The classic shooter on your own PC. Fight smart bots, or play with friends over your home network. No internet needed.
Game, servers and database are all in the package. Install it, press PLAY, and the launcher starts everything for you.
Fifteen bots with their own ranks, weapons and style. They call out enemies, chase you, dodge grenades and pick up guns.
Host a server with a name and a password. Friends on the same network see it in a list and join with one click.
Make accounts with any name and any rank, from recruit to the top, right in the launcher.
Weapons, characters and gear from the shop are yours for good. No hours, no uses.
When a new version is out, the PLAY button turns into UPDATE. One click, and you are up to date.
The launcher speaks both languages, with news from the developer in its own tab.
It takes about 15 minutes, most of it waiting for the download and the setup.
Press Download to get PBP-Setup.zip (5.1 GB). If the download breaks, your browser can resume it.
Right-click the zip and choose Extract All. You get four files: PBP-Setup.exe and three .bin files. Keep them together in one folder.
Open PBP-Setup.exe and allow it to make changes. Keep the suggested folder C:\Games\Point-Blank-Portable or pick another one, but not Program Files.
Start PBP - Point Blank Portable from your desktop or Start menu. The first time, read the short agreement and press I agree.
Choose an account on the left, or press + NEW to make your own with any name and rank. Press PLAY: the launcher starts the servers and the game. Allow the Windows permission prompt; the game needs it.
In the game, enter the first channel, create a room, choose a mode and a map, invite bots if you like, and press Start.
The .bin files are not next to PBP-Setup.exe. Extract the whole zip first, then run the setup from the extracted folder.
Press STOP, wait a few seconds, then START in the launcher's Systems card. If it stays red, restart the PC and try again.
Someone is already playing on it. Pick another account or make a new one with + NEW.
Allow it on private networks. The servers need this for LAN games.
You choose the mode when you create a room. The label on each card shows how well the bots handle it.
Red against Blue. You come back after every death. The first team to reach the kill target, or the team with more kills when time runs out, wins.
Rounds without coming back. Red plants the C4 at site A or B; Blue protects the sites and defuses the bomb. Finish the objective, or take out the whole other team, to win the round.
Rounds without coming back. Take out every enemy to win the round; the team that wins the most rounds wins the game.
Each team has an object to protect and the enemy's object to destroy. Damage theirs while you keep yours standing.
One team attacks the targets on the map, the other defends them until time runs out.
When you create a room you can allow only one kind of weapon. A sniper-only or knife-only Team Deathmatch is a whole new game.
Humans against dinosaurs. The dinos hunt and the humans fight back together; in Escape, the humans have to reach the way out.
Everyone against everyone. The player with the most kills wins.
Bots are players run by the server. They wait in the lobby like everyone else, and you invite them into your room.
Enter the first channel. The bots wait in its lobby.
Create a room. Team Deathmatch on a map the bots know works best.
Press Invite in the room. The bots are in the list by name.
Invite as many as you like, up to 15. Each one joins the smaller team, so the sides stay even.
Press Start. The bots load in with you.
Bots do not know a map until a person has played it. They learn it from the way you move: every corridor you run through becomes a path they can use. On a map nobody has walked yet, bots stand still.
Create a room on the map, without bots. Walk and run everywhere: every corridor, room, stairway, roof and corner, both teams' bases included.
Your route is saved every 30 seconds you stay alive, and when you die after at least 8 seconds. Long walks teach more than quick deaths.
Play a round as Red and a round as Blue, so the bots of both teams know where they start. A few rounds of 3 to 5 minutes each is enough to begin; more rounds make them smarter.
Leave the room, create a new game on the same map, and invite bots. Now they move and fight there. If they still stand still, walk the map a little more, or restart the servers with STOP and START in the launcher.
Already learned in this version: Burning Hall, New Library, Uptown and one more map. The learning is shared: on a LAN, the host's server keeps it for everyone.
One PC hosts, everyone else joins. All PCs need PBP installed and must be on the same home network.
Point Blank is a game by Zepetto; all rights to the game belong to them. PBP is a free, non-commercial fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zepetto. The server is based on the work of joaowars776.
