STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-11-07

CONTENT

Silent:

• Added new cards: Corrosive, Cower, Execution, Haze, Rite of Initiation
• Deprecated cards: Choke, Distraction, Stall
• Reworked Adaptation:
• Power - Rare - Cost 1
• “Whenever you gain Block, gain 2(3) Dexterity that turn.”

BALANCE

Silent:

• Changed Adrenaline card: rarity decreased back from Legendary -> Rare
• Buffed Flick Flack card: damage increased from 6(8) -> 7(10)
• Buffed Sucker Punch card: Weak applied increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

Necrobinder:

• Changed Dredge card: if it is played while your hand is almost full, the extra cards are now added to your discard pile
• Changed Misery card: upgrade now increases its damage from 10 -> 14 instead of decreasing its cost by 1
• Buffed You Are Mine! card: upgrade now also increases its damage from 10 -> 13

Ancients:

• Nerfed Neow’s Silver Crucible relic: cards upgraded decreased from 3 -> 2

Enemies:

• Changed Axebot: now in the weak combat encounter pool
• Nerfed Decemillipede: revives after 2 turns instead of 1
• Nerfed Entomancer: Spear move decreased from 16(18) -> 11(13)
• Changed Vantom: Dismember move now gives 2 less Wounds

Events:

• Changed Telepathic Spiders event: "Know Yourself" choice Gold cost lowered from 200 -> 150
• Nerfed Toothed enchantment:
• Can now only enchant powers
• Costs 5 max HP in Infested Automaton event

ART

Ironclad:

• Added VFX for the following cards:
• Limit Break
• Stomp

Silent:

• Added card art for Prepared card
• Lightened Silent's shadow
• Added purple tint when playing Crippling Cloud card
• Added VFX to the following cards:
• A Thousand Cuts
• Skewer
• Neutralize
• Fan of Knives
• Glass Knife
• Finisher
• Slice

Necrobinder:

• Added VFX for Doom when it kills an enemy

Regent:

• Added card art for the following cards:
• GUARDS!!!
• Orbit
• Royal Gamble
• Venerate

Colorless Cards:

• Added card art to Void status card
• Added VFX for Flash of Steel card

Enemies:

• Did a pass on the Owl Magistrate enemy’s animation blends
• Fixed mistakes on Orb Plant and Mecha Knight enemy animations
• Updated art for Spiny Toad enemy
• Added radial blur VFX when player gets struck by Ceremonial Beast enemy
• Created ground spike VFX to Ceremonial Beast enemy’s stomp attack
• Shrinker Beetle enemy’s shrink power now has radial blur
• Bygone Effigy enemy’s attack now has radial blur

Misc:

• Made Rare card glow VFX slightly less intense

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• When selecting cards from hand, the backstop now fades in
• Added hitstop to Ceremonial Beast's Plow attack
• Deathbringer card now shows a Doom hovertip
• Legendary portrait is now a texture rect to support fallback logic + scaffolding for fallback beta portrait
• Made the weakest screenshake more subtle + screen shake intensities now differ based on how much damage is dealt
• Made the card backs more washed out in color and differentiated from one another

WORDING

• Fixed typo in the Dense Vegetation event
• Fixed typo in Slap card description
• Removed extra space from the Repulsor Mode power description
• Room Full of Cheese wording now specifies Common cards

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Unrelenting card tooltip no longer says "this turn"

Silent:

• Nightmare card now properlyspawns in cloned cards before hand is drawn

Defect:

• Creative AI card spawns the bonus card before other cards are drawn into your hand

Necrobinder:

• Fixed Bury power to not be set as a Debuff
• Damage from Bone Shards card is now properly dealt by Osty instead of the player
• Damage VFX no longer plays on Necrobinder when Osty absorbs all damage from an attack
• Fixed an issue where Soul+ card was only drawing 1 card instead of the stated 2
• Fixed an issue with the Plague Carrier card where its effect was wearing off if Osty died and was resummoned
• Haunt card's text now properly reflects that the enemy will lose 6 HP instead of 3, and properly reflects that upgrading Haunt increases the enemy HP loss to 9
• Osty no longer gains extra HP in Burly monster rooms
• Osty's health no longer occasionally shows up in the top bar HP counter when playing as the Necrobinder
• Sharp enchantment now displays its damage bonus on Osty attack cards even when Osty is dead
• Surrender Humanity card no longer has targeting arrow
• The "End Turn" button no longer appears beneath the "Proceed" button after winning combat with Doom
• Vantom attacking Osty no longer causes a softlock

Regent:

• Neutron Aegis card now has Block hovertip
• Singularity card no longer incorrectly has Exhaust

Ancients:

• Neowless first run no longer prevents other ancients from showing up
• Added Oddly Heavy Stone relic and Pointed Hat back to Darv’s relic pool
• Ancients are no longer missing from run histories
• Prismatic Shard relic is now correctly classified as an Ancient relic
• Tanx relics are now correctly classified as Ancient relics
• Tezcatara’s Wax Choker choice now correctly reads "5 relics" instead of 6

Enemies:

• Bowlbug enemy’s goop no longer does a multiattack
• Fixed Wriggler enemy’s intents
• Nibbit enemy is no longer always the first encounter

Events:

• Colorful Philospher event choice description now properly reads "Obtain 3 x cards"
• Mad Science transformation cards no longer stay on screen forever
• Removed the Transform tooltip from Living Cocoon event
• The Trial event no longer softlocks 1/4 of the time
• Fixed Dense Vegetation event combat softlock

Misc:

• Ascension choice is limited by your max ascension again
• Deck scrolling no longer breaks when selecting Slumbering Essence cards to enchant
• Fixed an issue that was allowing unknown map points to be shops after just visiting a shop.
• Having already upgraded cards no longer breaks "view upgrade" button
• Healthbars no longer have a chance of not updating after starting a new game
• Mayhem-ing a card afflicted with Forced Insight no longer softlocks the game
• Queueing two potions for use no longer locks potion use afterward