The Ultimate POSTAL Guide (Overhaul in progress!)

POSTAL★ 5 · 283 ratings9k views379 favorites16 min readby !<Azzy>! 嬉しいヤギUpdated Jan 28View on Steam ↗

Intro

Postal came out in November 14th, 1997
The game's manual included a diary written by Postal Dude as he continued his rampage
The Steam version of Postal includes both Special Delivery and Super Postal levels
In Europe, Postal was released under the name Postal: Going Over The Edge and was heavily censored
In December of 1997, RWS released a Xmas patch, which included new Dude's lines, aswell as reskins of many weapons and NPCs

Special Delivery came out as an expansion pack for Postal on August 28th, 1998
It included 4 new levels, EZ Mart, Shanty Town, Earthquake and La Palamino Resort
This expansion also featured a few new NPC models and voice lines
Base version of POSTAL was also needed for this expansion to run

Postal Plus came out on March of 2001
It combined the base Postal game and Special Delivery expansion pack into one disc
In 2001, it was first ported to Linux by Loki Entertainment
A year later, Postal Plus came out in Europe under the name Postal: Classic and Uncut, every copy also included a demo for Postal 2
Classic and Uncut featured the whole game, now without censorship
In 2009, Postal Plus was first digitally released on GOG, before few years later on Steam

Postal Power-Up Kit, also known as Super Postal in the West, was released in Japan on March 17th of 2000
The edition shown on the left is the first Japanese release that included the 2 new exclusive levels, Tokyo and Osaka
It also includes Japanese dub for the whole game, with text still staying in English
Super Postal also received 2 re-releases, SP Super Price Edition and SP Ultra Price Edition
Western audiences got to experience this expansion for the first time on the release of Postal Redux in 2016

Story

The story of Postal is pretty simple, and it goes something like this:

"The game follows a man named Postal Dude who has just moved into a city named Paradise, but after a while he gets evicted from his home. He believes that the United States Air Force is releasing poison gas in his town and only he is unaffected. Fighting his way to the Air Force Base, trying to destroy the source of evil coming from the base."

This is just a little summary of the whole Postal story. To get a more detailed version you can check out my other guide, that will show you the full and detailed story of Postal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2068702768

Weapons

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

7/10

6/10

10/10

8/10

11/10

With it's infinite ammo, the M16 also has infinite range
The farther away the target, the less accurate it becomes

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

8/10

5/10

6/10

10/10

The shotgun holds a total of 100 shells
Thanks to its wide fixed spread, the shotgun can easily hit multiple targets at once
It is most effective against single enemies up close

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

8/10

10/10

6/10

The spray cannon holds a total of 100 rounds
This fully automatic shotgun shares the same ammo pool with the classic shotgun
With it's rapid rate of fire, it outputs huge amounts of damage, at the cost of quick ammo consumption

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

5/10

10/10

5/10

6/10

8/10

Postal Dude can hold a total of 15 grenades
When thrown, the grenade flies a set distance before hitting the ground and exploding with a small blast radius
The grenade's throw distance is dead set, it cannot be changed, no matter how far you aim your crosshair

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

5/10

10/10

5/10

6/10

8/10

Postal Dude can hold a total of 15 molotovs
When thrown, the molotov flies a set distance before hitting the ground and exploding with a large flame spread
The molotov's throw distance is dead set, it cannot be changed, no matter how far you aim your crosshair

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

10/10

5/10

10/10

7/10

The missile launcher holds a total of 15 missiles, including homing missiles
When fired, the missile flies a straight line until it hits a solid object or an NPC
Homing missileslock onto the nearest NPC
Because of it's almost non-existent blast damage, even in a close group of NPCs, it will kill only one

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

6/10

10/10

5/10

8/10

The napalm launcher holds a total of 15 rounds
When fired, it's projectile bounces when encountering a solid object in it's path
The projectile flies a short distance in the air before creating a flame train on the ground

Accuracy

Damage

Mobility

Rate of fire

Range

Ammo Capacity

10/10

7/10

The flamethrower's fuel tank holds up to 200 gas
When fires, the flamethrower shoots out a gust of flames, putting anybody in range on fire instantly
Despite it's many upsides, gas for the flamethrower runs out very quickly

Enemies

Police Officer

The first most common enemy that you will encounter is the male and female police officer. Spawning in literally in every lever. Can we easily killed by 2 or 3 shotgun blasts

Equipment: Pistol, Machine Gun, Shotgun or Automatic Shotgun, depending on the difficulty.

