The fan-made project Streets of Rage 2: New Era has received a new update with the release of version 3.1.0, bringing further gameplay tuning and a handful of important fixes following the major 3.0.0 milestone.
This update focuses mainly on balance adjustments and polish. Enemy health scaling has been lowered when playing with multiple players, making co-op sessions feel fairer and more fluid. NKB attacks have also been adjusted to deal more damage, improving their usefulness in combat. On the technical side, several long-standing issues have been resolved, including broken control switches for control modes and rumble, a typo in the rumble description, and a visual bug that caused low-quality graphics when launching the game in fullscreen mode.
Version 3.1.0 builds on the foundation laid by v3.0.0, which introduced major additions such as online score leaderboards, speedrun time comparisons via speedrun.com, and the long-awaited addition of Shiva as a playable character. That release also revamped menus with new artwork and music, overhauled the scoring system outside of classic mode, and delivered broad gameplay improvements including cancels and balance tweaks. Achievements were removed in 3.0.0, with the possibility of returning in a future update.
Download Streets of Rage2: New Era here.