recompiled their scripts using the Lua online compiler or left the mod altogether. The problem was with a group of server owners who only had their compiled scripts without access to the original source files. This might have caused them other problems in the future though, due to not being able to edit the precompiled script eg. to add new features or comply with the syntax changes. More recently, Steam users have most likely noticed that their GTA:SA installs were updated a few times in November and December. This caused some game crashes, but we have dealt with it quickly so our mod retained compatibility with the Steam version. We also set new records for the number of concurrent MTA players. On 8th of November, we had nearly 22.700 players ingame at the same time, with nearly 130.000 unique players who joined any server that day. In general, we had over half a million of unique players each month (excluding February with ~490.000, but peaking on August with over 560.000 players), which was a noticeable improvement over a last year, when we never reached half a million of players in any of the months. A lot of effort was put into new features, which you may see in the future MTA versions, such as ingame web browser (courtesy of jusonex96), custom sound and voice improvements (Cazomino05) and OOP tweaks (qaisjp). We have also worked on regular bugfixes and performance optimizations (sbx320, ccw, jusonex96 and others) which are already present in most recent MTA:SA 1.4 builds or will be included in the next major release, which looks to be promising indeed. Lastly, we would like to thank you for your continued support. The mod keeps growing every day, and that is all because of you, our fans. Let's hope that we can make the next year even better for MTA. See you in 2015! --MTA Team! Link to comment
Scripting Moderators Sarrum Posted December 31, 2014 Scripting Moderators Share Posted December 31, 2014 Good job guys. ℋappy ℕew Ꮍear! Link to comment
Castillo Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Amazing job you all did! Happy new year to the entire team and keep up with the good work! Link to comment
TheCouncil Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 This year was full of surprises, Good job everyone And Happy new year! Link to comment
manawydan Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 nice man, Happy New Year! Link to comment
xeon17 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) This year was awesome in MTA , good job and keep up with the good work! Also, happy new year to every member of MTA Community/Forum Edited January 2, 2015 by Guest Link to comment
Other Languages Moderators Disinterpreter Posted January 1, 2015 Other Languages Moderators Share Posted January 1, 2015 Happy new year Link to comment
Perfect Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 (edited) MTA has really came so much further and still it is progressing, Thanks MTA Team(Contributors included) for it. Hope this year will be better than the previous ones (But still it can't beat those freaking amazing memories!) Wish a very happy new year to the awesome MTA crew and its community! Edited January 2, 2015 by Guest Link to comment
zero Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Nice team and happy new year. ^^ Link to comment
Z_ReC Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 MTA excellent team work !! Your mod is awesome compared to others. My respects to you and go for more! Greetings from Argentina !! Link to comment
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