The king of beat 'em ups gets huge patch with over 300 tweaks and changes
Classic beat-'em-up revival Streets of Rage 4 has gotten a «long-awaited major update» that brings over 300 tweaks, fixes, and balance changes to the side-scrolling brawler. Released last Friday(opens in new tab), the update makes some merciful changes to the game's combo counter, tweaks the game's characters in various subtle and not-so-subtle ways, and finally, finally lets you hurl your co-op partner at enemies like some kind of meat-and-bone ballistic missile. Teamwork makes the dream work.
You might want to give it a minute before you rush to check out the update, though. Dotemu says it's been getting reports of post-patch crashes(opens in new tab) from some players, and its devs are «investigating to find a fix and update the game ASAP.»
You can find the full, incredibly lengthy patch notes on Steam(opens in new tab), but the headline items are the new co-op moves, a custom survival mode, and a couple of the more sizable balance tweaks. In addition to the ability to hurl your partner at enemies, any player being thrown will be able to perform a special attack, which I suppose should help preserve their dignity somewhat.
As for that custom survival mode, that's only accessible to owners of Streets of Rage 4's Mr. X Nightmare DLC, who will find themselves able to, uh, «tweak his/her survival experience with a variety of options.» That's literally all the detail that Dotemu has furnished us with about that change, so I suppose DLC owners will need to fire up the update to figure out what that actually translates to. For lack of any other information, I'm just going to imagine it adds a new dating sim layer to the game.
Beyond that stuff, the game's gotten a few balance changes that should make it easier to preserve
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