This Was The First Version Of GTA ONLINE

[@letal6123]

Yo, Eastern European MTA Player here. You're right, MTA is kinda "underground project". But unlike SAMP, MTA is more for car guys, than rpg/rp players. The first server you joined is "Drift Paradise" and it's most popular drift server in MTA, but many people (including me) dislikes this server for it's community being 8yo phonk jdm kids on ugly cars with 45 angle chamber, low quality car models, and level grind. The gem of MTA is small servers with ~20ppl online, who know eachother and just building stylish cars, making cool screenshots, and drifting around. Even I have good PC and steering wheel I still play MTA, because for me the physics is better than any AAA-arcade racing game, and it actually helped me getting into sims (at least it gave me understanding of steering, throttle etc while drifting). Also most of servers focus on quality, then quantity. Like, who needs so many cars in forza or GT with no tuning. On good mta serveres every car has so many thuning parts, you can't imagine. Also due the game being so old, it's really easy to make models for mta. You can just export a model from Asetto and import into MTA in like 15 minutes. Adding new bodykits is even faster. And, if you ask me, why not FiveM, gta5's physics sucks, the cars are too heavy and uncontrollable.

[@silenthill-b7x]

so you're not gonna mention your server? so rude - eastern european as well

[@letal6123]

@@silenthill-b7x sorry, i'm gonna get my аss beaten if i'll advertise any of these servers, and most of them are private anyway :(

[@lorenzobennati8957]

bruh​@@letal6123

[@dannyg4835]

I remember going into anarchy servers and using some weird code in server that made any car you had bump into other and they would fly miles away. I also used bassboosted songs like the intro from monsters, inc. Or nirvana to annoy people Zombie servers were also cool😅

[@alenny1740]

what about racing more than drifting servers? I tried the nfs one and there was not a single soul (only thing that can be done solo are pursuits, some of it is behind cooldowns and the other requires players to play like normal races)

[@fattoo]

Actually, SAMP was the OG, but MTA was a fucking mental upgrade.

[@LaxTheLegend]

Samp was the first multiplayer exp for gta sa, but MTA was the og platform for Grand Theft Auto Multiplayer Experience. It started in 2003 already with GTA 3

[@LaxTheLegend]

Also just learning this my self, did not KNOW.. :D

[@fattoo]

@@LaxTheLegend Damn. Didn't know either. SAMP was the OG for me because it was my first experience with online GTA back in 2007. SAMP was and still is very popular in my country. I only came across MTA around 2012-2013 because of DayZ servers. Still, pretty dope that both plataforms grew together.

[@LaxTheLegend]

I kinda wanna try samp now😂

[@Playerr98714]

@@LaxTheLegend try bro its great and reliable and has multiple mode maps just like MTA

[@bdflworig]

MTA is also very popular here in Brazil because the server can be easily modded and ppl use this to put brazilian cars and skins in it and roleplay, mostly as cops or factions

[@munraitoo13]

as vezes bate saudade dessa época...

[@potato_dbd]

Eastern European here. I grew up with MTA because I couldn't afford to buy games at the time (hell, I was 15 when GTA V came out on the 360). Even San Andreas was pirated. For what it was, it was an awesome experience. I never got into RP stuff, I just played Deathmatch racing.

[@LaxTheLegend]

Sick

[@Kabr0.]

MTA is goated, to this day i am playing on polish server 4life, it's rpg type server and in peak there is around 600-700 players.

[@LaxTheLegend]

I think the one i was on was like that

[@romer2385]

4life? What's your nickname :D

[@MilesFox92]

I still remember, how in around 2013 or 2014 I've found some awesome freeroam server with cool mapping and GTA IV car models and an enterable Andromada flying all over the map. Every day after the school I was opening MTA just to join this server for an hour or two. And one day it just disappeared forever ;(

[@LaxTheLegend]

Damn that was propaply sad times huh?

[@raresfed]

grafuroam

[@UnitumRP]

Roleplay Servers were always located at SA-MP.

