Hey, i didn't played GTA 4 for a long time, but now i returned and decided to go in some lobby to play some LCPDFR.

But times changed, in every lobby some1 has Simple Trainer and in every 2nd some1 has a Modloader + several hacks to crash innocent players/hosts.

I tried to play IV:MP a long time ago but it was abandoned and i was unable to start the game with it. I do like the idea with servers instead of lobbies but that only works if there are active developers fixing bugs and making cheating uncomfortable.

I also gave Citizen:IV a try and its stable but it has rare servers and even more rare players, and it doesn't have a good anti-cheat either. But at least it is working and isn't disabling your GFWL.

 

I made a extra thread about Multiplayer Cheat Protection here. 

Edited July 28, 201510 yr by Bluscream

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Edited August 2, 201510 yr by AlconH

The best thing to do is organise a game with other players on this site.

I'll vouch for this idea. Playing LCPDFR in a private match with my friends was always my favorite thing to do. At least from the last time I've checked, if you attempt to play LCPDFR in a public lobby, you're just going to have a lot of conflict issues and your game will likely crash. In regards to the 3rd party multiplayers, none of those are even worth the sweat. IV:MP was the most stable project, and it was subpar at that. I haven't tried or heard of Citizen:IV, however.