Postal 2: Pacifist% Unrestricted Speedrun in

IGT: 31:17
Splits: splits.io/5hz2
Second time world record :) Got insanely lucky with QSQL in this run, even got it at the parcel center on Friday, making this the first run to use it successfully there.
This run can definitely be improved, couple of minor movement mistakes, also I did not use sledge strats at meat world and my arrest on Friday was pretty bad since I had to reload a save and then run outside.
Go for it if you think you can beat it :)
I'm done with this category for now.
QSQLs used:
Library - 6:58
Church - 11:43
Graveyard - 17:40
Napalm - 27:24
Compound - 33:30
Parcel Center - 36:37
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[@Jeff-ee8mh]

This isnt postal 2 this is just 2

[@tvgaming2132]

It's postman 2

[@ekmek_arasi_tost]

post 2

[@froobleton]

It’s actually Jimmy John’s, but you were close.

[@spamton_g_spamtom474]

A yes my favorite game "2"

[@saturniidspectre]

It's still Postal because he visits the post office.

[@wolfcl0ck]

always love how the response to Postal being "too violent" was to make a game even more violent but the violence is completely optional.

[@ollymuirs]

Postal (1997) can almost be seen as a horror game. I always kinda preferred the more lighthearted but still violent nature of Postal 2.

[@JoThNoMi]

Like the game says: "The game is as violent as you are"

[@Skidd0]

I fully believe postal 2 was made exclusively to dunk on people who hated postal 1

[@lux0k628]

I still kinda think the game also needed a pacifist rouute for npcs too. Kinda like the gary coleman duty, where yeah shit happens but it's not aimed at you... "It's only as violent as you are" would drive the point way more home if you hadn't to navigate 20+ minutes dungeon full of people shooting at you every other duty. I dunno, when actual pacifist runs are looked with awe by the community, especially on higher difficulties, just shows that that quote was meaningless

[@JeffarryLounder]

Man Postal 2 always has such a weird, surreal atmosphere. Almost like it's on another planet, desolate away from all other society, where the humans on it have devolved and everyone's become crazy.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

That's kind of what I love about the game, tbh. It feels like it's own completely isolated little world that exists outside of reality.

[@Idk-wtp]

The cut offs on the petition section is funny, just hearing postal guy just saying "you gotta be fu-" before he saves and loads is hilarious.

[@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405]

4:41 its so funny hearing you talk about how you cant kill npc’s as you step on somebody’s head

[@silverchain92channel]

He technically killed him by the unstuck mechanic.

[@simonriley5779]

This guy finished a game that took me 10 hours to complete, congrats

[@ollymuirs]

Well done man. First time I beat the game it took me hours, I just explored every nook and cranny. Even to this day im still finding new things in the game. Thats what I love about Postal 2.

[@obamacare2]

"Depends what you mean man, 'Is it better?' Umm, probably not because a lot of the umm, the main problem with pacifist is that because you can't kill any NPCs means that if they get in your way you can't kill them to get rid of them." *Explodes cop's head*

[@ollymuirs]

It doesn’t count as a kill

[@obamacare2]

@@ollymuirs yeah i know its just funny

[@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585]

@@ollymuirs how tf does it not lmao

[@ollymuirs]

@@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585 Not entirely sure, its to do with the games physics, I'm guessing the game thinks its an environmental kill, ie, an object killing the NPC, rather than the player. Test it yourself, once you do it, open up the stats menu and you will see it does not count as a kill.

[@desertdude540]

@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585 If you play the game long enough, you'll eventually see an NPC walk into the corner of a table and gib for no apparent reason. When you clip into the environment, you get the stuck message and the game moves you to a nearby location, sometimes on the other side of a wall. When an NPC clips into the environment, like the corner of a table, the game immediately resolves the inconsistency by gibbing them, and it's considered an environmental kill that isn't counted on your criminal record. This also happens if you clip into an NPC, usually by crouching and wedging yourself between the NPC and a wall, then standing up and stepping back. In any event, it's the game itself that kills the NPC, not you.

[@jasonee12]

I'm watching this to get a clearer picture on how to do Pacifist runs quick, and I never even knew that you could just save/load your way to getting your petition done quick. That's nice to know. Also, the "*come on.*" part while getting your petition signed was pretty entertaining to watch.

