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MultiTheftAuto Mod For GTA3 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the car-marge-dead-on dept.

Ryan M. Pamplin writes "There's an announcement on the MultiTheftAuto website that the MTA v0.3b multiplayer mod is out for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 3, a milestone for the community. Servers are popping up everywhere - we can finally play a little GTA against our pals in 3D!" We ran a story on this a little while back, but there's now a downloadable version to tinker with.

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  1. Re:Anyone tried this yet? by randomdef · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was all written by rockstar (they removed it just shy of release) so the code should work pretty well. I've heard positive things previously.

  2. Re:Anyone tried this yet? by moonbender · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, no. It was not all written by Rockstar. There are some traces of multiplayer gaming in the original code, but this basically is a huge (and neat) hack, working only because the game tracks a list of cars the players used previously. Players joining the game then get to control those cars. And the netcode is allegedly sluggish even on a 100 Mbit LAN.

    Unless they changed the mod dramatically in the previous versions, that is. This is the way it worked originally - maybe they found some wonderful other way to do it. I doubt it.

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