Grenader

Also a hostile that you encounter in every level, only throwing grenades or molotovs and sometimes also dynamite. With moderate HP, can be easily killed in a few shotgun blasts.

Equipment: Grenade, Molotov, Dynamite

Sheriff

Again, really common hostile, appearing in every level. Carrying mostly M16 like Police Officers, changes weapons on higher difficulty like PO. Also has a bit more HP than PO.

Equipment: Pistol, Machine Gun, Shotgun or Automatic Shotgun, depending on the difficulty.

Rocketeer

Another very common hostile, probably the hostile that has the most HP in the whole game. He really feels like a huge bullet sponge. Carrying only missiles and heatseeking missiles on higher difficulty.

Equipment: Missiles, Heatseeking Missiles

Miner

Finally some rare hostile! Appearing in the Mine for the first time, and then few more time in the rest of the game. Carring only dynamite. He also is the weakest hostile in the entire game, sometimes go down in 1 or 2 shotgun blasts.

Equipment: Dynamite

Sentry

And finally, the only artificial hostile in the game, a sentry that shoots bullets like the M16, spreading fire or shooting like an Auto. Shotgun. It can literally shoot anything. But watch out, once you destroy it will fire one rocket in your direction.

Equipment: Machine Gun, Auto. Shotgun, Napalm Laucher, Flamethrower, Rocketlauncher

Items

Healthpack

This little cube will be your best sidekick on your killing adventure.

Adds up to 10 to 30 HP per pickup.

Shotgun shells

Another great little helper, the shotgun ammo, aswell as the auto. shotgun ammo.

Adds up to 7 to 10 ammo per pickup.

Grenade

A simple grenade item.

Adds up to 3 grenades per pickup.

Heatseeking missile

Another ammo based item.

Adds up to 3 to 6 heatseeking missiles in your rocketlauncher per pickup.

Napalm

A simple pack of napalm.

Adds up to 3 rockets into your napalm launcher.

Flamethrower tank

A small yet powerful flameable tank you can put into your flamethrower.

Adds up to 50 ammo per pickup.

Wooden box

A very handy item you can find almost in every level.

Adds a random amount of ammo into almost every weapon you carry.

Backpack

Last item in the game. A simple red backpack full of rockets and mines.

Adds up to 3 mines into your inventory with also up to 3 of rockets, normal and heatseeking ones.

Achievements

Now, for all you achievement ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Get ready for the ultimate challenge, which is completing all those bloody achievements. Prepare your guns and some kevlar too. Its time to go hunting.

And so it begins...

Make your first kill.

Took a banger in the mouth

Take a rocket to the face.

I'm afraid I just blue myself!

Commit suicide. Press the "K" key.

Forrest Gump

Run for 5 minutes.

Patrick Bateman

Make 100 kills.

Oh, you press F1!

Start the second level. Press the F1 key after you kill a certain % of hostiles in a level.

How Kevorkian!

Perform your first execution. Press the "X" key when you are near a person that is crawling on the ground.

Bad touch!

Touch someone while burning.

The Hell's Fargo Wagon

Throw a molotov at the band in level 3.

Dirty knees

Duck under a rocket. Press the right mouse button once the rocket is coming towards you.

From my cold, dead hands

Complete a level with less than 10 health.

NOPE! Chuck Testa.

Kill an ostrich in the Farm level

Dexter

Make 1000 kills.

Half-mast hard-on

Complete level 10.

Ballmer Baller

Play the Mac or Linux version of the game.

