The Sven Co-Op mod first came about in the late '90s thanks to programmer Sven Viking. Viking would remain lead developer well into the 2000s, eventually passing the sceptre of power to developer Sniper. Sniper, it seems, began to rule over the project with an iron fist, dictating which issues should be worked on, ignoring community requests, and taking precious little feedback from the rest of the dev team. This started becoming a problem with version 5.0, the standalone release that rolled out in January 2016. Lag and game crippling bugs plague players left and right, including the infamous svc_bad bug that spontaneously drops entire teams from servers. Sniper refuses to work on these issues, despite outcry from the community.

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