Postal Nation - Newsletter by Running With Scissors

SEPT / OCT 2007 ISSUE

POSTAL 2 & POSTAL 2: AW - MODS & MAPS
Postal 2 MULTIplayer Total Conversions and Maps

POSTAL 2 STP is not lacking some very entertaining and powerful multiplayer add-ons that are widely used in the community. The Admin Tool Pack, for example, is essential for anyone wanting to run a P2 dedicated server.

Even if you do not plan to run a server, downloading and installing these now will save you having to wait for the download to be sent from the server.

Postal2STP Admin Tool Super Pack – By Kamek

Included in this super pack are a mind-boggling collection of fixes and addictions to POSTAL 2 multiplayer. What’s more, all new features are highly configurable!

This pack included the mods Xdmin, Xcharlite, STPextras, Zeroping and Zounds.

This all-in-one admin pack will give you everything you need to fix and improve a P2 server! One caveat: Xadmin is not designed to work for Eternal Damnation, as ED already contains most of this content.

The documentation included covers everything, so here I’ll just mention some highlights.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-AdminToolPack.rar

Addictions:

-More characters to select from including Krotchy and the Homosexual! Also provides the ability to customize the player roster.

-Zeroping! Replaces POSTAL 2's normal, server-side hit test code with client-side routines. This can help players with high pings make their shots more easily.

- STP extras mapping tools. You can place exploding props, strippers, special spawners and more.

-Adds a voting system! It’s now possible for players to vote at the end of a round for gametype, mutators and level! Or alternatively a player can start a majority vote before the end of a round.

Screenshot:

-Adds 'kill announcers' such as 'killing spree' las seen in Unreal, With the voice of Vince Desi.

-Zounds will broadcast sounds that are triggered words from the player’s chat line. Fully configurable.

-Remove the limit on your map list and use more than 32 maps in rotation up to a (theoretically) unlimited number of maps.

-Bots can be renamed and made to avoid certain weapons.

-Typer Icon shows an icon above a player's head when they are typing.

- Easily change mutator settings and such without altering your command line

-Weapons strengths can be configured, as well as the weapons players start with.

-Any weapon can be made to replace another weapon via configuration files.

-The players movement speed and jump height can be configured.

-Player chat spamming protection

-Taunts! Players can now give the middle finger or dance, by typing ‘middlefinger’ or ‘dance’ into the console, or binding a key to it.

-Ban players by name. Default names banned include "Player" and "Admin".

-New characters: ATF Agent, Female

Bandmember, Book Protestor (male), Cock Asian

Guy, Suicide Bomber, Homosexual, Krotchy, RWS

Protestors (male , Zealots).

-Player Security protects against some unauthorized script hacks, aimbots, wall

hacks, and temporary console commands.

-Message of the Day added. You can now display a logo and message that players will see once a day.

-Idle Kicking removes players who idle too long after death (can be configured).

- Two Second Spawn Protection added by default. Players will have yellow dots surrounding them while protected. Can be configured.

Fixes:

-Remembers the map the server was changing to, so in the event of a server crash on level change, the server will boot back up to the correct map.

- Sound Fix enables ambient sounds and songs that don't normally work in Multiplayer.

-Prevents the formation of "piss fountains" that cause major lag.

- Fixes the infamous "fast food bag cheat" and removes the forced delay in-between dropping items.

- Now removes weapon pickups after 60 seconds rather then 300 to stop weapons piling up on the servers. Can be configured.

-Bots will now work on custom maps that have no ‘levelgameplay’ info in them.

"Postal remains one of the most witless and cynical games ever produced, which, in this day and age, almost serves as a kind of greatness. Unlike most of the games of 1997, it is still remembered, and will be so for many years to come."

Colin Campbell, Editor-In-Chief
Next-Gen.biz

Postal2STP Multiplayer GameTypes

AirMail 3 – By Kamek

AirMail is a unquie mutator for POSTAL 2 Multiplayer based on the Rune Quake mod. Packages will appear in various spots on the map. Inside each package is a random power-up. Only one power-up may be held at a time. Some powerups are automatic, while others must be activated to use.

