STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-07-03

CONTENT

Defect:

• Added new Orb type, Glass
• Added the following new cards:
• Glasswork
• Refract
• Shatter
• Spinner
• Deprecated Scrap Orb
• Deprecated the following cards:
• Junk King
• Shredder
• Scrappy

Necrobinder:

• Added new card, The Scythe

Regent:

• Added the following new cards:
• Bombardment
• Crash Landing
• Forgone Conclusion
• Royalties
• Sword Sage
• Reworked the following cards:
• Astral Harvest (now Dowsing Blade)
• Black Hole
• Conqueror reworked
• Glitterstream
• Glow reworked
• Heavenly Drill
• Hidden Cache
• Make It So
• Orbit
• Wrought in War

Ancients:

• Added new Orobas blessing, Mutation
• Added new Zlatir blessings:
• Control
• Potential
• Reworked Zlatir's Immortality blessing
• Reworked Pael's Cloning Capsule blessing

BALANCE

General:

• Warden Ascension can no longer spawn 2 Elites in a row

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Enfeeble card: no longer Ethereal
• Buffed Hang card: damage increased from 6(9) -> 10(13)
• Buffed Oblivion card: no longer Exhausts
• Nerfed Swipe card: damage decreased from 10(14) -> 9(12)

Regent:

• Changed Alignment card:
• Star cost decreased from 3 -> 2
• Energy gain decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3)
• Buffed Beat Into Shape card:
• Damage increased from 7(8) -> 10(11)
• Forge increased from 4(5)->7(9)
• Rarity increased from Common -> Rare
• Buffed Constellation card: no longer Exhausts
• Nerfed Convergence card: upgrade no longer draws an additional card
• Buffed Cosmic Indifference card: Block increased from 5(8) -> 6(9)
• Nerfed Devastate card: Star cost increased from 3 -> 4
• Buffed Gather Light card: Block increased from 6(9) -> 7(10)
• Nerfed Heirloom Hammer card: damage decreased from 16(20) -> 15(18)
• Changed Manifest Authority card:
• Block decreased from 9(11) -> 7(8)
• No longer Exhausts
• Buffed Seven Stars card: no longer Exhausts

Enemies:

• Changed The Kin:
• Slightly reworked moveset
• Kin Priest no longer applies Ritual to himself
• Buffed Knowledge Demon:
• Heal move's healing increased from 25 -> 30
• HP increased from 357(379) -> 387(399)
• Buffed Vantom: HP increased from 163(173) -> 173(183)
• Nerfed Hatchlings: HP decreased from 21(22)-26(27) -> 19(20)-22(23)
• Changed Goop Bowlbug: reworked moveset
• Nerfed Tough Egg: HP decreased from 14(15)-19(20) -> 14(15)-18(19)
• Buffed Toxic status card: damage increased from 4 -> 5

ART

• Added temporary portrait art for Ghostly Armor card
• Added temporary background art for the following events:
• Amalgamating Anvil
• The Lantern Key
• Morphic Grove
• The Impossible Pyre
• Violent Heroes Two
• Field of Man-Sized Holes
• Trash Heap
• Ranwid the Elder
• War Historian Repy
• Added beta portrait art for the following cards:
• Jackpot
• Grab
• Make Use
• Pagestorm
• Abrasive
• Ambush
• Bubble Bubble

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• UI that is hovered over by mouse is now unfocused when controller is detected
• At the end of combat, Orbs now continue to reflect how much Focus there was
• Osty's attack cards now glow red if Osty is dead
• Cards rerolled by the Seeking Tentacle relic now appear as skipped cards in the run history
• The Impossible Pyre and Drowning Beacon events now show "Lose X HP" highlighted in red
• When a card's energy cost has been decreased for the entire combat, it now displays in green

WORDING

• Fixed punctuation in The Hunt card
• Fixed wording of Grab card to read as "Enemy deals 50% damage this turn"

BUG FIXES

Necrobinder:

• Fixed softlock with Invoke card when you tried to inspect it
• Invoke card now correctly reads that it deals 4 -> 6 damage in Smith screen

Regent:

• Fixed King's Courage potion not updating the value of the newly created Sovereign Blade card correctly
• Gamma Beam card is now correctly a single target attack

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed potion popup hovertip positioning for card previews (i.e. King's Courage)
• Ornamental Fan relic now correctly stops flashing when combat ends

Ancients:

• Fixed softlock caused by getting offered Murder card by Orobas
• Neow's Focus blessing now correctly has "Lose 10 Max HP" in red text
• Unknown rooms spawned by Neow's Explorer blessing now have the correct outlines
• Wax Pen Nib relic no longer flashes if it is melted

Enemies:

• Fixed issue where powers would become unhoverable when Wasp Prism prevented its own death before exploding
• Fixed Snapping Jaxfruit attack animation
• Fixed softlock with Magi knight magic bomb animation
• Fixed Thieving Hopper's card stealing animation

Events:

• The Round Tea Party event no longer records the "continue" event button in history

General:

• Fixed adjacent nodes pulsing even if the current room is not completed
• Fixed map icon oscillating even when closed
• Fixed path length overflow bug when loading climb history with corrupt files
• Fixed off-by-one error in run history when highlighting relics and seeing the room they were obtained in