STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-03-06

CONTENT

Acts:

• The Underdocks

Events:

• Added Act 1 event: Violent Heroes Two
• Added Act 1 event: The Reflection That Wasn't

FEATURES

• In multiplayer: Players may now heal each other at Rest Sites
• In multiplayer: Player may now vote for some event choices. This adds the combat events from singleplayer to multiplayer!

BALANCE

• Afflictions can now afflict unplayable cards except for Ringing
• You are now 25% more likely to receive a potion after defeating an Elite
• Spoils Map now picks an encounter map point in the first 3 rows of the Map (excludes Ancient) for its special reward
• Potions in shop prices now vary +-5 Gold

Necrobinder:

• Neurosurge buffed. Card draw from 1 -> 2
• Pagestorm buffed. Cost from 2 -> 1
• Pull From Below buffed. HP Loss from 4(5) -> 6(8)
• Scourge card buffed. Doom from 16(21) -> 18(23)
• Severance card buffed. Damage from 17(21) -> 17(22)
• Spirit of Ash card reworked. "Whenever you play an Ethereal card, gain 5(7) Block."
• Veilpiercer card changed. Cost from 2 -> 1. Damage from 12(18) -> 9(13)

Regent:

• The Smith card nerfed. Forge from 35(45) -> 30(40)

Silent:

• Flick Flack upgrade nerfed. Damage from 7(10) -> 7(9)
• Precise Cut nerfed. Damage loss per card in hand from 1 -> 2. Damage from 13(18) -> 13(17)
• Ricochet nerfed. Damage from 4(5) -> 3(4)

Ancients:

• Pael's Cloning Capsule nerfed. From 3 -> 4 combats to clone
• Tezcatara's Brightest Flame buffed. Now also gains 2(3) energy

Status:

• Debris' cost changed from 1 -> 2

ART

• Added portraits for Scrawl, Bodyguard, Invoke, and Lethality cards
• Color edits for Dagger Throw and Leg Sweep cards

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Added a hotkey to open the feedback menu (F2)
• When a creature is healed in combat they now popup a green number
• Some changes to the Game Over screen and flow (work in progress)
• Hungry for Mushrooms event's Fragrant One choice now displays how much Max HP you will lose
• Include merchant skipped options in the Run History
• Move hand card index (if enabled) text closer to card + decrease size + angle is the same as the card now
• Slightly respositioned the banner position for Card Bundle and Game Over screens
• Multiplayer HP bars sizes change based on how much HP the player has
• New schema for Timeline placement
• Ancient Rarity cards now utilize a different card frame
• Reformatted room history hovertip
• In the multiplayer character select screen, chosen characters now have an indicator
• The Feedback Screen is faster as it now exits without waiting for logs to finish uploading
• In multiplayer, you can ping map nodes that you have selected by clicking on them again

AUDIO

• Added custom Bgm for the Kin boss encounter
• Added sfx for Devoted Sculptor
• Added sfx for enemies in the Kin boss encounter
• Added sfx for Zapbot, Guardbot, and Noisebot
• Updated Cubex Construct sfx

WORDING

• Duplex enchantment now uses the Replay keyword
• Soul's Power enchantment now uses the Replay keyword

BUG FIXES

• Canceling a Smith in Rest Site, no longer still adds it as an entry in the run history
• After Image power should now trigger significantly faster
• Fix broken run history loading when looking at a mix of singleplayer/multiplayer runs
• Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause a softlock when an enemy dies to Doom
• Fixed an issue where a card enchanted with Swift 2 would still say it draws 1 card
• Fixed an issue where Enthralled curse was not applying to cards with enchantments that set their energy cost to 0 like Royally Approved
• Fixed an issue where killing Magi Knight enemy while playing cards very fast could cause a softlock
• Fixed an issue where Razor Tooth relic wasn't upgrading Powers that have Replay after their first play
• Fixed an issue where the game could occasionally softlock when a power is removed due to its amount reaching 0
• Fixed an issue where the game could softlock during certain "play this card twice" effects
• Fixed an issue with Swift enchantment where it would draw extra cards on subsequent plays
• Fixed issue where you cant click on boss node if it is slightly off screen
• Hovered potions are shown to other players in Multiplayer now
• Killing a creature that has Pull from Below while you have Gremlin Horn no longer results in a softlock
• Plating power now gives you block before Slithering Strangler enemy's Constrict power deals you damage
• Reaper Form card's portrait dimensions have been fixed.
• Scarcity ascension now properly reduces potion odds by 25% instead of ~15%
• When a generated card would be added to your hand but your hand is full, the card now flies to the discard pile