After nearly two years of development, the MTA Team has shipped Multi Theft Auto San Andreas 1.6.0, a major multiplayer overhaul mod for the classic GTA 3D era titles. The release focuses heavily on long-overdue compatibility-breaking fixes and graphical improvements that had been held back across several prior versions, with new features planned for the next cycle.
Note that 1.6 is not network-compatible with older versions including 1.5.9, so both clients and servers must upgrade. Twelve backwards-incompatible changes and five deprecations are documented in the release notes on the MTA Wiki.
Release highlights:
- Many high-FPS inconsistency issues fixed
- Script support for custom IMG containers and model flags
- Vehicle sun glare effect added
- Corona rain reflections added
- Big sun lens flare effect added
- Dynamic ped shadows added
- Grass rendering corrected
- ARM support for MTA server (experimental)
- New GUI skins: Default 2023, GWEN Blue, GWEN Orange
- Missing GTA special character skins restored
- Camera weapon photos now saved in high quality
- Many stability, synchronization, and security improvements
- All language translations updated via Crowdin
- Windows 7 and 8.x users warned that CEF updates have ceased for those platforms