[2019] A Year in Recap and Season Greetings news - Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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Hello.

2019 is nearing to an end, so here is our traditional "A year in Recap" post for you. Below you can find the summary of what has happened this year - along with the current status of an entry (where applicable) and other things that might be interesting to you.

• Late January, we have refreshed our Forum Rules - we gave them a new look and rephrased a bunch of paragraphs to make them more clear and easier to follow.

• In May, we have decided to drop support for Windows XP and Vista in our future releases. These operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft and only a handful of our players still use them. We have advised our players to upgrade their PCs to newer Windows versions. While Windows 7 support will be soon ended by Microsoft as well, we still intend to support it in MTA:SA for a while.

• In July, we have opened an User Guides section on our forums, which aims to provide our users with quality guides and tutorials for various MTA-related topics. We are still looking into improving this concept.

• On 31st of August, we have released Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.5.7. This release was focused on performance improvements, minor scripting additions and bugfixes. It is still the current release and, as mentioned above, is the last main release for Windows XP and Vista.

• On the same day, we have asked you guys to help us re-design our community website. The work on the new community is currently on hold however.

• Later in September, Rockstar Games has released GTA: San Andreas for free on their launcher app (for a limited time). We have added support for it in MTA:SA shortly after.

• 26th of October marked the 15th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas original release on PS2. While it was not the game we started with, it was the game that allowed us to make MTA the successful mod it is today.

[DM] NeiT ft. Gteatero ft. nX_ - Demons Skills 3 - video by GercszTV

FBX replace per element feature - concept and video by CrosRoad95

[MTA SA] Let's play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - server ex-zone.ru, video by TEDERIs

MTA:SA - Legend Mercy Tactics - video by TheGam3r23

MTA:SA Hydra Stunts 2019 [SW]Supa Innovation - video by SupaHotFire

• Recent peak number of concurrent unique players: 31808 players on 2019.12.15 (at 17.30 GMT)
• Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players: 34653 players on 2018.02.03 (at 17.30 GMT)
• Recent number of daily unique players: 132450 players on 2019.12.21 (Saturday)
• Highest recorded number of daily unique players: 185818 players on 2018.02.03 (Saturday)
• Recent number of monthly unique players: 531728 players in November, 2019
• Highest recorded number of monthly unique players: 805903 players in January, 2018

Player counts were lower than the ones from last year, but they're still large. Again, it's great to see that so many players are still interested in GTA:SA even though it's over 15 years old now!

MTA:SA Version or series - Percentage of players using that version or series as of 22nd of December, 2019

• 1.6.0 (old-alpha) - 0.10%
• 1.5.7 - 97.80%
• 1.5.6 - 1.20%
• 1.5.5 (and older) - 0.70%
• 1.4.x - 0.10%
• 1.3.x - 0.10%

The latest stable version is the most popular one - and that's good.

Not much to say at the moment. Things have slowed down a bit, but we are working towards the next release.

That's it for now.