[OUTDATED] SPEEDRUNNING GUIDE

Overview

My community’s guide about SPEEDRUNNING this game !

Intro

Welcome !

Hello everybody !
So if you clicked here you must be interested by the Postal 4 : No Regerts Speedrun, so you’re at the right place !
EDIT as of Dec 2020 : [b/] Actually, the developement of the game has taken so much time for so little real changes in the game, i guess due to covid and low money, RWS can’t really make something of their game, even months after, now we only have Monday / Tuesday on a really unstabble and broken optimization game, so ♥♥♥♥ it, maybe when we’ll have something worth playing we’ll keep this project alive.

Rating or adding this guide to your favorite would be really appreciated as I’ve put a lot of time and effort to make this guide and if it could help some people geting started with it I’d be really happy !
I’m very happy to say that we now have a speedrun.com page for Postal 4 : No Regerts !
Wich means that we now have an official leaderboard and we’ll have access to the Ressources and Forum too, so I just wanted to give a shout-out to a very kind Postal 2 moderator who accepted our request and added the game.

So for now this guide is kinda empty and short (note that I will expand it has much as possible as we get more tips, tricks and techniques about the run) but every infos you can give us through the comments or talk about in Forum section are greatly appreciated, so don’t hesitate to get everything that may help the speedrun in here.

Anyway, this guide will be kept up to date has much as possible throughout the versions and the patches !

Note: I’m creating this guide the October, 27th 2019. We were on v0.1.3.35 at the moment of the creation of this guide.
And remember this is still WIP and everyone is up to contribution if they want !

Let’s get started !

Actual Leaderboard Situation

So we now have the Postal 4 : No Regerts speedrun.com leaderboards :

[link]

As the game has not yet major glitches, skips or OOB it’s just a matter of route and movement optimisation (for now at least).
Here are my personnal splits ( LiveSplit [livesplit.org]) that I use when running the game.

v0.1.3.35 :

Glitches and Tricks you HAVE to learn

So for now there are no major glitches we can use properly in order to gain time, note that I am listing the glitches and tricks that MAY be useful but we don’t get them to work in a consistent way yet under, in the section “Glitches and Tricks that may help us“

So don’t mind talking about some glitches or tricks you have encounter or you know are working consistently here, so we can work together to get a consistent way of gaining time.

Glitches and Tricks that may help us

I’m working on it rn, I have a couple ideas.

_ Prison Skip

So first of all we got an Idea of Gamma281 who told me that “when you are told to get to the central security hub and the first prison door closes (the 111 one) you can touch the keypad for it through the wall and reopen it… this should allow you to skip the mission completely if you could find a way to get out as right now it just locks you in there forever and you can’t progress and you’ll be told to go to the central security hub over and over. “
So we maybe can do something if we work this out.

_ Scooter Glitch Transportation (DEAD FOR NOW)

And Also I’m trying to figure if we can get a Scooter Glitch, because sometimes when you pick up the scooter in your hands and it’s still going in a direction (just keep pressing foward key when exiting the scooter and it will keep going in this direction after you got out), if you take it in your hands and place it under your feets while jumping from an upper spot and keep crouching/jumping.
Then you can fly on it (kinda like the Props Flying technique on HL2 runs, basic physics y’know?) and use your mouse to change the direction you want to fly to.

Actually I found out that double tapping your “vehicle enter” key will give you way more chances to take the scooter in your hands than just pressing the key once, that’s really weird, if any of you have a consistent way of carrying it please tell us in the comments.

Useless in v0.1.3.45, can’t do this glitch due to RWS’s last updates in wich you now take damage when having an object under your character (it’ll smash your hitbox and kill you in seconds), also the scooter stop accelerating so we can’t use it as a way of transportation as of now.

So maybe they’ll patch it just so we can have a consistent way of lifting it in our hands, it’ll would be VEEERY useful for us as we could use it to prop flying across the map.
Anyway if you have any ideas, suggestion or anything on Glitches and Tricks we could use, post it here on comments or DM me.

Route !

So as of now (27/10/2019) I made a route, Starting at the Prison then going to do the Animals Catcher and then finishing with the Sewer Maintenance.

Here’s the link of my template Speedrun, it is just an example and nothing is incredible, I’m currently working hard on getting it WAY better, but the more we are and the faster the Speedrun Community will grow and better the routes and techniques will be !

