Garage, Minigames, PowerDD Tournament, The Favorite Contest & Ban Appeals

[/TfF\Nao]

Dear fellow community members,

 

I hope you have been doing well since we last met in the framework of an announcement. It’s hard to believe that six months have flown by since we last shared updates and discussed our collective goals. Over this period, our community has continued to grow and evolve in wonderful ways, thanks to your dedication and active participation. As we look to the future, we're thrilled to announce the upcoming release of two exciting new features designed to enrich your experience and add a layer of fun to our community

 

 

 

 

First, let's start with the Garage update, which consists of new features of tuning & garage. We have come up with lots of ideas, which was never seen in MTA:SA before, so I hope you will enjoy using them. In brief, these new features or paint jobs are pearlescents & glow. However this is not the only feature we have decided to roll out. Therefore, let's get down to the business, and elaborate on some major feature updates.

 

Garage Coins:

We have introduced a "currency" for garage which is known as garage coins, you can gain them from cases, events & random drops. This will help you to access features which were possible by obtaining a donator status, from now on, you can access some of the garage features without being a donator.

 

Bodyparts:

Body parts have been refactored, from now on you have to buy body parts one by one. This includes bumpers, spoilers, side skirts, hoods, roofs, covers, fenders, presets & plates. This helps you save more money, and design your vehicle as you will for a less amount.

Spoilers: If you equip a Spoiler, you can choose whether to use colorized spoiler or apply a carbon texture on it.

On top of that, DaXX has been making a new Infernus model with lots of body parts.

 

Pearlescent:

Pearlescent is a type of paint job that you can apply to your vehicle. It gives you a gradient, glowing and colorful touch to your vehicle. They are applied under the stickers, so the variety of uniqueness for your vehicles has been expanded to a vast extent. However these types of paint jobs are available for everyone, for donators, we have decided to release this feature for free - as long as the donator status persists until it is reset, if you don't own the given pearlescent.

 

Glow:

Glow is a type of paint job as well. When this feature is enabled, the overlays & pearlescent are disabled for the vehicle for performance reasons. Basically, glow depends on the angle you are looking at a vehicle, it is visible at the edge of the car. Glow is free to color.

 

Overlays:

We have extended overlays a bit. Some overlays might have covered stickers which made you dump the idea of using overlays. Now, this problem is solved! From now on you can decide whether the overlays should be applied under or above the stickers. For example, if you own a pearlescent, and apply it under the stickers, the overlay will be only displayed on the pearlescent (to be exact, on places where stickers don't cover the vehicle body). This gives a really good opportunity to design your vehicle with more effectiveness.

 

Wheels:

The functionality of wheel tuning has been expanded as follows: You can now change the angle of inclination of your wheels, known as camber. Moreover, you can change the offset of wheels, meaning that you can move your wheels towards and outwards of the axis. In addition, you now have to opportunity to change the width of the wheels. Must be mentioned, that changing the settings of your wheels, will not affect the control of your vehicle.

Wheels have been also converted into custom parts, meaning that you'll need to buy them individually.

 

Rockets Color:

As you already know, rockets can be coloured. However, until now you could only color rockets as a whole in hunter. We decided to give it a bit more spice, hence you can color the rockets individually, therefore left and right rocket colors are different if set that way. For shooter rockets, only the left color is applied.

 

The roll-out date is in the next few days, so get ready!

 

Big thanks to @DaXx who made this incredible infernus model, pearlescent, glow..., @CAT for her help with shaders, garage and many more, @SkreePyfor his time developing this garage, @Evo for all the tests, @Kaziko  for the video, and all the others for their involvement in the various phases of the project.

 

 

 

 

Minigames:

 

We sure took our time to release minigames, but we have decided to make the best possible outcome and mitigate the number of issues. We have decided to include some new game modes that make some difference from the last announcement that was made at Christmas. In the end, we are releasing minigames with a total of 25 game modes, and this number will increase over time. In this first paragraph, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this release - mappers, testers, and idea innovators. During the development, we have crossed lots of constructive criticism that was taken into consideration - and as of now, I would like to encourage you to do it in the future as well, since your opinion counts!

 

The question is, when? And today we're giving you the answer: if everything goes according to plan, we'll be able to deploy the minigames at the beginning of August.

 

 

PowerDD tournament:

 

It's been known for quite a while that it is on our agenda for planning a tournament. Since the growing interest in PowerDD, we have decided that this time the tournament is going to be PowerDD. Regarding this, we share every detail that is necessary.

 

For this tournament, we have had more preparation time than usual, therefore we decided that we would like to introduce a new forum page, which is known as the Events Schedule. Here, you can not only see the upcoming matches, but you can now make bets on the teams. If you guess the correct score, you will be rewarded with money in-game. This feature allows the community to put a bigger pressure on the teams which will hopefully result in a bigger attendance & tight games.

 

 

 

The Favorite Contest Outcome:

 

Yesterday saw the end of season 3 of our The Favorite Contest event. First of all, thanks to everyone who took part and to the mappers who made it possible.

 

Congratulations to the winners: 

 

1st place: Krazy
2nd place: Geass
3rd place: WalK

 

Rewards are as following:

 

3 months donator status + $500.000 ingame + 20$ paypal.
2 months donator status + $300,000 ingame + 10$ paypal.
1 month donator status + $150.000 ingame + 5$ paypal.

 

Attached you will find the rankingboard with the scores:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwBQRKDFDq44YvcbcihuXurRbwoKs4iaF8lO0jNkSqA/edit#gid=223929592

 

Contact @Nao for your rewards!

 

Ban appeals:

 

We have decided to forgive! Bans have been lifted for people who were banned for reasons. I hope, we can meet on the server once again, and this time you will live with the chance and cause some great time for the community.

 

Outro:

 

We’re excited about these new features and can’t wait for you to explore them. Your engagement will be key to making these additions a success. Thank you for your unwavering support and commitment to our community. It’s your enthusiasm and participation that keeps us moving forward. We’re excited to bring these new features to you and look forward to seeing how they enhance our community interactions. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to reach out. Together, we’re building something special.

 

Yours sincerely,

The Favoured Few

[veni]

Gg with PDD

[Kaziko]

Awesome update! Looking forward to it. 

[/TfF\Maybe]

That looks really good. Respect for the work of the developers and the effort of the testers for the update. I think the Pearlescent feature is particularly cool. I'm curious to see how it will look ingame. Keep up the good work! 

[Carmine]

welcome back @Dice

 

 

[Eternxl]

I donated in order to open the garage tabs, now I have to buy them separately)) clearly gg vp server

[/TfF\Nao]

4 hours ago, Eternxl said:

I donated in order to open the garage tabs, now I have to buy them separately)) clearly gg vp server

After tomorrow update once players join they will get back cash wasted in bodyparts and lights categories since these are individual parts.

[Costaa]

Some nice additions to the garage, good stuff

[Eternxl]

On 7/2/2024 at 10:37 PM, Nao said:

After tomorrow update once players join they will get back cash wasted in bodyparts and lights categories since these are individual parts.

Thank you