STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-11-01

CONTENT

Necrobinder:

• The Necrobinder is back and totally redesigned!!
• Added new mechanic: “Summon X”
• Added new mechanic: "Souls"
• Added new built-in power for Osty: Die For You
• Added new Attack cards: Harbinger, Bone Shards, Bury, Carve Ghost, Defile, Etherburst, Favorite Stick, Graveblast, Make Use, Misery, Pull From Below, Soulfire, Swipe, Unending Service, You Are Mine!
• Added new Skill cards: The Omen, Bone Wall, Collected Legion, Communion, Devour Life, Dredge, Eidolon, Ensoul, Haunt, Marrow, Seance, Soul, Surrender Humanity, Twist, Undeath
• Added new Power cards: Guillotine, Necro Mastery, Nine Lives, Read the Bones, Reaper Form
• Reworked cards: Backhand, Bodyguard, Borrowed Time, Camaraderie, Death’s Visage, Drain Life (now called Drain Power), Fearmonger, Friendship, Grave Warden, No Escape, Oblivion, Poke, Pull Aggro, Rattle, Reanimate, Sacrifice, Slap, Spirit of Ash, Tackle, Tag Team, Transfuse
• Deprecated cards: Carve Soul, Ghost Eater, Morph Form, Barbs, Better Than Ever, Big Hand, Binding Chains, Blood Dividend, Caged Rage, Chain Punch, Dark Siphon, Death Grip, Dragged Prey, Encase, For My Own Good, Loyalty, One-Inch Punch, Twist Soul, Heel, Grab, Enfeebling Touch
• Renamed Soul Prison card to Enfeebling Touch
• Reworked Bound Phylactery relic
• Deprecated Osty’s Devotion relic
• Deprecated Unkillable power

Regent:

• Added new card: Seeking Edge
• Deprecated cards: Hypernova, King’s Gambit

Potions & Relics:

• Added Sozu relic from StS1

Ancients:

• Deprecated Cursed Key relic
• Added new Pael choice: Liquify
• Added new Neow choice: Safety
• Reworked Neow Scavenger choice: obtain 2 common relics -> obtain a random relic
• Reworked Neow Bounty Box choice: no longer heals, Elites drop 50 additional Gold

Events:

• Added new eventsDense Vegetation, The Future of Potions

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Changed Cinder card: “Exhaust the next 2 cards played” -> “Exhaust the top 2 cards of your draw pile”
• Changed Grapple card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Buffed Howl From Beyond card: cost decreased from 5 -> 3
• Buffed Mangle card: upgrade now also upgrades the enemy’s Strength loss from 10 -> 15
• Buffed Primal Cost card: cost decreased from 3 -> 2
• Changed Pummel card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Nerfed Stomp: required attacks increased from 2 -> 3
• Buffed Unrelenting card:
• Damage from 11(17) -> 12(18)
• Next attack you play this turn -> the next attack you play
• Rarity decreased Rare -> Uncommon
• Buffed Winged Jump card: Vulnerable applied increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

Silent:

• Reworked Assassinate card:
• Attack - Rare - 0 Energy
• “Innate(Retain). Deal damage to the enemy equal to the amount of damage they have already taken this turn. Exhaust.”

Necrobinder:

• Necrobinder’s max HP increased from 13 -> 66
• Necrobinder's starting deck changed to 5 Strikes, 4 Defends, and 1 Bodyguard
• Changed Countdown card:
• Energy cost increased from 0 -> 2
• Doom applied increased from 3(5) -> 6(9)
• Changed Empower card:
• Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
• Strength gain decreased from 10 -> 5(10)
• No longer removes Exhaust when upgraded
• Changed Flatten card: now deals 5 damage to a single enemy 5(6) times
• Buffed Negative Pulse card: Block gain increased from 6(7) -> 7(9)
• Buffed Plague Carrier card: Doom increased from 3(4) -> 5(7)
• Changed Putrefy card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Changed Sap Will+ card:
• Damage decreased from 11 -> 9
• Card draw increased from 1 -> 2
• Changed Sentry Mode card:
• Cost decreased from 2 -> 1
• Osty's Strength/Vigor now applies to his Sentry Mode attacks
• Sentry Mode power is now applied to the player, meaning it can be played while Osty is dead and it will still trigger after he's summoned

Regent:

• Changed Knockout Blow card: Rarity changed from Rare -> Uncommon
• Changed Convergence card:
• No longer upgrades Block
• Cards and Stars granted decreased from 3 -> 2(3)
• Changed Gamma Beam card: no longer increases card draw, just damage
• Buffed Knockout Blow card: damage increased from 30(35) -> 30(38)
• Nerfed Mold the Stars card:
• Forge decreased from 9 -> 5(7)
• No longer gains innate on upgrade
• Nerfed Lunar Blast card: damage decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3)
• Buffed Solar Strike card: upgrade also upgrades Star gain from 1 -> 2
• Buffed Supermassive card: additional damage increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
• Buffed Pillar of Creation card: cost decreased from 2 -> 1
• Reworked Alignment card:
• Skill - Uncommon - 0 Energy, 3 Stars
• Gain 2 Energy
• Reworked Constellation card:
• Upgrade no longer gives you another Star
• Now has Exhaust and removes Exhaust on upgrade
• Reworked Neutron Aegis card:
• Skill - Rare - 1 Energy, 7 Stars
• “Gain 20(25) Block. Gain 10(13) Plating. Exhaust.”
• Reworked Singularity card:
• Power - Rare - 3 Energy
• “At the end of your turn, lose all Stars and Forge 5(7) for each Star lost.”

