Weapons

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: 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Upon respawning or joining the game players are normally given a preset range of equipment and ammo. The type and amount varies between maps. It is also possible to pick up new weapons, ammo, and equipment in a map. The weapons you can pick up are generally better than your starting equipment and you should keep an eye out for them.

Players have the ability to share weapons and ammo with team mates using the drop weapon/ammo keys definable in the control options, so make sure to share in difficult scenarios to help with your chances for survival.

• In many maps equipment is stored at or near the spawn location. If you find yourself running low on ammo, you may wish to backtrack to your starting location in order to restock.
• For a full list of weapons and equipment in Sven Co-op check the weapons and equipment listing
• Sven Co-op features weapon replacement technology, allowing each map to include its own unique weapons (WW2-era weapons in AfrikaKorps, for example). These weapons will usually work in a similar way to the default weapons, but may deal out drastically different amounts of damage.

• Class: Human passive
• Weapons: None
• Special abilities: Can heal and revive other allies
• Role: Healing players, creating catastrophes

• Scientists are often required to unlock a specialist area for your team to proceed. Ensure you keep them alive.
• Scientists are all medically trained. If you use a scientist and your health is low, he will heal you.

• Class: Player ally
• Weapons: 9mm pistol
• Special abilities: None
• Role: Defense

Security guards are often required to unlock an area for your team to proceed. Ensure you keep them alive.

• Class: Player ally
• Weapons: Desert eagle
• Special abilities: None
• Role: Defense

Security guards are often required to unlock an area for your team to proceed. Ensure you keep them alive.

• Class: Player ally
• 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.
• Grunts can be very helpful in dangerous combat. Get them to follow you and help you fight.

• Class: Player ally
• 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 squad alive. Ensure that you also keep him alive with your medkit.
• Medics will attack near by enemies, but will immediately run to an ally calling for medical attention. Medication supply is unlimited.

• Class: Player ally
• Weapons: Desert eagle
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing, can open doors with a blowtorch
• Role: Support

• Torch grunts will attack near by enemies, but will immediately perform their objectives when close to them. Try to keep them away from combat.
• Use the npc_return command (or bind it to a key) to force a torch grunt to stop fighting and following you to return to your position. This is useful when you need him to complete an objective.
• The Torch Grunt carries a canister of pressurized gas, which is highly flammable. If hit by an enemy, it can severely impact your squad.

• Class: Player ally
• Weapons: Microgun
• Special abilities: Can call for a medic grunt for healing
• Role: Attack

• The heavy weapons grunt is incredibly powerful. Get them to follow you and help you fight.
• The heavy weapons grunt will drop his microgun upon death, which can be picked up and used by players.

• 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