Talk:Sven Co-op

Opposing Force and Blue Shift - wrong explanaition of required purchase to play

The the current fourth sub-section of section "Developement" it's noted: "players are still required to have purchased and installed Opposing Force and Blue Shift to play those in the standalone release of Sven Co-op." This is technical incorrect. Opposing Force or Blue Shift neither needs to be purchased nor installed to "play" them on servers wich have them installed, but rather you are required to have a copy of these to set up a dedicated server yourself. This is due to how Half-Life engine works with missing files on the client: The client downloads missing files from server at time when it connects to the game server. This happens either directly through the game channel, wich is pretty slow with only a few kb/s or by using external HTTP download source (known as "fast download"). If you join a server wich hosts Opposing Force or Blue Shift the client simply downloads the map files (.bsp) from the server so even someone without having a license for Opposing Force or Blue Shift can play them. In addition to the base map files additional data required to modify them to make them work with the engine are included in the download of Sven Co-op (namely two ZIP files containing additional data and a utility to modify the map files). A change of this sentence should be considered. To not distort the already not-so-good read flow any further, it might be a good idea to split this part of (end the line at the ";") and start over with a new sentence explain, that Opposing Force and Blue Shift can be played on a server running them, but in order to setup a server yourself you need to get the map files first. Legal this would mean to purchase the add-ons for your own account, but technical it's sufficient to just download them from one of the servers running them or directly from one of the many available fast download HTTP servers and repositories providing them (although legal status of that has to be argued about). Maybe it might make sense to do this in it's own sub-section instead of just another hard to read sentence. 2A0C:D242:4434:200:F835:B649:8C54:A3C2 (talk) 08:03, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Linux support

I edited this article to point out that Sven supports Linux, the kind of trivial-to-verify fact (it's right there on its Steam store page) that I didn't know required citations. It was reverted with the message "Natively? Photon and emulation doesn't count." - yes, natively. If someone else wants to fix this please do; I'd rather avoid the perception of edit wars. Thanks! 87.115.183.204 (talk) 02:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)