A complete run down of airmail can be found here : http://www.gopostal.com/newsletter/07/Mar/gamedoctor.php

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-AirMail3-142a.rar

Postal Arena – By Kamek

Postal Arena is a new gametype that inherits the classic Rocket Arena play style. Two players are placed in the arena while others watch from the outside. The players get all weapons (or just one, depending on the config) and only one man will survive. The loser goes back to the viewing area while the winner gets to fight someone else.

The download includes six arena maps, and more are available.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-PostalArena120.rar

Screenshots:

Holy Wars – By Kamek

Holy Wars is a death match mod for three or more players. It's very simple and great fun.

In Holy Wars, everybody tries to kill the Saint and steal his Halo. The Saint fights back. The game is always a furious "The Saint vs. The Rest of the World" brawl. The result is total carnage. Holy Wars will work on all Deathmatch maps, But needs the super weapon mod installed to play.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-HolyWars_100.rar

Screenshots:

Postal2STP Multiplayer Character packs

More player-to-POSTAL 2 STP! A lite version of these mods is included in the Admin super pack, but these can be used instead to add many more players and teams to your roster. Also grants the ability to configure what players you would like in the roster, and fixes the bug where bots will not show up on some custom maps.

XCharactersFF – By Kamek

Forty-two new characters include: ATF Agents (male and female), Postal Babe, Female, Bandmember, Biohazardous Snark, Book Protestors (male and female), Cock Asian Guy, Coach Z, Cops (black male, white female, black female), Dopamine, Suicide Bomber, F**** H******, Gangsters (black male, white male, black female, white female), Goth, Homestar Runner, Homosexual, Junkyard Guy, Kamek, Krotchy, Kumquat, Mimic, Nurse, Osama, Female Parcelworker, Female Robber, RWS Protestors (male and female), Scientist, Strong Bad, ?????, Meat Protestors (male and female), Zealots (male and female) and Zombie.

Seven new teams: The ATF, The Boyz, The Gurlz, Team Hood, Team Krotchy, The

Paramedics, The Protestors.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-xCharactersFF.rar

Screenshots:

M@DHeAdZCharacters By M@DJackal

This modified version of Kameks XcharactersFF adds 112 new characters and 13 new teams to the standard POSTAL 2 STP roster! Takes most of the characters from XcharFF, and adds George bush, the Punisher, Alucard, a new Postal Babe, and many more!

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/madjackal/MaDWorkx/P2M@DHeAdZChars_1.0.zip

Screenshots:

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Richard Aihoshi
IGN Vault Network

Postal2STP Multiplayer Weapons

AW Multi weapons By Kamek

Adds the machete and sledgehammer from AW to POSTAL 2 multiplayer. Machete replaces your baton, and the sledge replaces the shovel pick up.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-AWMultiWeapons.rar

Screenshots:

Super weapons By Kamek

Adds five new weapons to P2STP Multiplayer!.Fixes the napalm and pledge weapons to work in mp, and adds three new weapons: grenade launcher, the holy hand grenade and the nuke launcher.

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/jonm/postal2mods/multiplayer/p2STP-SuperWeapons.rar

Screenshots:

M@DMODS By M@DJackal

A load of new weapons for P2 mulitplayer! Also new gametype ‘M@D Arena’. Many of these weapons are now in AWP: Syringes Bong, Beer, Speed, Chemical Drugs, Laboratory Syringes, Silenced Sniper, Bomb, Silenced Ingram, Shotgun, Silenced Pistol, Colt Peacemaker, Spiked Baseball Bat, Mace, War Hammer Katana, Shurikens, Caltrops, Kung Fu Sword, Butcher Knife, Machete M@D Inc. Shield, Barbarian Axe

Download:

www.resurrection-studios.com/madjackal/MaDWorkx/P2M@DMods_1.0.zip