Sven Co-op vs Half-Life (actually)

An ACTUAL comparison between Sven Co-op and Half-Life, not like last time...
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Sven Co-op is a co-op mod for half life, made all the way back in January 1999, only 3 months after half life was released. Despite being that old, it's still being played to this day, and still being updated. Although it's not exactly the same as half life, over the years, there have been some notable changes.
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Downloads:
Sven Co-op: store.steampowered.com/app/22...
Half-Life: store.steampowered.com/app/70...
OBS (what I record with): obsproject.com/
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Music:
(In order of appearance)
.Kevin MacLeod - Sneaky Adventure
.Final Fantasy IV - Victory Fanfare
.Opposing Force - Planet
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[@anxyietoo]

I remember this game. I also remember that one dude in the multiplayer server with a Colgate toothpaste playermodel hitting me repeatedly with a crowbar saying that he's taking care of my teeth. Good times.

[@bennybouken]

lmfao

[@EndyLeif]

xD

[@hl2betafan]

great times actually

[@1.1kSubChallengeWithoutAnyVid]

"Taking care of your teeth" I can hear those laugher

[@FirebonE_88]

@anxyietoo, I fucking died. Hahahahahaha!

[@TheEngieTF2]

"To play Sven Co-Op, you need friends" *Well, time to buy the original Half Life then*

[@Dannerboots69]

*Insane bhopping intensifies*

[@StrandedClone]

Not really though, I play singleplayer

[@Jareb_Delgado]

true

[@tablenkov4993]

I buy that already

[@Nombrenooriginal]

@@StrandedClone in singleplayer is literally *hell*

[@carnifex1337]

"Sven Co-op is a cooperative game" some dude in the server with high HP start speedrunning and rocket jumping around the map

[@meh92]

B hopping is fun Change my mins

[@tablenkov4993]

That shit there is in all coop Valve games. At least in l4d too

[@mementocity]

the average scxpm server experience

[@afdhater]

That would be me

[@BlastArmy]

Holyshit this guy is talking about me

[@Creeper_1783]

I still remember when the entire resonade cascade part is basically unbeatable because of the stuck cart in the test chamber. Took them long enough to realize that

[@TheManWhoSoldTheW0rld]

Now they fixed it

[@bw3609]

Gosh, me too!

[@ballkicker931]

They fixed that in 5.25

[@Damian-cilr2]

Its was really annoying havent played in a while but HOPEFULLY they fixed it

[@remineko]

they realized it soon as people pointed that out on their discord. they just care about custom maps so they released a fix very late

[@CKVanilla]

For the past 15 minutes I’ve been on a quest. A quest to figure out a question that is on everyone’s mind Who is Sven

[@valcarter]

I didn't even had this question in my mind. Until now.

[@solarwrath1313]

one of the creator's nickname, sven viking, iirc.

[@valcarter]

@@solarwrath1313 oh, nice trivia, thanks

[@nosoyporta]

I have one better What is Sven

[@amysilverstone9059]

Come on guys, it's PewDiePie's dog in Minecraft

[@kybartu_veteran2005]

you can still bring back normal hl weapons by either 1. Going to the main campaign portal and enabling classic mode or 2. Opening the voting menu and enabling classic mode. Note: not all maps work with classic mode, i say mainly use it for the half life campaign

[@ninshu9073]

yeah classic mode is king

[@Arthur32O]

if you play blue shift or opposing force and dont want the hd models. you can also download the definitive classic pack models.its 151 mb. it also works for they hunger too.

[@comicaze8238]

@@Arthur32O so classic mode doesn’t work with blue shift or opposing force? Weird

[@Arthur32O]

@@comicaze8238 yeah because you need to download them by buying them. but y know. i used crime to get them on sven coop

[@comicaze8238]

@@Arthur32O using the classic mode deluxe mod then for them

[@ninshu9073]

in sven you can't shoot while reloading, and movement is slightly slower. barnacles stop you from being able to shoot so they completely screw you over if you do sven solo. the ai is way more aggressive and can detect you from further away. shotgunning things causes them to be launched. the aim feels much smoother. when multiple explosions occur it's *extremely* loud, and i love trolling my friends with that in the place where you first get the satchels. anyways these are just a few differences i don't think you covered that i have noticed after having quite a bit of experience with both versions.

