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Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:37 am
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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http://www.synergymod.net
CC and I played this for hours last night...hella fun.
We went the coop route...the other game modes are basic to many other games...I"m not interested with that aspect. We saw about 50 servers that run this and I noticed many running custom maps that were not in the original install. Make sure you dl the 1.1 installer.
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There are 3 main gameplay modes currently available in Synergy (since Beta 2):
Coop - Cooperative play is our main focus here, as our name clearly suggests. Play as a Team with friends and complete map objectives, or play through the Half-Life 2 campaign.
It's important to keep your team alive, because as the player count increases, your weapon damage will weaken and your enemies will become stronger.
Teamplay - this is a team-based player and NPCs vs. player and NPCs mode, where Combine and Rebels go head-to-head in combat completing team map objectives.
Deathmatch - standard, but classical Deathmatch. With the addition of the new weapons, even Deathmatch should make for an interesting game.
If you enable the life system, you can turn Deathmatch games into Last Man Standing and turn Teamplay games into Last Team Standing. For more information, read the section on the life system.
Be aware that gameplay modes are defined in the actual levels (However it is possible to convert maps to other modes, as long as you've got expirience with Valve Hammer Editor).
Levels with the prefix of "co_" or "syn_" indicate the level has been created for cooperative play and "te_" or "tm_" indicate a Teamplay level and "dm_" indicates a Deathmatch level. |
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Source games and mods may be used in synergy using Steam Mounts (SteamContent.txt) which allows you to use models, materials, and sounds from other source games. Settings can be changed from within the game: |
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Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:44 pm
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Yea this game is great. Nothing like opening a door to a warehouse and having a dozen fast zombies running at you as you reload entire clips into their heads....only to see more running for the door after you. Mant times i couldn't re-load fast enough so i went toe to toe with my crowbar.
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Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:47 pm
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Along with the 20 something maps it comes with...there's a HUGE community map pack with 105 maps.
You can also load any map from any HL2 mod you own...I was walking through some of the HL2 maps this afternoon. This could be quite fun to play with a smallish group...say 4 to 6 players. |
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:09 am
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Hm, looks interesting. I never cared for the monotony of pve in Sven Coop, but I have hopes for this cuz I'm sure that HL2 monsters would make it more lively, and the only question there is is how good the maps are. |
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:59 am
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Some of the maps we've tried so far...ARE quite terrible.
Some have zombies and head crabs (both poisionous and fast) that just keep coming at you...no stopping. You waste 10...here comes ten more. Also, the more players you're with...the harder the game is. We also couldn't figure out where to go on one map...only made harder by constantly being attacked.
We also played a map last night that played like shyte...felt like server lag with 32 people. So...our excellent experience our first night playing this wasn't quite duplicated.
Still...I'm looking forward to looking at some of the maps in the map pack...and walking through HL2 with a gang of CfH peeps. |
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:08 pm
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You know where to find me when ever your up for a game. Just give me my pump shotty and i'm happy to separate some head crabs from some zombie bodies. |
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:10 pm
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Get on vent then. |
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:15 pm
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Eating and then i will. |
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:11 pm
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Tonight after midnight I will be playing this non stop.....Chips if your down it will be around 1 am that i will be on, others are also welcome to play as well. |
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:52 pm
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If you don't mind, I'd like to try this with you guys. |
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:53 pm
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some of our little xfire group is installing it, and may try to join you tonight cc and if chips shows |
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:37 pm
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
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Where are we playing...sounds like you have something set up already
CC and I have only tried it with the two of us on my home server so far...haven't played with more than that. The more players, the more difficult...or so the games documents say. We could also just hop on any of the 40-50 servers running this. Many have 8 or more slots and like FF, sit mostly empty. Some are running the HL2 campaign, which others are running custom and stock maps.
We could meet on irc or in vent...we've been using vent during the game anyway.
It's a little before midnight...and I'm here. |
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Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:31 am
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hmm. tried to play tonight and couldnt cause i kept getting an error message. failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer googled and the 2 answers i really found were drivers and the fact that i have norton on my computer. anyone else have this problem with trying any source game? didnt work with hl2 or synergy, what i find odd is that i can run tf2 though. |
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Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:55 pm
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I had that problem before, I could play for a bit, then it would crash and the error would pop up. It did it with all the source games, other than TF2, and Portal. I thought it had stopped, but last night I tried Synergy and it did it again. I think I thought it stopped because I haven't really played anything other than TF2 and TFC lately. |
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Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:47 pm
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
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TF2 is a different game engine...it's not the Source engine.
Are your drivers (video) up to date...and what DX version are you running |
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