You want our autograph too?

Watch all the credits.

Sissy

Enable cheats.

Get a girlfriend

Complete the game.

Never nude-ist

Kill a naked person. You can find those in levels like Earthquake and La Palamino Resort

Army of One

Use every weapon in the game.

Z for Zachariah

Complete the game having killed everything. You have to finish every level while having 100% in the top bar.

I swear, the AR is for hunting!

Complete the game using only the M16.

Holes is holes

Take 10,000 hits. This will take you a few hours, I would recommend setting the difficulty on "easy" and run into groups of hostiles with M16's.

Boondock Saint

Complete the game without letting any non-hostile NPCs die. Here are a few tips:

1) Try to always stand infront of hostiles, and kill them as fast as possible, dont let them run around.
2) On late levels use the Flamethrower as much as you can, civilians wont ever run into the burning hostiles.
3) Save after every level, but only if you are 100% sure you killed only hostiles. Even create multiple save files, just to make sure.
4) You dont have to kill all the hostiles, only get to the same % as the level wants you to.
5) Try to use instakill weapons as much as you can (grenades, molotovs and missiles)
6) Keep in mind that if a hostile kills a civilian, it counts as a kill, so if you see one lying on the ground, restart the level.

7) You could also totally use the easy way, type "theresnoplacelikeoz" which will skip the level you just entered. But only real sissies use this method, be a man and beat the devil at his own game.

Mickey and Mallory

Make 10000 kills. This one will take you a few hours to complete, but to make it faster, go to challenges>timed>have a blast. Use molotov where the civilians spawn, you should kill around 400 people.

Peter North would be proud

Hit 100,000 targets. This one will take a few hours too, but to make it, again.. faster, go to challenges>flag>unarmed bridge sprint. As the level starts go to the right corner asap, take out your M16 and start firing at one of the rocket sentries in your sight. And after that, repeat until you get the achievement.

Bulletstorm

Fire 1,000,000 bullets. Probably the most time consuming achievements of them all. But heres a tip:

Step 1: When entering a level, type the cheat "Shellfest" and "Shotgun". This will give you shotgun ammo aswell as the Automatic Shotgun.
Step 2: Kill everyone in said level
Step 3: Equip your Automatic Shotgun and start firing, after your ammo runs out, type the cheat "Shotgun" again, fire all the bullets and repeat this process until you get the achievement. If you do this fast enough you should fire around 50,000 bullets in around 10 minutes.

And yes cheats do disable achievements but not the ones the require a certain number of people dead or bullets fired.

Cheats

Keep in mind that enabling cheats disables almost (not including "Bulletstorm", "Peter North would be proud" and the ones including a number of kills and bullets fired) all the achievements. If your achievements won't unlock. You have to restart the game or start a new one.

And how do you activate those cheats in-game?

Start a new game or any level you like and type the cheat on your keyboard after you enter the level.

Special Weapons

breakyosak - Double-Barreled Shotgun
dawholeenchilada - Death Wad

↓ Press the button under twice to equip the special weapons ↓

Cheat List

healthful - 100% Health
flamenstein - 200 Flame Thrower Rounds
shotgun - 50-100 Shotgun Shells
gimmedat - All Items, Full Health
sternomat - Napalm Lancher
lobitfar - Grenade and Molotov
explodarama - Grenades, Missiles, Heatseekeing missiles
chtpos - Health and Kevlar Vest
iamsolame - Invincibility
thickskin - Less Damage
theresnoplacelikeoz - Level Skip
crotchbomb - Mine Field Bombs
titanii - Missiles and Heatseeking missiles
suckdeeznuts - Noclip mode
myteamouse - Reduce Character Size
hesstillgood - Return from Dead
chthom - Revive Character
shellfest - Spray Cannon

Secrets

Truckstop

The first one you can find is in the 2nd level, Truckstop. Go to the bottom right corner of the level, and behind a few trees, there it is! On higher difficulties its guarded by a rocket sentry.