[@niggacockball7995]

Also dont forget music player people and hentai sprayers and basically /pol/ in half life

[@lerebox]

and also how npcs have more health, do more damage and when you first get the pistol you dont have any ammo to reload so yeah

[@ninshu9073]

@@lerebox i thought they were invincible honestly, but that's just how much hp they have ig

[@dsafxP]

noob

[@jovankabroz6858]

So sven co op should be instead named: Half life: Call of Hunt down the Sven DOOM ETERNAL 2

[@chadf9630]

Shocked you didn’t mention “classic mode”, a toggle you can turn on that seems to default everything back to the original game. If there’s a difference between Sven classic and half life, I can’t find it.

[@LamWarp]

I had completely forgot about classic mode. *facepalm*

[@Postaldude312]

​@@LamWarpstoopid

[@thennoth2860]

I don't know if you're aware but there is "classic mode" which I always use, it restores the old weapons and changes a bunch of stuff back.

[@eartheater5304]

How did you do it

[@thennoth2860]

@@eartheater5304 in the campaign portal map (default map) there is a room next to all the chapters which inside has a red button, pressing it prompts you to enable classic mode. You can also enable it in the console with mp_classic_mode 1 I also suggest disabling survival mode since it is more fun just to mess around and not worry about deaths but that's just me. Console command is mp_survival_mode 0

[@Adriethyl]

The running gag about having no friends made this 100% relatable and better than the first

[@megakarlachofficial]

4:15 In HL1, you can actually manually create the "valve_addon" folder and put maps, models, textures, etc... (except this time its doesnt need to be named before putting stuff in (unlike HL2), you just drop models, maps folder to valve_addon folder and done.) in there, it will also works. Same for CS 1.6 as "cstrike_addon" and so on, this feature was added at some point, but was forgotten by many as the game doesnt pack most of the valve folder as pak or vpk like the retail/WON or HL2 does, so they just simply installing it in old way and have to overwrite anything, and uninstalling requiring to reinstall/verify the whole game, and plus, with the valve_addon, you can enable/disable it in game settings

[@JayCeeCreates]

Definitely digging this "new" video format!

[@skyH4PPY]

agreed

[@forple8930]

0:51 The game Counter-Strike Nexon: Studio actually uses GoldSRC still. That game was released in the late 00's, I think, and it still gets updated very frequently. Another interesting thing to mention is that has a dynamic light system, as well as a revamped HUD system (it's nothing like HL1 or 1.6). Especially when the games no longer play/look like HL1 anymore, it's kinda funny to try and see what remnants of HL1 is still present in the later CS games. (Kinda like how CSGO still uses HL2 props). Oh, and it has a (built in) map editor that works disturbingly close to minecraft.

[@falken2089]

What a great game back in 2015-2016, but today is pure P2W and it's dead

[@9another632]

CS:Nexon is absolute trash, those managers totally ruined the game over the course of time[and with worse crahes each 6 months, now it's lit unplayable for me]

[@9another632]

@@falken2089 All started with the Tanatos....

[@falken2089]

@@9another632 No, it started with that Giant Blue Thor's-like Hammer and the Dragon Cannon

[@SVBOY]

@@falken2089 it actually started once transcended weapons were added to the game, the first were the paladin and the dark knight, i was being outplayed by lvl 20-30 newbies with their new overpowered ss tier weapon while my best weapons were either a compound bow or barlog 11, it felt unfair and then afterwards my account was wiped due to their "server transfer" thing, ehh, the times when barlog 11,dual infinity, and thanathos 9 were meta...

[@TMHedgehog]

I miss Toonrun. Honestly it was so weird and surreal and I never got to play the whole thing in one run so i had to piece together how it worked from several different runs. It was always an adventure to wind up on that map and very view captured that strange sort of magic of discovery for me.

[@doctornotprofessor]

note about playermodels: you can install your own but it only appears on your client unless (i think, not sure about this part) other people have the same model installed otherwise it just shows up as a HEV suit on the server, meaning only the preinstalled models will show up to everybody again don't quote me on "other people need the same model installed to see it" i'm not sure about that, never tested that

[@eternalabyss2343]

You are right, the only ones who can see your player model are the ones that have it installed as well.

[@GothPanda]

Can confirm. I played through with a few friends as a Vortigaunt in an HEV suit doing that.

[@mehmettekeli5706]

I play Sven Co-op almost daily (except the last few months because of university) and I probably have more hours on Sven then I do on Half-Life. It is so much fun to play with friends or you can make friends even if you don't have any (but make sure you play on regulated servers otherwise you will see all kinds of people there). It also feels different so whenever I play normal Half-Life it feels so odd.

