Weapons

• 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.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Low
• Weapons: 9mm pistol
• Special abilities: None
• Role: Defense

Barnabus is Barney’s evil twin brother. He is also a security guard, but in a pretty bad temper and will fire at players on sight.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Low
• Weapons: Desert eagle
• Special abilities: None
• Role: Defense

Just like Barney, Otis has an evil twin brother too. Even though they look similar, both have a weight problem and like donuts. This security guard won’t help you.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Medium
• Weapons: MP5; M16 with grenade launcher; Shotgun; SAW; RPG; Hand grenades; Kicking
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing
• Role: Attack

Grunts have various weapon load-outs and will work in squads effectively to take you down.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Medium
• Weapons: 9mm pistol; Desert eagle
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing, can heal and revive other grunts
• Role: Support

The role of the Medic is to keep the enemy squads alive. Make sure you take him down first before engaging other grunts.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Medium
• Weapons: Desert eagle
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing, can open doors with a blowtorch
• Role: Support

The Torch Grunt carries a canister of pressurized gas, which is highly flammable. Aim for the canister and it will explode, taking the Torch Grunt and nearby enemies down.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: High
• Weapons: Microgun
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing
• Role: Attack

• The microgun carried is heavy, which makes him move very slowly. It also takes a second for him to spin up his weapon, use this to your advantage.
• The heavy weapons grunt will drop his microgun upon death, which can be picked up and used by players.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: High
• Weapons: 9mm pistol (silenced)
• Special abilities: Very fast, high jumping, cloaking
• Role: Assassination

The female assassin is fast and athletic, making her a deadly foe. She can leap high into the air and cloak herself making her semi-invisible.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: High
• Weapons: MP5; M16 with grenade launcher; Sniper rifle; Hand grenades; Martial arts
• Special abilities: Fast, highly trained
• Role: Assassination

• Don’t let them get too close as their martial arts ability is as efficient as their weaponry.
• Just like the grunts, the male assassins have various load-outs. However, they are stronger, faster, and highly trained.

• Class: Human military
• Threat: Very high
• Weapons: 9mm pistol; Desert eagle; MP5; Shotgun; Microgun; Dual uzi; Sniper rifle
• Special abilities: Fast, highly trained
• Role: Defense

• The bodyguard can wield a wide selection of weapons, making him a dangerous foe.
• Bodyguards are the most elite human enemy you will encounter. Team up with players to take them down.

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.

• Primary fire: Throw a grenade
• Secondary fire: Throw a banana bomb

Simple hand grenades with a 4 second fuse. The fuse starts as soon as you press down on primary fire.

If you hold primary fire, the fuse will remain active in your hand. This is handy for throwing shorter fuse grenades at enemies that traditionally avoid them.

The banana bomb is 10 grenades in 1, thus you require 10 grenades to throw one. The fuse on banana bombs only start once they leave your hand.

• Primary fire: Throw a satchel / detonate planted satchels
• Secondary fire: Throw additional satchel

The Satchel Charge can be used to ambush enemies or plan multiple explosions. Throw it on the ground, step back and detonate it with a remote control.

• You can pick up your own satchels that you plant by using them.
• You can kick anyone’s satchels around by walking into them and dragging them along the floor, or jumping to kick them up high.

• Primary fire: Plant mine
• Secondary fire: None

Tripmines can be planted on floors, walls or ceilings. Within a second of its placement it will activate itself and emit a beam. As as soon someone or something touches the beam, the tripmine will explode.

Shooting the mine once planted will also detonate the mine.

• Primary fire: Throw snark
• Secondary fire: None, or is it? 😉

The extremely nippy snark can be gathered from its nest and used as a weapon. Release a snark and it will pursue the first unfriendly tasty thing it can find.

Snarks thrown by players will never attack other players or allies.

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: 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: Beat
• Secondary fire: Toggle electricity on/off (donors only)
• Tertiary fire: Throw crowbar
• Ammo: None

The half-life crowbar has been improved in Sven Co-op. Donors gain the special feature to add electric damage to their crowbar. The electric crowbar is powered through your HEV armor battery and will drain power from that source every time you successfully hit a player, ally, or enemy.

• With the electricity on you also beat objects faster, but keep an eye on your HEV power.
• The new tertiary fire, where you throw your crowbar hard, is bound to MOUSE3 (middle button) by default. The command for this is +alt1.

• Primary fire: Slash
• Secondary fire: Toggle electricity on/off (donors only)
• Tertiary fire: Throw knife
• Ammo: None

The combat knife featured in Opposing Force acts as a direct replacement for the crowbar, and is officially available to other maps. It functions exactly the same as the crowbar, but has a higher attack rate due to its lower weight.

