It's been awhile since we've seen a release of a new version of Multi Theft Auto San Andreas, but that wait is finally over. The MTASA team has just released version 1.1 and to say that it's a jammed packed updated is an understatement. Some of the new key features pointed out by the team are:

• Custom Handling:  It is now possible to modify controls, steering and behaviour of your favourite cars and bikes through our elaborate handling scripting support.
• Custom Fonts:  At long last, you’re no longer stuck with the default fonts that ship with MTA.  You can now import and create text for any .ttf through Lua.
• Unicode support:  After heavy demand, we are excited to bring Unicode support.  Along with it comes natural support for Chinese, Russian, Indic, Arabic texts and many more.  This applies to chat, and to GUI.
• Cutscene player skins:  Big Smoke?  Ryder?  Sweet? Wu Zi Mu?  They all join the cast of player skins available along with other familiar faces.
• New BASS sound library:  Shoutcast radio - yes please!  You can now stream music from the web as part of your server, and can apply special sound affects to a wider range of sound file formats.
• Custom shaders:  Enhance your visual experience with ENB-like scripts.
• Voice Chat: Servers with voice enabled will allow you to communicate with other players using the Z key.
• Increased player count: Increased cap of 1024 players.
• Synchronised traffic lights: Traffic lights are synced between players.
• Diverse weather effects
• GUI revamp

That's not all. The new version also includes hundreds of bug fixes and improvements to security and gameplay. A more complete change log is available at the MTA wiki.

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