Sven Co-op — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Quick 5.27 Progress Update | 2025-02-18 | Here's an early look at some upcoming features in 5.27! Brush entities, players, NPCs, and other in-game objects can now receive dynamic lighting based on their location in a more realistic manner. This system uses light probes placed throughout the world, offering a performant solution that vastly improves upon Half-Life's original floor-based lighting method. Plus, a surprise at the end. Stay tuned for more interesting updates coming soon. Have questions? Drop a comment or join the Official Sven Co-op Discord community at https://discord.gg/svencoop |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 16648734 / Release 5.26] | 2024-12-07 | We're excited to announce a brand-new update packed with bug fixes, improvements, and exciting new features, including a fresh map for you to explore. We've been hard at work enhancing this long-running project since 1999, and we hope the (3 year) wait has been worth it. So what's new? Let's dive in! Introducing "The Mustard Factory" - a challenging new map where you and your team must operate a series of machines to produce mustard, all while fending off sabotage attempts by rival gangsters and closing rifts that allow inter-dimensional creatures to invade our world. This complex map requires strong coordination, so it's highly recommended t |
| Sven Co-op May Be Removed From Steam! (April Fools) | 2024-04-01 | Greetings fellow Co-opers! I have dire news to share. We have received a cease-and-desist letter from a competing development team by the name of "NIMTEMDO" accusing us of unspecified artistic copyright violations. We may be required to remove the game from Steam in order to comply if this isn't sorted out soon. We hope to update you on the situation later today, after a word with our legal team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update! We have been provided screenshots of characters from NIMENTDNO's new $70 games "Alien Plumbers" and "Lonk's Dreamning" (which we have supposedly 'stolen' from th |
| Would you like some salt with your RAGE? | 2023-12-17 | For over a decade now a collaborative community mapping project, Ragemap, has been providing us with wacky puzzles, challenges, and themes since 2007 from a broad range of talented mappers, content artists, and scripters. In recent years this project has become a more regular annual occurrence, and this year is no exception. This year the theme is SALT! Rage your way through various puzzles and challenges and try not to get melted. This year's instalment features work from 13 mappers. Your adventure of 2023 will involve manufacturing salt from the tears of salty gamers, build a rocket to escape from the moon, and scavenging for a code to pass |
| AI moving Sven Co-op forward (April fools) | 2023-04-01 | Good news everyone! Big progress on Sven Co-op is being done behind the scenes. And we have Sven Viking to thank for it. Let me explain. Some may be aware that a while back Sven Viking moved on from Sven Co-op and on to other things. While we respect his choice, Sven Co-op has sadly stagnated since. The development team has felt without direction. We sorely miss the mastermind of Sven Co-op. Not just for his excellent sense of game design and ability to give good advice, but also his spirit, his wit and his ability to comfort us in tough times. We have decided that we can't go on without him. So we had to recreate him. Using freely available |
| Ragemap has put its foot down | 2022-12-04 | For over a decade now a collaborative community mapping project, Ragemap, has been providing us with wacky puzzles, challenges, and themes since 2007 from a broad range of talented mappers, content artists, and scripters. In recent years this project has become a more regular annual occurrence, and this year is no exception. This year the theme is FEET! Rage your way through various puzzles and challenges for that feety button. This year's instalment features work from 10 mappers and an amazing content artist. Your adventure of 2022 will involve finding coins in a Black Mesa chapter, solving coloured light logic puzzles, popping treacherous b |
| Sven Co-op beaten in 33:12 with 100% completion (April fools) | 2022-04-01 | Hello Sven Co-op fans! I recently received an extraordinary video recording of the fastest completion of Sven Co-op to date, with 100% completion and no tool assistance. The video was sent to me by a player named SpacevikingLover and i must say, I am thoroughly impressed. I will be highlighting some of the main points of his run with a link to the run further below. He first starts in svencoop1.bsp, which he blows through with relative ease, and despite struggling with some of the dual retina scanners (this is a 100% solo run) he manages to get all the numbers. Stadium4 is completed with minimal effort, as he effectively utilises map topograp |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 7342106 / Release 5.25] | 2021-09-11 | Hello everyone, it's been a while since we last gave you an update. That hot fix is from January has become a Baked Alaska refrozen! As usual we're back with a much bigger package than expected. hehehe Big thank you to everyone that took part in the release candidate testing. We feel that this added value to the finalisation of this release, and as with the previous successful round, will continue to take this approach. First and foremost, the cart in the test chamber of Anomalous Materials can be pushed into the beam again! Black Mesa Special Tactics Sector (BM_STS), level by Trempler, has been updated with ~NEW HUD ART~ and ~NEW GAME MODES~ |
| Sven Co-op 5.25: Collector's Edition | 2021-04-01 | The release of Sven Co-op version 5.25 marks a very important milestone in the development of the game. As many of you know, Sven Co-op's development started all the way back in 1999 and we would like to honour that legacy by creating a very special COLLECTORS EDITION of our latest instalment! We're proud to present: Since the game was originally created last century we're going back to the standard IBM compatible-computer medium and release the game on 5.25" floppy disks! You might not know it, but chances are that you are currently reading this news post on an IBM compatible computer! That means you only have to dust off your 5.25" floppy d |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 6130701 / Release 5.24] | 2021-01-24 | An update for Sven Co-op has been released. If you are running a dedicated server please use SteamCmd to update your servers. Changes This is for the most part a minor update to correct a few quirks from the 5.23 Christmas release, particularly with pushable and liftable solid objects. You can find the full