[@ollymuirs]

Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed that part lol. To be honesty saving/loading during petition, whilst convenient, isn't the quickest way. You'll wanna get into a habit of asking to sign from as far as away as possible but whilst still in range and try never asking a 2nd time. You might end up doing more attempts, but the amount of time you save this way is exponential.

[@ollymuirs]

Here is a more recent run I done, only without the quicksave/quickload glitch. www.twitch.tv/videos/811359002?t=0h0m3s Notice how much quicker petition is when we are pickier about who we ask and never ask the same person twice.

[@YvriHun]

I was entertained more with this than with the pacifist route of the Undertale

[@funnysticklady]

of THE undertale..? why are you talking about a game as if it's some sort of ancient treasure

[@lespyguy]

@@funnysticklady because it is THE undertale

[@Crowens]

​@@funnystickladythe under tale is real

[@Flemingluiz-mr9ep]

​@@funnystickladyThe fact Undertale is considerated Ancient nowdays makes me feel old, it has been almost 10 years the game came out already. Everything went so fast

[@dumpanimator]

​@@Flemingluiz-mr9epweird because Minecraft is even older than undertale and they never call it anciet

[@spectreone]

"Pacifist" *breaks into someone house*

[@silverchain92channel]

Also uses glitches to kill

[@eeeeee8317]

4:44 bro didn’t you no clip into that guy’s head?

[@germa2k]

watched your postal 2 run for esa just now, nice job man. i know shit like that must be stressful, but you pulled it off quite nicely.

[@ollymuirs]

Thanks man, i appreciate that :) it was pretty stressful yeah but I was more surprised by how much my luck turned at the end lol

[@SuperTunnelBoy]

"Pacifist run" immediately begins with kicking in the neighbors window

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

As long as you don't kill people, you can use the Taser for non lethal. In the postal universe,Pacifist doesn't mean you don't do violence, you just don't kill people 😂

[@vladls]

@@thelordofthelostbraincells 4:41

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

@@vladls idk, that's a bug probably

[@justacatwithghostlygibus9823]

​@thelordofthelostluncheon it doesn't count as a kill. I made a similar kill and checked my to see my stats if it counted. And is a no, was still 0 kills.

[@davidchez9376]

@@vladls It's a telefrag kill due to game's janky physics. The game won't add to the kill count what's deemed as an "unintentional" kill, in this case the dude getting "stuck" in between an NPC and some of the map's collision. Obviously, there's no way for the game to tell when something like that was intentionally triggered by the player or not, but during a normal playthrough, is possible to trigger that kind of "kill" by accident so it would be bs to do a pacifist run just to get invalidated by the game jankyness.

[@C.A._Old]

*i miss this era.*

[@ollymuirs]

Do you mean this era of PC gaming?

[@karmaleaks]

bro, im playing postal 2 for like 3 years and i didnt know about these bugs💀💀💀💀. This run is so impressive dude

[@ollymuirs]

Cheers :)

[@crespinbanks8371]

I found a new speed tech (i think) at habib's shop on monday. the cooler clip seems to be pretty finikey but there's this shelf that's on the right side of habib's cage, if you jump into there a few times and get behind the 40oz's and the bacon testicles it'll clip you out alot more often than the cooler clip

[@ollymuirs]

That's cool and all, but the reason why we use that specific warp, is because its much closer to the tunnel, if you're gonna walk all the way over to the tunnel, then youd be as well just jumping past the the cage over the shelf, that doesnt even require a clip. The only reason why we go milk > rws >bank is because of that clip, if that clip werent possible then rws>milk>bank would probs be quicker, since on that route you would just sneak past the counter by jumping over the shelf.

[@ollymuirs]

Also that milk warp is admittedly quite finnicky but it all comes down to your fps, if you have a high enough FPS you can actually get it pretty consistently but you need be round about 200+ to get it.

