STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-04-25

CONTENT

Defect:

• The Defect is playable again!
• Added new orb type: Scrap
• Added new cards:
• Bitflip
• Artificial Winter
• Tesla Coil
• Junk King
• Boost Away
• Shredder
• Scrappy
• Hotfix
• Chest Beam
• Overwhelm

Necrobinder:

• Reworked Reaper Form card

Potions & Relics:

• Added new potions:
• Potion of Capacity
• Cosmic Concoction
• Essence of Darkness
• Ghost in a Jar
• King's Courage
• Malicious Sand
• Soldier's Stew
• Fysh Jerky
• Added new relic:
• Headhunter

General:

• You can now use the middle mouse to erase map drawings

BALANCE

Silent:

• Changed Alchemize card: pool changed from Silent -> Colorless
• Changed Grand Finale card: pool changed back from Colorless -> Silent

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Eradicate card: no longer Exhausts
• Buffed Fester card: Doom increased from 8(10) -> 11(15)
• Changed Oblivion card:
• Cost decreased from 1 -> 0
• Now Exhausts
• Buffed Pull From Below card: enemy HP loss increased from 6(8) -> 7(9)
• Buffed Reap card: damage increased from 24(31) -> 26(33)
• Buffed Spectral card: Block increased from 7(10) -> 8(11)

Regent:

• Buffed Celestial Might card: damage increased from 6(8) -> 7(9)
• Changed Heavenly Drill:
• Damage increased from 6(8) -> 8(10)
• Only counts this turn instead of the whole combat

Colorless Cards:

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Heart of Iron potion:
• Pool changed from Ironclad -> all characters
• Plating decreased from 8 -> 5
• Changed Kifuda: rarity changed from Uncommon -> Shop
• Changed Milk potion: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Trap Ghosts potion:
• Name changed to Trapped Spirits
• Souls increased from 2 -> 4

Enemies:

• Changed The Insatiable:
• Moveset reordered to spike damage 1 turn earlier
• Now scales its Strength gain up from 2 -> 3 on higher ascension
• Changed Knowledge Demon:
• Moveset reordered to spike damage on turn 5
• Knowledge Overwhelming move damage increased from 7(8)x3 -> 8(9)x3
• Buffed Mad Crab:
• Inertia Block gain increased from 8 -> 10
• Super Crab attack damage increased from 5(6)x2 -> 6(7)x2
• Nerfed Phantasmal Gardeners: no longer applies weak
• Buffed Waterfall Giant:
• Now gains more Steam Eruption
• Also gains Steam Eruption whenever it heals

Events:

• Changed Brainbug event: "Filter" choice's random cards decreased from 8 -> 5
• Changed Violent Heroes 2 event: moved from Act 1 -> Act 3

ART

• Offset idle animations after hits so that enemy animations no longer sync up
• Added portrait art for Danse Macabre, Shroud, and Spectral cards
• Added Knowledge Demon animations

AUDIO

• Added SFX to monster fade out on death
• Updated SFX for when you gain Gold

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

• Added a small flash when you gain stars as Regent
• Gave the statistics screen a makeover
• Polished treasure room relic appearance and positioning
• Cleaned up Crushing Depths card UX from "repeat X times" -> "hits X times"
• If a card reward only offers you cards of one rarity (e.g. Colorful Philosophers), then it displays the appropriate rarity color on the reward icon
• Now I am Mad power now specifies the exact HP value required to gain Strength in its hovertip
• Shriek power now specifies the exact HP value in its hovertip before it gets stunned
• When opening compendium mid-climb, the default filter is the character you're playing as
• When you open the deck view/pause menu, it opens over the map instead of closing it

Multiplayer:

• If you attempt to join a multiplayer game hosted with a different version, you now get an error instead of an infinite loading screen
• Stars are now displayed during combat in the remote player display

WORDING

• Cleaned up Bugslayer event choice wording
• Added a missing comma to Hegemony card
• Removed the confusing Burrowing wording on the Phantasmal Gardener's Skittish power
• Fixed missing space in Phantasmal Gardener death quote
• Tweaked Violent Heroes 2 event's wording
• Foul Potion's description now capitalizes EVERYONE

BUG FIXES

Regent:

• When Wrought in War card is downgraded, it no longer loses buffs that it received from previous plays this combat

Enemies:

• Ceremonial Beast's Plow power now properly displays its hovertip
• Fixed issue where enemies scale up as they fade out
• Fixed issue where Lightning orb would softlock on dead Test Subject
• Poison damage no longer skips Hardened Shell power's damage threshold

General:

• Mouse input is now blocked when in the middle of a transition
• Added event cards back to the library
• Card library search is no longer case sensitive
• Fixed achievements button hitboxes overlapping with statistics screen tabs
• Fixed map flickering after you move your mouse for the first time
• Fixed Scrutiny power hovertip
• Health bars no longer show orange when the HP bar size changes (ex. at the start of a multiplayer session, when Osty changes size, when the Thieving Hopper starts flying)
• Tide's Binding relic no longer prevents Osty from healing (or other players in multiplayer)

Multiplayer:

• At the treasure room, after picking Kifuda relic, other players no longer have to wait for the Enchantment choice
• Fixed state divergence when dying, reviving, then entering a new combat with relics that reset after combat ends
• If a player takes Golden Path blessing after another player has already voted for a map coordinate, the game no longer softlocks
• If you are at the map while another player takes Golden Compass relic, you no longer have to hit Proceed again to vote on the newly generated map
• If you are targeting a vulnerable enemy when another player plays a card, the card preview no longer reverts to the default damage values
• Loading a saved game then dying no longer causes a softlock just before the game over screen would show up
• Pencil cursor now shows up at correct place when remote players are drawing
• Ping button animates out at the end of combat
• Playing an AOE attack while Test Subject is downed no longer makes the attack stuck
• Your HP bar no longer shows up if you unhover someone else while dead