168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Postal 4: No Regerts's developer Running With Scissors has been working hard on the latest game in the long-running sociopath simulator series. It's been in Early Access since October of last year and there has been some steady improvement over that period. It's stil𝕴l in ওan Alpha build - it's actually called the Slightly Less Janky Alpha, which is somewhat accurate I suppose - and it recently dropped the "Tuesday Update." This adds in new content for the player to mess around with, most of which is as offensive and immature as you'd expect.
See You Next Tuesday
The Tuesday Update content picks up with the Postal Dude - I still can't believe that's his name - sleeping outside behind a building with his dog because he is a truly pathetic protagonist. He receives a phone call from the shady job agency he's been picking up odd gigs from and is told to meet a new contact. Because this is a Postal game, this contact is a guy in a Bane-esque gimp mask with a voice modulator who runs a Mexican cartel.🧸 Our lovable, bloodthirsty hero is then given some new tasks to do throughout the town that seem✨ to get more insane as they go along.
I don't expect anything from a Postal story because it's just there as a thin explanation for why the Dude is committing all the various atrocities. That said, the cutscenes seem to be a marked improvement over Monday's offering since the characters are no longer stiffly standing in front of each other with blank stares on their faces while🔜 delivering wacky dialogue. They don't look amazing, but there's lighting and camera angles and it appears to be striving for a cinematic feel. Although it still looks like a shinier version of something that could have been made using the original Source engine.
The new jobs the Dude is tasked with completing offer you the chance to commit alꦬl kinds of dumb mayhem. To pay off a ticket for loitering you have to do community service, which in this case involves giving tickets 🐬to cars parked next to expired meters. You have to give out a decent amount of tickets, so you have to shoot the meters to make them switch to the expired status.
Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of cop jokes made during this quest. That includes a pile of donuts located within the police station and the officer that gives you the mission states that the tickets help to pay for "gold-plated caviar" at their policeman's ball. Most of the humor in general tends to go after some low-hanging fruit such as the current pandemic and Tiger King. If you think the radio commercials in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GTA games are hilarious then Postal 4 should be a laugh riot.
The centerpiece of the Tuesday Update is probably the mission where you deliver catnip to a pet store that has a basement that looks an awful lot like something out of Season 4 of Breaking Bad. Upon breathing in the chemica꧋l fumes, the Dude hallucinates that he's a cat and goes off on an additional list of ♏feline adventures. Jon St. John gets to rattle a whole bunch of risque cat-related one-liners, so if that's your thing this should be a pleasure.
Along with new areas, new missions, and the ability to become a cat, the Tuesday Update also puts in a fast travel system which makes it easier to get around the town of Edensin. It🍷's not the most advanced system (you just ho🐎ld E over a screen outside of a subway tunnel), but it's an improvement over having to use the wonky motorized scooter to reach parts of the map.
Still A Few Regertable Issues
I'm glad that Postal 4 is still in Alpha, because there's plenty of te🧜chnical issues that need to be addressed. Enemies tend to act like braindead robots standing in one place so you can shoot them with ease. The aforementioned scooter falls over if it even grazes a bump and it had a tendency to get stuck on my character causing me to catapult into the air. Certain areas seemed to be unfinished since I would just fall through the floor and have to respawn. At one point I think I completely broke the game because there was a cat mission that required me to get milk from a store, but I died shortly after retrieving it. When I respawned the milk was gone from my inventory and I couldn't finish the mission.
But perhaps the most glaring problem is the absolutely awful load times. Remember how in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life the game would pause to load at certain parts of a level? Imagine that but it happens more often and takes even more time. Sometimes the loading would be so intense that the sound would glitch and I thought the game had crashed. Although I knew it hadn't because I had experienced a few other crashes with Postal 4 so I knew what a real crash looked like.
The Postal Dude Abides
As mentioned, Postal 4 is still in Alpha. There's plenty of time for bugs and glitches to be fixed and for the gameplay to be made more enjoyable and stable. But it's hard to say whether something like Postal still has a place in the contemporary gaming landscape. There are so many comedic titles that let the player cause total chaos these days that this series almost feels antiquated. Hopefully Running With Scissors has some tricks up their sleeves to bring Postal 4 into the modern era. Otherwise, the Postal Dude mi🍷ght be better off remaining a relic o🐈f the past along with Jon St. John's other iconic character.
But hey, you can still pee on people. So atꦍ least there's that.