[@crespinbanks8371]

@@ollymuirs ohhh wow that's cool I didn't know that. I think my warp actually costs time because it takes you to the other side

[@OLucasMartinsLegal]

cool run

[@secerity]

rip spacebar

[@Arsenik-]

bro is no more average murder fan

[@crespinbanks8371]

nice man

[@nean9894]

No offense but the speedrunner looks exactly how id imagine a postal 2 speedrunner to look idk why

[@ollymuirs]

None take , not really sure what you mean though lol

[@TeabagVR]

lol

[@MaxCaulfieldxoxo]

I did this on hesterworld and the gymp part was so annoying 😭

[@circldoomer]

I just learn that you can just save load for the petition part, thanks lol

[@ollymuirs]

Thanks man :)

[@penkis9275]

I have to speedrun watching the video to save time so i can sleep earlier ngl it was worth it

[@ollymuirs]

Haha thanks man :)

[@thedoggwalkerss6434]

Can anyone tell me how you do that thing with the alternator at the start of friday? it would really help my runs

[@zenzy4005]

Hey dude nice speedrun, what’s the best settings you would advice to speedrun the game? Thank you :)

[@ollymuirs]

Hey man, glad you enjoyed the run! Thanks for commenting cause it reminded me to remove the "WR" from the run since its no longer world record lol. As far as best settings go, its not overly picky tbh, but the biggest ones to look out for are Max fog distance and FOV. Having your FOV low will make loading screens much quicker. You can also try messing around with Bystander population (how many NPCs will wander around), just be careful with this one however, as if you set it to low, you might struggle with petition, since you'll have fewer people to ask. Corpse population is another one to turn down. Pretty much everyone else though, I would just leave as is.

[@zenzy4005]

@@ollymuirs thank you for the really quick reply man, i recently saw your run and became immediately interested in speedrunning this game, keep doing what you do best, thanks again for the settings :)

[@ollymuirs]

@@zenzy4005 Appreciate it man, means a lot. Funny thing, I'd not long got off a stream when commented so if you were watching you probably could've got a live response lol.

[@zenzy4005]

@@ollymuirs I’m actually a new subscriber haha. What’s your twitch I will have to check it out

[@ollymuirs]

@@zenzy4005 ah right no problem, my Twitch is the same, ollymuirs. It’s linked in my channel description.

[@user-sf3zp1xy8n]

What version is this?

[@sleepykirbo6392]

Chill with the keyboard on loading screens my guy, are you accoustic?

[@ollymuirs]

You don’t need to worry about that :)

[@emreguler2109]

Like

[@connerkelley6906]

What's your favorite part of the game?

[@ollymuirs]

Tough question, probably when I get the baseball bat when I’m playing casually, it’s just such a fun weapon to use.

[@Glitch-Gremlin]

I did my first Pacifist run last night, sadly it didnt give me the achievement. I dont see why, my criminal record said 0 kills.. but maybe a dog under my control killing counts? Or i accidentally goomba stomped someone? Either way ill try again later i guess.

[@ollymuirs]

Your end screen should say "thank you for playing, jesus" I think killing dogs invalidates it, but i could be wrong.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

​@@ollymuirsso dog kills count, even though it doesn't register in the game? Something like that?

[@ollymuirs]

@@thelordofthelostbraincells From what I understand, to get the pacifist achievement you need the "thank you for playing, Jesus" end screen, and by killing animals, you don't get that.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

@@ollymuirs so killing anyone ruins your pacifist run? What about if champ your pet dog kills people without your permission?

[@davyjones3105]

What about a true pacifist run that means you’re not doing things like breaking windows

[@ollymuirs]

not sure I've got the patience for that tbh lol, you're more than welcome to try though

[@ollymuirs]

Also something I forgot to say before, I feel a pacifist run like that is a little too arbitrary, if that makes sense. Playing pacifist, ie, not killing anyone, has an actual purpose in game, you get an achievement for it, so it kinda makes sense to have a category based around that.

[@mrfalzar9]

I am pretty sure if u want to be real pacifist then u cant break any windows. . .

[@ollymuirs]

Then you can go and do that then.

[@jamsya493]

I can be a property damage entousisast without killing anyone

[@davidchez9376]

Pacifist just means no intentional kills since you get an achievement and a different results end screen saying "Thanks for playing, Jesus". Anything else is irrelevant for a pacifist run: stealing, using tazer or any non lethal weapons, destroying properties, etc, the goal is just to get that results text screen.