STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-10-23

This week's patch is a smaller one, bringing in some balance changes and reworks (we're looking at you Doormaker). Also, the reign of The Trial trolling is over. We're in the midst of a secret internal jam, but those fruits cannot be harvested yet. Stay tuned for next week's spooky patch!

CONTENT

Potions & Relics:

• Reworked Cure All potion

Enemies:

• Reworked Owl Magistrate (is now a normal encounter)

BALANCE

Silent:

• Nerfed Abrasive card: Energy cost increased from 2 -> 3
• Changed Hand Trick card: give Sly to a Skill -> Attack
• Nerfed Reflex card: Energy cost increased from 2 -> 3
• Changed Master Planner card:
• Energy cost decreased from 3(3) -> 2(1)
• Upgrade no longer gains Sly
• Changed Speedster card:
• Damage increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
• No longer Sly

Defect:

• Nerfed Boost Away card: Block decreased from 8(11) -> 7(10)
• Buffed Helix Drill card: damage increased from 6(8) -> 7(9)

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Carve Ghost card:
• Place Soul into Discard Pile -> Draw Pile
• Upgraded damage increased by 1
• Changed Severance card:
• Damage deceased from 15(20) -> 13(16)
• Now also adds a Soul to your Hand again

Regent:

• Nerfed Conqueror card: Forge decreased from 12(15) -> 10(13)

Colorless Cards:

• Changed Eternal Armor card: changed from a Skill -> Power (loses Exhaust)

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Lasting Candy relic: pool changed from Ancient -> Rare

Enemies:

• Changed Chompers:
• Decreased HP, damage, and Status amount
• Artifact increased from 1 -> 2
• Changed Doormaker combat:
• Door's Enforce damage decreased from 15 -> 10
• Door's Enforce no longer gives additional Artifact
• Changed Door move order
• Door no longer stuns when the door is opened.
• Doormaker's Doorslam move changed from 10(11)x3 -> 15(15)x2
• Doormaker's now also attacks for 20(22) on the turn he flees behind the Door
• Door's Knock power now ticks town on hit instead of once per Attack
• Buffed Entomancer: Spear damage increased from 11(13) -> 13(15)
• Buffed Exoskeletons: HP increased from 21(23)-27(28) -> 23(24)-28(29)
• Changed Fabricator: reworked moveset
• Changed Fuzzy Wurm Crawler: reworked moveset
• Changed Bygone Effigy: reworked moveset
• Nerfed Globe Head: Thunderstrike damage decreased from 7(8) x3 -> 6(7)x3
• Buffed Haunted Ship:
• Status given changed from Daze -> Wound
• Stomp damage increased from 3(4)x3 -> 4(5)x3
• Changed Knights:
• Now an Elite combat
• All HP increased by 10 now that they are an Elite combat
• Removed weak Act 3 Knights encounter
• Changed Lagavulin Matriarch: Soul Siphon debuff increased to -2 to each stat
• Changed Mad Crab: Zoom attack damage increased from 14(16) -> 16(17)
• Buffed Mechaknight: HP increased from 250(270) -> 300(314)
• Buffed Phantasmal Gardeners: Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
• Changed Slimed Berserker:
• HP decreased from 333(339) -> 266(273)
• No longer has Unstable power
• Nerfed Slumbering Beetle: now loses all Plating when he wakes up

Ancients:

• Changed Electrified Shard relic: moved from Darv -> Orobas
• Buffed Nonupeipe's Fur Coat relic: marked nodes increased from 5 -> 7
• Changed Neow's Regent Quasar bundle: replaced Quasar card -> Devastate

Events:

• Nerfed Bugslayer event's Exterminate card: damage decreased from 4x4 -> 3x4

ART

• Implemented Heavy Blunt VFX
• Added portrait art for Enthralled card

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Add confirmation popup when refusing to be a Decider in The Trial event

WRITING

• Added context and interim event page for Defiance option in The Trial event

BUG FIXES

General:

• Players can no longer transform statuses into knowledge demon statuses
• Deadly Events ascension correctly resets odds after leaving an unknown Elite combat
• Exiting the options menu after taking rewards no longer shows an empty rewards screen
• Hitting left on your controller in map now correctly recenters map on available nodes
• Murderous Daily modifier now properly gives Strength to enemies spawned mid-combat

Defect:

• Fixed punctuation on Recycle card

Necrobinder:

• Flatten card now properly displays the extra damage that will be dealt by Osty's Strength

Colorless Cards:

• Fixed potential Rolling Boulder softlock when you have multiple Rolling Boulders active

Potions & Relics:

• Dybbuk Cube relic now properly doubles temporary Strength/Dexterity/Focus loss instead of quadrupling it
• Fixed an issue where, if you had Pen Nib relic and your 10th attack autoplayed another attack, both attacks' damage would be doubled
• Philosopher's Stone relic now properly gives Strength to enemies spawned mid-combat.

Enemies:

• Fixed state divergence related to Knowledge Demon's Ponder move
• Fixed Kin follower hitbox

Ancients:

• Killing an enemy with Tanx's Whistle card no longer causes a softlock

Multiplayer:

• Multiplayer players are shown in a save/load after a combat win

PERFORMANCE

• Excluded multiplayer cards from singleplayer run asset loading
• Improved memory performance by ~20%