My big bug reports thread

[YagamiBrando]

Hello there. I've been playing postal 4 recently and I have a lot to say. Have some suggestions as well as bug reports. This will contain some spoilers and stuff from endgame/friday, so tread with caution.

Postal 4 is, unfortunately, in a pretty poor shape right now. Even though we hit 1.0 and the game is no longer early access, there's a lot of problems. The game is still janky and feels like a beta. But I hope as many others, that you will fix the bad stuff and polish it, in time.

First, I'll post some bugs and stuff that is not working correctly.

1) Number one problem is, of course, optimization and crashes. The game stutters a lot, fps drop here and there, loading between zones are unpleasant. Also, Ihad a lot of crashes to desktop. Especially during the Kunny island mission. Often it was happening during dual wielding akimbo mode during missions/errands. Sometimes during loading between zones and some other times - during loading after finishing an errand/story mission.

2) Subtitles are not working correctly. Even if you enable them via settings they will still not show up in the game. And you need to enable them *during gameplay*, then you will see them. But if you close the game and open it again, you will notice that they are disabled again. Also, there are no subtitles in cinematic cutscenes and during in-game cutscenes. You can only see subtitles if ppl on streets say something. Also they look ugly :p (the titles, not the people). Maybe use something like the font style of the main menu or something.

3) The dude will still wear his purple bathsuit during cutscenes even if you've changed it to a different outfit, like the classic trench coat. Your current outfit must be shown during the in-game cutscenes. For me this one was quite important :(

4) Map navigation is a mess on tuesday. If you select one errand, it will show shortcut to another one. For example, see screenshot, I've selected "Border smuggler", but it shows the route to Tag Turf.

https://imgur.com/a/U7FcVUY

5) I got to some underground cave in vote center on tuesday and was stuck here. Could not open the door or go anywhere in the cave. Bug? Or maybe I did something wrong?

6) As a cat, you need to enter this door to get milk. It is closed and you run through it like a ghost.
https://imgur.com/a/noSkcJL

Because of that I had trouble getting out, forgot the open path is hidden because the door appear as closed and again, you need to run through it.

7) https://imgur.com/a/d8kIBEm
Inside this house you bump into invisible wall. Although there is no furniture here.

8) No reflections in mirrors. Come on, postal 2 had these.

9) In the beginning of thursday, if you try to jump your way through this bridge mad of wooden sticks, you will fall and be stuck forever. So, thanks for adding suicide button. Yet, maybe you should just fall to death here? Or not be stuck or something.
https://imgur.com/a/psCW8RS

10) Armor clips through your clothes. I dont remember if it does with your purple bathrobe, but it surely does with classic p2 and p3 trenchcoats. (Especially if you look from behind). Also if you pick 200% green armor, get some damage and lower the value (to 190%, for example), then save and reload - the armor will be blue.

11) What's up with these guys? They are not okay.
https://imgur.com/a/GCcxDYf

12) https://imgur.com/a/DYxZ2b8
Invisible wall in the first screenshot, I cant go forward here. Low quality image in the second screenshot.

13) Scooters sometimes change their color if you walk away then return to them.

14) Customization of color schemes for your weapons does not save. If you reload the game everything will be reset to default. Also after VR mission, some stuff, like gas can and painter still appeared with VR color, even though I've changed it to normal one in the settings.

15) MikeJ boss, at one point of the boss battle, just stopped doing anything. So I put him out of his misery while he was just standing there, looking somewhere far away.

In the end I was unable to finish the game, alas. I made a quick save right after the autosave before Vince boss battle. After reloading vince was not there. The boss just gone, but the errand not finished. Looks like I messed up my walkthrough T_T.

So, that's some stuff for you guys. Will post my suggestions for improvements later too. Cheers and good luck with fixing the game

[Zeron]

Hey there, thanks for this list, moved it to the correct sub forum.

Stuff that we're already aware of:
• 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15

Stuff we're already aware of but will probably never fix due to certain reasons:
• 8

Stuff we fixed internally and will be fixed in the next patch:
• 4, 6, 11

Stuff we didn't know about and we're taking note:
• 7, 12

[YagamiBrando]

Good to know
Would be great to have some reflections in mirrors, maybe even some low quality ones. Still better than nothing :D

As for invisible wall for #12 - it was close to the treasure hunter errand on Friday, where you need to go to the mines. I thought it could be intentional, because I was able to enter the mine from the opposite side, via that texas-town with trains. But maybe this rear entrance can be used as alternative to begin this errand.

[Zeron]

Originally posted by YagamiBrando:

Good to know
Would be great to have some reflections in mirrors, maybe even some low quality ones. Still better than nothing :D

Every time we've experimented with proper reflections, it always chewed too many frames, its always been a challenge to get those in UE3 and UE4, unlike UE2 which had no problems.

Who knows, maybe if we ever port the game to UE5, it MIGHT be a possibility, hopefully. But not something to even consider right now as we've been working hard on optimization.

