STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-05-17

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Playtest Build 5/17/2024

Hey everyone, latest build is live!

Build links:

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CONTENT:

Ancients:

• A new Ancient, Tezcatara enters the Spire.
• Pael offers two new boons, his Wing and Eye.
• Vlad offers two new boons, his Brooch and Earring.

Relics:

• Implemented the following returning relics from STS1:

- Added Ice Cream relic.

- Added Kunai relic.

- Added Lizard Tail relic.

- Added Orrery relic.

- Added The Abacus relic.

- Added Toolbox relic.

Potions:

• Milk Potion has been reworked. Heals YOU for 6HP.
• Deprecated Ancient Potion.

Events:

• Self-help Book event now allows you to choose a card to apply enchantments to.

BALANCE:

Ancients:

• Relax's base energy and card draw have been increased to 2. Upgrade no longer increases energy and card draw.
• Pael's essence now exhausts before cards are drawn.

Powers:

• Plating no longer decreases when damage is received. Instead, it reduces by one every turn.

Regent:

• Decree of Unmaking can no longer apply Frail to enemies.

Necrobinder:

• Transfuse HP gain from 10 -> 5.
• Rattle hits decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3).
• Poke upgrade changed from additional hit -> +3 damage.
• For My Own Good rarity from Common -> Uncommon. Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
• Encase cost increased from 1 -> 2 and Plating lowered from 10(15) -> 7(9).
• Death grip hits down from 5 -> 4. Upgrading adds one hit instead of increasing damage.
• No Escape base turns changed from 3 -> 2. Upgrade changed to add Innate.
• Empower upgrade no longer ads vigor, instead removes exhaust.

Enemies:

• Bygone Effigy health increased from 90 -> 123.
• Bygone Effigy now rests for two turns and removes slow before attacking for the first time.
• Byrdonis HP lowered from 101-103 -> 93-98.
• Chomper HP lowered from 102-108 -> 83-92.
• Back Chomper in the automaton pair fight now screeches before attacking.
• Furry Worm Crawler Inhale strength gain increased from 3 -> 5.
• Hunter Killer Bite damage lowered from 20 -> 17.
• Hunter Killer Puncture damage lowered from 4x3 -> 3x3.
• Hunter Killer Tenderizing Goop now applies Frail instead of Vulnerable.
• Phrog Parasite HP lowered from 92-94 -> 81-86.
• Spiny Toad HP lowered from 154-166 -> 138-144.
• Stone armor plating reduced from 6 -> 5. Dexterity reduction reduced from 2 -> 1.

ART:

• New Animations for:

- Turret Operator

• Event Portrait updates for:

- Symbiote

- Wood Carvings

- The Sunken Statue

• Card Art for:

- Gamma Beam BUGFIXES:

• Deathbringer and Spirit of Ash are now Skills, not Attacks.
• Blocking shrink with artifact no longer softlocks.
• Borrowed time card now correctly glows when it would be lethal.
• Can no longer spam proceed to skip acts after boss!
• Card titles now resize to fit within the title banner
• Chill card now locks the amount of frost orbs it will apply on play.
• Compendium search no longer un-upgrades cards.
• Crippling Cloud card now exhausts like in sts1.
• Nightmare now exhausts like in sts1.
• Encounters are no longer rerolled each time an instance is accessed.
• Fix card text not being vertically centered.
• Fixed softlock when playing an AOE while phrog parasite is dying.
• Giant rock is no longer affected by strike dummy.
• Pael Claw relic correctly references pael strike.
• Poison now properly ignores creature block.
• Slumbering beetle no longer gives player Plating instead of itself.
• Toothed enchantment now includes artifact hovertip.
• Toothed enchantment now properly targets Osty instead of Necro.
• Vlad's blood option now has the Vlad's blood tooltip.
• When Burst is played via an auto-play effect that was triggered by a Skill (like Sly + Acrobatics), it no longer copies that Skill.

WORDING:

• Curly quotes for brainbug event.
• Removed "card" from Howl From Beyond's description.

USER INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Event cards now have a special border.
• Relocating regent star energy combat UI.
• 3 digit health now looks better.
• Add bold font for events.
• Hover logic and ui position improvements for combat reward screen buttons.
• Numerous visual and hovertip improvements to the run history screen.
• Position energy UI based on if the player needs a star indicator or not.
• Update enchantment preview info in enchantment confirmation screen to utilize keywords + autosize text.
• Update font asset to remove intersections/artifacting + allow window resize.
• Update header for act history node lines.
• Update relic and deck headers for run history screen + margins.
• Update run history node size, tweens, removed sfx.
• Update sine wave text effect to be less intense.
• Update to relic container and relics UI and positioning.

PERFORMANCE:

• Fix loading spikes.
• Improve loadtime on game start by 2.7X!
• Optimize loadtime for card grid and card compendium.

TESTING:

• New Neow command to test specific neow options. Enter Neow followed by tab completing for the name of the choice you desire to see.