A new Synergy update patch notes are released for players. Since the last major update, players have been experiencing multiple issues and bugs Hopefully, today’s Synergy update will address some of these issues and bugs.
Read what is new and fixed in today’s Synergy patch. Read the official patch notes below.
Synergy Patch Notes- November 28, 2024
- Support for the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update!
- Fixed numerous crashes like the infamous “unconnected” player bug and player models jittering.
- Significantly improved overall performance, especially with large player counts.
- Rebalanced numerous, rather absurd, map-specific difficulty spikes in the Half-Life 2 campaign.
- Fixed SteamVR starting when changing settings.
- Initial official native support for Steamdeck (UI still leaves a lot to be desired).
- Fixed various HUD issues introduced by Half-Life 2’s Steamdeck update.
- Official support for Linux Dedicated Servers.
- Requires steam client installed (e.g.
sudo apt install steam).
- Requires steam client installed (e.g.
- Added support for saved games.
- Host can load a saved game and friends who join will be restored if they were connected at the time of the save.
- Works on dedicated servers.
- Various map-specific (EDT) improvements throughout the Half-Life 2 campaigns.
- Fixed many level transition issues, particularly on backtracking maps.
- Steam Cloud support for settings and saved games.
- Steam Workshop support for dedicated servers.
- Steam Rich Presence support.
- Enabled spectator mode via console (jointeam 1)
- Players will spawn in a vehicle on airboat levels (coast levels TBD).
- Vehicles will no longer stop when the game autosaves.
- Added more player voice command lines from ep1.
- Fixed player viewmodels being invisible under some circumstances.
- Optimized networking for some entities like the Airboat.
- ‘Use’ key will now go through players to avoid blocking anything.
- Removed cheat flag from some useful commands/cvars.
- Added game content rating to unblock Synergy in Germany.
- Increased maximum player support from 10 to 32.
- Other changes lost in time.
Download Synergy update on PC.