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Server Forum => Other Games => Topic started by: crazydog on October 02, 2008, 04:22:58 PM

Title: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 02, 2008, 04:22:58 PM
Server IP: 134.114.169.58:27015 - HL2/EP1/EP2 Campaign!
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Now that Synergy is being offered through Steam, I was wondering if anyone was interested in playing through it.

I've tried playing the HL2 coop online, but it's just so hard to find a group of people that actually want to play.

It supports 32 players max, like other source servers, so there's no problem if more than 2 people want to play. :P
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Giant Flying Head on October 04, 2008, 04:19:37 AM
I'm installing now. I'll play it sometime.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Video_Master on October 04, 2008, 04:52:33 AM
explain what this Synergy thing is please?
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Giant Flying Head on October 04, 2008, 09:01:59 AM
From what I can tell it's Half Life 2 multi player.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 04, 2008, 10:22:31 AM
It's a Co-op mod for HL2.
You can play through HL2, ep1, and ep2 with other people, with automatic skipping between games.

There's other maps made for it to, like cooperative puzzles and stuff, or just ones with some kind of story built in.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: hakksaww on October 04, 2008, 10:40:01 AM
installing.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Hitman Smurf on October 04, 2008, 12:03:21 PM
Hmmm...sounds like fun, I might try it out. Actually, I was just looking at mods last night and was playing something called Zombie Panic (http://store.steampowered.com/app/17500/) to get my fix before L4D comes out.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 05, 2008, 01:29:43 AM
Anyone got a good enough system to set up a Synergy server? We should all go in one night and play through the HL2 games..
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Hitman Smurf on October 05, 2008, 03:00:54 AM
Quote from: crazydog on October 05, 2008, 01:29:43 AM
Anyone got a good enough system to set up a Synergy server? We should all go in one night and play through the HL2 games..

I could probably do that...lets figure out a day to go through them and I'll download the mod tonight.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 05, 2008, 11:57:32 AM
Just so you know, when you install the server, you have to extract all the hl2/ep1/ep2 files.

i had to copy it to my laptop when I tried to set up a server, and it took me almost two hours thanks to my low speed external hard drive. :P

All the files you need to copy are here.

http://synergymod.net/docs/?p=flist

You get them from C:\program files\steam\steamapps\
The names of the GCFs are there. Make sure you have gcfscape (http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26) or you can't extract them.

For example, the first one "source engine.gcf"

You open that, right click the "hl2" folder, and extract it to C:\srcds\orangebox\   (or where ever you installed the server, but still in the orangebox directory). When you're done, you should have an hl2, episodic, and ep2 folders in the \orangebox\ directory along with srcds.exe and whatnot.

Until you do that, it won't work. :P


Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Hitman Smurf on October 05, 2008, 01:35:53 PM
I thought the mod was built well enough to just click and go...this is way to much work.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 05, 2008, 03:25:54 PM
It's not so much work. You just have to open some GCFs and extract a few things. It takes a few minutes if it's on a local machine.

If you don't want to do it, I'll work on getting my server visible on the browser, or ill see if someone can add it to their favorites.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 05, 2008, 05:20:16 PM
I got my server up.

134.114.111.152:27266

I'll try to keep it up when I can. It fills up since people usually can't find a decent server to play in, so you can find some people to play with easily.

If we ever get a lot of people online, and I'm online, I'll lock it up and we can go in.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: Giant Flying Head on October 05, 2008, 05:27:59 PM
I'm not sure I'll be albe to play this. It needs all the other half life games installed as well. Which I don't have room for on the drive at this time. Sorry.
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 06, 2008, 08:44:51 AM
After playing through HL2 with a bunch of people, I think this game is just too buggy to play right now. We should wait until the first patch is released..
Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 07, 2008, 01:37:37 PM
Well, I played with practically a full server (10 people) yesterday from HL2 to the end of EP2.

Apart from crashes and NPCs not cooperating (causing us to skip maps), and the extremely loud loudspeaker voices, it actually works pretty well. They're supposed to release an update soon, so hopefully it will fix most of the problems!

Title: Re: Synergy
Post by: crazydog on October 11, 2008, 02:54:48 AM
Server IP posted on first post.