MTA vs SA:MP

[Jerome]

Firstly, wtf is MTA? Somebody explain this to me, what is the difference between MTA and SA:MP? I have no knowledge of MTA. 

[Shark]

MTA was the first online thing of GTA.

[Hitman]

download & play it and you'll see

[Ph03n1x]

MTA = Multi Theft Auto. The original online MP mod for GTA.

MTA SA was not very good/fun last time I tried it. MTA SA syncs hits shooter wise as opposed to SA-MP which syncs them target wise. MTA SA syncs a lot more things than SA, for example shots on body parts. You can also upload skins and mods for everyone to use.

On paper MTA SA >> SA-MP but afaik MTA SA fails to deliver fun and quality wise.

[Vinnie]

MTA:VC was awesome back in the day and trumps VC:MP imo
MTAA is a buggy piece of crap that took way long to make, therefore most of their community gave up and u'll be lucky to see 300 ppl on a day.
Only things i liked was Satchel support and the admin system,the syc makes 2-5 minute tense showdowns into 5 sec fights and sometimes it just completely breaks.
I've also seen sliding cars and other stupid shit on there as well,bear in mind that this was on a 40 player server,SA:MP does it much better with that player limit doubled

[Munch]

How can you make a MTA vs SA-MP topic without knowing what MTA is???

MTA is, as others said, another Multiplayer for GTA. MTAA Race owned, and MTA DM was looking promising, and I stayed patient waiting for it for 3 years until they released it on 3rd Jan 2008. Then everyone realised how crappy it was, despite taking 3 years to make, most of which was spent bug fixing.

SA-MP on the otherhand released quickly, without a Race mod, and the sync wasn't all that great but at least they released and kept everything as promised. They also released new versions with nice bug fixes and stuff.


I was in MTA's BetaTeam (Peter too) which caused me to come to LVP. BetaTeam members had to have irc, which I got, and learned to see other people's channels, looked at Peter's first, and found LVP channel, and found LVP's IP and just joined, and here I am! So if it wasn't for MTA being so crappy, you may not even know who The Munch is, even though I've been on SA-MP since it came out.

So to sum it up:

MTA DM = Scripter's paradise (LUA, not crappy PAWN) and also people who are into a wide range of gamemodes (Some of which are actually cool, for example, Hay, Fallout, and Interstate 69).

SA-MP = Freeroamer and Deathmatcher's paradise (MTA DM had promising sync, then everyone found out the sync wasn't all that great compared to SA-MP, except car sync). And possibly RolePlayer's paradise, although with MTA's scripting advantages, I guess MTA would grab an RP fan's attention.

[ReLoaded]

i only liek 2 things of mta
the kill list looks sweet
+
u can customize ur skin

[Peru]

I've tried MTA before. I can only play it for 1 hour max until I get bored though

[[NB]ExPloiTeD]

MTA > SA-MP

MTA has endless possibilites, better sync, headshots etc alot of cool stuff that samp doesnt have and will never have )))

[Danny]

To be honest only real reason MTA is installed on my computer is the Map Editor