Steam News

The Ship Update Released

March 29, 2007, 11:55 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• Fixed players getting stuck when they are too close to NPCs when they respawn
  
• Piranhas no longer produce blood effect before actually arriving
  
• Fixed bug with players leaving while in court not being put in jail when rejoining game
  
• Fixed color of Eye-Of-Doom on HUD after switching to full-screen or switching resolution
  
• Fixed color of mission text in Single-Player game after switching to full-screen or switching resolution
  
• Fixed mission text changing language in Single-Player game after switching to full-screen or switching resolution
  
• Stopped players being arrested while in a trespass zone when a game finishes
  
• Stopped suicide message appearing twice on HUD

The Ship Update Released

February 1, 2007, 1:45 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• New map added - Raifucu Maru
  
• New outfits added - Safari outfit and Farmer outfit
  
• New Team Modes - Team VIP and Team Elimination
  
• Added Russian Voice Over for Single-Player
  
• Throwing a wallet or purse bomb at a door now results in it being slid along the floor so you can slide one under doors to blow up door-blocking players
  
• Added 20 seconds delay after unsuccessful vote to stop players trying to vote too often
  
• Added option for server admins to set a server to randomly choose the game mode
  
• Added option for server admins to reset the game mode back to default setting after a map change
  
• Added sound when players don't have sufficient funds to buy from a shop
  
• Added music for Ambassador's cabin in Single-Player map and Cotopaxi map
  
• Added new music to Andrea Doria, Cyclops and Huronian

The Ship Free Holiday Weekend: Pre-Loading Now

December 19, 2006, 1:00 pm - Valve - General Announcement

From Dec 22, 2006 through Dec 26, 2006 Outerlight's debut title, The Ship, will be made available for a Free Weekend trial via Steam. This free trial allows gamers to experience the innovative multiplayer gaming that Gamespot.com calls, "...off the wall and innovative." Outerlight is also offering a $5 discount for those who purchase the full product any time during the free weekend and the week that follows.

The Ship Update Released

November 24, 2006, 3:18 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New Features

• Added cash and truncheon body groups for the security guards
  
• Fixed Single-Player fence mission special items not respawning after failing mission
  
• Fixed Single-Player fence sometimes not reapearing when the mission is failed
  
• Fixed Syringe being on MFK table multiple times
  
• Fixed using consumable item after holstering a weapon then unholstering resulting in wrong weapon
  
• Fixed player view height when sitting after ducking
  
• Fixed footstep sounds sometimes not playing after spawning
  
• Weapon switching disabled when scoreboard is up
  
• Looked doors should all now have the locked examine description
  
• Corpse Container crosshair changes to examine icon when someone else is using it
  
• Corpse container sound changed
  
• Problem with number of players in game fixed for listen servers after listen server disconnects and restarts
  
• Weapons no longer get drawn floating in mid-air at the origin of the map before players have been in the same part of the map as each other
  
• Fixed picking up lots of items in jail resulting in legal items the player was carrying before not being returned
  
• Console message to say when the 'kill' request will be granted now appears in client console instead of server console
  
• Players are now healed between rounds if they are poisoned or on fire
  
• Bunny-hopping exploit not allowed now
  
• Fixed bug with weapon being available after innocent kill but not being drawn
  
• Flare now registers a valid kill
  
• French keyboard layout used when Steam language is French
  
• Surface properties for models fixed - large and small Capstand, cleaner's A-stand, trolly dolly, all bins and hand dryer
  
• V Model for shank improved
  
• Balanced item spawners for all maps
  
• Fixed container busy message appearing sometimes when you are already using a container
  
• Added ballgown and kilt shop mannequins and stopped these costumes spawning in other containers
  
• Fixed Polish language support

The Ship Update Released

September 28, 2006, 3:30 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• Fixed fall damage so that players die when falling from great heights
  
• Fixed bug with players not being able to read in Prison
  
• Fixed bug with players not being able to equip or holster items in Prison
  
• Improved Bot interactions and navigation
  
• Fixed lift collision crash bug on Huronian
  
• Improved players getting out of interactions when other players are close by
  
• Improved player spawn to minimise the situation where players spawn in the same cabin as other players
  
• Added "Inventory Full" message for a player trying to holster when their Inventory is full
  
• Fixed bug with Security Guard field of view
  
• New read plaque animation
  
• Fixed repeating decals
  
• Fixed wrong decals on doors
  
• Fixed positioning for knife and fork attachments when players eat
  
• Fixed glass attachment when players drink
  
• Added new props for players eating crisps and sandwiches
  
• Added more shank weapon spawners
  
• Fixed smokestack on all multiplayer maps
  
• Improved Bot navigation in Atalanta and Cyclops
  
• Various map fixes for all multiplayer maps
  
• On-going deckplan fixes for all multiplayer maps
  
• Added life boat dropping sound
  
• Improved elevator sounds
  
• Fixed paddle trap on Atlanta so that the hunter gets awarded correctly for killing their Quarry
  
• Improved sprinting under high lag situations

The Ship Update Released

September 13, 2006, 3:00 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

The Ship Update Released

August 2, 2006, 10:11 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• Fixed crash when changing key bindings

The Ship Update Released

August 1, 2006, 2:10 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• Fixed a number of client and server stability issues
  
• Added Linux Dedicated Server (Beta)
  
• Fixed ERRORNAME bug
  
• Tightened Kick/Ban system defaults
  
• Added console chat for admins
  
• Fix for suicide exploit - suicide via the 'kill' command has a 60 second delay
  
• Fixed another version of the dripping hands bug
  
• Fixed incorrect MFK displayed in inventory, shops and containers for purse bomb
  
• Added missing fallback water textures for older video cards
  
• Fixed hands disappearing from a few player models
  
• Lighting on characters improved
  
• Fixed bug to maintain bot presence on a server
  
• Fixed bug where you were given different hat/glasses/hair when not killed by your Hunter
  
• Increased warm-up time before game begins on a server from 30 to 60 seconds
  
• Axe containers now appear empty when no axe is in them

The Ship Update Released

July 20, 2006, 10:57 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

The Ship

• A number of server stability fixes
  
• Fixed weapon ammo amount when dropped from inventory
  
• Money for kills values for weapons are now halved (by default) as soon as a weapon is used (and each time thereafter) within a round, and then reset to the minimum value at the end of a round
  
• Fixed visual effects being played when they shouldn't (e.g. dripping hands)
  
• Fixed flames being left behind when player arrested
  
• '/' characters now work within chat

The Ship Update Released

July 17, 2006, 10:30 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to The Ship have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.