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| SYNERGY - Half-Life 2 coop mod by Rafiki 07/10/2007, 3:04pm PDT | ||||
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| So recently I got back into playing Half-Life 2 multiplayer, and I decided to check out if the Sven Coop team had finished porting their mod to Half-Life 2. Apparently they're postponing it until they finish the final version of Sven Coop for Half-Life 1 [what -ed.], which I guess means, "We are no longer developing Sven Coop, but don't want lots of hate mail."
There were a few other mods that claimed to implement co-op play, but I was wary of downloading a few hundred MBs of files to have some laggy, crashy piece of shit that was in beta release .002. I eventually settled on Synergy because the site updates focused on gameplay and coding elements instead of fleshing out a storyline, and their forum had a few thousand posts so I thought maybe there was a reasonably active community. It turns out there's only about 10 servers up, and maybe 2 with people playing. So they picked up right where Sven Coop left off. The good news is that Synergy is suprisingly playable. I was on a server with about 10 other people, and the entire experience was pretty smooth and even with dozens of enemies running around there didn't seem to be any lag problems, nor did the AI seem to act up with tons of players running around. And when you put your target over an enemy, the game is nice enough to tell you what percentage of health it's at. The bad news is at least one of the map makers is either a former id employee or is planning to use these maps as part of a resumé to send to id. Basically the entire inspiration for their maps can be summed up as: "YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE FUN? PITCH BLACK MAPS WITH SCARCE LIGHTING." So rather than having a badass coop mod where you and a dozen people rock the shit out of the combine hordes and have fucking ragdolls bouncing and flying all over the fucking place, you spin around in circles with your flashlight on trying to find the headcrabs. Then after everything is dead you wander around and bump into things while "where tf do u go?????????" scrolls across your screen. Granted, I only played 3 maps, but 2 of them were in total darkness and the other one caused the server to lock up 20 seconds into it when a strider appeared. For all I know there could be 50 other maps that are completely amazing, but with my luck I'd only ever connect to a server when the map changed to nolights_zombiehunt.bsp. |
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SYNERGY - Half-Life 2 coop mod by 07/10/2007, 3:04pm PDT  my new synergy map: nolights_zombiehuntxtreem no flashlights allowed! NT by 07/11/2007, 4:20am PDT Once in a while I'd accidentally join a "deagles only no gravity" CS map. :( by 07/11/2007, 3:07pm PDT deegulz only is a fun diversion from constant de_dust. by 07/11/2007, 4:11pm PDT HL2 modemakers jealous of Left 4 Dead stealing their idea by 08/06/2007, 8:25am PDT Even though it isn't at all like Zombie Master and the idea is totally different NT by 08/06/2007, 8:59am PDT |