Parade of Disasters

In the level, Parade of Disasters, you wont find only one, but 2 secrets! The first being behind a destroyed wall. Going further you can find a healthpack and a box full of ammo.

As for the second secret, its located under the gas station. Go down the narrow forrest path, where you will find a few hostiles aswell as sentries. Rewarding you by some more healthpacks and boxes of ammo.

Farm

In the level farm, you can find one secret located in the top right corner of the level. Right above the ostrich farm.

Central Park

As for the last secret for the game, and the most difficult to find Is the secret in the Central Park level. Go to the top left corner of the level. Right above the mini golf course with Godzilla, make your way throught the trees to the top of the level. Rewarding you with healthpack, ammo boxes and more.

Easter Eggs

Phone Booth

Dont get fooled by the title, this easter is for all you coomers. In the whole game there are phone booths placed around levels, not every level though. I found only 3. So whats so interesting about it ? When you get close to the booth, you can hear a woman moaning. Yup, thats it. Now thats an easter egg.

The Outskirts

Parade of Disasters

The City

Church

In the level called "The Ghetto" you can find a church at the right top side of the level. Once you kill all the hostiles coming from it, you can go inside and hear people singing.

Radio Cabin

In the second level, "The Outskirts". You can find a small cabin in the middle of the level. Once you get near it, you can hear some type of radio sound coming from inside.

Godzilla

The famous japanese Godzilla, it doesnt fully appear in Postal, only its footprint does. On a destroyed building the Super Postal level "Tokyo". You can also hear the Godzilla roaring once you can close to the destroyed building.

Running with Scissors

In the level "The Ghetto". You can find a group of protestors infront of the running with scissors building, the company that created Postal. This same scene is also in Postal 2, on monday.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer sadly doesnt really work for Postal anymore, as if it ever have. Nowdays you can only play LAN sessions. You can host or join a server, where you can play a co-op version of the game, or see who gets the most kills first.

Challenges

Challenges include 4 gamemodes. The Gauntlet, Timed, Goal and Checkpoint.

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is a special mode, combining the timed, goal and checkpoint modes all in one huge compilation.

Timed

In this mode, you have one goal. Kill. Kill as many people under a time limit, fun, right? You can also pick from 5 levels. Im sure you will really like.. "Have a blast".

Goal

in this mode, your goal is to kill a certain amount of hostiles as fast as you can. You can also choose from 6 levels! Put the difficulty on hard, and get ready for the ultimate Postal challenge.

Checkpoint

And last the Checkpoint mode. In this mode there are flags places around a level. And your goal is to collect them all under a time limit, while killing hostiles too.

Extras

Coat Color

If you're feeling fancy, you can change the coat color of our lovely Postal Dude, available in 8 colors!
Purple
Tan
Black
Green
Blue
Gray
Brown
Red

Japanese Dubbing

In the audio options, you can change the language to Japanese, which was first introduced in the japanese version of Postal, Super Postal. Which is a really great little thing that RWS has decided to add.

Difficulty Slide

As any other game, even Postal has its difficulty options. Easy, Medium, Hard and Masochist. The only thing that those difficulties change is the equipment of hostiles. For example, on Easy all the hostiles have M16's, and on Masochist they all have Auto Shotguns even in the first level, with unlimited ammo. Now thats a challenge, too bad that there isn't an achievement for completing the game on Masochist.

Original Controls

Have you ever wanted to play Postal with the original controls from 1997 ? No ? Well now you can! With just one click you can experience those awful controls, and maybe turn up the difficulty setting, if you feel like a total madman. Those controls were actually still in Postal until 2016 (I think). And you couldn't change them. What a dark age, am I right.

Demos

Back in the day, it was pretty normal for games to include demos. A piece of gameplay made by the devs playing in the background if you stay idle for some time. In those demons you can look at the gameplay of levels like Construction, Home and Bridge.

The End

Thank you

for taking your time and reading throught this guide.
It took me few days to make this guide come to life, so dont forget to leave a like if you found this guide useful, or maybe even add it to your favourites!

Until next time!