[@SuperRaynet]

In sven-coop the zombies turn faster and can't just run around, hitting him with the crowbar without stopping Vortigaunts can revive another vortigaunts Opposing force monsters are present The electrical and from Op now explodes and is a temporal items Gauss Rifle has higher cd for charge so when you play Sven-Coop in Deathmatch you can't be flying that much as in Half-Life 1 You can play in third person in Sven-Coop Maps can add different skins to guns (like in Resident-Evil 1 map)

[@CaptPatrick01]

My favorite Sven Co-Op series was Newfz's where two guys played through Afraid of Monsters and the server Admin would occasionally troll and jumpscare them throughout.

[@KingPBJames]

There was a person named Cocyx who hosted an AOM server and would use his admin powers the same way. Even with 10+ players in the map we could still be scared. I managed to get a genuine scream of terror out of someone myself. I still laugh at the memory

[@Korthozh]

thats my favourite campaing

[@franessjoestar2793]

I've played Sven Co-op with friends like, twice, it was very fun.

[@OMGWTFBBQ1902]

Sven Co-Op is basically a "free version" of Half-Life for those who have no balance on their Steam account. Honestly, SVC looks good tbh. It uses high-poly models although it's made from GoldSrc.

[@Jules-69lol]

>you need friends Well thats that then

[@xxxVJ300xxx]

Mapping for Sven also has far more options for making cool things, is more stable, and supports mp3 files for sounds in game.

[@penguingalorigin6341]

The hallways are sometimes longer so parts of the connected levels don't overlap, since Valve made them separately.

[@aruan7sp]

In the early 2000s it had a huge playerbase. It's not as popular as it used to be but they're doing some great stuff with Goldsrc engine. I hope Valve gives them full access to Op4 and Blue-shift as well to (the maps loading every 5 secs because you can finish them really fast with other people is not a fun thing to do, with HL they stitched entire chapters together due to higher engine limits)

[@SVBOY]

opfor and bshift is actually owned by gearbox, sven team tried to reach them by emailing them with the requests of .rmf source maps but then well, it was just silence

[@guilhermebombaca1216]

This is everything without changing things in the game files: - Different HUD - Different HUD color - Can't save games (need to respawn / restart the entire level) - There's the survival on/off thing. That also appears on the screen, which takes away the seriousness of Half-Life - Your HEV points recharge faster - If you press J you get thirdperson and you can be a bunch of people, which takes away the seriousness of Half-Life - If you press C you get a lot of options, which takes away the seriousness of Half-Life - If you press X you'll screem "MEDIC!", which takes away the seriousness of Half-Life - Weapons and Ammo just stay in place and respawn, which takes away the seriousness of Half-Life - There is no text on the beginning of the game saying who you are and where you are There are surely a lot more that i forgot. The thing is, this doesn't make Sven Coop not great. It's really cool. But i don't think anyone should play Half-Life for the first time through Sven Coop. If you want to play Half-Life, play Half-Life...

[@jingbot1071]

As a hardcore Sven fan, no need to worry about knocking the interpretation of the HL1 campaign in our eyes. REAL Svenheads know the game isn't about HL1 co-op, it's about sc_tetris, afrikacorps, osprey, project guilty and other great community maps. HL1 is just the dressing on top :) Tor eat now.

[@niggacockball7995]

Nah its about micspamming extrimist songs and sprarying porn, bonus points for getting others stuck in deadly places

[@jingbot1071]

@@niggacockball7995 ELECTRIC CROWBAR FIR THE REAL OGS YOU PLAYIN

[@user-ec8cg1nx8x]

REAL Dickheads know the game is about richard_boderman.bsp

[@oscarsulaka4867]

I like the part that he pauses the screen when the screen is paused

[@skellyboy0292]

This actually popped in my recommendations about a week ago and since then I can't stop playing this game, I've been always a huge fan of big servers and chaos going around like the Left 4 Dead 2 20 people co-op servers and stuff, and this is truly a gold mine. The maps are amazing and incredibly well made, and people are so fun and welcoming, thank you very much for this :D

[@elrodri6677]

4:29 Tome señora tome!!

[@BedsAreComfy]

0:15 *this is a certified hood classic*

[@Parithi]

Dude I'm so addicted to your channel, your videos are so funny! 😅 Keep up the good work!

[@NebLleb]

Personally, I recommend both Half-Life Vanilla and Sven Co-Op. They're both different takes on the same levels.

[@redson543]

really well edited video, keep 'em comin'

[@alanmix8183]

To be honest, that old sven coop video you made was what introduced me to your channel, so i guess it did something.

[@greatercanada3020]

I'm surprised this only has like 2k views, I honestly thought this was the usual top-tier stuff before I noticed it when you mentioned 100k views being alot.

