Mods are finally getting invited onto Valve's digital distribution platform.

Half-Life 2 mod Synergy has reported, in a now edited post, that it will be one of four mods to receive support and access to Steamworks.
Synergy wrote:I would also like to inform you that we will be releasing Synergy and future updates through Steam! Valve Software has allowed us to do so by giving us access to the Steamworks SDK. We are honored to be one of the four first selected mods to be given this opportunity. We will certainly put this to good use!

For you players, this means that you will see Achievements and Stats coming to Synergy in later updates. (Not to mention the automatic updates, provided by Steam.)

Steamworks, for those living under a rock, is a service that Valve first offered to commercial games to be used in conjunction with their digital distribution platform, Steam. No-charge bandwidth for distribution, automatic updating and achievements are just a few of the features Steamworks touts - all for free. Now, it seems that Valve is devoting some resources to help certain Source mods get up to speed and use the power of Steam. One user did some digging around and found possible links to four other mods that could be implementing Steamworks in the future. The files pointed to the following mods:

* D.I.P.R.I.P.
* Insurgency
* Zombie Panic! Source
* Age of Chivalry

Synergy is a mod in wich you can play all the Half Life games in CO-OP with other 3 players.

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tHAT'S gOEGEOUS

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Your capslock they is stuck. Fix it.

That's cool, only 4 years late, haha. It was the first thing I thought they'd do when hl2 was released.

Are people still playing zombie panic? I tried it around december or something last year, and it was fun yet very very unpolished.

synergy is a coop game? o:
I must get it~ but it's cool that valve now supports mods

Hmmm... What about Dystopia or Eternal Silence? Perhaps even Pirates, Vikings & Knights II... 0_o

Iron Grip: The Oppression is an incredibly advanced and polished MOD that no one is playing... It could use some promotion as well.

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We should try to organise some mod weekends (not this weekend k plz). I'm absolutely down for trying new mods, especially if there's people from here willing to try. I mean, even with the shittiest mods it's still almost a guarantee for good times.

Good idea. I can come up with some (I believe Magisk (?) tested many as well) since I've always been a MOD person. ^^
I literally went through ALL the HL1 MODs back in the day and found some hidden pearls that sadly didn't get too much exposure. :-\

Let's compile a list (in no particular order - yet):

* Synergy
* D.I.P.R.I.P.
* Insurgency
* Zombie Panic! Source
* Age of Chivalry
* Pirates, Vikings & Knights II
* Dystopia (this mod is so polished - it could've come from Valve themselves)
* Fistful of Frags
* Eternal Silence
* Iron Grip: The Oppression
* Empires
* Zombie Master
* Hidden: Source
* Insects Infestation
* Battle Grounds 2

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell