STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-08-21

CONTENT

Necrobinder:

• Reworked Swipe card -> Snap

Ancients:

• Added new Neow blessing, Wealth

Events:

• Reworked Welcome To Wongo's event

BALANCE

General:

• When a Power card's power deals damage (The Bomb, Panache, etc.), that damage is now considered card damage

Silent:

• Changed Twisted Funnel relic: rarity changed from Shop -> Uncommon

Defect:

• Buffed Synthesis card: damage increased from 12(18) -> 13(18)

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Haunt card: HP loss increased from 3(4) -> 4(6)
• Nerfed Soul Storm card: now Exhausts
• Nerfed Symbiosis card:
• Energy cost increased from 1(1) -> 2(1)
• Upgrade no longer draws an additional card
• Changed Necrobinder's Neow Bundle blessing: bundle with Fetch now instead includes Flatten

Regent:

• Changed Genesis card: upgrade changed from +1 star -> Innate
• Changed Heirloom Hammer card: upgrade changed from +3 damage and +1 card -> +5 damage (no additional card)
• Buffed Polish card: damage increased from 12(18) -> 14(18)
• Changed Regent's Neow Bundle blessing: no longer has a double Uncommon card bundle

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Ninja Scroll relic: rarity changed from Uncommon -> Shop
• Changed Starter Flare relic:
• Now hits all enemies instead of hitting a random enemy
• Damage decreased from 11 -> 9
• Changed Liquid Memories potion: no longer sets Star cost to 0

Ancients:

• Buffed Nonupeipe's Blessed Antlers blessing: now also applies to Elite combats
• Buffed Neow's Focus blessing: Max HP lost decreased from 10 -> 8
• Buffed Neow's Mystery Machine blessing: no longer has the downside of giving Greed curse
• Changed Neow's Lean blessing: will no longer appear if Focus blessing appears as the cursed boon option

Enemies:

• Buffed Test Subject:
• Changed Growl move from gaining Block -> deals 18(20) damage
• Now gains Block when it revives
• Buffed Cubex Construct: now has 1 Artifact
• Changed Exoskeleton: can no longer randomly roll the Enrage move
• Buffed Gremlin Merc: Double Smash move damage increased from 4x2 -> 6x2
• Changed Kin Priest: now always applies Weak instead of alternating between Weak and Frail
• Nerfed Phantasmal Gardeners: Strength gain decreased from 3 -> 2
• Buffed Phrog Parasite: Lash move damage increased from 4(5)x3 -> 4(5)x4
• Changed Queen: no longer has Intangible, but starts with Block from the Torch Head Amalgam

Events:

• Changed Field of the Forgotten event: Soul's Power enchantment no longer adds Replay -> now removes Exhaust
• Changed Trash Heap event: no longer appears in Act 2
• Changed Brain Leech (formerly Brain Bug) event: can now appear in Act 1a and Act 1b as well

ART

• Added Punch Construct animations
• Added portrait art for the following cards:
• Banshee's Cry
• Big Bang
• Collision Course
• Furnace
• Royalties
• Terraforming
• Updated portrait art for the following cards:
• Countdown
• Death's visage
• Shared Fate
• Updated art for the following relics:
• Reptile Trinket
• Petrified Toad
• Tingsha
• Dingy Rug
• Lost Wisp
• Hand Drill
• Chosen Cheese
• Byrdpip

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Cards not unlocked by Epochs no longer show up during gameplay
• Revealed Epochs now have a hovertip in the Timeline of their unlock requirement + unlock icon
• Updated UX for Rest Site options
• If you have no available cards to upgrade, the Rest Site's Smith option is disabled and tells you why
• Added a "no results" label to the card library when your filters have no matches
• Added a cost randomization animation for when a card's cost is affected by Snecko Eye relic
• Certain screenshakes now play out much faster than before
• Chapter paginators in the Timeline are now chronological (was in expected unlock order)
• Created new aqua color tag for the Flaw
• Events are now faster in fast mode
• Event text is now slightly larger
• Thieving Hopper's Escape Artist power now pulses when it is about to run away
• When you press the peek button in combat, you will now still see the card you are playing
• Added controller navigation to the map screen legend
• Added controller support for multiplayer card targeting
• When using a controller, card targeting no longer breaks if you hotkey into selecting your potions
• Added controller hotkeys for extra card reward options