• With the electricity on you also beat objects faster, but keep an eye on your HEV power.
• The new tertiary fire, where you throw your knife, is bound to MOUSE3 (middle button) by default. The command for this is +alt1

• Primary fire: Club / repair
• Secondary fire: Power swing
• Ammo: None

The wrench is similar to the crowbar, but swings at a much slower rate. However, it does much more damage. Use the power swing to get especially heavy swings.

• The longer you hold power swing before releasing, the more powerful the swing will be. There is a limit though.
• The pipe wrench can now repair your turrets, both sentry and mounted. It can also revive them.

• Primary fire: Heal
• Secondary fire: Revive
• Ammo: Health points (self-generating)

The medkit is designed to help keep your team mates alive through the worst that can be thrown at them. Simply move close to a player that needs healing, and «fire» the medkit at them to instantly heal 10 health points. The medkit will be emptied quickly if lots of people need healing, but it will slowly recharge itself. You can also refill it quickly using wall-mounted health chargers once your own health is full.

To revive a dead player or friendly NPC, your medkit will need to have at least 50 health points stored. Get close to the other player or NPC and use the secondary fire to revive them.

• You cannot heal yourself with the medkit. Instead you will need to use the medic command (press Z) to call for assistance. If you are dead, you can still use the medic command to notify other players that you are in need of revival.
• You can only revive players and NPCs that haven’t been gibed (body ripped apart to pieces). Conversely, you cannot call to be revived once you have been gibed.

• Primary fire: Launch tongue
• Secondary fire: Toggle between pull/rappel mode
• Ammo: None

The Barnacle is used to help players reach areas that are too high to jump. It can only attach to players, certain monsters, and certain Xen surfaces (as shown on the right).

The way the Barnacle grapple works is defined by the map creator. On some maps, it will only attach to small monsters. On others, it will pull monsters to you instead of the other way around.

Unique to the Sven Co-op version of the Barnacle grapple, players can either be pulled by the grapple, or be dropped slowly (rappel), depending on what mode is chosen.

Finally, the Barnacle grapple can also be used to eat monsters similar to a regular Barnacle. The difference is the grapple is much smaller, thus takes much longer to kill an enemy. This bite is only effective against very small monsters, such as headcrabs.

• You can grapple onto your fellow players allowing you to, for example, boost another player onto a ledge then grapple up to the ledge yourself. Alternately, if you were on a ledge above a deep cavern, you could grapple onto a player and rappel to the bottom. You could even use the barnacle to hold onto another player as he swings through a tricky grapple course.
• You can swap between Rappel and Pull modes while the barnacle is attached to a surface, this allows you to bungee.

• Primary fire: Single shot
• Secondary fire: Toggle zoom scope on/off
• Ammo: 7.62×51mm NATO

A powerful manual weapon with a slow rate of fire, the M40a1 is a standard sniper rifle.

In Sven Co-op the M40a1 does more damage than in Opposing Force, but is very inaccurate when not zoomed in.

• Primary fire: Automatic fire
• Secondary fire: None
• Ammo: 5.56×45mm NATO

The M249 SAW (squad automatic weapon) is a powerful yet portable machine gun with a high firing rate and damage. It can be used to provide supporting fire for team mates. It has a belt of 200 5.56 mm rounds, but suffers high reload time.

• Primary fire: Spin with automatic fire
• Secondary fire: Spin barrels
• Ammo: 5.56×45mm NATO

The most powerful weapon available to players, the microgun is capable of easily cutting through hordes of monsters with a fast stream of rounds. The microgun can be spun-up/kept spinning by holding using the secondary fire button. Pressing the fire button in this mode will make the microgun fire straight away without the spin-up delay.

While holding the microgun players are a lot slower, unable to jump, and unable to change weapons. You must drop the microgun to be able to select another weapon (set a key to drop weapon in the control options, or bind any key to drop — usually G).

The microgun offers a continuous belt of 5.56 mm rounds without the need to reload.

• Players must pick up a microgun by using one on the ground rather than simply walking over one.
• The microgun cannot be fired while the player is on a ladder.
• When a heavy weapons grunt is killed, his microgun is dropped and is available for a player to pick up.
• Accuracy is dramatically improved by crouching while firing.
• While using the microgun a lone player is extremely vulnerable. The microgun must be used as a support weapon, with other players defending the microgunner and/or distracting enemies until the microgun can be spun up.