Running With Scissors have announced a new update for chaotic open-world comedy first person shooter Postal 4: No Regerts.
Set several years after the events of Postal 2: Paradise Lost, the Postal Dude and his dog are the only survivors of the devastated town of paradise. After his trailer home is stolen, Postal Dude heads to Edensin to find a new home, and unleash chaos.
The developer admits the new Thursday update, bringing the game to version 0.4, “is less backed than what we normally aim for” with larger updates; and as such may have several regressions and missing features. This includes character models without a functioning dismemberment system.
Nonetheless, the update was released as the developer “wanted to give you something to go along with while we work that stuff out, and we shall be following up with hotfixes and intermediate updates over the coming weeks.”
The update includes four new errands (“containing arguably some of the most interesting ones in the game to date”); including a rigged election, a scooter rally (complete with NPCs that can now ride scooters), fighting out of a burning casino, and testing a VR game. All of these will offer unique ways to tackle the situation to your gain, or just to make everyone else miserable.
The world map also has two new areas; the dark lodge mountain retreat, and the Zag casino. Other areas already in the game are also being improved, along with cinematics. Aim down sights are also implemented for every gun, complete with reticle attachments.
New weapons include the sniper rifle, and a chain sickle dubbed “The Rattler.” New interactables include the rides in Kunny Island, and slot machines in the Zag casino.
You can find the full changelog here, and the new trailer below.
You can find the full rundown (via Steam) below.
The POSTAL Dude is back!
Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scorching deserts of Arizona looking for a new place to call home. After a fortuitous gas station rest stop ends with their car, trailer home, and the rest of their worldly possessions stolen, all the Dude’s seemingly got left to his name is his canine cohort and his bathrobe, and neither of them smells all that great. However, on the horizon, the duo glimpses an unfamiliar and dazzling town that beckons to them. What untold prospects lie within? Fame? Fortune? Maybe a bidet or two? Edensin awaits.
POSTAL 4: No Regerts is a satirical and outrageous comedic open world first person shooter and the long-awaited true sequel to what’s been fondly dubbed as “The Worst Game Ever™”, POSTAL 2! (No third game is known to exist.)
Key Features
- Free roam, open world, sandbox gameplay: Approach your daily set of Errands in a non-linear fashion! Seek out optional Side Quests for additional rewards! Or ignore all of that and just cause general pandemonium at your own leisure!
- Jon St. John, industry veteran and legendary voice for Duke Nukem, in the role of the POSTAL Dude!
- A brand new town to explore: Discover Edensin and unearth the dark secrets of this gambling town! Visit the local penitentiary, but don’t become a permanent guest! Meet the mysterious and exotic locals at the Mexican border! Keep them doggies movin’ in the western Ghost Town! Cruise the roads in style in your own fashionable Mobility Scooter! Test your luck at the casinos on the Zag, all under the watchful eye of the monolithic ERC Tower!
- Pacifist vs. Aggressive: Enjoy full freedom in your choice of playstyle! New ammo types and other tools to greater support peaceful (or non-lethal, at least) confrontations, but violence is still always an option too!
- Over-the-top arsenal: Series classics return such as the iconic Shovel, Gas Can, and the famous boomerang Machete! Brandish new weapons like the AK, Ingram, and Tazer Baton! Set traps and unleash feathered chaos with the new Pigeon Mine! Get creative with the Spurt’n’Squirt’s unique liquid ammo types: Fill it with water to put out fires, gasoline to create an improvised flamethrower, or urine to shower Edensin’s residents!
- Potent Power-ups: Add that familiar POSTAL twist to your weaponry with power-ups such as the classic Cat Silencer, the slow motion-inducing Catnip, and the dual wielding Energy Drink! Supercharge your fists, mighty foot, and urethra with a dose of the testicle-shrinking Vitamin X!
- Bevy of interactivity: Feed Doggie Treats to strays to gather canine armies to do your dirty work! Grab and carry around objects to stack them and reach new areas or just throw them at others to annoy them! For the first time in the franchise, use and flush toilets!
Postal 4: No Regerts is in Early Access for Windows PC, via Steam.