ABOUT Multi Theft Auto

Multi Theft Auto

This is an official Multi Theft Auto group on the Steam Community.

What is Multi Theft Auto?

Multi Theft Auto (MTA) is an open-source software project that adds full on-line gaming support to Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC game, in which this functionality is not originally found. It is the first open-source modification that adds a highly customizable network play element to a commercial closed-source single-player PC game.

Developed as an experimental piece of software initially for Grand Theft Auto 3 back in early 2003, Multi Theft Auto has become an advanced multiplayer platform for gamers and developers. Our software provides on-line gaming for dozens of players running user-generated gameplay content and scripts through a Lua virtual machine, and is freely distributed under the GPLv3 license.

It is worth noting that no original game files are modified in the process, so you can still play the single player mode just as you have.

Current stable release: MTA:SA 1.6.0

This version was originally released on June 16, 2023. There are subsequent updates to it posted every other week or so.

Installation instructions

MTA:SA works fine with the Steam version of GTA:SA.
Make sure that GTA:SA is installed and run it once, then just download the latest version of the mod from our website[multitheftauto.com] and install it. That's it, you are set and you can hop into the game right away.

Don't own the game yet? You can buy it from Rockstar Games Store: https://store.rockstargames.com/game/buy-grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy

A bunch of friendly reminders

Non-MTA:SA related advertisements will be removed and repeat offenders will be reported to Valve.
We are fine with your MTA server advertisements, but please post them in the Server Advertisements section in Discussions.
Non-English posts in the Comments section below may be removed on sight.
Feel free to ask for support with MTA:SA in Comments or Discussion sections, but you will most likely receive a quicker and better reply if you ask on our own support forums.[forum.multitheftauto.com]

GTA V Social Club Crew

Our Crew on R* Social Club[socialclub.rockstargames.com]
Want to join the Crew? Please leave a comment with your Social Club username.

Discord

You can find our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/mtasa

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Season Greetings - December, 2024

24 December - jhxp | 8 Comments

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 not be 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[x.com]. 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[discord.com] 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

Type

Amount of players

Date / Time

Recent peak number of concurrent unique players

24,808 players

2024.12.22 (at 18.13 GMT)

Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players

52,098 players

2020.04.02 (at 18.00 GMT)

Recent number of daily unique players

95,445 players

2024.12.15 (Sunday)

Highest recorded number of daily unique players

185,818 players

2018.02.03 (Saturday)

Recent number of monthly unique players

478,736 players

September, 2024

Highest recorded number of monthly unique players

805,903 players

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, 2023

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[discord.com],
we have got 13,790 followers on X/Twitter,
58,000 users follow our Facebook fanpage[www.facebook.com],
* 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

(you can find the original post here: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/topic/145099-season-greetings-december-2024/?do=findComment&comment=1030486 )

[2023] A Year in Recap and Season Greetings

24 December, 2023 - jhxp | 5 Comments

Hello everyone!

Winter is just around the corner, and so is the Holiday Season. Would it not be great if you could start them with a fresh "A Year in Recap" post to read, just like the usual?

And surprise, surprise - we have you covered! We have prepared a brief summary of the past year with all the important stuff that happened in 2023 from an MTA fan's perspective. And there is more than just that, so be sure to read the entire post!

2023 in Recap

There were a few important highlights for us this year.