[Elucidator]

As mirror requires placing a camera that makes the client rending things from that camera's perspective, yeah-- with the current situation I can understand that.
Honestly I thought you were aware of 6, because I didn't find any other way in. I thought ghosting through was normal (due to it still being in dev basically). (might be fixed later thingy...)
Its hard to say what you are aware of and what not considering these things.

I noticed you can break the guy's power supply as catdude, but this causes him to attack you with his gun. I am not sure if this was the original official method of getting him to open up the door or something. If it was, I don't think you're supposed to be able to attack that box through the wall from the outside. xd

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Honestly I thought you were aware of 6, because I didn't find any other way in. I thought ghosting through was normal (due to it still being in dev basically). (might be fixed later thingy...)

We are aware of #6, and it will be sorted when the next update goes live.

[YagamiBrando]

Hey there. A bit of an update after 1.06. See screenshots below:

https://imgur.com/a/t6cfa4h

1) Screenshots 1 and 2 - some graphical artifacts. I've encountered them several times.
2) Brains stay floating in the air. Happens a lot. Screenshot 3
3) I've encountered picture #4 after going through load area transition. Had to reload the game.
4) I keep seeing flying birds on the ground. Like they are stuck or something. They cannot be killed or moved. (picture #5)
5) In the club, the wardrobe area is an anomaly zone. You cannot piss through it or pour some gas. Yet you can jump here or through grenades. (pictures 6 and 7)
6) On picture 8 you can see subtitles are displayed twice. Actually subtitles are still working incorrectly in many cases. Some cutscenes don't have subtitles at all, like when Job-giver Bellows gives you his 3 different errands and explains them. There is no subtitles during Tuesday outtro (day closing) cinematic cutscene. No titles during Tag turf mission, aside from the on on the screenshot. Etc. Also something should be done with fonts, to make subtitles more visually appealing.

7) Cat HUD still displayed as cop one. With wanted level and messed 2nd slot. Maybe cat should have his own unique HUD?

P.S. in some cutscenes the Dude wears his current outfit, like Cop outfit. But in many others he still wears his default purple robe.

[YagamiBrando]

Some bonus stuff for tuesday.

1) If you were using cop outfit and start the "cat" mission on tuesday - the HUD for the cat will be the cop outfit's one and the game will crash after completing it.
If you load a save where you are a cat - the hud will revert to default one and after completing the cat mission you will wear default robe and will lose cop outfit.

2) Issues #4 and #6 from the first post are still not resolved :(

[YagamiBrando]

Hey, I'm here with another portion of stuff found on my new walkthrough after 1.06.

https://imgur.com/a/mxTUeVc

Picture 1 and 2: maybe that is some minor bug, but I've noticed, that the image inside the glass ball on the right always changes to the one you can see at picture 2, the one with the fish if you enter the "Settings". While in main menu and all other sub-menus it will remain like at the title screen. (in my case - the bidet image).

Picture 3 and 4: you can open the armory shop menu if you walk close to the wall in the toilet inside Job agency building.

Picture 5 and 6: The middle locker in the armory a-1 is transparent, while others are not.

Picture 7, 8 and 9: you cant enter the house, even though you can break the glass door and the hole is big enough for you to squeeze. But you cant and it feels like invisible wall. Maybe the better option will be to make the glass unbreakable or replace the doors to the ones without the glass part.

Pictures 10 and 11: this challenge does not show up in the very beginning of the game, when you enter this area after leaving the starting area. I remember you could do this challenge right away in the previous versions. Now I think it appears after you did your first errand.

Picture 12: on this walkthrough I encountered flying rats at the section where you platform jump through the water to get the 4 sewer parts from storages. IIRC they shouldnt be there.

Picture 13: another transparent object.

Picture 14 and 15: invisible wall. On Picture #15 I cant walk forward any further.

Picture 18: I've noticed that for Pigeon bomb you can only throw it with left mouse button. The tip says "press alt fire to drop proximity mine", but there is no such an attack for it. Pigeon mine has only standard throw attack. Alt fire does nothing (and I regert nothing).

Picture 19: I'm playing with Corey Cruise voice now, and on Thursday when you start the day and the dude says the stuff about finding champ and his stuff, his last sentence (something like "ok lets get it on!") is said in another voice, probably John st. john.

And that's it for today

[YagamiBrando]

I've finally finished the game. Here goes another small bug report.

https://imgur.com/a/souDir0

Picture 1: not really a bug but...Something must be done to improve how the people look during the race mission.

Picture 2,3,4: As you can see it is possible to go through the floor on Picture 2.
It seems it is impossible to grapple all 3 hook points on picture 4. Only the lower one and the middle one. But maybe that's intended?

Pictures 5 and 6: this can be found during Treasure hunt mission on Friday.

During this walkthrough I for some reason always had a cat silencer attached to pistol and shotgun, even though I shouldn't.
After I did the treasure hunt mission and tried to get back, the lift was not there at the entrance, so I could not leave the cave.
Game crashes really often after the Race errand on thursday. If you reload the checkpoint/autosave which is made right after you complete the race, you will see yourself falling through the floor into the abyss. The only solution is to load up an earlier save, try again and pray.