change log on our Wiki. Support requests As with any release please do not use the comments thread to report an issue or request support. This is very easily missed, so to get an answer as promptly and detailed as possible please submit your issue or query to any of the following channels: Game hub discussions Discord Version details Steam |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 6008644 / Release 5.23] | 2020-12-24 | An update for Sven Co-op has been released. If you are running a dedicated server please use SteamCmd to update your servers. Search 'n Destroy First and foremost, Hezus has built a brand new map "Search 'n Destroy", featuring a combination of assault and territory control styles of game play with up-to 4 playable classes to choose from. Vote to play one of four difficulty levels based on your teamwork and toughness. Please have a play with any amount of players and let us know what you think. -- The map's difficulty will dynamically adjust according to the player count. Beware that a late joiner on insane difficulty will use up the single sp |
| Steam Award 2020 Nomination Request | 2020-11-27 | Ladies, gentlemen, eels, seagulls, amorphous eldritch horrors, The Steam Awards are upon us once again. We kindly request your nomination for the Labor of Love award (link attached). Sven Co-op, the very first modification to the epic game "Half-Life", has been in production for nearly 22 years. Since January of 1999, this game and its surrounding communities have enjoyed an unrivalled quantity of content generated by the Sven Co-op Team and its ambitious and highly-skilled community. Both will continue in their endeavour to keep our beloved hobby, Sven Co-op, going for as long as possible without asking for even a penny charge. (Donations en |
| Rent-A-Map™ with Time-Share® CANCELLED!!! | 2020-04-02 | Yesterday we announced our new Rent-A-Map™ feature and the initial reactions were great! Paying a small fee to support development for something you could have used for free otherwise seemed to really inspire our playerbase. However, it also inspired a bunch of lawyers to send us an email about the legal obligations once you call something 'rent'. Apparently once we rent out our maps we are also legally obligated to maintain and support said maps for the foreseeable future. This would not be a problem for our official maps, but since we were planning to apply the Rent-A-Map™ system to all custom maps out there (more than 1500!), we'd be maint |
| Sven Co-op is excited to announce: Rent-A-Map™! | 2020-04-01 | We here at Sven Co-op work hard on new engine and gameplay features to bring you the best possible co-operative experience. However, we have been having a hard time delivering new official maps with our releases. We only want to give you the AAA+ material you good people all deserve but it takes a lot of time to create such maps. Many of our mappers only work on the MOD in their limited free time and need their day jobs to be financially secure. But now, we came up with a solution for both of these problems: Of course you want to play Sven Co-op 24/7 but you also have to eat at some point, visit relatives or walk your dog. Plus, you can only |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 4566677 / Release 5.22] | 2020-01-16 | An update for Sven Co-op has been released. If you are running a dedicated server please use SteamCmd to update your servers. Changes Notable changes are as follows: Fix for Windows 10 users using different DPI scales per-monitor Increased maximum weapons to 256 You can find the full change log on our news. Support requests As with any release please do not use the comments thread to report an issue or request support. This is very easily missed, so to get an answer as promptly and detailed as possible please submit your issue or query to any of the following channels: Game hub discussions Official message board Discord Version details Steam |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 4534884 / Release 5.21] | 2020-01-01 | Changes Notable changes are as follows: Black Mesa: Special Tactics Sector, level by Trempler, now has a serious balance fix. (No more red team permanently winning!) Suspension, level by Hezus, now features night mode! Level designers can now change the sky with new entity "trigger_changesky". Map Compile Tools: Default subdivide value has been increased to 528. This improves world polygon subdivision on all maps, which increases frame rates, and opens the possibility for utilization of 512x512 textures without excessive subdivision. Important: Dedicated server operators running on Windows must install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 (x86) re-d |
| New Team Members & Forum Updates | 2019-11-06 | New Team Members We're starting to ramp up for the Sven Co-op 5.21 release, and so, we've added a few more people to our team to help us get there. Please join me in welcoming Omega (Programming), KernCore (Art and Scripting), DNIO071 (Art), The303 (Art), and MrOats (Testing)! Omega: As a retired Valve Software employee, it would be an understatement to say Omega brings a great deal of knowledge and experience. While we're not completely sure what projects he was working on at Valve (Half-Life 3, of course), we do know he helped bring many improvements to the Half-Life engine. During the early days of Half-Life's modding community, he was a p |
| Coming up in 5.21: Entity "trigger_changesky" | 2019-09-25 | We have completed a new entity (and engine interface) for mappers: "trigger_changesky", allows you to change the sky map at runtime. Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEgMs_RHXK4 |
| Coming up in 5.21: Support for BSP subdividing of 512 up from 240 | 2019-08-24 | Coming up in 5.21: Support for BSP subdividing of 512 up from 240, resulting in significantly less WPOLY requirements for big surfaces. Less WPOLY = more FPS + bigger maps! Compile comparison: https://pastebin.com/cY3wgwBy Wireframe comparison: https://twitter.com/sven_co_op/status/1165194741723684864 |
| Sven Co-op Update Released [Build 3735813 / Release 5.20] | 2019-04-14 | Sven Co-op Update Released An update for Sven Co-op has been released. If you are running a dedicated server please use SteamCmd to update your servers. Changes This is primarily a security patch to fix a few server exploits. Server operators: Please update your servers ASAP. You can find the full change log on our news. Version details Steam build ID numbers: Game 3735813, dedicated server tool 3735815, SDK tool 3735816. Please use the steam build ID number as a reference when posting an issue or query on our message boards. You can find the build number you currently have within Steam by right clicking our game or tools, selecting Propertie |