Sven co-op

• 0: Always let the map choose.
• 1: Easy, enemies are easy to kill, players are hard to kill.
• 2: Hard, enemies are hard to kill, players are easy to kill.
• 3: Realistic, enemies are easy to kill, players are very easy to kill — enables realistic weapon damage.

Mappers are recommended not to use this setting, but still do.

• Primary fire: Automatic fire
• Secondary fire: Toggle zoom scope on/off
• Ammo: 9×19mm Parabellum

The MP5A3 is a light submachine gun, which holds 30 round clips. It has a mounted scope for zooming and a relatively high rate of fire. That and the low reloading time makes it an effective assault weapon.

• Primary fire: Single shot
• Secondary fire: Automatic fire
• Ammo: 12 Gauge 2.​3⁄4 inch Shells

The SPAS-12 shotgun offers very powerful blasts in single or automatic fire of 8 rounds. Automatic fire (gas operated) takes only a matter of seconds in to use all 8 shells, making it an extremely powerful weapon. It takes a little longer to reload, so make sure you have enough cover to do so. Automatic mode is also less accurate than single shots.

• Primary fire: Single shot
• Secondary fire: Toggle zoom scope on/off
• Ammo: Bolts

The crossbow is a long-range stealth weapon holding 5 bolts. It hardly makes noise and has a mounted scope for long range attacks.

While not using the zoom, bolts will explode when hitting something solid. Bolts never explode when the crossbow is zoomed, or if a bolt hits a target.

This weapon will also fire underwater, making it the best weapon to use against Ichthyosaur.

• Primary fire: 3-round burst fire
• Secondary fire: Prepare/fire grenade
• Ammo: 5.56×45mm NATO / assault rifle grenades

The M16 is the grunts’ standard issue, not always with a grenade launcher.

The players’ M16 will always have a grenade launcher. To use it, press secondary fire to insert a grenade into the barrel, then press secondary fire again when you’re ready to launch it.

An M16 round consists of 30 5.56 mm rounds fired in 3-round bursts. 10 assault rifle grenades can be held, but only 1 inside the grenade launcher at a time.

• Less time spent installing and maintaining multiple copies of your server.
• Less time spent installing and maintaining custom content (i.e. map packs)
• Less disk space consumed due to only needing a single set of game files.
• Less effort required modifying/repairing game files (ripent, etc)
• Each process can choose to use a specific or shared configuration file.

• Inability for processes to have the same map with different entities (ripent)3rd party entity plug-ins like entmod can enable this
• Inability to limit a process to a specific set of game files.
• Not always suitable for different people/groups to run servers on the same machine, targeted for one person/group.
• Configurations must be within the game folderSetting permissions can become annoying doing it all manually

• Primary fire: Fire rocket
• Secondary fire: Toggle laser guide on/off
• Ammo: Rockets

The RPG is a good weapon for armoured targets like helicopters, tanks and Gargantuas.

Secondary fire will enable the laser guidance system to alter the course of the rocket in flight.

Remember that the rocket is thrown upwards roughly half a metre before firing forward. Keep this in mind when aiming rockets down small spaces.

• Primary fire: Single shot
• Secondary fire: Highly charged shot
• Ammo: Gauss battery module

The gauss gun is an experimental weapon fabricated in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Primary fire is an energy beam. You can charge up the weapon for a more powerful shot by holding secondary fire.

There is a very high knock back from maximum charged shots. Most maps will allow this knock back to allow the player to jump to much higher areas.

• Charged up shots will always provide a knock back, however it’s mapper decision whether to allow vertical knock back.
• Don’t charge up the gauss gun for too long; it will overcharge and backfire at the wielder.

• Primary fire: Fire continuous beam
• Secondary fire: None
• Ammo: Gauss battery module

Just like the gauss, the gluon gun is an experimental weapon. Firing it will create a powerful beam, which can be used to quickly sweep an area.

If you fire too close to a target or solid, the beam will also hurt you very quickly. Maintain roughly 2 metres from anything you fire at.

• Primary fire: Single shot, homing
• Secondary fire: Rapid fire, straight
• Ammo: Hornets (self-generating)

Stripped from an alien grunt, the player can use this weapon to fire up to 100 live hornets. Primary fire will launch a homing hornet that will seek its target, whereas secondary fire will launch hornets in quick succession directly where the player is aiming.

Hornets are slowly reproduced, though 50% slower than before due to the higher hornet holding limit.

