STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-04-10

CONTENT

Ancients:

• Added more relics that correspond to the effect of Ancients' blessings:

- Orobas' Refinement blessing now gives Recursive Core relic

- Oroas' Transcendence option now gives Vibrant Halo relic

Enemies:

• Added new Underdocks Elite, Phantasmal Gardener
• Reworked Mad Crab
• Reworked Two-Tailed Rats
• Reworked Waterfall Giant
• Soul Fysh is now an Underdocks Boss

Events:

• Added new Underdocks event, The Drowning Beacon
• Added new Act 2 event, Amalgamating Anvil

Multiplayer:

• Console commands are now networked in multiplayer

BALANCE

Necrobinder:

• Reworked Dredge card: now grabs cards from Discard pile rather than Exhaust pile
• Buffed Pagestorm card: card draw increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
• Buffed Severance card: damage increased from 17(22) -> 18(24)

Regent:

• When you Forge, all Sovereign Blades in your Exhaust pile are now returned to your hand before the extra damage is applied
• Buffed Alignment card: Energy gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)

Potions & Relics:

• Buffed Shoehorn relic: Block requirement decreased from 20 -> 15

Ancients:

• Nerfed Brightest Flame card: no longer deals damage, so type changed from Attack -> Skill
• Changed Retractable Claws relic: now only lets you transform up to 9 cards into Maul

Events:

• Nerfed Sword of Stone event relic: defeated Elites requirement increased from 4 -> 5
• Changed Impossible Pyre event:

- "Communion" choice now always heals to full (still djust isplays number of HP healed)

- "Harvest" choice's max HP loss increased from 8 -> 11

- Now only appears if the player is at 55% of their max HP or lower

• Changed Cursed Choice event: "Plain" choice damage increased from 6 -> 9
• Changed Future of Potions event: is now act agnostic
• Changed Hungry for Mushrooms event:

- "Medley" choice's HP healed increased from 75% of HP -> full HP (still just displays number of HP healed)

- "Fragrant One" choice's random cards upgraded decreased from 6 -> 5

• Changed Tempting Bloom event: damage from choice 1 increased from 1-6 -> 1-7

ART

• Added portrait art for the following cards:

- Call of The Void

- Dredge

- Harvest

- Undeath

- Wisp

- Break

- Suppress

- Meteor Shower

- Protector

- Relax

- Maul

• Fixed Enthralled card's portrait art aspect ratio
• Added Seapunk animations
• Randomized Necrobinder & Osty's fire a small amount at the rest site

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Improved tickbox focus, unfocus, and press down animations
• Updated filters and toggles for Card Library
• Added removed relics to run history (only applies to Relic Trader event)
• Endless Conveyor event now tells you what the dish is going to do
• Potions in Potion Lab now reveal themselves as you find them in runs
• Replaced energy icons for library pool filters with the characters' faces
• Slippery hovertip now includes the monster's name in its description
• Updated blue energy cost on cards + added custom outlines for energy cost text based on the card pool
• Updated death quote sizing in run history and game over screen + adjusted its position
• When hovering over cards in your run history, the room that they came from is now highlighted

Multiplayer:

• Powers are no longer ignored by attack intents when the local player is dead

WORDING

• Adroit and Rigid enchantment tooltips now accurately reflect changes from relics

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Rupture power now applies Strength gain after Breakthrough card is finished playing

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed softlock between Ruby Earrings and Amethyst Bangle relics
• Fixed softlock when you die again after Fairy in a Bottle potion has triggered
• If you queue a potion for use just before combat ends, the potion is no longer unusable for the rest of the run
• Repeatedly clicking a potion no longer uses it

Ancients:

• Forbidden Grimoire card now stacks card removal rewards correctly
• Zlatir's Cape relic no longer blocks card draw if Centennial Puzzle relic procs during the enemy's turn

Enemies:

• Fixed mad crabs damage intent amount on turn 4
• The Kin boss now spawns minions from the closest available slot

Events:

• Added card select prompt to the Endless Conveyor event's Metamorphic Morsel dish
• Can no longer leave event combats without going back to the event screen
• Fixed an issue where Exterminate event card was only hitting once instead of 4 times
• Fixed typo in The Endless Conveyor event's "Observe Patrons" option
• If killed by Field of the Forgotten event's "Consume" option, you are no longer asked to select a card to enchant
• The Reflection That Wasn't event no longer appears in Overgrowth

General:

• Card library no longer sets cards that you have seen in combat to Unknown
• Fixed backgrounds not rendering properly on Mac in Editor
• Fixed an issue where continuing a climb and then immediately abandoning it could cause a softlock
• Fixed instances where save/loading would cause relics not to show the correct state
• Fixed issue between Spoils Map and the Golden Path
• Transforming cards during combat, playing those cards, then killing Spectral Knight on the same turn no longer causes a softlock

Multiplayer:

• Fixed a timing bug where beginning an action just as combat ends would cause a softlock
• Map pings no longer change the hitbox of the map point
• Osty is now placed correctly at the rest site when Necrobinder is on the far side of the log (no more sitting on Osty)
• Test Subject boss now uses correct death/revival animation in multiplayer
• Your hand no longer becomes enabled when another player cancels the end of their turn