Postal is going for big-time outreach the huge online Unreal community with
the development of a Snatch CTF mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. Since
Postal 2 is based on the Unreal-warfare engine (similar to UT2003), the
parts as models, animations, meshes, and sounds will just drop in.
P2 community member Santaduck has long been pushing for such a mod
ever since his interview with Vince Desi back in December of 2004.
Well-known master Postal coder Kamek picked up the idea and began coding a
mutator. Although he got too busy with AW-related projects and couldn't
finish it, he was nice enough to hand over what he had to Santaduck, who
found an Unreal coder willing to finish the project. The end result will be
a custom gametype for UT2004:
The postal girls and heart-shaped beds will replace the Flag and Flag base,
and of course you'll hear Vince as the announcer. The HUD may be modified
as well, but the rest of the game will be standard Unreal Tournament, with
your familiar rocket launchers, flak cannons, and all that good stuff. This
mod should be real popular, so expect to see renewed interest in all things
Postal.
You can track the progress of this mod over at Macologist here:
http://www.macologist.org/viewtopic.php?t=1484
Expect to see a beta release posted at Atari's official Unreal forums soon!
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