Synergy is a Half-Life 2 co-opertive multiplayer modification.
We have evolved from multiple mods (DC Co-op 2, Dev Co-op and Tim-Coop). This modification strives to give Half-Life players a true Half-Life 2 cooperative experience.
The mod features our own levels and the ability to play the Half-Life 2, Episode One and Episode Two campaigns cooperatively.
In addition, you can add more content by installing third-party mods, such as ROCK 24 and MINERVA: Metastasis, then playing them in Synergy!
0 comments by Mr.Hankey on Sep 1st, 2009 digg this super bookmark
Hello everyone!
It has been pretty chaotic, to say the least, the past few months with real life events happening. Finally though, this new version of Synergy is ready for public use!
The most significant feature to this version, would be the nearly flawless Linux server - *provided* that you move the other shared game directories ("hl2", "episodic", "ep2", "metastasis", "minerva", "rock 24", ...) out of the "orangebox" directory and onto a partition using a case-insensitive filesystem (such as VFAT or NTFS) and then symlink to those directories from the "orangebox" directory, or alternatively if you don't have such a partition, you can use ciopfs.
Of course, that only applies to server administrators using Linux.
Players would be interested in these things:
* multiplayer auto-save points - where players are at save time, is where they will be restored to if a load occurs
* two new voice menu commands
* implemented voting system - players can vote kick, change level, reload last save point and change skill level
* updated to the new source code base - this gives us a 100% working third-person view camera, TF2 player avoidance and stability
* made it easier to donate by showing the player's Steam ID on the DONOR FEATURES window
* updates to entities: point_viewcontrol, info_player_equip, player_loadsaved
* many bug fixes and crashes have been fixed
You can view the full change log for version 14 right here.
I apologize for the long wait, please enjoy this update!
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It doesn't show up on my games list in steam! I thought it did before!?
Reinstall it. Or better yet, just download it off of Steam. It is offical now.
Steam version fails.
this game sucks, i cant play 5 minutes without any connection problem and there are no servers with a nearly acceptable ping!
Well, maybe you just have a crappy internet connection.
thw game works fine but when i try to join a server is says server is out of date.
Make sure you are running the Synergy on steam, not the 1.1 install offered on moddb
Odd, some synergy server lags like crazy... and they are the usual ones you can enter.
You see some with <100 ping, but when you enter it skyrockets.
the servers that run 10/10 will have the most lag for you as it takes upp alot of system resources/needs powerful servers to have all of those NPCs and players. The smoothest possible gameplay is with the 4 player servers, which is the number that is recommended for Synergy, although I play on and enjoy both.
Yes this mod runs with only HL2 installed. You can play on any servers running maps that only require HL2 (original game) content.