[@haskihero]

This is a certified high-quality video (and editing)

[@Monozor]

I love your humour and montage, especially made me laugh at friends part :D

[@Turgineer]

Sven: Half-Life but Multiplayer chaos.

[@Luka2000_]

I saw a guy one while playing this game and his name was just "chad" and the only weapon that he used was the gold Uzi and if he didn't have it he wouldn't do shit....I still miss him sometimes

[@gilletteguy]

Holy shit this was so entertaining to watch, keep up the dank work

[@sebastiangonzales46]

The editing and transitions are funny af man lmao

[@hernanycardoso6141]

4:39 B O I

[@gymheroxchannel]

The absolute best thing about this game for me is speedrunning it with friends. Been doing that on and off for more than 4 years now!)

[@ThehakkeMadman]

First thing that comes to my mind when thinking of Sven Co-op? - PINGAS! Love this Mod since its release, can't believe it is that long ago they went standalone... I think knowing and loving Half Life is essential for most players to get used to Sven Co-op. The amount of maps and game modes is huge and it takes some time to find out which ones you like and which ones to quit asap... Whenever I come back there's new crazy s*** going on, making me laugh out loud in RL, that is for sure!

[@sonic4ever6]

not gonna lie toon run holds some pretty good memories for me, I'm pretty certain it's one of the first coop campaigns I played outside the original half life campaign and it's expansions.

[@Blubbpaule]

0:48 this aged like milk Valve actually updated the engine in half life 1 LOL

[@BRUH-dq1pc]

I didn't expect a peruvian server to appear so hearing "Habla potoroto" in the beginning made me spit out my water in front of my class XD

[@thef.hunter4259]

What I Like About The Sven Co op This Is The Mp5 Weapon That Has A Zoomable Scope Like The SG552 In Counter Strike, And Doesn't Have A Grenade Launcher Unlike In Half Life

[@cipher32k]

Bruh i love this guy. Subbed

[@EdrickIvan]

I love the enthusiasm in this alpha male voice, really good video

[@kronos_1337.]

He really forgot to mention the best player model, th_gangster

[@FalkyRocket2222]

i only played sven about 3 times with the same person on the original campaign (it prob wont happen again since i left him to die to that alien grunt inside the glass in questionable ethics i didnt know they were so fast i swear)

[@coqito583]

Gman Co-op event when

[@MiquelVZLA]

Hella underrated lol, really like the content!

[@shorty1k]

holy crap your production has really amped up in these videos lately

[@LamWarp]

It's the new style. It takes a while, but better.

[@obbscur2]

makes me want to go back to sven coop, haven't played in years

[@zyada9334]

Fact : sven coop developers are still updating the game and they shares the updates on discord

[@Azure2706]

At least I can see my server on this video ahaha Very good video too, I like it.

[@keyboard_smash_23]

And youuuuu've just earned another subscriber

[@PatootheHuaso]

8K Ultra HD Deagle with Dolby Vision enhanced is my favorite weapon.

[@playboikaniiii]

it's different when you understand what the add-on says, _habla potorroto_ caught me off guard lmao

[@bonefex3000]

Best video on the channel so far.👏👏👏

[@enadopato]

I actually never knew about this game, i was planning on playing co op with a modded version of half life, thank you.

[@thomastomatovich]

7:05 Just two more things 1. One battery now gives you 25 suit armor 2. When you tab the game you can hear an echo behind it (I was really scared when that happend to me for the first time tbh)

[@FernanGamerSuscribe_e_e]

HEY MAN, THAT AUDIO FROM THE BEGGINING IS IN SPANISH HAHAH. HABLA POTO ROTO!!

[@jurielmattheworihuela4012]

Finally after 1 month new video

[@kaede1491]

There's one thing that makes a big difference... In Half-Life you can save.

[@LuxCirilo]

The spirit of this man just made me want to speedrun life

[@rizhalm7832]

Oh man i love your video you make me laugh some times

[@ESTERZEOFF]

I love this new format

[@CptHOOK-tv4sp]

Ok, this dude has another energy of jokes, like he is completely depressed but still has the power to make us laugh. the thing is this is another type of comedy and it's wonderful. hey, man, I hope you're good. I'm a new subscriber here and I wish you all good :)

[@golarac6433]

As far as the creating server aspect goes, that's true for every goldsrc, source and even quake game. They all are just running a local one player only server. You can see that in the console when the map is loading

[@frespect]

I thought that servers were in base Half-Life for Co-op, turns out it was for deathmatch

[@juhannusruusu]

damn B, I remember when your channel was so small... and now you are making views, and you're talking in the videos too... I really love the progress you made with the channel, hope you will reach 100k+ subscribers and more in the future :D

[@LamWarp]

Thx mate.

