POSTAL 4: No Regerts

i put in about 26 hours in to P4 and i refuse to spend anymore time than that on a game so lackluster and so behind the times on jokes or anything meaningful to say. i wont even talk about the older postal games as a comparison that's how bad i feel P4 is, i feel like it is a far cry from what postal games use to be. its better than P3 but that really is not saying much, was there parts i laughed at YUP was there parts of P4 i had a lot of fun with, absolutely id be a Lying is i said i did not have some fun. i hate the art style i hate the world i hate how bland everything is, what i hate the most is it feels like a cheap asset flip that's is a parody of Postal games Vs a actual postal game at all. Like a game that was made from second hand story's told to some random Devs of how Postal 2 was, and the jokes and gameplay was like, and they went and made there own parody of that. I honestly feel if they kept the Unreal 1.5- unreal 2 engine graphics and textures with a heavily modified game engine for layering textures types over top of older game models like some retro doom shooters have been doing really breathing Tons of life in to a old look for a new Gaming world that the game would of felt so much better to play. that is my overall take of P4 a loved well meaning honest try to return to the franchise, but with deep flaws problems and other issues. BUT i really hope the Devs keep trying with more postal games or even New franchises in the future that i think would help them branch out to other success. because Running with scissors would be a good Parody game studio in my eyes mocking other Hit game franchises. id also give it a 5 out of 10. a disappointing 5 out of 10 Issues bugs or problems: the AI in game feels brain dead with weird pathing that feels like a chicken running around with its head cut off Gun play: is really solid tell you fight the AI and then the guns just feel like your beating up on a autistic kid who cant defend them selfs at all. UN KILLABLE AI: i thought after letting the Devs cook for a while a few years this would of been taken care of but No there is times my game bugs out and ill just get a AI i cannot kill and cant be killed. the Theme park OMG: easily worst part of the game next to the Sewage level. rides you cant ride but gives you a promt to ride but nothing happens AT ALL. and the levels them self/ World all have this really cheap asset flip dead world feeling to all of it specially with Random AI pathing leaving people to just wonder around with no meaning or reason at all or there getting stuck walking in to objects. the biggest problem i have is, Gone is our trench coat wearing dark brooding nyilist Crazy Postal dude who always felt like he was in a world, that every one in the world including Postal dude were all just one bad day away from snapping and going full sicko mode. Gone is the Really dark and at time Nightmare level of scary for how depressed and depraved the world felt IF YOU PUSHED IT TO BE THAT..... Postal 2 you don't have to be bad at all you can do everything as a nice guy and just watch everyone else fall in to crazy madness. maybe its me being in my late 30s and still wishing for that Attitude 90s early 2000s in your face nihilistic gothic anarchy F-the world and every thing in it where every race, religion, government, guns Crazy parody that was Postal 2. but Postal 4 overall just feels like a Dev studio that want to move on from this franchise and let it sleep for a while tell a fresh take from a younger cynical generation that can come along and do it justice. because Running With Scissors Will Not shy away from Drama and Controversy or offending people If the idea can get people to buy and play with enjoyment and understand this is a xtreme parody of what's happening in the world taken to the 10th power. i really Truly Honestly hope Running With Scissors moves on one day to new ideas and even franchises because i Really feel what P4 has would be better served with a different style of game mocking a different style of franchises out there. do you know how much fun it would of been to throw in ALL the modern ♥♥♥♥ gamers hate about Loot Boxs and how disgusting and greedy Games have become and how Postal dude could of gone in and play tested the game only to get fed up and brake the system from with in and give All of us that much needed parody cathartic F- you to these A-hole AAA game publishers. or joke about how the price of things has tripled. or Poked fun that the reason they have the Fat people mobility scooters is because Gas prices became so over priced only the filthy rich can afford to drive a car. there is just So So So many things that cold of been shat on and turned in to a Dark gritty cynical Version of reality. TLDR if the game is going cheap on sale for like 5-15$ pick it up its not that bad of a game and you could spend that money much worse IRL like eating at any fast food place paying 15-20$ for food quality that's still just as low as when a burger use to cost 75 Cents. ...........another missed opportunity in P4 for a cynical dark joke about how fake and over priced food is now. and has been for years. that's all i have to say otherwise id be here for months typing down all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up cynical offensive ♥♥♥♥ i would of put in if i had any skills past being autistic and full of ♥♥♥♥

