POSTAL 2 from Running With Scissors just had a big upgrade for the 20th anniversary and there's lots of improvements to this classic violent first-person adventure.
Quite possibly one of the most ridiculous games ever made, there's so many terrible things you can do in it which is great if you love a bit of dark humour. Not me of course, you would never find me laughing at the ability to give yourself the middle finger in a mirror.
The Native Linux release appears to work just fine on Fedora 38
Here's all the new stuff they added:
- Fully compatible with Steam Deck!
- 'Two Weeks In Paradise' game mode! (Paradise Lost)
- Classic Mode! (+ 'Options' Menu)
- Reworked New Game menu with brand new Day Selection and Skip Intro options!
- New “Ludicrous” difficulty!
- Added Quit to Desktop option!
- David Eddings (The original voice of Claptrap from the Borderlands series) as the voice of Pisstrap in Paradise Lost!
- Crackola (dual-wield power-up) and Weapons Vending Machines added to P2 levels!
- The Flipping the Bird feature from PL is now available in P2! This can be performed with a new dedicated button ('G' by default) or by pressing Fire with Empty Hands or Alt Fire with the Petition and other weapons that replace the hands
- Added a few new cheats: ChugIt, ParadiseIsLost, SeekritWeaponzPls, DoubleTheGun, PeeAll, PukeAll, HereKittyKitty!
- Added unique behavior for Cat Silencers made out of experimental cats! (Apocalypse Weekend)
- When you pick up a thrown Scythe or Sledgehammer, it will now auto-switch back to this weapon!
- Added support for customizable Weapon Selector and Inventory Menu!
- NPCs weapon variety option! (random chance of using Eternal Damnation guns)
- Restored some unused POSTAL Dude voice lines!
- Expanded Crosshair Customization!
- Saves with * mark for cheating or Workshop Game are now displayed in yellow color to be more noticeable!
- New effects for Catnip and food use!
- Added Cat Launcher! (Super-fun cheat only weapon)
There's various other improvements too including plenty of bug fixes. Really nice to see this update land, should make it feel a lot better on modern systems.
On Steam Deck specifically, they seem to have done some nice touches like giving a customized controls screen and overall it seems to work great out of the box now. Click screenshots to enlarge.
Full update notes can be seen on Steam.
You can buy it on Humble Store and Steam.
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These fine people, with a 20-year old game with a probably vastly obsolete code base, are putting other studios "unable" to ensure proper native Linux versions to shame.
One of the few companies worthy of respect. Kudos to you !
One of the few companies worthy of respect?
I think that I'm too old because I don't understand this way of speaking about companies that release games for Linux.
I respect every company that decided to release games for this operating system. Especially the companies that started to release games before Steam was available for Linux.
RWS is one of the better companies because they were interested in releasing their games to Linux. Unfortunately, we can't forget that Postal was ported to Linux by Loki. Later, Ryan Gordon ported it again to Linux, and he ported Postal 2 for LGP. Icculus was also involved in creating patches for AW. I don't have an issue when companies hire others to port their games to Linux.
I was surprised when they ported Postal 2: Paradise Lost and Postal Redux without any porting houses.
I hope they will surprise us again with POSTAL: Brain Damaged and Postal 4 for Linux in the future.
Last edited by gbudny on 19 April 2023 at 11:13 pm UTC
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I've given this game a miss until now, but with this news, I just grabbed it. I appreciate the linux support.
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RWS was kind enough to sign the box for me..... I still have that signed box on my shelf...... And I got a RWS metal sign with real bullet holes in it
My dog was even featured on the front page of their website......
That is cool. Do you have a picture of this version of Postal and the link to this section on their website?
Heres a picture of the Postal 2 box.....
!link
Postal 2 Signed Box......
I dont have direct links to the web pages...... But I do have screenshots of it......
!link
Myself and Sasha on the RWS website....
!link
After Sasha died they were kind enough to mention it on their website as well.....
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I tried to get into the 4th one (thankfully, there is no 3rd entry, that would have been really awful).
But that game is STILL so buggy, man...
A few hours into my playthrough, I always got a crash a few seconds after loading a save game. So that was that.
But that game is STILL so buggy, man...
A few hours into my playthrough, I always got a crash a few seconds after loading a save game. So that was that.
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The pet shop was out of kittens for my new bazooka so I've installed this instead. Good clean fun for all the family.
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These fine people, with a 20-year old game with a probably vastly obsolete code base, are putting other studios "unable" to ensure proper native Linux versions to shame.
One of the few companies worthy of respect. Kudos to you !
RWS is one of the better companies because they were interested in releasing their games to Linux. Unfortunately, we can't forget that Postal was ported to Linux by Loki. Later, Ryan Gordon ported it again to Linux, and he ported Postal 2 for LGP. Icculus was also involved in creating patches for AW. I don't have an issue when companies hire others to port their games to Linux.
I was surprised when they ported Postal 2: Paradise Lost and Postal Redux without any porting houses.
I hope they will surprise us again with POSTAL: Brain Damaged and Postal 4 for Linux in the future.
Not to take away from the fantastic work done by Loki/Ryan, but we've put in a lot of work since regarding Linux. All the updates we've applied to P2 over the years since AW, such as workshop support, have parity with Linux and it makes maintaining things a lot more time intensive. It has been awesome though seeing the Steam Deck come out and seeing how well our past efforts paid off: both P2 and Redux run a lot better with the native client. For this reason we do plan to make a native version of P4 in time, even though it runs pretty well via proton in the here and now.
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Hey Toploader, any chance of seeing the Linux version end up on the Zoom platform?
Yeah, it's coming.
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Not to take away from the fantastic work done by Loki/Ryan, but we've put in a lot of work since regarding Linux. All the updates we've applied to P2 over the years since AW, such as workshop support, have parity with Linux and it makes maintaining things a lot more time intensive.
Thank you for the answer and the fact that you mentioned the details like workshop support.
On the other hand, I know that you had some issues with updates for Linux in the past.:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2014/07/postal-2-linux-updates-are-now-up-in-the-air/page=2/
I hope it's not a secret, and maybe you can answer these questions:
Did you hire a new employee that maintains and ports games to Linux/Mac?
Did you have someone on your team that learned how to maintain and port games to Linux/Mac?
It has been awesome though seeing the Steam Deck come out and seeing how well our past efforts paid off: both P2 and Redux run a lot better with the native client. For this reason we do plan to make a native version of P4 in time, even though it runs pretty well via proton in the here and now.
I will be fun to play Postal 4 for Linux.
I think that Windows is the better option to run games for Windows than Proton. In this case, I will wait for the Linux version.
RWS was kind enough to sign the box for me..... I still have that signed box on my shelf...... And I got a RWS metal sign with real bullet holes in it
My dog was even featured on the front page of their website......
That is cool. Do you have a picture of this version of Postal and the link to this section on their website?
Heres a picture of the Postal 2 box.....
!link
Postal 2 Signed Box......
I dont have direct links to the web pages...... But I do have screenshots of it......
!link
Myself and Sasha on the RWS website....
!link
After Sasha died they were kind enough to mention it on their website as well.....
Thank you for the pictures.
Wow! They really care about their fans, which is awesome.
Last edited by gbudny on 20 April 2023 at 4:49 pm UTC
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It has been awesome though seeing the Steam Deck come out and seeing how well our past efforts paid off: both P2 and Redux run a lot better with the native client. For this reason we do plan to make a native version of P4 in time, even though it runs pretty well via proton in the here and now.
That's awesome, Postal 4 and especially Postal: Brain Damaged look super fun. Let us hope these would come to Linux natively soon! Thank you!
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