Postal 4: No Regerts
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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
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| Developers | |
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| Running With Scissors | |
| Engines | |
| Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | April 20, 2022 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 30 |
| OpenCritic | 29 |
| IGDB | 10 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | First-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
| Art styles | Cartoon |
| Themes | Comedy, North America |
| Series | Postal |
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| Postal | |
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| Postal | 1997 |
| Postal 2 | 2003 |
| Postal III | 2011 |
| Postal Redux | 2016 |
| Postal 4: No Regerts | 2022 |
| Postal: Brain Damaged | 2022 |
Key points
- True sequel to Postal 2, as "no third game is known to exist".[2]
General information
- Early Access Roadmap
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Change Log Thread
- Steam Community Discussions
- Official subreddit for the series
- Official Discord for the series and developer
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
Contains both Steam and GOG keys. | |
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| Official website | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Steam | |
Early Access builds currently do not require the Steam client to be installed.[3] | |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Postal4\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/707030/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Postal4\Saved\SaveGames\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/707030/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
Video settings
Performance settings
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | Hor+ scaling added in patch. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | Sliders for both Walking and Vehicle perspectives, ranging from 60° to 160°. | ||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Affected by the Effects Quality setting with the named options ranging from 0x, 2x, 4x, and 8x respectively. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA, TAA, SSAA (up to 150% through 3D Resolution scaler) | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Input
Input settings
Default bindings
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | [4] | |
| Mouse acceleration | Displayed as Mouse - Smoothing in the Controls menu. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | Game and menus can be navigated, but menus with scrollbars are unusable as the view does not scroll with the focus.[5] | |
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| DualShock 4 controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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| Generic/other controllers | ||
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| Button prompts |  |
| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | [6] | |
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio settings
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | Separate volume controls are to arrive later in the roadmap.[7] | |
| Surround sound | 5.1[8] | |
| Subtitles | Subtitles are to arrive later in the roadmap.[9] | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local play | |||
| LAN play | |||
| Online play | A co-op mode is planned for after Early Access has concluded.[10] | ||
Issues unresolved
- As the game is in development, unresolved issues and bugs can be expected. To report new issues, post in the appropriate forum for bugs or crashes.
The game switches to second monitor after changing any video settings
- Currently undersolved, although reported.[11] This may be problematic when the monitor to which the game switches is of lower resolution. To work around this issue apply new settings, exit the game, navigate to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Postal4\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\and editGameUserSettings.iniwith a text editor. Input the resolution of the main monitor in the fieldsResolutionSizeXandResolutionSizeYand avoid changing the settings from this point. If needed, repeat these steps.[12]
Other information
Gameplay settings
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 11 | |
| Shader Model support | 5.0 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Physics | PhysX | |
| Audio | XAudio2 | |
| Input | XInput |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 8, 8.1, 10 | |
| Processor (CPU) | 2.5 GHz Quad-core | 4.0 GHz Quad-core |
| System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 35 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | 4 GB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.27.2.0[1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/707030/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (707030) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-09-25
- ↑ Running With Scissors - POSTAL 4 - last accessed on 2019-11-18
- "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.)"
- ↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2019-11-09
- Determined using the Nov 1, 2019 build.
- ↑ Trello - Early Access Roadmap - Key rebinding - last accessed on 2019-11-09
- "[23/10/19 - ver. 0.1.3.3] It’s now possible to rebind your controls from the options menu. It’s missing a duplicate key warning, but other than that, it's fully functional"
- ↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2019-11-09
- Still a present issue with the Nov 1, 2019 build.
- ↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2019-11-10
- Tested on the Nov 1 2019 build with an Xbox One controller.
- ↑ Audio Sliders on POSTAL 4 - Early Access Roadmap - Trello - last accessed on 17/10/2019
- ↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2019-11-09
- Determined using Special K.
- ↑ Subtitles on POSTAL 4 - Early Access Roadmap - Trello - last accessed on 17/10/2019
- ↑ Trello - Early Access Roadmap - Co-op in list Post Early Access - last accessed on 2019-11-09
- ↑ Problem with multiple monitors - last accessed on 2022-04-20
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2022-04-20
- ↑ Steam - POSTAL 4: No Regerts - System requirements - last accessed on 2019-11-18
- "Additional Notes: Above specs are for the Early access build, they'll get lower."
- ↑ Steam - POSTAL 4: No Regerts - System requirements - last accessed on 2019-11-18
- "OS: Windows 10, may work on 7 and 8 but not tested because we were weak and have succumbed to a Windows 10 future"