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GTA3 and Vice City now Online Multiplayer
glengineer writes "A deep bow and an "I'm not worthy" to Kent Simon, at the University of Kentucky, Ed Lyons in London, and Chris McArthur in Canada who have made the dream come true for GTA fanatics like me - GTA3 and Vice City online multiplayer! Now I can streetrace and play Liberty City Survivor with real people, not just use the "crazy pedestrians" cheat. Rockstar would be nuts not to hire these guys. So, anyone up for a deathmatch? Meet me at the Malibu Club in Vice, or the construction site on Staunton Island."
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I can't imagine that what they've done doesnt break some copyright law somewhere-what are the odds Rockstar sues?
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Will we be able to pay eachother for sex and then murder oneandother to get our money back?
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
I used this quite some time ago... fun to play but when I tried it, it was pretty laggy if you were playing over the net and not on a lan.
GTA online won't work. it's far too easy to die in GTA to some bastard in a fast car, unless you've got a rocketlauncher you arn't going to stop that little kid who repeatedly runs you over outside the hospital.
I like muppets.
Maybe someone should note that the mod is for GTA3. The original Grand Theft Auto had multiplayer right out of the box. I can't remember if it was LAN only or if internet play was possible as well. But then that was a PC only game, right.
I wonder if precious features such as multiplayer will get rarer, now that many hit titles are ported from various consoles to proper computers. In this case the game was released with the unfinished multiplayer code and some dedicated people are getting it to work. Why did the original programmers give up at what appears to be more than half way through?
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i still dont understand why Rockstar didnt implement some kind of multiplayer mode in Vice City. The multiplayer in GTA and GTA London was by far some of the most fun (and ridiculous) LAN gaming experience I have ever had. Theres only so much fun you can have fragging - but once you start playing silly mini games like (kill as many pedestrians as possible in 2 mins) and (hunt each other down with only the rocket launcher) it showed the actual completely silly fun you could have with the game. I do enjoy Vice City, it is a good (however a little overrated) game. But it would have benefited tenfold from a proper built-in multiplayer mode.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Rockstar would be nuts not to hire these guys.
Or, given the current US corporate attitude,
"Rockstar would be nuts not to sue these guys."
Alright! I guess this is a dream come true for a right winger like me who very much dislikes GTA. This could be the one thing that destroys GTA forever (and the reason Rockstar never made GTA online multiplayer). Please read the following steps to figure out why.
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Step 1: GTA player downloads online capability.
Step 2: GTA player starts shooting other players online.
Step 3: GTA player no longer desires to kill hookers and cops, but other badguys.
Step 4: Since videogames influence behavior, there are less Cop shootings and more GTA player shootings in real life!
Step 5: Less GTA players means less profits.
Step 6: Rockstar sells company to "Big Idea" since they no longer make money.
Step 7: "Big Idea" starts making really cool VeggieTales games using Rockstar's old resources!!!
IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION!!!!!!!
Ive been following MTA(multi theft auto ) for a couple of years now (im sure its been that long) and played the various versions along the way . ,IT adds a feature that was sorely missing fromt he origional game , Many many hours have been spent with my mates having a few Buds(Budiwar chezch beer ,not budweiser) playing turn about ,The moment i lernt about MTA i was enthralled , i even installed windows on one of my machines to test it out , Honestly its a great deal of fun . .
I have to say that this is one of the best mod projects going
I have yet to look too deeply into it , but i would like to test it out on linux X86 and see how the network code fares with wine or cedega
MY point being has anyone tried to get this running under linux in some form , if so how (Was it just install and play).
ps the site seems to be suffering : http://osdir.com.nyud.org:8090/Article4775.phtml I have yet to make the correl cach link as i can not really access the site
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I Don't play GTA, so I don't know the answer. But if I could mod the game to include my own models (perhaps modeling the hookers and hoods after senators and congresscritters), Then I just might buy it.
There is not nearly enough love in the world, but there is far too much trust.
Really? But he just got here!