[@vibavy]

I never knew this existed, I was only ever on consoles tbf. fire vid btw

[@LaxTheLegend]

This was the shit back in the day, honestly i recomend trying it if you have gta sa, or even if you dont because you only need the game files

[@E.S.K_385i]

you missed a lot i played it since 2011 and stopped playing at 2021

[@swirvin_625]

You missed out bro

[@ugursku]

You really missed a LOT

[@Moli05]

you didn't miss out lol most people who played these kinds things only did because their pcs sucked. idk but I prefer playing GTA v cod or battlefield lol

[@seniordipshitter8954]

The amount of hours me and my brother have spent on DM stunt race servers is probably in the 10K range +. This was the childhood im glad i had

[@LaxTheLegend]

Ong

[@ArcyGoldenSnowTV]

I miss VCMP no one is around in them anymore but SAMP remains extremely active

[@LaxTheLegend]

What was VCMP was that for a different gta?

[@ArcyGoldenSnowTV]

@@LaxTheLegend VCMP stands for Vice City multiplayer, it was very famous back then, it became inactive once Five M was released. The last time it was active was in 2015

[@LaxTheLegend]

Oh man i loved vice city

[@ArcyGoldenSnowTV]

@@LaxTheLegend I can't imagine anyone who doesn't 👁️👅👁️

[@fenn_fren]

I'm currently replaying Vice City and was just wondering if there ever was an MP mod like SA:MP. I'll give it a go.

[@itskebiksons]

Always thought samp came first. Huh. Good to know. Awesome video! Also that subie drift was immaculate sir

[@ThoaiLe-x6g]

Those people in Russia have good PC just like us but the reason they still playing is bc the old game is more fun. Me and my friend still play SA-MP bc we like to mod.

[@LaxTheLegend]

naa they got bad pcs

[@H41TH4M]

y'all broke ash

[@ThoaiLe-x6g]

@ Habibu

[@MERC1_G]

at hungary and romania this THE roleplay power house. Hungarian SEEMTA have 600-800 players at a good night and we have a constant player base.

[@LaxTheLegend]

cool

[@terdik36]

and every other hungarian server is just a blatant copy of seemta lol

[@plundaphonikz2570]

Bruh Russians build entire RP projects with their own launchers and fully modded new maps and assets with 1000 players per server on 10+ servers. Just sayin, Been playing SAMP RP since 2010ish and I am bilingual so been following a lot of projects ever since. Online is not as good as it used to be but Brazil and Turkey are also hosting some pretty big projects as well!

[@terdik36]

@@plundaphonikz2570 "their own launchers" is probably an overstatement, it's most likely just a fork of mta, still impressive nonetheless

[@petreshkow2]

MTA was the best thing back then

[@LaxTheLegend]

Did u move on to fiveM? Because i honestly never played fiveM but this was gold back then

[@petreshkow2]

@@LaxTheLegend I did play fiveM because my friends started playing it, but I still from time to time hop in MTA and play on whatever I find

[@terallaret5987]

@@LaxTheLegend SA-MP is way older then MTA

[@LaxTheLegend]

dont believe you :D

[@terallaret5987]

@@LaxTheLegend you actually right

[@peconi47]

man, i remember joining a random server a few years ago and then meeting the people, admins and the owner, constantly playing for 2 years, then lost the server ip, found it again, had to go and lost it again (lost it because i reinstalled windows) miss those guys.

[@LaxTheLegend]

i had people like that in TF2 still never saw them :D

[@peconi47]

@@LaxTheLegend same, some tf2 trade plaza 2 server i played on for years while i never traded since i was f2p, good times

[@raresfed]

i think i know the server name either grafuroam or saaf their both identical servers

[@peconi47]

@raresfed not sure, I don't remember the name but it did have "drift/freeroam/zombies" at the end of the name of the server some of the admins and friends were called "adr1ft", "inferno", "w 3 3 d" (without spaces and replace 3 with e)

[@renanseal]

Nostalgic, I started modding in MTA, I'm now in Fivem modding and learned a lot on that, I gained a big part of my knowledge in 3d from mta and gta San Andreas

[@LaxTheLegend]

🔥thats cool🔥

[@madmanfits]

same here man loved this growing up

[@haycebeatz]

mta was so damn popular in Poland, there are still a lot of polish servers there with 100+ players

[@LaxTheLegend]

Ye i saw that in the server browser

[@expert2450]

GTA 2 was first online game

[@DrifteRMTA]

I used to make content on this game but i quit now me and my cousins played this game everyday since 2009, probably got more than 15K hours on it, in my opinion this is def the best game of all time

[@LaxTheLegend]

15k?????!??!?!?? bruv

[@StancyMiata]

Man this brought me back childhood memories. I use to play this and samp.