Early this year, we have restructured our Moderation team a bit by adding Specializations divisions (such as: Management, Tech and Infrastructure, Social Media). The aim of this was to put extra talents of our Moderators to a better use.
At the very beginning of the year, we had unbanned (almost) everyone[forum.multitheftauto.com] who had ever received a *global* MTA ban. A risky move, you might have thought? As it turned out, we were actually quite pleased in how it fared in the end.
Next, we had celebrated Multi Theft Auto's 20th Anniversary on 9th of February. Aside from the lengthy feature post with some media, many of our community members also shared their memories with MTA in the celebratory forum post[forum.multitheftauto.com]. You all are also welcome to chip in and post your experiences there[forum.multitheftauto.com].
Few days after that, I interviewed IJs - Multi Theft Auto's founder - about his experiences with the project. Feel free to check it out if you have not done so already, as it also featured screenshots from our other projects.
One day in April, we had encountered minor disturbances with our perception, but all is fine now. Yllufepoh...
Later on, we had opened a beta testing phase for our next major release[forum.multitheftauto.com]. After the testing was over, we had released Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.6 in June. This is still our current stable release, which works best on Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems.
It is not just us who had their anniversaries - SAES, a long-time MTA clan/gang were also celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their community[forum.multitheftauto.com]. We are happy to see such long-time communities that have been around for almost as long as MTA itself, and we will be always looking forward to give them the spotlight.
This year had also seen some developments regarding the next game in the Grand Theft Auto series. Rockstar Games was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the creation of their studio[www.rockstargames.com], for which they published the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI in December. The game is planned to launch in 2025 on PlayStation and XBox platforms. The PC version was not announced at this time, but it is possible that it will come out some time after console releases as usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0
We also had some developments of our own. We had improved the Discord integration with MTA:SA client[discord.com] - this was made available for testing in our nightly builds. And recently, we have started featuring your media on our social media outlets, as a part of our Community Spotlights program. Want to be featured too? See one of the announcements on our Discord[discord.com].

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

MTA SA: The Horror Game - by TEDERIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzxY5jT32b0

MTA | DRIFT MASTERS GRAND PRIX | HANDLING - by Ahmkralq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKWRZbLeuA

Multi Theft Auto Showcase | Car Shop - by ianny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPXYGwo_zY

Nebla - Mausoleum of King Deshret - by Nakvie Records, map by Nebla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rke-m50kV8A

MTA SA: Simple AI & Pathfinding - by TEDERIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QdN8mQOP5w

Junky ft. Roxx ft. Nebla - Synthetic Life - by Nakvie Records, map by Junky, Roxx & Nebla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltlD10Gedgs

Current player counts and version fragmentation statistics

Type

Amount of players

Date / Time

Recent peak number of concurrent unique players

32,611 players

2023.12.10 (at 18.43 GMT)

Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players

52,098 players

2020.04.02 (at 18.00 GMT)

Recent number of daily unique players

119,707 players

2023.12.03 (Sunday)

Highest recorded number of daily unique players

185,818 players

2018.02.03 (Saturday)

Recent number of monthly unique players

552,402 players

November, 2023

Highest recorded number of monthly unique players

805,903 players

January, 2018

The numbers are lower than in the last year, but there are still many MTA players out there. According to Steam Statistics, the number of players is more or less similar to games like PayDay 2, ARK: Survival Evolved or Garry's Mod.

MTA:SA version or series

Percentage of players using that version or series as of 23rd of December, 2023

1.6.0

96.5%

1.5.9

2.8%

1.5.8

0.1%

1.5.7 (and older)

0.5%

1.4.x + 1.3.x

0.1%

Also as of 23rd of December, 2023:

76,250 members have joined our Discord server[discord.com],
we have got 13,826 followers on X/Twitter,
58k users follow our Facebook fanpage[www.facebook.com],
and our Steam Community group has 43,115 members.

Status update

Not much to report at the moment. Projects like ours depend on the volunteer work and community contributions, so things can get slower at times. We are always looking for new staff members for the project, be it developers, moderators, content creators or managers. If you would like to contribute or test your skills, feel free to reach out to us on our Discord[discord.com] or via forum PMs.
We have a bunch of things kept on our backlogs too, so we might consider re-visiting them in the upcoming year.

We hope that you all will enjoy the Holiday Season and wish you all the best in 2024!

-- MTA Team

Credits for the content submissions: Dutchman101, Haxardous, Nebla, xLive.

(you can find the original post here: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/topic/142514-2023-a-year-in-recap-and-season-greetings/?do=findComment&comment=1025437 )