Christopher
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Officer I
Los Santos Police Department
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- Feb 3, 2007
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Extender 2008 R2, the second release of the Extender 2008 series, will be released in the coming weeks. It is a complete rewrite from the original Extender 2008, such that all features have been completely re-written and re-organized. Snap-ins (features) that already existed in the original release have been greatly improved and the entire Extender 2008 R2 system has - this time - been optimized for performance.
Due to limited time in my schedule, support for Extender 2008 will be dropped immediately upon the release of Extender 2008 R2
. Anyone requesting support for Extender 2008 will be advised to upgrade to Extender 2008 R2. Many of the original snap-ins from the original Extender 2008 are also in Extender 2008 R2 and (as previously mentioned) have been improved. Additionally, various bugs and glitches that were in Extender 2008 have been fixed.
While this is not a practice I usually follow (immediately dropping support for a previous version of a software), I am doing it solely due to the nature of my schedule.
To answer some of the questions that I've gotten so far:
Due to limited time in my schedule, support for Extender 2008 will be dropped immediately upon the release of Extender 2008 R2
. Anyone requesting support for Extender 2008 will be advised to upgrade to Extender 2008 R2. Many of the original snap-ins from the original Extender 2008 are also in Extender 2008 R2 and (as previously mentioned) have been improved. Additionally, various bugs and glitches that were in Extender 2008 have been fixed.
While this is not a practice I usually follow (immediately dropping support for a previous version of a software), I am doing it solely due to the nature of my schedule.
To answer some of the questions that I've gotten so far:
- There is no concrete release date for Extender 2008 R2. As of the date and time of this post, I am looking to have it out in the coming ~2 - 3 weeks (preferably, prior to the release of Grand Theft Auto V).
- Extender 2008 R2 does not officially support either The Ballad of Gay Tony or The Lost and Damned DLCs for GTA IV. While certain parts of the add-on may function for either TBoGT or TLaD, no direct support will be given for troubleshooting issues that arise from attempting to use it with those DLCs. The Extender series has a naming convention that signifies the game it supports, per the year of the game's release (eg.: 2008 = GTA IV, 2009 = TLaD, 2010 = TBoGT).
- I cannot confirm if there will be an Extender 2015 for Grand Theft Auto V. The current knowledge of Grand Theft Auto V's system is minimally known at this point and it may be changed at the release of the PC version. Due to unknown changes in both the code base, available natives, and the system mechanics, I cannot say whether or not I will be working on a release of Extender for it. If additional plugins/scripts/add-ons/mods are "OK" to be used online without any serious repercussions, then I will consider it. However, if there is a more serious system implemented that will ban players for suspected cheating or otherwise, then I will not consider it.
- The Extender series is a software add-on available only for select PC versions of Grand Theft Auto. It is not available for any console-based system and as the EULA for every console-based system strictly prohibits modifying of the system within, the Extender series will never be supported on console-based systems.
- And lastly, Extender is referred to as a Software Add-On and not a modification because it does not modify Grand Theft Auto IV's core files and thereby force users to play in only modified network sessions.