STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-09-19

CONTENT

Events:

• Reworked Toric Toughness event card: “Gain 5(7) Block. Gain 5(7) Block at the start of the next 2 turns.”

Ancients:

• Added Orobas, a new Act 2 Ancient

BALANCE

• Changed The Legend:

- Double slash move damage increased from 16x2 -> 17x2

- HP lowered from 2000 -> 1111

ART

Colorless Cards:

• Added Anointed, Eternal Armor, Ultimate Strike card art + misc touch ups
• Added Bolas VFX

Enemies:

• Devoted Sculptor now has animations
• The Insatiable combat background now has various tree stumps and some extra sandy VFX

Ancients:

• Added new and updated Ancient map nodes

Misc:

• Made edits to Hive backgrounds
• Added a hitspark whenever a damage number would pop up
• Adjusted blocked text VFX to be smoother, slightly random, and blue tinted
• Added smoky vignette VFX
• Red vignette now appears when you receive damage and your HP is 25 percent or lower
• Made various improvements to color, speed, cleanup, etc for damage number VFX

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Changed the color of reward button text outline on hover
• In various UI elements, the text outlines now contribute to their shadow size
• Layer cards which go into the deck to be rendered under the deck icon
• Updated outlines for Draw, Discard, and Exhaust pile counts
• Added Regent star counter visual improvements
• Patch notes button is now rendered behind other submenus
• Blur backstop is now used for various menus

BUG FIXES

Regent:

• Minion cards’ upgrade preview values no longer account for minion plays in combat

Enemies:

• Knowledge Demon affliction no longer affects Exhaust pile

Ancients:

• Tanx actually presents you with Legendary cards now

Misc:

• Patch notes now load in exported builds
• Fixed softlock when reloading from the map room
• Hand of Greed and Feed cards’ Fatal effects no longer trigger when they kill a minion
• Reordered and layered card trail VFX
• Scratch VFX now removes itself correctly