STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-02-20

CONTENT

Potions & Relics:

• Reworked potions:

- Brain in a Jar

- Snecko Oil

Enemies:

• Added new Act 2 encounter, The Obscura

Ancients:

• Added new Tezcatara blessing, Smoldering Wick
• Added new Pael blessings:

- Pael's Tears

- Cloning Capsule

- Pael's Flesh

• Pael's blessings are now all in one pool
• Reworked Spar with Tanx blessing

Events:

• Added the War Historian questline

Multiplayer:

• You can now use most beneficial potions on other players (The exceptions are potions that force you to make a choice, e.g. Attack

Potion)

BALANCE

Silent:

• Buffed Precise Cut card: damage increased from 9(13) -> 13(18)

Necrobinder:

• Changed Spectral card: no longer Exhausts
• Changed Sentry Mode card: the damage that Osty deals via this card now counts as attack damage, meaning effects like Strength and Vigor now apply to it

Regent:

• Changed Regent's Neow blessing bundle: no longer contains Seven Stars card, replaced with Shining Strike card
• Nerfed Cloak of Stars card: Block decreased from 10(14) -> 9(13)
• Buffed Collision Course card: damage increased from 8(11) -> 9(13)
• Changed Conqueror card:

- Forge increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

- Damage decreased from 8(10) -> 8(9)

• Buffed Lunar Blast card: damage increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
• Buffed Perfect Reflection card: Block increased from 9(13) -> 10(14)
• Nerfed Solar Strike card: damage nerfed from 9(11) -> 8(9)
• Reworked Supermassive card: now only tracks player-generated cards and not status cards created by enemies

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Radiant Tincture potion: extra energy gain changed to include your current turn in the 4 turn count
• Buffed Broken Mirror relic: Doom increased from 13 -> 33
• Buffed Shoehorn relic: damage increased from 5 -> 6

Enemies:

• Changed Chains of Binding power: can now afflict already-unplayable cards with Bound
• Changed Mytes encounter:

- Changed moveset

- HP decreased from 51(53)-57(59) -> 36(37)-41(42)

• Nerfed Scrolls of Biting:

- Chomp move damage decreased from 16(18) -> 14(16)

- Ascension HP bonus decreased from +3 HP -> +1 HP

• Buffed Soul Nexus: starting Soul Wither threshold decreased from 9 -> 7
• Buffed Toxic status card: damage increased from 3 -> 4

Ancients:

• Nerfed Zlatir's Choice's Paradox relic: cards to choose from decreased from 11 -> 10

Multiplayer:

• Changed Soul Wither and Sandpit powers: both now count down separately for different players
• Changed Thieving Hopper: now steals one card from each player

ART

• Added portrait art for Graveblast, Reap, and Soul cards, and re-added portrait art for Swipe card
• Added beta art for various cards and powers
• Updated Sovereign Blade VFX
• Optimized main menu animations
• Converted CPU particle effects to GPU

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

Silent:

• Hidden Daggers card now shows a hovertip for Shiv card

Necrobinder:

• Osty's healthbar now shows the blue block outline when Necrobinder has block

Regent:

• The Smith card now includes a hovertip for the Forge keyword

Potions & Relics:

• Nye Essence relic no longer displays a turn counter, and is no longer grayed out after combat ends

Enemies:

• Creature health bars now turn blue when they have block
• Creature powers will now overflow into a second row

Events:

• When an option in the Relic Trader event references two different relics that give Block, the Block hovertip is no longer shown twice

Misc:

• Feedback form now includes a category field and emotes are optional
• Improved formatting for date/time label in run history screen
• Map shows specific room type from already traversed unknown rooms
• Mouse card play threshold raised if you click on the card from the top of the card
• Tuned up padding and font sizes for run history screen

Multiplayer:

• A network error pops up on the host side when a state divergence is encountered
• Network error popup now directs you to the in-game feedback screen
• Remote players' Osty is no longer hoverable
• State display comes up faster when hovering over other players
• You can now view every player's run at the run history screen (Note that this breaks all old run histories!)

AUDIO

• Added SFX to Vantom combat

WORDING

• Fixed Fester card wording
• Darv's Lost Art blessing cards now display their names in Gold
• Fixed a missing word in Sentry Mode card's description
• Fixed missing period in Refinement option at Orobas
• Oblivion card wording improvements
• Tweaked Nye Essence relic's wording to match Captain's Wheel relic
• Improved Wrought In War card's clarity
• Fixed Polish card's description to read "Upgrades 1 random colorless card"

BUG FIXES

Necrobinder:

• Fixed Swipe card hovertip
• Fixed softlock that occurred when playing Swipe card while Osty is dead
• Invoke card now properly shows the hovertip for Summon instead of Doom
• Misery card no longer duplicates Rock Bowlbug's Imbalanced power onto other enemies
• Necro Mastery card now properly buffs Afterlife card's next turn Summon amount
• Osty now properly plays his death animation when he dies to Thorns during a multi-hit attack
• Pull From Below card now properly makes the enemy lose HP instead of dealing damage to them
• Pull from Below card no longer improperly hits all enemies

Colorless Cards:

• Splash card now properly selects 3 random cards across all characters' card pools, instead of randomly selecting a single character and then selecting 3 cards from their card pool

Relics & Potions:

• Nye Essence relic's icon no longer stays grayed out between combats

Enemies:

• Completed deprecation of Sealed Sword and Herald of Tempests card so that the card no longer appears in the compendium
• Fixed an issue where Soul Nexus's Soul Wither power would decrement when one of its attacks damaged Osty but not the player

Events:

• Self-Help Book event now properly displays the amount of each enchantment that will be applied in its options' hovertips

Misc:

• Extra card trail VFX no longer shows up when receiving status cards
• Fixed an issue where a Bound card that is played and then drawn back into your hand on the same turn could be played again
• Haunt power is now properly categorized as a buff
• Hovering over a potion while it goes away no longer results in a softlock
• If you have more Innate cards than your starting hand size, you now properly draw them all (up to the max hand size)
• Merchant card removal is no longer marked as used if you cancel it

Multiplayer:

• Cards no longer get stuck for a long time when a player targets an enemy that is about to die
• Corruption enchantment now only makes the owning player's cards free
• Fixed Dig rest site option sometimes resulting in a state divergence
• Fixed freeze that sometimes occurred when leaving a multiplayer game
• Fixed divergence after playing a card while your end turn action is waiting on other players
• Hatching Byrdpip no longer results in a state divergence
• Hovering over potions now shows potions, not relics
• Joining a multiplayer game while already joining a multiplayer game no longer results in an error
• Launching the game from a multiplayer Steam invite works now
• "End turn" indicator no longer sticks around after combat ends
• Cursors no longer stick around after you or other players disconnect
• Remote players' status cards that are played at end of turn (like Infection) come from their player rather than your hand
• Starting a new run after trying to load a broken multiplayer run no longer causes a softlock
• The network error popup no longer gets stuck indefinitely