Steam News · Nov 8, 2025
Join us for Synergy's annual Rebel Rush event where we play through the entire Half-Life 2 campaign and its episodes with a significantly increased player limit.The Half-Life Discord will once again be hosting this event. Many performance optimizations have been applied to Synergy since last year's event so we'll be doubling the player limit from 127 to 255!Synergy's one elusive achievement will b...
Steam News · Mar 24, 2025
d2_coast_08: Fixed return level change not working. ep2_outland_03: Fixed vortigaunt not getting on the elevator near the end of the level. ep1_citadel_01: Fixed missing vortex particle effect on bridge puzzle. Increased voice chat quality by switching to the Steam Voice codec by default. Changed sv_voicecodec default from vaudio_celt to steam and increased buffer sizes. Fixed annoying combine tur...
Steam News · Jan 1, 2025
General Updates Fixed player ragdolls not rendering. Fixed vote menu map list being empty (backported to 24.12.1) Fixed crash on player spawn on Linux servers (backported to 24.12.1) Fixed "Failed to prepare map" error dialog on custom maps downloaded from server. showtriggers_toggle can now only be ran from the server. d2_coast_10: Removed black screen fade when someone falls into the water. Upda...
Steam News · Dec 17, 2024
Added backend support for Steam Networking. Frontend TBD. Fixed additional instances of Anti-virus false positives with synergy.exe and srcds.exe Updated executable icons on Windows. Linux DS: Fixed NPC sounds not playing. Steam Networking (beta) This update includes backend netcode support for Steam Networking. This means you can play Synergy with your friends without the hoster needing to port f...
Steam News · Dec 8, 2024
Fixed Linux client not launching on some popular distros. Fixed infinite connect loop when connecting to 56.16 servers. Fixed a McAfee AV false positive for synergy.exe and srcds.exe. Fixed MetaMod/SourceMod not working with Synergy on Linux. SM Pull Request (Thanks Balim) Fixed newer versions of MM/SM not working. Fixed some additional cases where Synergy would fail to start if you have Source Fi...
Steam News · Dec 3, 2024
Synergy is a free mod for Half-Life 2 that allows you to play the Half-Life 2 series and many other singleplayer Source Mods cooperatively with friends. It was recently upgraded to support the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Nov 29, 2024
ep2_outland_09: Fixed softlock on transition from ep2_outland_08 where two rebel NPCs will spawn and block the doorway, preventing progression. d3_c17_07: Fixed softlock above turret room. d1_canals_13: Fixed issue where some helicopter sounds would never play. Added support for non-English closed captions and subtitles for ep1 and ep2. Rescaled some difficultly settings in skill_mod.cfg to be a l...
Steam News · Nov 28, 2024
Greetings Rebels! Its been a long time. The last official Synergy update was way back in 2015! Over the years we've been working in the `development` branch, which has had a lot of work done to it. Due to the release of Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary update, we are prompted to release this sooner than we've planned as to resolv...
Steam News · Nov 16, 2024
Half Life Discord and Synergy Discord are running a Rebel Rush Event Today, Take a look at your server list and filter by most players to easily find the "Rebel Rush" Labeled Servers The Servers also do include the Synergy Rebel Rush Achievement. For more information join the Synergy Discord Important Preparation Steps for Rebe...
Steam News · Mar 22, 2020
The HL Discord peeps are hosting a Synergy server in celebration before Half-Life: Alyx's release. Switch to the "twitch" beta branch to join! Steam->Synergy->Properties->Betas Tab-> twitch Prepare for #BugFest2020 #Lagfest2020 Play through Half-Life 2/Lost coast/Ep1/Ep2 tonight! All welcome!