WRITING

• Renamed the following cards:
• Grab -> Restrain
• Snowfield -> Hailstorm
• Renamed the following relics:
• Bedlam Beacon -> Lost Wisp
• Buried Seed -> Sapphire Seed
• Renamed the following events:
• Bedlam Beacon -> Lost Wisp
• Brain Bug -> Brain Leech
• Buried Seed -> Sapphire Seed
• Cursed Choice -> This or That
• Amalgamating Anvil -> Amalgamator
• The words Enchant and Upgrade are now gold and capitalized in relic descriptions
• Updated Defect Epoch text
• Updated wording around Orbs
• Updated some death quotes
• Updated some wording and capitalization around instances of the word "ALL"
• Updated wording for the following keywords:
• Ethereal
• Innate
• Sly
• Unplayable
• Energy
• Forge
• Updated wording for the following powers:
• Buffer
• Creative AI
• Demise
• Disperse
• Fasten
• Heist
• Infinite Blades
• Lightning Rod
• Possess Power
• Possess Speed
• Retain Hand
• Snowfield
• Steam Eruption
• Terraforming
• Thievery
• Void Form
• Updated wording for the following cards:
• Calamity
• Forcefield
• Manifest Authority
• Spectrum Shift
• Shatter
• Updated wording for the following relics:
• Dragon Fruit
• Echo Chamber
• Forever Ice
• Kusarigama
• Rainbow Ring
• Shuriken
• Sword of Stone
• Abacus
• Byrdpip
• Updated wording for the following potions:
• GLowwater Potion
• Liquid Memories
• Touch of Insanity
• Updated text for the following events:
• Bug Slayer
• Sapphire Seed
• Byrdonis Nest
• Brain Leech
• Aroma of Chaos
• Lost Wisp
• Battleworn Dummy
• This or That
• Dense Vegetation
• Doll Room
• Field of Man-Sized Holes
• Colorful Philosophers

BUG FIXES

General:

• Buffer power no longer decrements when it prevents fractional damage that would be rounded down to 0 anyways
• Players can no longer open the Merchant rug via controller when selecting a map node
• Cards with value-modifying Enchantments (Sharp, Favored, etc.) now properly display these modifications in upgrade/enchant preview screens
• Corrected the unlock requirements for character Epochs 6 and 7
• Fixed Bound affliction description to say "1" instead of "one"
• Fixed controller navigation letting players scroll through cards in the inspection screen when there is only 1 card the player is inspecting
• Fixed issue where controller hotkey wasn't working with the Proceed button in Merchant room
• Fixed loading saves with deprecated or renamed events
• Fixed strange behavior when entering for '[' in the card library text search
• Shuffling cards from Discard to Draw pile no longer generates two cards per card

Defect:

• Fixed orbs touching relics when Defect's scale increased from the Big Mushroom relic
• Fixed softlock when Helix Drill card was created via Splash card
• Helix Drill card now properly deals its damage over multiple hits
• Snowfield card (now Hailstorm) no longer ignores Block when dealing damage

Necrobinder:

• Buffer power no longer prevents Osty from losing HP
• Tungsten Rod relic no longer prevents Osty from losing HP
• Lethality card no longer triggers on the next Attack played this turn if another Attack was played before it

Regent:

• Sharp Enchantment now applies properly to Heavenly Drill card

Colorless Cards:

• Nostalgia card no longer triggers on the next Attack/Skill played this turn if another Attack/Skill was played before it
• Scrawl card description no longer has broken formatting

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed The Formula potion not updating damage descriptions
• Meat on the Bone relic now properly triggers when your HP is at exactly 50%
• Seethe relic no longer doubles negative strength

Ancients:

• Neow's Explorer blessing now correctly says it only affects the current Act's map rather than all of the Act maps
• Darv and Zlatir are now unlockable
• Darv can no longer appear twice in a run
• Fixed Orobas' Transcendence blessing run history entry
• Orobas' Transcendence card hovertips no longer go off screen
• Map no longer double-fades when selecting an Ancient

Enemies:

• Fixed Magistrate Owl's hitbox when it starts its flying animation while Shrunk
• Fixed softlock when viewing the victory screen of a run against Test Subject
• Fixed softlock when you kill Wasp Prism while it's stunned by Tanx's Whistle
• Torch Head Amalgam no longer has strange black boxes appear when the Doom death animation plays

Events:

• Fixed issue where players weren't receiving a reward from the War Historian, Repy event