December 12, 2024
STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-12-12
STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-12-12
CONTENT
Necrobinder:
- Reworked the following cards:
- Nine Lives
- Poke
- Pull From Below
Ancients:
- Replaced Neow’s Hunger relic with Neow’s Lament relic
Enemies:
- Majorly reworked Queen
- Majorly reworked Insect Repulsor
- Majorly reworked Knowledge Demon
- Majorly reworked The Kin
- Reworked Flyconid
- Reworked Inklets
- Reworked Cubex Construct
- Added new normal encounter to Act 1: Shroom and Slime
Events:
- Majorly reworked Tinker Time event
Misc:
- Changed Ascension 1: number of Burly rooms decreased from 7 -> 6
- Swapped Ascensions 2 and 3
- Moved Tight Belt to Ascension 7, and changed it to "Potions are 50% less likely to appear"
- Added Ascension 8: Scarcity - “Rare and Upgraded cards appear less often.”
- Added Ascension 9: Ancient's Scorn - “Ascender's Bane grows stronger.”
- Deprecated Intruder Alert Ascension
BALANCE
Necrobinder:
- Buffed Borrowed Time card:
- Upgrade now grants 1 additional energy
- Changed Devour Life card: now Exhausts Souls in the Draw and Discard piles as well as Hand
- Changed Flatten card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
- Buffed Guillotine card: damage increased from 9(13) -> 11(16)
- Buffed Hidden Cache card: now grants 1 additional Star
- Buffed Make Use card: damage increased from 10(13) -> 11(14)
- Buffed Plague Carrier card: Doom increased from 5(7) -> 10(15)
- Buffed Sacrifice card: now has Retain
- Changed Sap Will card:
- Now Exhausts
- Changed Soul card: no longer has Ethereal
- Buffed Spirit of Ash card: cost decreased from 2 -> 1
- Changed Transfuse card: no longer Exhausts
- Buffed You Are Mine! card: Damage increased from 11(16) -> 13(17)
- Deprecated Reconstruction card
Regent:
- Buffed Alignment card: energy gain increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
- Buffed Celestial Might card: Star cost lowered from 4 -> 3
- Nerfed Glitterstream card: Block decreased from 6(8) -> 5(7)
- Changed Perfect Reflection card: Block upgrade changed from 6(8) -> 6(10) instead of hitting all enemies
- Nerfed Seeking Edge card: Forge decreased from 11(15) -> 7(11)
Enemies:
- Nerfed Ceremonial Beast: Dazed cards given by Plow move decreased from 4 -> 3
- Changed Fuzzy Wurm Crawler: can no longer repeat its multiattack two turns in a row
- Changed Living Shield: now gets a new move and goes Bezerk when the Turret Operator dies
- Changed Lone Nibbit encounter: now always starts by attacking
- Changed Nibbit:
- HP increased from 41(43)-43(45) -> 42(44)-46(48)
- Slice move damage/Block decreased from 8(9) -> 6(6)
- Nerfed Rock Bowlbug: Momentum move damage decreased from 14(15) -> 11(13)
- Nerfed Shrinker Beetle:
- Stomp move damage decreased from 14(17) -> 13(14)
- Nerfed Slumbering Beetle: Slumber amount increased from 2 -> 3
- Nerfed Vantom: Wound cards given by Dismember move decreased from 3 -> 2
Events:
- Changed Telepathic Spiders event: “Meditation Techniques” choice no longer gives Mind Blast card, just Enlightenment
- Changed The Trial event:
- Gold received increased from 250 -> 300
- Changed Wellspring event: “Bathe” choice decreases curses given from 3 -> 2
- Changed Wood Carvings event:
- “Peck” option is now "Choose 1 starter card to Transform into Toric Satisfaction."
Misc:
- Changed Slow power: is now categorized as a Debuff
ART
- Added beta art for all power icons (thanks to Vex!)
- Updated beta card art
- Updated art Thrumming Hatchet and Carve Ghost cards
- Added art for Astral Pulse and Minion Dive Bomb cards
- Created a new fancy speech bubble VFX
- Started to implement new thought bubble VFX
- Sovereign Blade now has an in-world representation with temporary VFX
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE
- Capture Spirit card now displays an upgraded Soul card in its hovertips.
- Cards are now properly ordered when selecting a card for the Royal Stamp relic to enchant
- If a player starts a run not on the highest ascension level, it is now set as their preferred ascension level for that character
- Mutagen potion now includes the Transform hovertip
- Oblivion card and Dybbuk Cube relic now modify the power amounts displayed in card descriptions
- New thought bubbles are now shown when hand is full or piles are empty
- When hiding the backstop in main menu, logo now fades in/out now + blur darkness and speed have been updated
WORDING
- Cleaned up and standardized wording for cards like Devour Life, Fiend Fire, and Second Wind
- Fixed Parry card wording error
- Improved Frantic Escape card wording
- Improved wording on cards which apply Doom to yourself like Borrowed Time and Eidolon
BUG FIXES
Silent:
- Assassinate now has Vulnerable hovertip
- Fixed Catalyst card's upgraded description to say "Double the enemy's Poison" instead of "Triple"
Necrobinder:
- Carve Ghost card's description now properly says that it adds Souls to your Hand instead of your Discard Pile
- Fixed visual issue when Carve Ghost adds Souls to your hand
- Misery card now properly copies the Bury debuff to other enemies
- Pull From Below card's description now properly reflects its actual attack count
Regent:
- Red Giant card's damage number is no longer blue
Colorless Cards:
- Dexterity can no longer supersede Panic Button's No Block power
Potions & Relics:
- Beetle Juice potion's hovertip now properly states that its effect lasts 3 turns
Ancients:
- Zlatir’s Choice's Paradox relic no longer stops acquiring new cards
Enemies:
- Fixed softlock when Vantom dies to thorns
- Monsters are no longer repeating moves more times than they should be
- Test Subject no longer shuffles status cards to the bottom of the draw pile
Misc:
- Fixed an issue where the Innate keyword wasn't working properly when added by the Royally Approved enchantment
- In-game compendium no longer hidden behind topbar and relics
- Shop potion prices now have variance