Steam build Number:1.5.0
Free Roam, Free Regert Update
Hey all,
We’re about to knock off for Christmas, and figured we’d help bring you some festive cheer by releasing a long overdue couple of updates. As of right now, the public release has been updated to 1.5.0 and brings with it some new features, mostly focusing on adding some freedom to the fun you can have with the game, while the public beta brings many new features and improvements to the co-op game.
A much requested free roam/sandbox mode as been added to the day selection screen. No need to finish the game or anything, it’s just there, ready for you to explore, with most areas from the main game being accessible. Many of the grind based achievements can be earned during free roam, too! We’ve also added an Enhanced game, currently exclusive to the PC version. This includes many modifiers such as gaining a midair jump, being immune to fire, starting with extra bonus items every day of the week, and more! Many weapons get various buffs and changes, we’ll let you play around with them to see what’s up. There is also a new feature in the main menu that allows you to pick beta branches directly from it, which include access to older builds of the game and also, the public beta which contains the updated beta version of co-op for up to four players! Co-op is now feature complete if not rather buggy, so we’ve hired a QA team to help us test it more ahead of its full release in a couple of months, but for now you are very welcome to join the public beta branch and give it a try. (Saves are not compatible between the public beta and default branches).
NOTE: Before publishing this patch we realized there has been a bit of amusing jank introduced with NPCs pathfinding if you turn away from them and then look back. They get confused for a few seconds on where to walk, to and then carry on as normal. We'll hot fix this as soon as a programmer is free, we just really didn't want to hold back this Xmas update due to it.
Added
- Free Roam Mode
- Enhanced Game
- Added Language Select option to Game Settings and Aim Assistance and Crouch
- Toggle to Controls settings, you can now fix it to either Keyboard or Controller glyphs (handy for devices like the Steam deck that can use mouse aim on track pads)
- Turkish localization
- Classic Outfit is now buyable from clothing vending machines on Thursday and Friday
- Re-added tracks from KDTF that were previously lost to the radio
- Switching between Steam beta branches from Main Menu
- Kommander Karl Originals weapon cosmetics to Skinporium
Changed/Improved
- General NPC sound improvements
- General NPC interactions with the world improvements
Fixed
- Various crashes
- FPS drops around the posters in the Animal catcher errand
- FPS drops when there are too many NPCs around the player
- FPS drops related to fire
- FPS drops on the 'Border Smuggler' errand after the barrel explosion
- Made various ‘Go Postal’ side missions more reliable to complete
- Situations where the player could fall through the map when pressing ‘end day now’ button
- Situations where player falls under the map after resuming the game
In order to switch to the beta branch, load POSTAL 4, then in the main menu select 'Beta Branches' and then 'Public Beta'. The game will shutdown and download the beta.
This beta branch includes all the updates from the 1.5.0 patch above, plus these co-op improvements from the previous beta:
-Pickups respawn per player death
- Cosmetics replication/sync added
- Scooter nitro replication added
- NPCs react to players covered in blood after death feature added
- Rampages replication/sync added
- Cat dude replication/sync improved
- Ability to see players ping and loading status added
- Ability to kick and ban players added
- Ability to open players steam profile added
- Sign beggar errand will give weapon automatically if players missed to pick it up
- Errand triggers now require players stay close in order to progress missions together
- Mini map now show players out of the range
- Wanted status now shown globally
- Error message menu added (e.g. when disconnected)
- Lobby chat now interactable via widget itself
- Last render watch code improved in async
- Server password feature added
- Improvements for physics objects replication/sync
- Map name not updating in server search browser fixed
- Improved server travel code
- Game will indicate when server has the mission in progress, so new player cannot join until mission is done
- Many issues and crashes fixes