POSTAL 4: No Regerts News

Week two saw an update to 0.1.3.3, bringing with it key rebinding as well as various fixes and improvements. We’ll make sure one update a week is the least you can expect, although as we get more testers on board we’ll be able to do more during some weeks.

While all these bug fixes and improvements are important, it’s high time we started getting some fun new features and toys for you to play with! In the next update coming this week, we will be introducing the Vitamin X power up - an inventory item that will give you the following buffs:

• Super strong urine stream! It will not only break windows, but also knock over NPCS!
  
• Machete will dismember NPCs with the primary fire and no charge time
  
• Melee attacks are faster
  
• Dude’s movement speed increased
  
• Kicking NPC’s will knock them over
  

(More buffs will be added in the future)

Work on being able to save and load from checkpoints is ongoing. If you guys are wondering how the hell this could be taking so long - we don’t blame you - the complexity of implementing it while using open world level streaming caught us off guard too. We’re still not quite ready to put an ETA on when it’s coming, but we’ll update you as soon as we know more.

We have also started to step up our efforts to implement the three side errands that we have planned for (ingame) Monday, and these will come sometime after the save system is implemented.

We decided to create a new community forums and are in the process of getting that set up right now, and sometime in the next week or two we will open it up for registration. We’ll continue to monitor and participate on the steam forums as we have been, though.

We’ve continued to gather your feedback and are in the process of implementing some of them (using dismembered limbs as makeshift melee weapons, for example).

Performance improvements are ongoing, and we’re also working on more menu options in this area, notably a population slider like the one found in P2 - allowing for more of fewer NPCs wandering around.

Thank you for your continued support, reviews and feedback!

Running With Scissors Team

It’s been a pretty crazy week, and now the dust has settled we can start to reflect, and plan for what comes next. Thank you to anyone that’s bought the game, added it to your wish list, reviewed it, given us bug reports/feedback, and posted kind words of encouragement. We hope to retain this goodwill and will strive to make sure the good faith you guys have given us is deserved.

We’ve spent much of the first week talking internally, monitoring feedback and working out what the general sentiment is around where we should be focusing in the short to mid term. We shall be updating our internal schedule accordingly this week.

We’ve mostly been fixing as many crashes as we can, improving performance, and catching anything else that could be a potential blocker for progress. We’ll keep rolling out these mini-updates a few times a week.

The key rebinding feature is coming along well and should be with you this week. After that, full attention will be put towards being able to load checkpoints from a save after you’ve left the game. No ETA on this yet but we’ll keep you posted.

We’ve realized that subtitles are in high demand, and have decided to get those implemented sooner rather than later (this won’t take time away from core development as much of the work will be done by translators, and the subtitle system is already there in UE4).

We’re wasting no time in expanding the team and putting your money to good use. A seasoned level designer/artist will be joining us starting today, and we’ll be advertising soon to further expand the team in the areas we need it the most.

Thanks again, and keep on regerting nothing.