Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas mod

Hello all. The holiday season is finally here, and we have prepared a more compact summary post for you than usual. Please read on to see, what we have been up to lately.

GTA VI

The upcoming year will bring us the next game from the Grand Theft Auto series - GTA VI. Planned to launch in Fall 2025 on consoles, it will likely arrive on PC as well, just some months later. The second trailer for GTA VI is also rumoured to be shown soon, with some elaborate fan theories backing these rumours.

Will the game be good? Only the time will tell, but looking back, there was not a major GTA game release from Rockstar Games that was bad (for the sake of this argument, let's consider the Trilogy as a minor release 🙂).
That alone makes it worth to look forward to it, and it will be also nice to re-visit Vice City similar to how we did it with Liberty City and San Andreas.

MTA Status and Updates

• Not much to report in regards of MTA - we have been focusing on improving various parts of our infrastructure, which is not immediately visible at first glance.
  • Still, since there are many areas that need the attention, there is a lot of work involved. Thankfully, CiBeR, Botder, Lopsi, Dutchman and others have been looking into it.
• Thanks to the hard work done by our Helper - FileEX, we have also refreshed the Lua syntax highlighting system on our Wiki. For a long time it was unmaintained, causing many of the recent MTA scripting functions and events to be not correctly highlighted in the code snippet examples on the wiki. This has changed though, and it should be working much better now.
• We have been also tinkering with our #MTASpotlights hashtag on X / Twitter. We are still exploring this idea, but nonetheless, thank you for your submissions so far.
  • If you would like to share some media that we could promote, you can do so on our Discord, just please make sure to read the guidelines beforehand.
• And, naturally, there have been additions to the mod's source code now and then, bringing in new scripting functions and bugfixes. Similarly, we have been pushing those as client updates for you, also now and then.

Player Counts and Other Statistics

• Recent peak number of concurrent unique players: 24,808 players on 2024.12.22 (at 18.13 GMT)
• Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players: 52,098 players on 2020.04.02 (at 18.00 GMT)
• Recent number of daily unique players: 95,445 players on 2024.12.15 (Sunday)
• Highest recorded number of daily unique players: 185,818 players on 2018.02.03 (Saturday)
• Recent number of monthly unique players: 478,736 players on September, 2024
• Highest recorded number of monthly unique players: 805,903 players on January, 2018

For a mod for a game that is nearly 20 years old now, these are fairly good numbers. Smaller than last year, but still impressive. We are glad that you are still with us.

MTA:SA version or series - Percentage of players using that version or series as of 24th of December, 2024:

• 1.6.0 - 99.5%
• 1.5.9 - 0.4%
• <1.5.9 - 0.1%

Also, as of 24th of December, 2024:

• there are over 90,000 members on our Discord server,
• we have got 13,790 followers on X/Twitter,
• 58,000 users follow our Facebook fanpage,
• and our Steam Community group has nearly 50,000 members.
  
  

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To end this post on a high note, we would like to take this moment to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the Season and take care. 🎆

-MTA Team