[@REALRDW]

NEARLY AT 2,000 BRO HOLY W 🙏🙏

[@blip1337]

1:10 bro said "we have such shitty pc" before he even heard about seemta v4 mod

[@LaxTheLegend]

just saying that why not move on to fiveM or other ones?

[@Noa15Lv]

MTA is goat! Runs on any potatoe basically!

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea its great

[@isaaccortez8836]

Yo post more of this! Looks like fun! Would love to see you interact with actual players

[@ZenTauren]

There was GTA 3 multiplayer as well.

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yes there was, but honestly the gta sa one was the best one.

[@michuXYZ]

Fun fact, GTA 3 literally has leftover multiplayer protocole and maps hidden in game files, watch a youtube video about it. Found out about it like just few weeks ago.

[@forzaflyracer3473]

The Donkey Kong music part of the video or is that in-game music there? Makes me want to play it. Driving physics looks great..... So watching deep into the video ya got me, you added that 😂

[@TotallyNotKanye]

i cant believe no one was farmed with the vic thing... that was wicked hahaha

[@streax8885]

MTA was my childhood. Still pop in from time to time

[@superrspace]

youtube algorithm recommended this to me, im glad it did

[@LaxTheLegend]

❤️

[@UKWN]

2:52 John what? 😂😂😂 Cool vid though.

[@LaxTheLegend]

😂😂 JOHN VIC :D

[@Levimbenji]

10:08 Smokey Nagata's average Wednesday on a highway in the UK

[@LaxTheLegend]

ong

[@decayedparadigm]

samp og here from ArgonathRpg xD

[@dazzaMusic]

Drift mountain was awesome back in the day

[@LaxTheLegend]

Ye

[@Z38_US]

Still play MTA almost daily, nowadays mostly on FFS doing some deathmatch racing

[@TheRastafarianStuff]

i seriously doubt gta was your childhood

[@LaxTheLegend]

I think the first game i ever played was gta sa on ps2 but not at launch. It was my brothers hand me downs so played what i got. I played gta sa when gta 4 was already out

[@TheRastafarianStuff]

@@LaxTheLegend me too because nobody had a powerful pc back in 2008 to play gta 4 instead I spent hunders perhaps thousands of hours on vice city and san andreas and loved modding em. I even remember this MP mod but I can't really tell if it was bigger as I remember in 2008 everybody was on SAMP literally role playing as various jobs and even today they might have more people on their servers

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea its crazy how many people still play it, but tbf it is fun

[@forsaken0822]

MTA Dayz bro,... still have players what are playing 30euro per mount for bases ,/ 30 euro mounts car etc .

[@dronestuff]

5:06, An Audi with romanian license plates. Very eastern european indeed.

[@vin1ty]

i love multi theft auto, it was my fav thing besides SAMP since it didnt work sometimes.

[@Jakau-q8i]

Being an Eastern European gamer myself, I never personally played MTA. I liked SAMP more, despite MTA offering a lot more opportunities. Anyway, GTA roleplay always was quite popular here and we had quite a bunch of servers. Arizona RP, Trinity, SAMP-RP RU, you name it. That's why most of the servers in SAMP or MTA are Russian. Ever since early 2010's all those RP servers were spreading like a wildfire, I can even remember how in school I could've heard some random guys discussing their experience on those servers. And the fact that you don't even need a decent PC to play it only added to it's popularity. And if we speak of MTA, it wasn't so popular. I mean of course, for server owners it was a good choice because you can upload custom cars, maps, weapons and stuff like that. I even remember playing on a server where they made a DayZ replica inside of the game which was pretty crazy. But as for an average player SAMP as there was a lot more people playing it rather than MTA. Even to this day SAMP fanbase is larger than one of the MTA.

[@slap.]

damn finally a vid about mta 😂❤

[@LaxTheLegend]

Worth it

[@Celtic95]

I played MTA:SA 10yo,SAUR Utopia,a lot of Balkan people were there,still are,but i stoped playing coz my friends stoped,a lot of memories are there..

[@grdimajmun]

I used to play this a lot when I was a kid. CIT Cops 'n' robbers mostly

[@maxi40789]

I remember playing on THE german roleplay server in SAMP.. 500/500 slots full server.