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Oh well
If you read a bit about their history (back when I read it, like, years [implying not very "now" like the submitted states]) ago, they speak about how it was once just a pretty memory hack. It still is a pretty memory hack, where they have mapped out different parts of the program's memory and alter it. There are other additional changes also done but I don't believe they ever touch the exe, thus they're not doing anything illegal (replying to some comments).
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Does anyone know if this new version addresses all the annoying problems in the previous versions? Things like the terrible inaccuracy of the shooting, jittery movement of both vehicles and players, and weird glitches like random vehicles being found stuck half-way in the ground. I've been waiting for multiplayer GTA for quite a while now but last time I tried multitheftauto it still had a long way to go.
Either way, keep up the good work guys!
Sen. Clinton should get online and try to clean up the place.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Seriously people, learn some fucking
When I visited Eastern Europe this past fall, I learned the truth to a myth. The rest of the world doesn't know anymore about the United States than the United States knows about the rest of the world. Turns out, Europeans are pretty "me-centric" too. Many of them only know about the immediately specific area around them. I was amazed at how hypocritical this type of attitude is.
I also found that after I introduced myself, nobody cared what specific-city (or state) I was from. I was, "the American dude."
I wonder if the vehicle stats are still local? I remember I played a while ago to vice city multiplayer, however I had modified the bike stats. I can still remember the surprise of the guy who tryed to ram my bike with his garbage truck, but instead went flying the other way. Who would have thought that a bike can weight a few thousand tonnes.
The idea of a GTA3 death match is nice and all, but what about an MMORPG based GTA3? Obviously, lots of the way the game works would need to change; Larger cities, leveling up, etc. but it seems like an interesting idea to me anyhow. This coming from someone who has never played an MMORPG before, but perhaps this would be the title to pull the monthly fees from my pocket....
It's the second biggest country on the fucking planet!
Please ignore China, Russia, and maybe Brazil and Australia.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Even though Chex Quest came out before the Columbine shootings, people still blamed it on Doom :)
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Wasn't multiplyer impossible because you couldn't share all the pedestrian information across players? How did they solve that?
Wondering if the Multiplayer version allows for teaming up or clan type scenarios. A roving gang of street thugs has a whole new meaning when there are actual players controlling them.
One word:
Chicken.
now we can all beat up on Hilary Clinton as she does her "research" on violent video games.
You don't know all that much about geography do you?
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Asking a politician to actually accomplish anything personally. What a hoot!
Next you'll claim The Shrub should do more to protect our right to due process, and enforce the separation of Church and state.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
GTA3 and Vice City now OFFLINE Multiplayer. Thanks to Slashdot.
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Well, you'll have to wait at least for the PC version to come out!
one thing i found amuzing and slightly amazing, australia doesnt even come in the top 50 by population
I am very sucseptible to "let's have another drink"
You know, I have a theory about why people dislike GTA. The first thing you do in a new situation is test your boundaries; once you know where they are, you can settle down and think about where in that space you want to be. But GTA doesn't have a lot of boundaries, so people go to where they think a boundary ought to be, and when it isn't there they get uncomfortable. After milling about in that area for a while, they realise they're outside the boundary they felt should be there, and they blame the game for not having it.
So what's your reasoning? Do you have any particular reason for not liking the game, or is it just "cool" in your circles to dislike GTA?
Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
This is a bit off-topic, but as the story is a dupe of a dupe of a dupe I don't feel too bad about mentioning it.
I visited Miami's South Beach over the weekend and was amazed by how well Vice City represented it. Like the stretch of beach all along the right island, South Beath stretches far along a strip of colorful restaurants and hotels. It was eerie at times -- I really felt like I'd been there before, especially when I showed up two nights in a row and saw some of the same exotic cars parked in the same spots.
For the interested, this included a Rolls Royce and a classic Corvette. I'm pretty sure the Corvette was owned by the establishment in front of which it was parked. Nonetheless it was amusing that much like in the game, coming back the next day revealed some of the same cars parked in the same places. My girlfriend and I joked about grabbing the Corvette and coming back the next day to see if it had respawned.
The eeriest thing about it was that the bridge between the mainland and South Beach was closed and barracaded due to a motor accident which had occurred slightly earlier -- in GTA:VC the bridges are closed until you accomplish certain missions, so it didn't quite surprise me that we couldn't take a cab across the bridge.
