STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-06-26

This week's patch brings another BIG rework to The Necrobinder! Other highlights include some major changes to The Silent's kit, a reworked Ascension 1, and lots of interesting UX additions.

CONTENT

General:

• Reworked Ascension 1 from buffed bosses to Elites spawning more often (approximately 60% more Elites spawned in a map)
• Save migration now supports Settings and Climbs

Silent:

• Added the following new cards:
• Echoing Slash
• Ambush
• Serpent Form
• The Hunt
• Murder
• Abrasive
• Deprecated the following cards:
• Catalyst
• Glass Knife
• A Thousand Cuts

Necrobinder:

• Added the following new cards:
• Grab
• Right Hand Hand
• Reworked Bound Phylactery and Phylactery Unbound relics
• Reworked the following cards:
• Bone Shards
• Eidolon
• Empower
• Flatten
• Invoke
• Poke
• Rattle
• Renaimate
• Symbiosis
• Tag In
• Lethality
• Transfuse (also renamed Unleash)

Regent:

• Reworked Gamma Beam card

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Changed Cinder card: cards Exhausted decreased from 2 -> 1
• Buffed Fiend Fire card: damage increased from 6(9) -> 7(10)
• Changed Drum of Battle power: now activates at the start of your turn instead of the end

Silent:

• Changed Follow Through card:
• Can only be played if the last card played this turn is a Skill
• Deals 7 damage twice
• Changed Memento Mori card:
• Base damage decreased from 9(10) -> 8(10)
• Damage scaling increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)
• Buffed Strangling Strike card: damage increased from 7(9) -> 8(10)
• Changed Tracking card: upgrade changed from gaining Innate -> lower cost by 1

Necrobinder:

• Changed Banshee's Cry card: damage buffed from 31(37) -> 39(47)
• Changed Misery card:
• Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
• Damage decreased from 9(11) -> 7(9)
• When Misery copies temporary Strength Down it also copies the associated Strength Up

Regent:

• Fixed ordering on regents Vulnerable and Weak applying cards like Falling Star to match the rest of the game.

Potions & Relics:

• Buffed Bent Nail relic: HP loss increased from 2 -> 4
• Buffed Foritfier potion: double your Block -> triple your Block
• Buffed Heart of Iron potion: Plating increased from 5 -> 7

Colorless Cards:

• Buffed Hand of Greed card: no longer Exhausts

Ancients:

• Changed Tanx's Maul blessing:
• Maul card damage increased from 5 -> 6
• Amount of transformable cards lowered from 9 -> 6

Enemies:

• Changed Axe Bots:
• Reworked moveset
• Debuff does less damage
• Ceremonial Beast Regeneration now active regardless of ascension
• Changed Corpse Slug:
• Reworked moveset
• Block and damage move is now the weakest attack
• Block decreased from 6 -> 4
• Nerfed Decimillipede: damage decreased
• Buffed Fossil Stalker: damage and HP increased
• Changed Hatchlings:
• Reworked moveset
• Damage decreased
• Changed The Infested: damage decreased on turn 1
• Changed The Insatiable:
• No longer gains Block
• Damage on big hit decreased from 30(35) -> 28(31)
• Buffed Knowledge Demon:
• Heal increased from 21 -> 25
• Mind Rot affliction Vigor gain increased from 3 -> 4.
• Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
• Changed Lagavulin Matriarch: reworked moveset
• Changed Mytes combat: now has 2 Mytes instead of 3
• Buffed Queen: Intangible power now active on turn 1 regardless of Ascension level
• Nerfed Two-Tailed Rats: no longer give the player Toxic

Events:

• Buffed Waterlogged curse card: HP loss increased from 1 -> 3

ART

• Added placeholder background art for the following events:
• The Reflection That Wasn't
• Waterlogged Scriptorium
• Tempting Bloom
• Punch Off
• The Endless Conveyor
• The Drowning Beacon
• Abyssal Baths
• Sunken Treasury
• Added animations for Soul Fysh
• Hellraiser power now changes the animation & VFX of the Strike cards it plays

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

Necrobinder:

• Osty now shakes if you try to play an Osty attack while he's dead

Potions & Relics:

• Maw Bank relic no longer flashes over player at the start of combat
• Potions are now rendered a little smaller

General:

• Event choice controller navigation now wraps
• Added an icon in the topbar displaying the Act boss
• Ascension panel now animates in
• Basic cards are now part of the "other" category in the Compendium
• Completed quests can now be seen in the Run History
• Run History is now centered in different aspect ratios
• In-combat card choices now display cards with combat value previews
• Language dropdown now displays correctly at weird aspect ratios
• Reward order now matches StS1 again
• Smith VFX can now work with multiple cards at the same time
• If cards are played fast enough that they are queued, they are now lined up in order

Multiplayer:

• Added small animations to the multiplayer vote icons
• Selected rest site options are now displayed next to the player
• Added VFX/SFX for when a remote player selects a rest site option
• You can now see the rest site option that another player is hovering over

WORDING

• Added red coloring to Neow's Gift Box blessing
• Evil Gas renamed to Living Fog
• Liquid Memories potion now says the selected card will be free to play instead of cost 0 to better match the effect
• Thieving Hopper's Flutter power now properly specifies that it only triggers on damage from Attacks

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Fixed an ordering issue with Tyranny and Stratagem powers

Silent:

• Fixed a broken interaction between Nostalgia card and Sly

Defect:

• Added Lightning Orb hovertip to Ball Lightning card
• Hello World card now properly triggers before you draw the rest of your hand

Necrobinder:

• Danse Macabre card no longer triggers itself when played with an increased energy cost
• Fixed a crash when playing Sweeping Gaze card while all enemies are reviving

Regent:

• Make It So card no longer shifts positions if you play four cards while it's in your hand

Colorless Cards:

• Discovery card no longer sets the chosen card's Star cost to 0

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed an issue where Gremlin Horn and Hungering Belly relics wouldn't trigger when a creature's death was prevented by an effect like Hard to Kill power
• Stone Calendar relic's lab hovertip now works while in combat

Enemies:

• Adjusted Decimillipede's bounds so their HP bars don't collide
• Fabricator flying minions now fall all the way to the ground in their death animation
• Fixed a softlock that sometimes occurred when Magi Knight used its Magic Bomb move
• Fixed an issue where Test Subject's Malleable power wasn't giving it enough block after multi-hit attacks
• Fixed issue with Toadpole death animation transitioning back to idle
• Fixed Tunneler playing its burrowed attack animation twice
• Hexed affliction can now affect Status and Curse cards
• Infested Guardian now does correct damage for Guarded Strike move
• Spaced enemies out more so their healthbars don't overlap
• Spiny Toad's spike out animation no longer plays once per hit of the multihit
• Tracker Raider now only plays attack animation once when doing the multihit

Events:

• The Trial's Innocent option now uses a single card select to upgrade 2 cards

General:

• Achievements are no longer listed twice in the stats menu
• Cards with effects that trigger if you end your turn with them in your hand (such as Burn) no longer trigger if an earlier end-of-turn effect (such as Combust) ends combat
• Fixed Embark button outline
• HP bar colors (Poison, Doom) should no longer look offset

Multiplayer:

• Gang Up card no longer shows incorrect damage preview values when targeting a vulnerable enemy
• Gang Up card now counts attacks that were blocked
• Traveler's Flask relic's additional text only displays for player that has it