STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-06-05

Happy summer patch time!

This week Neow and Tanx are getting glow ups while we bring in a whole host of cards for everyone while focusing balance on the Underdocks.

A lot of the map assets have new colors, values, and some updated icons and we're also packing a lot of common textures so if you notice any strange visual issues or performance problems, do let us know because the texturepacker compatibility is a little janky. Things like image compression are now used on select assets as well so if you see non-placeholder assets with artifacting or anything, feedback there is appreciated.

A good chunk of core character SFX also made it in so each playable character should have more of its audio identity.

The Timeline is taking a time out this week as we want a few more UX touches before we take a look at it anew.

CONTENT

Ironclad:

• Added new cards:
• Juggling
• Vicious
• Drum of Battle

Silent:

• Added new cards:
• Bubble Bubble
• Graceful
• Sharp Edge
• Speedster
• Tracking

Defect:

• Added new cards:
• Feral
• Reflective Fortress
• Snow Field
• Thunder

Necrobinder:

• Added new cards:
• Symbiosis
• Sleight of Flesh
• Reworked Forgotten Ritual card

Regent:

• Added new cards:
• Void Form
• Terraforming
• Arsenal
• Astral harvest
• Bundle of Joy
• Make It So.
• Reworked cards:
• Pillar of Creation
• Polish
• Deprecated Eternal Solstice card

Colorless Cards:

• Added new Hidden Gem card

Ancients:

• Neow now always offers a third blessing with risk and reward
• Added new Neow blessings:
• Focus
• Sturdy Brace
• Gift Box
• Reworked Bell of Twilight relic + is now granted by Neow
• Added new multiplayer-exclusive Neow blessing, The Cleric

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Changed Unmovable card:
• Block gain increased from 4(6) -> 6(8)
• Cost increased from 1 -> 2
• Nerfed Taunt: now targets a specific enemy to apply Vulnerable on

Silent:

• Changed Calculated Gamble card: upgrade changed from losing Exhaust -> gaining Retain

Defect:

• Buffed Tesla Coil card: Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Pagestorm card: Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
• Nerfed Pull Aggro card: upgrade Block gain decreased from 6(8) -> 6(7)
• Nerfed Sentry Mode card: Energy cost increased from 1 -> 2
• Nerfed Transfigure card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1

Regent:

• Nerfed Dying Star card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1
• Changed Genesis card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Changed Guiding Star card:
• Draw next turn increased from 1(1) -> 2(3)
• Upgrade damage decreased from 11(15) -> 11(14)
• Buffed Heavenly Drill card: Energy cost decreased from 3 -> 2
• Changed Hegemony card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Changed Spectrum Shift card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Nerfed The Smith card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1

Colorless Cards:

• Buffed Ultimate Defend card: upgrade Block increased from 11(14) -> 11(15)

Potions & Relics:

• Nerfed Intimidating Helmet relic: Block gain decreased from 5 -> 4
• Changed Lattice of Eyes relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Ringing Triangle relic: rarity changed from Uncommon -> Shop

Ancients:

• Nerfed Tezcatara's Brightest Flame card: Energy gain decreased from 2(3) -> 1(2)
• Nerfed Tanx's Maul card: damage decreased from 6(7) -> 4(5)
• Changed Necrobinder's Veilpiercer Neow bundle: Defile -> Death's Visage

Enemies:

• Buffed Fossil Stalker:
• Latch damage increased from 9(10) -> 11(13)
• Tackle damage increased from 7(8) -> 8(9)
• Changed The Infested boss combat:
• Fight move damage restructured and increased across the board
• Infested Guardian now gives more Block and Plating
• Buffed Parafright: Disrupt power amount increased from 11 -> 21
• Buffed Sewer Clam: Strength gain increased from 3 -> 4
• Buffed Thieving Hopper: Flutter power no longer decrements from non-attack damage
• Buffed Toadpole:
• Whirl move damage increased from 6(7) -> 7(8)
• Max HP increased from 24(25) -> 25(26)

Events:

• Changed The Lantern Key event's History Course relic: no longer plays cards from two turns ago if you did not play cards the previous turn

ART

• Added portrait art for various cards:
• Toric Toughness
• Enfeebling Touch
• Seance
• Black Hole
• Seeking Edge
• Frantic Escape
• Added art and VFX for Tanx the Ancient
• Edited values and sizes of map assets

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

• Added logic to apply a red dot in the main menu if there is a revealable Epoch
• Players can now view the leaderboard at the game over screen of a Daily Run
• Run seeds are now strings instead of numbers
• Fixed controller bumper assets in settings to not be stretched
• Fixed map node image edges looking strange
• Game over history animation now plays fun sounds
• Added new unknown map assets
• Inspect card screen animations now more closely match inspect relic screen animations
• Slightly improved feedback screen text legibility
• Added notification dot for timeline button in main menu
• Updated map drawing colors for all characters
• When submenus open, the back button now animates in nicely

Multiplayer:

• Alley-oop card can now have different hovertip description wording between the applier and their allies

AUDIO

• Added new SFX for characters

WORDING

• Lethality modifier has been renamed to Murderous to avoid confusion with the Lethality card
• Renamed Voidborn card -> Child of the Stars
• Reworded Hardened Shell power hovertip to read as "cannot lose more than X HP each turn"

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Whirlwind card no longer keeps playing SFX/VFX once all enemies are dead

Defect:

• Fixed typo in Rebound card's description

Colorless Cards:

• Eternal Armor card now triggers "gain Block from card" effects
• Fasten card now properly adds Block to Ultimate Defend card

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed an infinite loop if Fairy in a Bottle is triggered while Tide's Binding relic is active
• Ranwid the Elder event is no longer encounterable if you have no potions

Enemies:

• The Two Slug and Three Slug combat encounters can no longer be encountered back to back
• Cultist death animation is no longer cut off on the left
• Fixed an issue where, after shrinking Test Subject in phase 1 or 2 with Beetle Juice and then killing it, it would stay visually shrunk
• Fossil Stalker's Suck power no longer applies Strength in the middle of multi-attacks, so the number listed in their damage intent will now be accurate
• Queen boss's Chains of Binding power no longer triggers during the enemy turn

Events:

• When hovering over the "Push" option in the Stone of all Time event, the Vigorous hovertip now correctly reflects the amount of damage it will add

General:

• Abandoning a Daily Run at the main menu now submits your score
• Burn status cards that have Ethereal are now properly Exhausted
• Fixed softlock when loading into a run with the Terminal modifier
• Insanity modifier can no longer give you Ancient cards
• Nostalgia card's power no longer triggers when playing cards that were duplicated by effects like History Course relic
• Run history nodes at game over can now be hovered over
• Surrounded power icon no longer has an opaque black background

Multiplayer:

• Fixed issue with surrounded fights in multiplayer where the direction a single player was facing affected the damage calculation for all players

PERFORMANCE

• Further compressed large images and abstract VFX
• Packed various assets into compressed texture atlas