How do i play synergy coop?

[nuke 𝐩𝐠𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠]

I was trying to play synergy coop with my brother but everything i tried just didnt work for me or him.
Also we didnt do port forwarding and dont want to do it.

[Jackerino]

Originally posted by ★彡 nuke employee 彡:

Also we didnt do port forwarding and dont want to do it.

It doesn't really matter if you don't want to or not. You have to port forward if you intend on hosting and playing co-op with your brother in an old source game.

There might be servers being hosted publicly on the server browser; if you refuse to port forward, you guys could potentially join the same server together.

[.NOSCOPE SWAG!!! ツ]

You can also use Hamachi or similar software so you dont have to use portforwarding.

Edit: You will need a console to connect and then use the command "connect Hamachi-IP"

Its possible that your friend will run into this message which is saying something like this
"lan server are restricted (type c)"
If its the case you can do the "sv_lan 0" command and then "changelevel map_name"
the sv_lan 0 only gets activated after the server changed level.

2.Edit:
And i highly recommend using a dedicated Server cus the game is old and tends to crash from time to time so the whole server doesnt crash if the hosts game crashes

Another important note
This game doesnt save at all. If you stop at some point and you wanna continue playing later. Press TAB and look at the top right there you should see the map name. Rememeber it and use the changelevel command if you want to continue from that level.
Overall "noclip" and "changelevel" command are needed sometimes when the game breaks so better keep them in mind.
For Noclip "sv_cheats 1" needs to be turned on.
Impulse 101 (It gives you all the weapons ingame)
can also be helpful if a certain weapon is needed and you somehow lost it

[MiniEngineer]

Use zerotier, basically same thing as hamachi, but it is much more reliable

[nuke 𝐩𝐠𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠]

ok so what if i use radmin vpn? also i tried everything and still not working man. i did every litle change and all of the fixes but still does not work :((((( maybe add me so i can get better help if someone is willing to

[ПΛVI]

Radmin VPN just started working for me after giving the person that joined my network ADMIN RIGHTS in Radmin

[Sassi425]

Originally posted by MiniEngineer:

Use zerotier, basically same thing as hamachi, but it is much more reliable

we tried with some friends, but we couldn't join each other

[NeatWolf]

We weren't able to play hosting a "Internet" server, so we just installed Hamachi and the LAN option worked right away - even with the Anniversary edition! ^^

(a few textures are still missing tho).

It takes a few seconds for the LAN server to show up.

[Stanlyhalo]

Originally posted by Jackerino:

Originally posted by ★彡 nuke employee 彡:

Also we didnt do port forwarding and dont want to do it.

It doesn't really matter if you don't want to or not. You have to port forward if you intend on hosting and playing co-op with your brother in an old source game.

There might be servers being hosted publicly on the server browser; if you refuse to port forward, you guys could potentially join the same server together.

I've been able to play actually without port forwarding / hamache now. Idk if it's due to something in the 20th anniversary, but I can just host with option type "Internet" and my friends can join through the server browser ? Friends.

[Jackerino]

Originally posted by Stanlyhalo:

Originally posted by Jackerino:

It doesn't really matter if you don't want to or not. You have to port forward if you intend on hosting and playing co-op with your brother in an old source game.

There might be servers being hosted publicly on the server browser; if you refuse to port forward, you guys could potentially join the same server together.

I've been able to play actually without port forwarding / hamache now. Idk if it's due to something in the 20th anniversary, but I can just host with option type "Internet" and my friends can join through the server browser ? Friends.

Interesting; I wonder if Valve made mods and stuff on Steam go through the Steam Servers, now? That would be absolutely fantastic if they pulled that off

[Stanlyhalo]

Originally posted by Jackerino:

Originally posted by Stanlyhalo:

I've been able to play actually without port forwarding / hamache now. Idk if it's due to something in the 20th anniversary, but I can just host with option type "Internet" and my friends can join through the server browser ? Friends.

Interesting; I wonder if Valve made mods and stuff on Steam go through the Steam Servers, now? That would be absolutely fantastic if they pulled that off

I really hope so, we first did boot up hamache, but I had a gut feeling that maybe it was updated... so I completely shutoff hamache and booted up a server and it worked. However my friend reports a big latency so not sure if hamache would be better or not, but it worked without it.

Man I really hope they pulled it off somehow, maybe updated the multiplayer component or whatever they call it in steam.

[Jackerino]

Originally posted by Stanlyhalo:

Originally posted by Jackerino:

Interesting; I wonder if Valve made mods and stuff on Steam go through the Steam Servers, now? That would be absolutely fantastic if they pulled that off

I really hope so, we first did boot up hamache, but I had a gut feeling that maybe it was updated... so I completely shutoff hamache and booted up a server and it worked. However my friend reports a big latency so not sure if hamache would be better or not, but it worked without it.

Man I really hope they pulled it off somehow, maybe updated the multiplayer component or whatever they call it in steam.

Apparently, Synergy specifically is planning on integrating Steam Integration for the next update!