South Beach is a neat place to be, and any Vice City fans that find themselves in the area would do well to take a cab on over and enjoy the place that inspired the game setting.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
most Americans think Vancouver, WA
There's a Vancouver in Washington? I guess I'm not part of your "most" since when I hear Vancouver I immediately think of BC.
I wouldn't say I'm a bad gambler but the last time I went to Vegas I even lost a buck on the soda machine.
Yeah, Kent has been reminding me of the release date of San Andreas for PC for months now. The guys can't wait for it to come out so they can start modifying MTA to work on it.
"I, for one, welcome our new %INSERT ARTICLE SUBJECT HERE% overlords."
Unfortunately multi theft auto is so flawed it's unplayable apart from a few minute novelty value blast. It's laggy, collisions (bullets and cars) are screwed, there are no pedestrians. Oh, and all the car and gun stats are local so the few games that are available are filled with 14 year olds with 5000000 round capacity superlight chainguns who can run faster than your car.
I understand that this is because the game in no way was designed to be multiplayer friendly. Unfortuantely I think we're going to have to wait for GTA4 (or whatever) for a 'proper' multiplayer game.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
My friend and I would very carefully park hundreds of cars, tight as sardines, and set them all off in a wonderful chain-reaction with one shot from the rocket launcher.
You had to be very careful when stacking cars together because one bump could cause the entire set to bounce apart - preventing the chain-reaction.
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You left off "Step 8, Profit!!!" :)
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That's an interesting theory, but in all seriousness, I just don't like games that emulates such evil behavior. We as humans, whether on the right or the left, instinctivly know that murdering is wrong. We pay taxes to protect our cities with cops, why make a game that involves murdering them?
:) Believe it or not, there are people who just aren't entertained that way. I personally like games such as Mario or Sonic. The most violent game I'd play is something like Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts.
But GTA goes a step beyond that. Prostitution is a desperate profession. It's something people do when they are poor and have no idea how to make money otherwise. To have a game that shows them being murderd and thus despite their desperation, they are killed in cold blood is cruel.
I suppose it would be cool in "the right" not to like GTA, but I've never worried about being cool.
GTA Offline by /.
Im not even into gaming and I knew this.
Anyone else suspects that the slashdot editors are merelely a random (accept/submit) function?
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> I just don't like games that
> emulates such evil behavior
[...]
> The most violent game I'd play
> is something like Final Fantasy
So you have a problem with criminals killing criminals, but you don't see anything wrong with wandering around the countryside slaughtering innocent animals for gold and experience?
How much of that is because FF games don't look like Real Life? Would GTA be acceptable with cartoon characters instead of realistic people?
Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
All I have to say is that this is evidence that God lives, and that he loves us, and prayers work. Now, let's go kill all the Haitians.
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Does population really matter? Do you know what is going on in China, or Japan, or India, all of which are far, far larger than little, irrelevant England?
The UK is 244,820 square kilometers
California is 404,298 km
Texas is 678,907 km
Washington State is 184,824 km, not far behind the UK.
The reality is the UK has little to offer the world except population culture and being the secondary headquarters of the international usury racket, after New York. My touring of many British cities shows a broken people, whose lives are eternally spent trying to escape the reality their society and culture is rapidly crumbling before their eyes. Whether people listen to yet another crappy pop band, or get drunk, or do drugs, or watch a football game, the overall reason for being is the same.
I think your vision of the UK is a product of the very media monopolisation you abhor, as it certainly isn't based in reality.
Few things can be said with certainty in this world, and one of them is that the UK is dead. When the international financial system is finally wrested away from the weasals in London and New York, there will be nothing left for you. The future belongs to the East.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
"A teenager is looking for a trainer for his favourite game GTA3 on google. [...] He also downloads the source code since this trainer was open-source. [...] and the first GTA3 multiplayer game was created." ...
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" MTA isn't open source... And likely never will be."
Blokker_1999 / The MTA Team (Sun Sep 28, 2003 3:45 am): "i was thinking about releasing the source anyway"
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make install -not war
If so, I could get behind this. Too bad it would only be a game...
