Greetings everyone, We will always be grateful to the community for sharing feedback since the game launched. Even when we dont reply, we read your comments, your opinion, and feedback (no matter if its positive or negative) so everything counts. Today we are glad to announce that your feedback helped us to bring more than eighty enhancements to the game. The patch notes will be quite long but worth taking some time to be read carefully. Streets of Rage 4 balancing patch brings enhancements and several fixes to the game including

• Online improvements: better fluidity and stability, less latency.
• New online stats display options available on the HUD section.
• Balancing improvements for all main characters.
• Major gameplay improvements for all stages.
• Various bug fixes.
• Fixed rare random crashes.

• Specials and star move can interrupt any hitstun state on ground
• Specials can interrupt hit freeze
• Faster jump start for SOR4 characters

[SOR4 CHARACTERS: FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS]

• Faster move speed
• Better recovery on-air special
• Added additional invincibility frames on grand upper start-up
• Added grand upper on the ground (OTG) property
• Grand upper travels farther
• Added neutral special OTG property
• Neutral special has less hit freeze
• Pipe swing has a less recovery
• Air special: all hits connect when OTG + ignore weight class
• Denfsive cost lowered
• Rescaled damage on grand upper
• Forward special has a bigger hitbox
• Buff charge kick wall damage
• Infinite stun-lock on enemies are removed
• Special pipe goes farther
• Better recovery on combo
• Better damage on normal combo and star move
• Charge attack goes a little farther

• Cherry can jump cancel after uppercut combo and grab uppercut
• Added 2 frames stun on punches
• Flying punch from combo is fully invincible
• Cherrys charged flying punch is invincible before hit
• Full invulnerability during fall is removed
• Special forward is faster
• Damage Buff
• Back throw works in corners
• Pogo kick can hit OTG
• Cherry damages are rescaled on normal combo
• Infinite head stomping fixed
• Cherry knee loop slightly nerfed

• Floyds attack x3 infinite is removed
• Neutral special life costs adjustment
• Floyd can no longer reset his grab move counter by jumping
• Special take less HP
• Floyd has now a slower animation throwing a butcher knife like all SOR4 characters

• Reduced vertical speed on juggle neutral special
• Reduced vertical speed on juggle back attack
• Blazes back attack has a high bounce
• Jump cancel on combo kick 1st hit

• Fixed Infinite loop
• Added neutral special OTG property

[RETRO CHARACTERS: FIXES AND GAMEPLAY ENHANCEMENTS]

• Added invincibility on headbutt

• Hitting behind with flip kick

• Combo feels more like the original
• Added body hit property to his last kick in combo as in original SOR1
• Infinite fix

• Fixed Star Move not recovering green health

• Atomic drop recovery is now shorter and bigger AOE

• Damage nerf on blitz

• Infinite removed
• Increased run speed (+10%)
• Fixed Star Move not recovering green health
• Punch range is better
• Jab recovery is shorter

• Blitz damage nerf
• Fixed hitbox on Star Move

• Bug fix Diva never going in phase 2.
• Diva charge is slower.
• No armor on kicks.
• Electric area disappears faster.
• Diva has longer preparation for snake bite.
• Diva snake bite has less depth.

• Balancing.
• Commissioner has longer charge punch time + lower dash grab hitbox.

• Police attacks are easier to dodge.

• Barbon kicks can hit another player after impact.

• Smaller hitbox on palm moves.
• Shiva double has a chance to align with the player (instead of being full random).

• Fewer armor moves.

• Beyo is a little faster.
• No more armor moves for Beyo.
• Armor finishes sooner for Riha's moves.
• Less fire pond (lesser time and bigger cooldown).
• Riha fire aoe moves are slower.

• Throw aoe damage nerf.
• Some AI fixes.
• Can't combo the player anymore with 3 shoulder tackles.

• Mr.Y is now harder to defeat
• Elite Shadow reinforcements during the fight.

• MrY stage 11 harder.
• MrY stage 12 evades more.

• Mr.Y and Ms.Y final fight lasts longer (before the robot appearance)
• Some robot hitboxes are smaller.
• Legs positions have changed.
• Twin getting into the robot regains full life.
• Additional damages on the robot.
• Fixed a bug preventing Mr.Y from throwing grenades.
• Spider robot now has the same attacks in phase 1 & 2.
• Fix a bug with Ms.Y not grabbing in stage 12 last fight.

• Nerfed Galsia weapon hitbox

• Apple added in the changing room.
• Added a roasted chicken.

• Less green life at the beginning.
• Fixed Pheasant and sparrow rising move.
• Shorter electric vial time.
• Reduced steam hazards hitbox.
• Lots of enemies rising armor moves removed/nerfed.

• Longer parry recovery time.
• Massive punch is easier to dodge

• Headbutt nerf: hitbox + hitbox depth nerf.
• Lower hp.

• Jump kick track less.
• Slap is slower.

• No armor.

• Slower kicks.
• Slower knee while rising.
• Turn towards the target when rising.

• Slower start up.
• Smaller hitbox height.
• Less HP.

• Bronze enemy is not armored anymore during his attack.
• Donovan and palettes have a slower jab punch.
• Lower nb of hits to destroy bikes : 3.

• Gourmand jump attack tracks less.
• Gourmand doesnt do 2 hits anymore with an air attack.
• Armor removed on Big Ben fire attack.

• Slower shield regeneration.
• Slower attack.

• Barbon clone bug fixed.

• Faster walk speed before grab.

VARIOUS

• Deactivated special burst in Battle Mode
• Enemies hurtbox while jumping on-screen is bigger.
• You can pick up an item that is in the air if it is in your character height.
• All characters can hit at point-blank.
• You cannot charge a move while doing a charged move.
• Forward specials are not triggered when pressing up or down.
• Wall bounces increments the combo counter.
• A character that is in Body Hit mode will collide more easily with other characters.
• Nora palettes arent armored anymore.
• Donovan can hold a hammer.
• Gold reinforcements on stage 10 boss.
• Stage 11 more score items on the plane.
• Stage 12 ninja floor changed a little (removed spike ball, added Big Bens).
• Faster transition on stage 1_2.
• Donovan with a hammer on stage 3_1.
• Boss Rush Mr.Y & Ms.Y robot trigger threshold as in Story Mode.
• Bikes are now breakable in Stage 6.
• Walking upward in front of Roo makes spawn 3 vials.
• Score: combo bonuses dont have a point limit now.
• Better reinforcements spawn code preventing some reinforcements from spawning out of bounds.
• Combo counters stay alive when hitting shields or guards.
• Falling into holes breaks the combo.
• Lowered Koobo control weapons number (2 flying at the same time).
• Fixing Grenade throwers on roff throwing their grenades out of bounds.
• Damage reduced on players when comboed by enemies.
• Fixed a bug where you could infinite combo an enemy and refill his life.
• Fixing pickup bug when several items overlap.
• Weapons start flashing in red at 1/3 life (instead of 1/2).
• Sledgehammer freeze reduced a bit.
• Fixed input bug when canceling blitz by fwd special near a wall.
• Fixed some scripting issues in the 5-2 bar fight.
• Better reinforcements spawning.
• Throwing knives do 36 damage instead of 35 preventing some weird 0hp enemy situations.
• Some K-washi shield issues fixed.
• Retro Shiva boss fight reworked.
• Added 10 frames of stun after vault jump.
• Pummel moves fix preventing some infinite.