January 23, 2025

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-01-23

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-01-23

CONTENT

Silent:

  • Deprecated Outmaneuver card

Regent:

  • Reworked Quasar card

Potions & Relics:

  • Added Ghost Seed shop relic: “Strikes and Defends gain Ethereal.”

Enemies:

  • Added new Act 3 enemy encounters:
- The Scrolls of Biting

- The Lost and The Forgotten

  • Reworked enemies:
- Knowledge Demon

- Soul Nexus

Events:

  • Reworked Reflections event: second choice now switches the current boss with another boss

BALANCE

Silent:

  • Buffed Anticipate card: Dexterity gain increased from 3 -> 4

Necrobinder:

  • Nerfed Danse Macabre card: Block decreased from 7(10) -> 5(7)

Regent:

  • Nerfed Bulwark card:
- Block decreased from 14(18) -> 11(14)

- Forge decreased from 14(18) -> 11(14)

  • Nerfed Radiate card: damage decreased from 4(6) -> 3(4)
  • Changed Royal Gamble card: now Exhausts
  • Nerfed Sovereign Blade card: starting damage decreased from 10 -> 5

Potions & Relics:

  • Reworked Dybbuk Cube relic:
- Now only triggers on debuffs applied by cards

- When a debuff is applied to multiple enemies at the same time, Dybbuk Cube now doubles all those debuffs

  • Nerfed Bedlam Beacon relic: damage decreased from 6 -> 5
  • Nerfed Rotten Brain relic: card draw decreased from 2 -> 1
  • Buffed Starter Flare relic: damage increased from 8 -> 11
  • Changed Ink Bottle relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Changed Nunchaku relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Changed Pein Hammer relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
  • Changed Strike Dummy relic: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
  • Changed Vambrace relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Buffed Potion-Shaped Rock potion: damage increased from 8 -> 10

Enemies:

  • Nerfed Elite enemy rewards: gold decreased from 45-55 -> 35-45
  • Changed Ceremonial Beast: now applies -1 Dexterity instead of Frail
  • Changed The Kin:
- Kin Follower HP decreased by 1

- Kin Priest damage lowered from 18(19) -> 15(16) and 5(6) -> 3(4)

  • Changed Mecha Knight: moveset tweaked
  • Changed Owl Magistrate: moveset tweaked

Ancients:

  • Changed Neow’s Bundle blessing: tweaked Silent bundles
  • Changed Zlatir's Cape blessing: card draw decreased from 3 -> 2

Events:

  • Changed Brainbug event:
- Colorless cards HP cost decreased from 8 -> 5

- Filter cards seen decreased from 10 -> 8

  • Changed Cursed Choice event:
- “Plain” choice now gives Decay instead of Normality

- Gives less gold when not choosing curse

  • Changed Potion Courier event: "Grab Potions" choice now always procures up to 3 Foul Potions instead of filling your potion slots with them

Misc:

  • Treasure Rooms’ gold reward decreased from 40-60 -> 42-52

ART

  • Inklets now have a fast attack animation and improved death animation
  • Updated Slime spit animations
  • Workbug spit animation now actually hits player
  • Added Workbug headbutt animation
  • Added beta art for various cards, relics, and powers
  • Added portrait art for Devastate, Hidden Cache, Devastate, and Infection cards
  • Added Leaf Slime cast animations
  • Flyconid now has different color VFX depending on whether or not he is applying Vulnerable or Frail

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

  • Added missing hovertips to Hex and Empower
  • Ceremonial Beast Plow now resolves slightly faster
  • Curse of Knowledge power is now properly categorized as a debuff instead of a buff
  • Messy card layouts used in events are now more evenly spaced
  • Potions now again appear before cards in reward screens
  • Razortooth relic no longer flashes
  • Up My Sleeve card now includes a Shiv hovertip
  • When all enemies have Vulnerable, cards that hit all/random enemies now preview the damage increase

AUDIO

  • Implemented ambient BG SFX

WORDING

  • Clarified Strategic and Malicious intent wordings
  • Cleaned up Death's Door card wording
  • Fixed a typo in Slumbering Essence relic
  • Gravity power now specifies that it wears off at the end of your turn
  • Renamed Kin Leader -> Kin Priest
  • Phantom Drought potion has been renamed to Phantom Draught, which should reduce confusion for all English speakers

BUG FIXES

Necrobinder:

  • Seance card now puts Souls into the discard pile where the transformed card was

Regent:

  • Fixed an issue where Kingly Kick card couldn't have its cost reduced to 0 by effects like Metamorphosis
  • Guiding Star card no longer shows your draw pile in order
  • Seven Stars card no longer plays damage VFX/SFX on the player

Enemies:

  • Decimillipede no longer breaks visually when dying to Doom
  • Fixed a softlock when killing Test Subject by discarding a hand full of Sly cards via Calculated Gamble
  • Fixed softlock when killing last Axebot with End of Days card

Ancients:

  • Orobas's Discovery blessings now properly allow you to select any number of cards instead of just 5

Events:

  • The "Slowly Find an Exit" option in the "The Legends Were True" event now properly glows red when your HP is low enough for it to kill you

Misc:

  • Disrupt amount now counts down when hit
  • Power removed VFX no longer play when save & quitting
  • Targeting arrow can no longer stay on screen after combat has ended
  • The game no longer softlocks when upgrading a card while the "View upgrades" checkbox is checked
  • Top bar compendium button no longer keeps rocking after it’s been closed
  • Upgrades no longer go away after scrolling through card library
All Patches
Newer → 2025-01-30