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Steam News8 February 201412y ago

POSTAL 2 Complete Version 1413 Released!

Another Massive POSTAL 2 Update December, Friday the 13th was a lucky day for POSTAL fans across the world when RWS release the 1412 patch of awesomeness to update our ten year old flagship game, totally for free!

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0 fixes15 additions6 changes0 removals
  • Compatibility
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Security
  • Performance
addedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateDecember, Friday the 13th was a lucky day for POSTAL fans across the world when RWS release the 1412 patch of awesomeness to update our ten year old flagship game, totally for free! Well, as you guys liked it so much, we thought, "what the hell, have some more, also totally for free!" RWS is the development house that just keeps giving. Now with 95% less bugs than 1412 patch thanks to our expanded and dedicated team of QA testers from the facepunch.com forms. Thanks guys! Now the bulk of the game's features have been updated, our next priority is to get all these things to Linux and Mac on Steam, and also to the DRM free platforms such as GoG.com. These are the highlights of the new update, not including smaller fixes and new Easter Egg features: New Features and improvements
addedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateThe amount of vocal variety has been massively increased, including race-specific dialog. 5 new voice classes in total! Also adds more situational dialog for NPC's such as seeing cats, and being on fire. There are even a few more Dude lines now too.
addedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateAdded a few new variations to character pawns (example: pot bellies, shorter females, etc)
changedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateFiring mode for Glock and MP5 are now displayed on the hud
changedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateDynamite has a larger radius and more damage
addedAnother Massive POSTAL 2 UpdateCan now instakill bystanders with a bali to the back to make the weapon more useful (Tougher enemies like cops are not susceptible to this trick)

POSTAL 2 changes

addedDecember, Friday the 13th was a lucky day for POSTAL fans across the world when RWS release the 1412 patch of awesomeness to update our ten year old flagship game, totally for free! Well, as you guys liked it so much, we thought, "what the hell, have some more, also totally for free!" RWS is the development house that just keeps giving. Now with 95% less bugs than 1412 patch thanks to our expanded and dedicated team of QA testers from the facepunch.com forms. Thanks guys! Now the bulk of the game's features have been updated, our next priority is to get all these things to Linux and Mac on Steam, and also to the DRM free platforms such as GoG.com. These are the highlights of the new update, not including smaller fixes and new Easter Egg features: New Features and improvements
addedThe amount of vocal variety has been massively increased, including race-specific dialog. 5 new voice classes in total! Also adds more situational dialog for NPC's such as seeing cats, and being on fire. There are even a few more Dude lines now too.
addedAdded a few new variations to character pawns (example: pot bellies, shorter females, etc)
changedFiring mode for Glock and MP5 are now displayed on the hud
changedDynamite has a larger radius and more damage

Another Massive POSTAL 2 Update

December, Friday the 13th was a lucky day for POSTAL fans across the world when RWS release the 1412 patch of awesomeness to update our ten year old flagship game, totally for free! Well, as you guys liked it so much, we thought, "what the hell, have some more, also totally for free!" RWS is the development house that just keeps giving. Now with 95% less bugs than 1412 patch thanks to our expanded and dedicated team of QA testers from the facepunch.com forms. Thanks guys! Now the bulk of the game's features have been updated, our next priority is to get all these things to Linux and Mac on Steam, and also to the DRM free platforms such as GoG.com. These are the highlights of the new update, not including smaller fixes and new Easter Egg features: New Features and improvements

  • Steam Cloud has been activated for all platforms.

  • The amount of vocal variety has been massively increased, including race-specific dialog. 5 new voice classes in total! Also adds more situational dialog for NPC's such as seeing cats, and being on fire. There are even a few more Dude lines now too.

  • Added a few new variations to character pawns (example: pot bellies, shorter females, etc)

  • As well as doors, the game now remembers which windows and bottles have been smashed when going though load zones and returning to a previous area.

  • MP5's are more damaging, semi-auto mode more accurate

  • Firing mode for Glock and MP5 are now displayed on the hud

  • Dynamite has a larger radius and more damage

  • Can now instakill bystanders with a bali to the back to make the weapon more useful (Tougher enemies like cops are not susceptible to this trick)

  • Shovel Alt-Fire has a chance to sever limbs in much the same way the regular fire has a chance of decapitating.

  • Speed Run ranking separated from regular ranking in stats

  • Stats now display a flag if you speedrun a game without quitting

  • Display current difficulty on stats screen.

  • Gasoline trails light on fire easier, and also if an NPC or player run over a trail while they are on file it will ignite it.

  • Updated Police and security car model

  • Flying Sledge now destroys doors

  • Fluid Lifetime Slider added, allows lengthening or shortening lifespan of gas, urine, blood trails (set it to 11 for near-infinite lifetime)

  • Launcher now updated to include performance options

  • You can now delete saved games by right-clicking on them in the save/load menu. (You will be asked for confirmation first.)

  • Each game mode now has its own stats screen, listing only the relevant information for that game mode. (Nothing about cows or zombies in the POSTAL 2 game, for example.)

  • Added some new end-game player rankings! See if you can find them all.

  • Several new cheats, some hidden, some not...

New Features and improvements (Enhanced game only)

  • Awesome new zipper functionality! Just you wait to play around with it

  • Added flying shovel, you can now use the shovel to fly around the maps if you swing when already airborne. Try it, it's fun!

  • Added Hands (pick up and throw objects with Fire and AltFire when not holding a weapon)

  • Increased the variety of cat-grenades for the Grenade Launcher

  • Alt-fire will spam matches when holding the match box

  • New features for Machete, Scythe, Sledge and Machine Gun

  • Ammo cap raised to 9999

  • Scissors shoot faster and you also run faster when holding them

  • Added alt-fire to Shotgun in Enhanced Game. It shoots

Source

Steam News / 8 February 2014

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