редкостное гoвнo, задумка интересная реализация хeрня, даже 3 постал будет в несколько раз лучше, хотя те же рвс до сих пор его засирают возвышая вот это недоразумение

Да хрен его знает парни, я в неё даже не играл

Horrible, ABSOLUTELY, horrible. Ok, maybe I am over-exaggerating but seriously, this game needs to be fixed. I am probably not the person who has experienced this but, ill just point it out. This game, is SUPER laggy. And I mean super super laggy. I can barley take a couple steps without the game crashing, at this point i've tried everything that could help the game run a bit smoother. But nothings working. In my opinion, please don't buy this game. And if anyone has a bit of advice to at least make this game playable for me, please tell me. It genuinely feels like im playing on a Nokia phone, and it takes so long to load it feels unreal. Thanks anyway i guess.

Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz (16 CPUs), ~3.6GHz Memory: 65534MB RAM Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Display Memory: 56990 MB Dedicated Memory: 24309 MB Shared Memory: 32681 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (120Hz) Spiel macht höchstens 25 Fps und ruckelt stark... WTF??????????????? Neustart hat auch nichts gebracht. Game auf SSD bringt auch nichts. Was habt ihr mit dem Spiel gemacht? Early Qualität allgemein aber nicht fertig ... Sorry

Well, this is certainly the most buggy experience I ever had in videogames. I literally have zero idea how THIS game got to be released in SUCH state, considering the fact that when I'm writing this review, it's been 4 years since the game's full release. Now obviously I didn't play it when it came out, and I can't say what's been fixed, is the game better or worse now, but there's one thing I can say for sure. Currently Postal 4 is a barely-playable game. Important note: Despite the fact that this is a negative review, I'm not writing this with a thought of talking trash about developers and $hit on their work. After all, despite all game's negative moments, you can see that they actually really tried to bring something new in Postal 2's old gameplay. It also can be confirmed by the fact that despite all negative towards their game, they're still releasing new patches even to this day. I just wanna say I'm not hater and I enjoy your projects, but right now, because of all the issues, this game just can't be called good. So, let's start with something positive. Many people probably wouldn't agree with me, but I actually liked some of the new stuff, like new guns, vehicles, teleport that can bring you fast from one point on map to another. Missions are also became more various, unlike Postal 2 where most missions have standard formula: go there, take something, and there's a hella ton of enemies waiting for you on your way back who you must kill (no hate to Postal 2 btw, still love this game with all my heart <3). Here, almost all missions brings you something new, let it be shooting from slingshot using emmigrants, or kart race with a goal of eliminating all participants (except for one), or even solving puzzles with holographic bridges, which actually somewhat surprised me, and It's kinda sad that developers didn't do too much with this idea. In one of the missions Dude will even become a cat, and we'll get to play as it. Obviously there's also more primitive missions like when some guy tells you to do something and you do it, and of course while you doing it, you must kill bad guys. But my point is that, as I said before, developers are actually trying to improve gameplay and make more memorable moments, and I respect that. Open world here is GIANT, almost like a GTA map, and there's a lot to explore. Aside from main missions, there's also so-called challenges across the map, like "Kill 30 people using this gun in 1 minute, piss on 5 people standing on this tower for 20 seconds" etc., for which you'll receive money. There's many locations to explore and many interesting things to find. Music here is also good, as well as the VO, especially I like the fact that you decided to bring together all Dude's voice actors from all games and even movie, that's cool. But the main problem is that all of those positive moments will be shadowed by the fact that it's barely playable 'cuz of bugs, crashes and lack of optimization. And when I'm talking about bugs, I'm not talking about graphical issues, or ragdoll issues, no, there's so much more. I've encountered many things past these 15 hours: falling through textures; floor disappearance when loading save; tablet doesn't close when pressing TAB; radio keeps playing even after you exit buggy (in Dude's head I suppose); can't consume health pipes, energy drinks and catnip for no reason; any buttons in tablet, as well as save and load buttons just stop working, again, for no reason. And I can go on. I'm not even talking about broken ragdolls physics. Optimization... There's none. It doesn't exist, just forget about it. Maybe developers doesn't even know what that is, and thus, the game feels like some poorly-made Unreal slop from some 5th grader. Whatever you're doing, no matter where you go, you will ALWAYS experience frame drops around from 40-20, and when there's many NPCs and a shooting going on, then even to 10 or 5. It's just unpleasant to play at all. And NO, that is not my PC issues. I don't have the best PC, but it's still decent. I've tried to lower the settings, doesn't change a crap. I've played far more graphically advanced and demanding games, and they ran much better than this. Other reviews here also confirms it, even people with far more powerful PCs also experiencing those issues. I could also mention some weird gameplay things, like HOLDING, not PRESSING like in Postal 2 but HOLDING Enter to consume health pipe, energy drink or catnip, or pretty cool, but disbalanced revolver which simply one-shots all kinds of enemies, even bosses. Maybe it wouldn't have been such a big deal if it didn't have INFINITE AMMO (and I won't be surprised if it remained in my inventory by accident cuz of a bug after one of the challenge's end, where I received it originally), and even the fact that the whole game feels like some poorly-made GTA clone, but I just don't see a point in that. Currently the main problem is that the game is unfinished mess, and I don't know why RWS decided not to let it remain in Early Access and release it in such state. Guys, I can feel that you do care, and you are trying to do your best, but you really shouldn't have rushed the game and release it in 2022, if even now, 4 years later, the game is still in a terrible technical state. I hope that sooner or later, you'll fix your game. Obviously there's no way to fix all of the bugs entirely, but at least make sure that it's played comfortly without heavy issues like right now, please.

