The Ship: Remasted

Used to be fun to play but these days there's no servers anymore (there is one but it doesn't let you connect) and when I try to set up my own server it just won't work. It's a funny game to play with friends but there's no possibility to play together.

Still love this epic game .. shame player base is now gone !

This is the greatest game I have played.

Honestly, I don't understand why so many people give this remaster a negative rating. All the game mechanics have been refined and even improved. Take the bots, for example – in the original, the bots were very dumb and practically didn't play. Kills between bots were rare. In this remaster, they're very active and not stupid. Bots are rarely getting arested in public places, and they try not to attack on public! The bots change clothes depending on their hunting status and also run away from pursuit. THEY RUN AWAY. Whereas before, the bots would just stand there and wait for you to finish them off, now they can fight back and fight you back. You can also now edit the balance of passenger/hunter bots. They also have nicknames now, which is cool. :) I'd say they're much smarter now, and playing in arcade mode has become much more fun. And those who said "there are small amount of bots than in the original"—guys, in the original game crashes after 14 bots. Here, the maximum number is 15. And that's good. It's a great balance for hunting, because the maps aren't large, and gigantic numbers of bots simply make it impossible to play. Those were the positives of this wonderful remaster, but now I want to point out the negatives I encountered. 1) There's no team mode. The original had great team mode mechanics and a VIP team mode where you could really play against bots. I'd really like the developers to bring back these modes, because the bots are smarter now, which means playing with them in these modes will be fun. That's all the negatives. Otherwise, the remaster is wonderful. Play and enjoy. Developers, please bring back team modes :)

i like the game a lot sometimes in the game there can be really funny moments like when you use the guns

TL;DR: The Ship series is basically dead but if you wanna play with friends or try setting a match up online, buy the original 2006 version which is the same price. As a huge fan of the Source game, I must say that this is easily worse than the Source version it's based on (in some ways it's worse than the HL1 mod.) I could go extremely in-depth with this, but I'll list some of the major points for and against this game. Pros: -New weapons in the holiday map (candy cane, holiday ham, firecracker [holiday blunderbuss]) -New time accurate models for certain assets (deodorant, ATM, etc) -Two new leaders in the World Leader modes -Bots are generally more aggressive, leading them to run around more and get stuck less -Your health is now displayed at all times instead of keeping note of the camera shaking -Some textures are redone in HD and given new detailed normalmaps Eh: -Sprint is now purely tied to stamina as opposed to its own meter, this leads to the sleep need being used more than any other -The HUD elements are changed to a universal art-deco style, many menus now look the same but I suppose it's all to preference -The witness system now seems more picky on when players are being watched -Traps have been added/expanded to make it easier to use them, while a positive, some of them don't make sense and still aren't worth the effort to use most times -Menu screens have been changed to show scenic views of the map as opposed to the original desk view covered in blood, pictures, and weapons, again moreso up to preference -The zoom feature is removed, granted this was likely a leftover from HL2, but it's worth noting -Some textures are completely redesigned aesthetically Cons: -Two maps have been removed (Raifucu Maru and Cyclops) -Many maps have had security/camera changes, making the maps generally easier and less tactical -All secrets have been removed, changing the dynamic of weapon spawns greatly, traversable paths in high tensity games, and removing the purpose of some rooms/interactions -All water has been removed, pool areas are either blocked off entirely or rendered empty with a weapon spawn or two (Raifucu being removed entirely due to this) -All elevators no longer work despite appearing on the deckplan, some elevator doors are open and let you drop to a floor below, but this isn't common -Both the tutorial and single player campaign from the Source version are absent despite assets for both appearing in the files (files for Cyclops and Raifucu also exist) -Players no longer exclusively spawn in cabins but randomly around the map, this leads to potential spawn killing issues and unfair balancing with how some players find loot -The team modes (VIP, Team Elimination, and Team Deathmatch) no longer exist -When killing enemies with traps or explosives, any innocent caught in the crossfire will subtract from the amount of money you received for being "overcome with a raging bloodlust" as opposed to being ignored -No mod support (I suppose it's possible to mod Unity, but it's not as easy as Source and no one's taken a crack at it) -Cheats still exist, although they seem to be completely unknown -Most doors can be walked through when opened or closing/opening them (not all though, presumably a bug or failsafe to make sure no shipmates are stuck) -Damage seems inconsistent (although lean towards overly-deadly), even throwing items is significantly more powerful and can oftentimes be a reliable kill getter as opposed to a mere last resort, a good example being the syringe where you can poison someone and throw the needle at them right afterwards to get an easy kill -Rather than buffing the push, the push is now removed entirely -The bots seemingly never tend to their needs as they don't have them (at lease in my playtime I've never really seen them pass out when running or die of thirst/hunger like the original) -When pausing, interacting with menus, or doing any interaction during emergency moments like the 10 second countdown to passing out, your character will freeze for the entire countdown -The bots seem to get always luckier with loot -Inventories on dead bodies seem to be a lot more buggy with most weapons disappearing (at least with bots) -Many textures from the original seem to look worse than they did years ago, leading to clash in quality compared to newer models and lighting (this is most evident in cases such as old world leader textures not being upscaled while Trump and Hillary models look higher res and different art style, store signs being unreasonably crunchy or how the shop mannequins in windows oftentimes look broken) -The map lighting is baked in, so sun will often shine through closed doors and flares no longer produce a light -Visual effects look worse overall and may be buggy when switching guns -Controls often don't rebind -The player limit has been decreased to 16 on arcade/LAN/Dedicated servers and only 8 on Listen servers -The server features might be dead, I couldn't start a game on LAN, Dedicated, or Listen, although I could at least do troubleshooting and port-forwarding for the original (also the HL mod uses HL server browser so games are extremely easy to set up thanks to the anniversary update) -BG no longer has their server running -Removed textures like the leaf censor and colored eyes (I don't know why they did this???) -Despite removing secret areas in this version, they still keep strange choices here like the inaccessible captain's bridge in Cotopaxi -Certain redundancies like separate pee/poo meters are still kept in the game despite balancing changes There are many more strange changes and inclusions that show this game shouldn't have been shipped, even if it were properly finished. Older versions had even less content, such as doors not closing, no extra world leaders, no Batavier Christmas (and no extra weapons). I recommend anyone get The Ship as it's a unique multiplayer game that's an absolute blast to play even with some struggles to set the server up, however I recommend the 2006 version, the Source Engine game made by Outerlight. Looking at the comments by devs and their attitude when talking about this version and the original, it's clear they like the game, but whether it's a lack of skill or a bad engine choice or BG telling the devs to rush the product out, this version of the game came out to be rather...well just bad in all honesty. Unlike something like the HL mod which was a first time HL multiplayer mod made for free, this doesn't have the excuse of not having enough money or support backing it.