[@LaxTheLegend]

Thats alot of people

[@313_A__]

man the memories MTA was really popular in middle east now most the servers were shut off and empty

[@LaxTheLegend]

That sucks its honestly like a gta version of gmod

[@KapiCool]

I have like 5k hours on one of the polish rpg servers. This game is really special for me and I don't event know why to be honest lol

[@LaxTheLegend]

For me it was because it was the first gta game that i played and then there was a multiplayer version which was awesome

[@kxdsh]

when did this come out? I remember being a little shit (like 3 or so, so in 2009) and seeing someone play San Andreas online on one of those freeroam maps with stunt jumps and tubes and shit everywhere

[@MoktavZ]

i used to play rp server using mta almost everyday during school with friends

[@ebi6097]

2:38 Dude CIT used to be my life back then. Until the server owner started to care less about it and let his greed destroy the ingame economy. Not to mention the power tripping admins lol

[@RetroSmoo]

I remember when you could only race on MTA lol I think the main differences are is that samp more for roleplaying etc while MTA is sandbox like

[@Playerr98714]

I still play SAMP ITS very well and have multiple mods freeroam DM and much more fun mini games

[@oussamaknani7753]

mock, i subscribed cuz of the mock

[@Iwasherelol14]

I remember MTA, I was 6 playing on them servers😂 i remember transformers, fast and the furious and cripvbloods were the popular servers

[@LaxTheLegend]

It was awesome

[@loly_twintel]

2:12 literally this is like a carx drift wannabe with mix of forza element Also you forget to try Need For Speed: San Andreas server on MTA

[@LaxTheLegend]

Damn did i forget or did i just not want to?

[@loly_twintel]

@@LaxTheLegend i think you forgot to visit since player count is really low lol

[@DJAultric]

this video ate my brain rot away

[@LaxTheLegend]

Damn, i need to find a video like that for me

[@CaptainDijango]

ofc bro went on drift paradise that shit is one of the coolest servers on MTA

[@felborn4545]

Yoo drift paradise [red] is better than the majority of modern day drift games that i've played, It also has way more customization than most games too

[@ashmitpahal]

This is insane John wick and functional mobile in GTA SA

[@1312Bones]

we got flappy bird in gta san andreas before gta 6

[@LaxTheLegend]

😅

[@richardpires9839]

My gosh. Good memories. I used to play the DayZ server in GTA samp, look for players and start haunting them in the chat making them scared😂😂😂😂😂

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea i remmeber those dayz servers too

[@vm5153]

great vid

[@LaxTheLegend]

Thanks dude glad u liked it

[@ghazzter]

There was a Vice City online before this. It was not as intuitive as this, but you can play online with people.

[@fallingvibes]

MTA was awesome experience, yet it wasn't that alive, most probably because it required more from your PC than SA:MP did, hence why SA:MP is still alive with over 40.000 people in the servers worldwide. One of the known servers was UIF (United Islands Freeroam) which was basically full of different modes and freeroam drifting

[@LaxTheLegend]

it was fun

[@that65_guy]

I would play this now because of the extras

[@Kill_Binho]

This really was like FiveM, there's servers with roleplay rules. I first played on gta3 You could have said this was a mod, it's easier for the unaware to understand

[@PlatinumStrikes]

These servers used to be packed back in the day

[@mrwoodcat]

SAMP is still popular rn it now even came to android

[@mplay8125]

My good old days

[@andreapineda4053]

If most wanted collaborates with gta they will make this and I wish for a remaster or a remake

[@Kuz1945]

San andreas multiplayer (SAMP) came out as a mod for GTA SA since 2006, it IS the first gta multiplayer experience

[@LaxTheLegend]

Actually🤓 the first one came in 2003 and it was for gta 3 and that was MTA

[@xluca2143]

This was the FiveM of Gta San Andreas ong

[@yungjoshx]

anyone here played on cit2 back 2011-2013? real ogs remember

[@LaxTheLegend]

Im not that og i just played on finnish coffee server😂

[@davidalex0607]

It was my main server where I played the most, how many players does it peak these days? back then it was almost full server

[@yungjoshx]

@@davidalex0607 i actually started playing there again shortly after posting my original comment. never more than 200 players, usually around 80 when I play

[@evangelosGR94]

samp and mta was legendary

[@johncanas2245]

Mta has always had a better netscript as far as i remeber, very early builds of samp used to have heavy lags and were kinda unplayable, but Mta was kinda popular back then

[@LaxTheLegend]

Honestly i didint even know about samp before people talked about it in here :D

[@johncanas2245]

@@LaxTheLegend how old are you my man

[@LaxTheLegend]

19

[@DarkWorld_Vault]

Exactly that’s what I’m trying to explain to everyone

[@DarkWorld_Vault]

The sync was better and mta was just so easy to understand and setup when it came to creating servers

[@cha9or_5]

The issue i know a saudi friend he is rich have last specs 4090 etc.. and he still play MTA in arab's server but most of the players are from Egypt but majority are brazilians and russians and samp too

[@kakkanat]

Hop on the best server, SeeMTA V2, its the ebst server, but its hungarian..