Colorless Cards:

• Buffed Contractility card:
• No longer has Exhaust
• Upgrade gives it Retain
• Buffed Gold Axe card:
• No longer has Exhaust
• Upgrade gives it Retain
• Buffed Eternal Armor card: Block gain increased from 10(14) -> 11(15)
• Nerfed Omnisclice card: damage decreased from 10(15) -> 10(14)

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Art of War relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Bag of Marbles relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Dragonfruit relic: type changed from Darv Ancient relic -> Rare relic
• Changed Wongos Bargain relic: gives you bonus relic along with the rest of your combat rewards at the end of combat

Ancients:

• Changed Pael’s Lumbering Essence choice: enchant entire deck -> choose 5 cards to enchant
• Changed Tezcatara’s Wax Choker: Wax relics given decreased from 6 -> 5

Enemies:

• Damage and HP values tweaked for several act 2 enemies
• Increased the number of burly enemy rooms per act from 5 -> 7
• Changed Decemillipede: segments do less damage and have less health
• Changed Hunter Killer: now applies Weak instead of Frail
• Changed Noisebot: now also adds a Dazed to discard pile at the same time it adds one to top of draw pile
• Changed Stabbot: now applies Weak instead of Frail
• Changed Wriggler: now buffs itself the same turn it applies Infection

Events:

• Changed Wellspring event:
• “Drink” choice now gives 1 Guilty curse card
• “Bathe” choice now gives 3 Guilty curse cards
• Changed Forsaken Citadel event: Gold gained from “I don’t need help!” choice decreased from 200 -> 150
• Changed Living Cocoon event: “Stick Your Arm In” choice HP loss increased from 7 -> 9
• Changed Perilous Prospects event: third Decipher choice max HP loss increased from 6 -> 8
• Changed Room Full of Cheese event: Gorge choice - “Choose 2 out of 8 random Commons to add to your deck.”
• Changed Symbiote event: “Kill with Fire” choice - “Take (20% of your current HP in) damage. Choose a card to remove from your deck.”
• Changed Tinker Time event:
• “Speed” choice no longer gives Innate to power cards
• “Heart” choice energy granted on next turn decreased from 5 -> 3
• “Body” choice temporary Strength gain decreased from 5 -> 3
• “Stability” choice temporary Dexterity gain decreased from 5 -> 3

Misc:

• Burly bonus now gives you a bonus of 10 gold per Act number instead of 25% more gold

ART

• Added event VFX for Byrdonis Egg, The Legends Were True, Perilous Prospects, Bugslayer, Field of the Forgotten, and The Trail (including interiors)
• Created a ground-on-fire VFX
• Added VFX for the Ironclad temporarily catching on fire when playing Inflame

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• The first combat you ever encounter in your first run is always Nibbit
• The Neow node will be replaced by a regular monster for the first run the player plays (or if they reset FTUEs)
• Card hovertips in events also include card keywords
• Gave visual update to Legendary cards
• Tea relics now update their description based on uses left

WORDING

• Reworded Colorful Philosophers event choice: "Choose 3 X cards" -> "Obtain a X card"
• Reworded Sword of Jade relic description: “Start each combat with 3 Strength.”
• Instances where “ALL” is used now say “all” instead. Goodbye all caps...
• Fixed attack intent description spacing
• Fixed Finisher card line breaks
• Fixed Joss Paper relic punctuation
• Fixed punctuation for Eternal Solstice power description
• Tweaked wording on Stoke and Fiend Fire cards

BUG FIXES

Colorless Cards:

• Perfected Strike no longer includes strikes in your exhaust pile

Potions & Relics:

• Circlet relic no longer shows up in relic compendium
• Dragonfruit relic no longer lags the reward screen when you collect gold
• Relics from a broken save can no longer affect new runs
• Screaming Flagon relic now flashes when it procs

Enemies:

• Decemillipede animations no longer get stuck
• Decemillipede segment health is always even and unique
• Fixed the Duo HP not set for Tough Enemies ascension
• VFX for Fuzzy Wurm Crawler and Flyconid no longer can get stuck

Events:

• Stone of All Time event is now blocked if you don't have any potions OR valid attacks
• Relic Trader event no longer lets you trade event relics
• Removed Regret card hovertip from “It’s a Trap” choice in The Legends Were True event

Misc:

• Fixed performance degradation over long play sessions
• Right clicking shop relic no longer hides its hovertips