Rule of the open mind
People who are resistant to change cannot resist change for the worst.
I am a Republican and a Christian, and I have some issues with the content of the single player game for VC.. yet I am on the MTA team :-p
But My views as a republican are based on the protection of every one of our constitutional rights, 1st and 2nd included. I personally find it more disturbing that church youth groups will take trips to play laser tag or paintball, not playing a mulitplayer video game.
Paintball involves actually carrying a gun (which to some people could look very realistic) and shooting at your friends, in the physical form. To me the line between reality and fantasy is more blurred here than when viewing it through a CRT.
My $0.02
Kent
Kent Simon Multitheft Auto
Last time I played MTA with Vice City it was crawling with people using trainers/cheats. It got pretty insane. You'd shoot a guy with a shotgun 4 times without him falling down, you'd accuse him of cheating, he would deny it, then he would proceed to jump 200 feet into the air and board a helicopter...
I bought the game soon after it came out, mostly due to how much I liked 2. Originally the game was so resource intensive that it barely ran on any machine I had (only new machines at the time could run it). Now, with an Athlon 2600+ and a 128mb video card, the game runs nice and smooth, but crashes like crazy, has strange random lags, temporary freezes, etc (and none of these are hardware related - trust me). GTA3 would be an awesome game if it actually worked - but thousands of people already know it as one of the worst porting jobs in history.
-eventhorizon
#Secret Windows Source Code, in MS C% - if (uptime >= "24 hours") then bsod() else print "Windows License Violation!"
Ammm Australia only has a population of 20 million, we just think we are one of the biggest & most important countries in the world.
There's one address I saw recently that confused me for a moment -- Ontario, CA. Is that Ontario, Canada? No, it's apparently Ontario, California. Can't people get their own place names?
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
I could (and should) mod you up, but I'd rather reply. I, too, do not like GTA. I reckon the reason GTA is so popular is that it's so freeform. You wanna do such and such? Go do it! Now, I'm very much a hard-core gamer, having played many many games. Freeform is nothing new to me - Deus Ex, Thief, while not exactly comparable to GTA are certainly freeform when compared to, say, Max Payne. Now two of the most popular games are MP and GTA. MP, like Doom 3, and many other games, is rather less than freeform, while GTA offers practically unlimited freedom. But that's all it has going for it. And, to me, freeform is nothing new.
I also think it's very Freudian. In GTA, where the game doesnt 'punish' you for killing policemen, or anyone else for that matter, there's no motivation not to do so. At least in Half Life killing Barney means you dont have a useful sidekick to draw fire. In Driver, it's not possible. Faced with a lack of dis-incentive not to do these actions, the id takes over and the superego is thrown out of the picture. Pure impulse + desire should = alot of fun, as there is no ego to rationalize ethics or morality into the picture.
Yes, I think GTA is the lowest of the low, mostly because it relies on such a cheap gimick for popularity, but also because it's just plain boring.
(FYI: I consider myself very liberal, although, coincidentially I *did* just buy Kingdom Hearts today. Looking forward to playing it!)
Yeah, I bet you get laid a lot..
Why yes. Yes I do. Thank you for asking. I'm married and my wife and I very much enjoy such things.
It's not video games that are screwing up kids today, it's parents that don't want to take the responsability of being parents.
I agree that it is a parent's responsibility to monitor what games their kids play. However, there are a lot of parents who either don't mind, or don't know. So in that sense I think that the developers for any game that is readily available at a common store, say Wal-Mart, should take responsibility for the content of a game.
Considering that greenland + denmark and france + french polinesia + new calidonia + whatever else comes close to being bigger than canada, the list is good enough for the perpose.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Couple this arable land shortage with the consumption of the predominantly fat and rich Australian populace and you will probably be able to understand why they can't fit more than 20 million of them onto the island.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
That and the birth rate is barely self-sustaining.
No, in the border city (Lloydminster) and area to the east - which is in SK they use Alberta time.
Hey now...I was being serious. It really does piss me off. Bad day + stupid people == accidental troll I guess.