[@zebitus5731]

cool new redesign for your channel icon! I like the white backround more but its still good.

[@LamWarp]

I've never redesigned it, it's always been like this.

[@zebitus5731]

@@LamWarp i thought the channel icon was a red l on white backround before this, like when you comment and stuff the user icon is different from before i think?

[@LamWarp]

Nope, haven't changed it in 3 or 4 years. I'm thinking of changing it slightly, but so far it's been like this since the beginning.

[@zebitus5731]

@@LamWarp i guess im going mad then

[@Blucario90]

you forgot about the Barnacles, which don't let you fire in Sven because that's how Barnacles are supposed to work (they dont let grunts shoot so it didnt make sense they let gordon shoot) and to accommodate this, changed secrets which required this mechanic

[@killerbon3104]

there's a classic mode in sven, where all the weapons, npcs and mechanics are the same as the original half life

[@Crow_Rising]

7:07 I'm almost disappointed that when I scroll down I don't see anyone doing a copypasta of this.

[@EternalMoonLonely]

Pe le Tongue 0:00 - 04:29 it's the most fun with their music and their screams that's why he didn't stop playing sven coop

[@ieatgarbage8771]

You walk slower, so large jumps are complete deathtraps. The end of office complex ends up entirely red, the second half of apprehension gets everyone ated by a fish, and every parkour-themed map becomes hell

[@sherrifdeputyfordaboys]

Bruh,the shotgun reference to Half Life 2 but with different color gun

[@spookyanonymous1466]

7:55 bruh i thought you had no friends

[@sherrifdeputyfordaboys]

If Valve Looks for Sven Co-op MOD GABEN:Ooh fuck

[@hl2betafan]

sven co op is really fun with 30 people because theres people who just scramble their way to the end of the map and you dont feel alone

[@localdrugseller6431]

i remember playing a map in sven coop that was inside the original half life. It had a machine that generated and gibbed scientists with a chainsaw thingy. it also had a weird purple frog thing called "the beast" with like hundreds of thousands of health that took rockets like a champ.

[@googlewolly]

This game is dope. Should have thousands playing, at least; not hundreds. Good memories. I recall Toonrun; great aesthetic. Anyway, good video. Also, at 1:27, you had a typo. It's supposed to be "its" when making it possessive.

[@mysteries_117]

I wish we had a Half Life 2 Coop

[@shreviews6969]

4:07 hey! This is jimbo! Or my favourite candy, jimballs

[@juggernaut6832]

On the GoldSrc bit, Valve themselves last updated it in August 2020 which is a absolutely demential for such an old engine.thats what I love with companies like that, they make their products travel through time because legends never die. Also toonrun is my favorite sven coop campaign it was so funny we did it with a friend we were like wtf during the entire thing, and some enemies had hilarious names like the minigun dude called "Captain Ahab" wtf

[@turiipipip1677]

Nice comparison

[@vishwanathsk5303]

lol bro ur so funny the yes+no=yo and the friends lopp which i dont have i laughed hard as hell keep up the good work tho ngl a very good and entertaining video

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

Almost 400k views on the video, good job

[@pezus553]

good video man, not many people can pull through with making different videos from their ""normal"" content, you're nailing it!

[@themilkmangoeth]

dude actually, this is man is underrated

[@breakerboy365]

4:32 that hallway can be explained I found this issue out myself when porting the half life source maps for a left 4 dead 2 campaign The sewage pipes in the map previous to the giant elevator overlap the giant elevator itself, so the only way you're going to hide the sewage pipes, sticking out of the wall, was to do a lot of brush trimming (like it did) or extend the hallway (like the sven devs did)

[@LEA_TV]

my favorite channel took you long enough.

[@djlaw56what]

I been playing this since 2011 been a fan since its really fun playing campaign mode with a lot others a times

[@Venuska1117]

I will say, there are servers, what offer higher difficulty, anti-rush, anti-bhop, anti-spam and other addional stuff what u can't get on typical server, so even if u bored of basic Sven co-op server, u can always switch server to, for example Hardcore servers or Custom servers (Even if u don't have friends, you will get em on server what u will play for longer than 1 session)

[@THEDESINGERSWORKS]

Half-life: Sven coop: disaster and explosions Adrenaline gamer: true competitive Xash3d: Crossplay

[@bananafone1414]

is there a way to download sven coop files and play them on xash 3d?

[@THEDESINGERSWORKS]

No

[@jeeves_uk]

Missfire servers on Sven are so much fun.