Your team mates in Sven Co-op (other players attempting the same mission) will commonly look similar to the figure on the right, though there are many character models to choose from. All players have exactly the same abilities as you, and can fight just as hard.

It is essential that you co-operate with your team mates, as most Sven Co-op levels are a lot harder than the original Half-Life missions with stronger enemies and more combat. You may also need to work with your team mates to solve puzzles or to activate certain buttons.

Communication with others helps ensure success, so before you play check your key setting for the Chat Message command (default Y) — better yet, if you have a microphone handy, use the control options menu to set a key for Use Voice Communication and hold the key in game to talk to team mates. Remember to use voice communication in respect of other players hearing!

• You cannot hurt or kill your team mates. Consider any attempt to do so as a waste of ammunition.
• Some maps require a player to be boosted up to a higher ledge. This is where one player will crouch down by the higher platform allowing another player to jump on top to reach the higher area. It helps if players are kind and offer to boost others when required.
• To help with boosting, some maps enable a new feature called auto climbing. This is done by jumping against a wall of a higher area, and depending on the height of the area, you can boost yourself up on top of it.

Some players will have icons beside them on the score board. This denotes players who are donors or members of the Sven Co-op team as follows:

• Donor ($5+) with electric crowbar extra.
• Donor ($8+) with electric crowbar and gold Uzi extras.
• Donor ($20+) with electric crowbar and gold Uzi extras.
• Game contributor / internal tester.
• Game artist (maps, models, sounds, etc)
• Game developer / co-ordinator.

On the far right of the score board you may find players with the server administrator icon , which means this person helps run and maintain the game server you’re playing on. They are your first point of contact if you are having any trouble while playing on their game server. This icon may be tinted gold to signify that the person owns the game server.

• 0: Nobody can use cheats.
• 1: Everyone can use cheats.
• 2: Administrators can use cheats, players can’t use cheats.

This is primarily intended for a map author to run a controlled test session. LAN servers are not subject to the player slots limit.

• -1: Do not list server in the server browser.
• 0: USA east coast.
• 1: USA west coast.
• 2: South America (continent)
• 3: Europe.
• 4: Asia.
• 5: Australia (continent, aka Oceania)
• 6: Middle East.
• 7: Africa.
• 255: International.

This does not restrict players from connecting to your server! Please be honest about your server location rather than just use International, which should only be used for countries/continents not already included such as:

• Other USA zones (mountain/central/Alaska/Hawaii)
• Canada.
• Mexico.
• Central America (continent)
• Caribbean.
• Greenland.
• Other non-continental territories.
• Antarctica (lol)
• Anywhere else not mentioned here.

Please also bare in mind that if you choose a region other than International, your server will appear on both International and the region you have selected.

• Install through Steam.
• Appears as a tool in your Steam account’s library.
• Ideal for temporary/observed servers.

• Install through SteamCMD .
• Downloads as a standalone application.
• Ideal for permanent/unattended servers.

• Installation is fast and easy.
• Start a server quickly through Steam.
• Easy graphical interface to set options, see statistics, players, and manage bans.
• Server will automatically update like with any other Steam package.

• No Steam account required.
• No Steam client installation required.
• Can play on your server at the same time.
• Can be launched in graphical and console modes.
• Can be launched as a regular application or system service.
• Can run multiple servers with a single set of application files.

• Requires a Steam account.
• Requires the Steam client to be running.
• Can’t play the game at the same time.
• Can’t be launched in console mode.
• Can’t be launched as a system service.
• Can’t run multiple servers.

• Installation requires knowledge of a command line / terminal environment.
• Starting a server requires a custom shortcut or command.
• More complicated console/command interface to manage the server.
• Updates must be downloaded manually or through a defined schedule.

Not all computer controlled monsters are out to kill you — some monsters will work with you against hostile monsters. To identify these allies, use the in game Friend or Foe system.

Simply point your cross hairs at a monster then information will show up in the bottom-left corner of your screen. If the monster is going to attack you the information will show up red. If it is green the monster is an ally and will help you. Real players will show up in blue. The Friend or Foe system also provides useful information about a monster or player’s health and name.

Certain maps may have disabled this feature. Typically this is enabled, though a map author can control this feature for their map.

• For a full list of allies in Sven Co-op check the allies listing
• Friendly monsters can follow you just as Barney can, and even be given some simple orders. This is also explained on the allies listing