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The Ship

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The Ship
The Ship cover
Developers
Outerlight
Publishers
Blazing Griffin
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows July 30, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 76
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Stealth
Art styles Cartoon
Series The Ship
The Ship guide on StrategyWiki
The Ship on MobyGames
The Ship on Wikipedia
The Ship
The Ship 2006
The Ship: Remasted 2016

Key points

Server list is broken, fix is available.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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The Ship, The Ship Single Player, and The Ship Tutorial come as three separate library options in Steam.
Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Finding multiplayer games

The master server does not work in game, to get around this follow these steps:

Use Steam's generic server browser[citation needed]
  1. Close the game if it's already running.
  2. On Steam, go to View > Servers.
  3. Click 'CHANGE FILTERS' and change the 'Game' to 'The Ship'.
  4. Hold down shift and select all of the servers in the list.
  5. Right click > Add Server to favorites.
  6. Start The Ship, then go to the server browser and go to the favorites tab.

Notes

Servers in the Steam browser show bots as players. Either check player lists individually or use the in-game favorites tab to see REAL player counts.

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ship\cfg\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2400/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ship\SAVE\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2400/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general video settings
In-game general video settings
In-game advanced video settings
In-game advanced video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
FOV console setting is present but has no effect.[citation needed]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Rendered image uses SDR color space. In-game HDR option refers only to HDR Rendering.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Game and Music are separate.
Surround sound
5.1 and 7.1 available.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Windows and Linux dedicated server available under Tools in Steam client.
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Direct connect via console or Steam protocol.

Issues unresolved

Master Server Unavailable

The game can no longer communicate with the master servers. Unlikely to ever be fixed.

Use an external server list[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 2, 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok Heavily modified variant.
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Steamworks
Anti-cheat Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2400/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2400) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References