Route Link :
( [link] )

So as of now here is the list of all the stuff you have to do and in the chronological order :

As soon as you spawn in rush to the cardboard and take the Vitamin X Powerup (next to a tent between the cardboard and the pen) and the pen, then write down anything (DON’T spam mouse click to write at the first frame available, it will get you a broken cardboard and you won’t be able to use weapons).
You HAVE to grab everycats and dog corpses (kill them first) as you can, kill the dogs that are on your way and grab the cats too so you can feed them to the Van Guy later.
Then keep going and go to the scooter nearby the Anus Inn. You don’t need to ask for job to anyone, just take the scooter (at the location shown on the picture under) then take the road to the Job Agency.
Then when you’re on the road to get your ass to the Job Agency, stop by the first wooden house on the left side of the road, it will contain a Lvl 2 Kevlar (+200 armor points), a shotgun and an Health Pipe (wich is gonna be useful when in the sewers), then keep following the road until you’re at the Job Agency.
Once you made it to the Job Agency head to the Prison, DON’T try to go all the way up, you won’t do it with your scooter, go to the left and then to the right to go up hill to the prison.
Then when you’re inside the prison and you accepted the Job, take the Shotgun ammo on the left, and then just head to the Door Code (you already have Lvl 2 Kevlar so you don’t need health or kevlar) and type “1-1-1” on the door.
Then I recommend you walk around, personnaly I go the C Bloc Cell place and walk up to the third small table and then turn around and head back to the Central Tower, (I don’t know if it’s a trigger, a timer or just when you walked enoguh inside the prison but) at the exact moment I arrive to the Central Tower Door the Boss starts talking and he unlock it 3-4 secondes after so you’re already in front.
Once the door opens, jump on the ladder, upstairs when he says “The code is 6.. 9… aaaaand” you can start pressing “9-6-9” on the Code Pad.
After the cutscene head to the C Bloc, always run and kill the guys that are on your way (you can pop those Vitamin X if you want, you’ll be faster and can knock off the NPCs by pissing on em or kicking ’em.
Then when arriving at the infirmary jump on the right operation table and then jump over the curtain wall. Then you can type in the code “9-1-1” on the pad in the cell room and get back to Central Hub.
Then run to the B Bloc, just follow the corridors, killing everyone that gets on your way. When you arrive to the cell bloc type in “0-6-9” and take the Kevlar in the room if needed.
Go to the Central Hub and then head to the Bloc A. The code will be “4-2-0″ but don’t forget about getting the health pack before enterring the code (wich will end the mission”.
Now get out the Prison and take your scooter back to the Animal Catcher job place. On your way you can pick up any cats that you find because you’re gonna need 5 for the job.
Once you arrived I recommend running around, kicking dogs so they follow you and picking up every cats you come across.
You just have to drop the cats and dog corpses you collected throughout the game.
Once the Job is finished go on your scooter again and go to the Sewer Entrance.
Once you arrive to the sewer and accept the Job, enter the Sewers, then go to the right to the Pump Station (G4 Tunnel). Then you have to do the storages in this order :
Storage 3 > Storage 1 > Storage 4 and then the Storage 2 (next to the Pump Room).
So you have to pick the valves and pumps motors in each storage room, take a Health Pack if needed.
When you’re done repairing the Pump Station, jump through the window to the exit under, so you can head to the Mud you have to destroy. Once you arrive there’s no particular order on wich one you have to destroy, I usually go up the ladders and start from the upper ones and end with the lower ones. Once you destroyed all the Mud by shooting it with shotgun (2 shots if close) or Magnum (3 shots whatever distance) head back to the main sewer hub, and go to the Maintenance tunnel (G2)
When in the tunnel follow the middle path (don’t go on the left or right) then repalce every Lightbulbs you come accross.
TIPS: when you arrive to THIS place (where the stickman is) , jump down and head to the door right under to get a Lvl 2 Kevlar +200 armor points) wich will really help you through the steam pipes.

Don’t forget to get health pack or smoking crack on your way to not die because you’ll have to jump through a lot of hot steam pipes.
When you’ll be done with the lightbulbs, head out of the sewers, take the scooter in front of the Blue Store (Waffle House) and then boost your way to the Hotel.

Well done ! You finished the game !

Update Log

Here’s a log listing all the updates I gave to this guide along the development of the game by RWS’s updates and patches and our new findings about the run :

Postal 4 : Janky Alpha Build! :

v0.1.3.35 : Creation of this guide on October, 27th 2019. Adding everything we knew at the moment about the routes and possible techniques.
v0.1.3.4 : RWS’s update kills the possibilities of an acutal Scooter Glitch, having the scooter under the player to fly will drain his life so fast it’s useless and unusable in a run.
Also they added the Vitamin X powerup, wich comes useful and will be used in the new route (useful buff are : Strong urine stream (knocking away NPCs); Super Strong Kick (same) and most important, Dude’s movement is increased !).
03/11/2019 : We finally have our speedrun.com official leaderboards !
v0.1.3.4.1 : “Beggar Sign not being removed from your inventory when seeing Bellow early” So now we won’t have that bug when we go see the Job Agency before the NPCs told us to do so.
Spurt’n’Squirt is useless for the run as of now.

Outro

So yeah, kinda empty for now but don’t worry, as the game evolve and we find things and strategies it will be better and better.
Anyway I’m counting on you guys to keep this guide alive and full of useful stuff !
I’ll try to do my best to keep up with everything but I can’t do it all without your help, so don’t mind sending videos of strategies, routes, explanation, glitches, tricks etc..

If you could please mind sharing this guide or at least putting it in your favorite or pressing the “Rate” button it’ll help alot for us to develop the speedrun of this game and to grow a dedicated community !

Peace out !
Zombieteube

POSTAL 4: No Regerts Guide