如果不是像我一样的postal系列的无脑死忠粉我完全不推荐你来玩这款游戏，因为我感觉rws社把玩家当成乔.利伯曼来整，第一是这游戏如同吃到2代警察局区域那家便利店里的特殊长条甜甜圈的手感，必须要松开奔跑键才能瞄准，也就是无法在奔跑中随时开瞄准，老兄你不是在跟我开玩笑吧，其次就是最让我忍无可忍的是bug问题，每一次我再打开手机地图的时候我都提心吊胆，因为有概率会触发手机按键无法使用的bug，这就算了，我可以按tab退出地图重新按，可地图还有另一个bug，就是打开地图后无法按tad退出，这个bug会在你打开地图时闪到dude的社交媒体主页，然后你就无法退出地图了，这个bug只要触发一次。就无法消除，会伴随你的整个游戏流程，但是还有解决办法，就是在地图的设置页面点第一条切到游戏暂停页面，然后退出就可以继续正常游玩，但是如果你不幸的同时触发了前面提到的按键bug，你只能被卡死在地图界面，最终alt+f4强制退出 总结 坏游戏真的会让人疯

awful ugly game, had it for yrs. still the patches sucks, it's an ugly game gives me a headache, I'll just play 1 and 2, how can this be so badly made?

Очень слабо. Меня не страшили негативные отзывы, я был готов к любого рода трешу, поносному юмору итд. Но к тому, что игра окажется склёпанным на коленке куском недоразумения... Нее, к такому жизнь меня не готовила. Из плюсов могу отметить несколько неплохих тем в саундтреке, да озвучку Рика Хантера, в остальном позор позорный. Графен местами как будто хуже, чем во второй части. Оптимизация тоже покинула чат. В городе просадки до 20 фпс на ровном месте. В целом какие-то рандомные фризы и просадки, даже в помещениях. При том пробовал что высокие, что средние настройки. ИИ будто ещё тупее, чем во второй части, большинство болванчиков на средне-высокой сложности вообще не реагируют на опиздюливание лопатой. Боты зачасту тупят в каких-то рандомных местах, застревают в мелких текстурах. Копы даже при заполненной полосе поиска просто могу мимо пройти. Геймплей, казалось бы повторяющий вторую часть, каким-то неведомым образом угроблен. Хотел сжечь человека и обоссать, что б посмотреть на блюющего скорчившегося сухарика, но потушил слишком рано и непись просто пополз от меня сквозь стену, ему норм. Поджёг снова, но непись тупо сдох и потом текстурка на горелую сменилась. Как-то совокуп изговняченности геймплея даёт полное отторжение от желания играть в это. Возможно я постарел и не смог вкурить гениальности игры, а далее она, может быть, открывала бы себя в новом свете, но ну нафиг, рефанд.