[@samantha.nm1]

You guys should try CIT server in MTA. It's the GOAT in my opinion :>

[@Enoh_0]

Really cool men

[@LaxTheLegend]

Men are cool, no homo

[@manoz8523]

i've made videos on mta servers dogfight kinda sick online experience better than gta online itself

[@siegfriedschnosel5114]

I played this for multiple thousands of hours when I as a kid

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea it was awesome specially because i didint know about garrys mod so this was basicly that but in gta :D

[@SeHyMain]

9:00 Average Autobahn sunday

[@mariuswalker9017]

This game got me into coding cuz in 2011 when i first found the game, there weren't really any resources for the game and what I got my hands on I would rewrite them until I ended up creating other modes, after which I also learned the 3D modeling part and towards the end I discovered the women and i gave up on video games 😂😂😂

[@LaxTheLegend]

I think saying that discovering women took you away from games is cringe and corny. I met my gf who doesent really play anything but i still play games and nerd about it

[@hotaldo9208]

what is the second server you played? 2:34

[@NeblaStuff]

Yo, MTA mapper talking. You may check FFS or TFF servers jf you bored from Roleplay or Dayz gamemodes 😅

[@SlideWayzFetti438]

Man the good ole days

[@williamshakespeare88]

I remember racing in rp servers and anti rping too doing some terrorist acts

[@HoodFavJB]

Perfectly normal car. . . *Crashes seconds later*

[@LaxTheLegend]

I was moving😅

[@YelLow-d3v]

That car from gta 5 was also a car in gta 2 and 3

[@thiscat3342]

mta is really good for freeroam and tuning tbh also it gives the player more tools they can use like creating objects there are some people that is making mta servers rn that is based on other maps solely using the object tools and stuff the bad part about mta is it's really low on things like roleplay or rpg it didn't put itself much into it samp has waay more scripting abilities onto it another thing is i'm pretty sure there were gta onlines of older games like vice city and 3 you could try checking those out too if they didn't close their servers

[@thiscat3342]

talking about this it made me miss times where we would use /drop and go dropping up with our cars to the other side of the map or having car meetups those were awesome

[@taureanwooley]

Reminds me of the 2000's

[@joeljacobs-li3ih]

we need to bring this game back 2 life

[@LaxTheLegend]

We need gta 6

[@joeljacobs-li3ih]

@@LaxTheLegend ye but i dont think gta 6 will hit like mta back then

[@123zumiezkid]

What was the music from at around 9:10

[@mylifeisfunny8911]

MTA:SA and SA:Mp are timeless

[@LaxTheLegend]

Ong

[@ultronic2765]

WHAT ABOUT VICE CITY?!?!?!? ITS ALL SA!!!!!!!!!

[@sledner]

duuuuddee, I used to play the pubg gamemode when I was younger

[@Jtroberts22]

The first server Drift paradise is lots of fun way better on a controller.

[@Babbages]

mta had gta 3 and vice city multiplayer years before san andreas or sa-mp i use to play them with a pentium 3 and 32mb video card at like 20 fps online on dial up had to upgrade to a 128mb video card when san andreas came out rofl

[@AvenGPlayz]

Play CIT Cop "N" Robbers with me please. We have lot of memories on that server of mta sa

[@LaxTheLegend]

we have memories? Do i know you?

[@AvenGPlayz]

@@LaxTheLegend i mean me and my friends not u :D

[@Skeleleman]

Oh man you played MTA without trying the Dayz servers. That shit was legendary, TOP-GTA servers were the best. Even now I join sometimes just for fun.

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea i tried that too, it was fun😂👍

[@kyridd]

"GTA san Anders"

[@LaxTheLegend]

Yea.. i butchered that name

[@notyobiz6207]

full theft auto / simbad de zeeman server