STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-06-29

<@&1070463562008510616> Another Friday, another Byrdlett build! This one comes with some big Vlad--or should we say Zlatir--changes among various bug fixes, UI & UX additions, and balance changes! Heads up that we made some changes to our save file format which require your run history to be reset! If you have an in-progress run, the game will auto-abandon it. So if you have an in-progress run you want to finish, you should finish it on your current build before downloading the new one.

Here are the steps to deleting your run history:

1. Open the command line with ~ key

2. Type "open saves"

3. Delete the settings.save, the progress.save, and the run_history folder

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CONTENT:

Ancients:

• Vlad is now Zlatir and has had his choices drastically reworked. Now offers the player the following choices:

- Immortality

- Power

- Beauty

- Wealth

- Fulfillment

- Status

- Acknowledgement

- Valor

- Freedom

• Added The Golden Path Tezcatara choice

Potions & Relics:

• Added Dragonfruit relic
• Added Looming Fruit relic
• Added Matchbox relic
• Added Planishphere relic
• Added Royal Stamp relic

BALANCE:

Ironclad:

• Nerfed Blood Wall card: HP loss increased from 1 -> 2

Silent:

• Changed Master Planner: no longer gains Innate on upgrade, gains Sly instead

Regent:

• Nerfed Kingly Punch card: damage decreased from 45(55) -> 35(45)

Potions & Relics:

• Buffed Powdered Demise potion: enemy HP loss increased from 9 -> 11
• ChangedToolbox relic: card generation now occurs after card draw and enemy intent generation

Enemies:

• Changed Flail Knight: HP slightly lowered to differentiate from Spectral Knight decreased from 80 -> 78 max
• Nerfed Lieutenant: HP decreased from 71-74 -> 66
• Nerfed Myte: HP decreased from 60-66 -> 51-57
• Changed Ovicopter: no longer has the Mother's Rage power
• Buffed Soul Nexus: HP increased from 166 -> 199
• Reworked Fabricator encounter:

- Changed HP values for Fabricator and bots

- Now summons two bots at a time and stops summoning earlier

Events:

• Nerfed Daughter of the Wind event relic: Block gain decreased from 3 -> 2
• Changed Medley option from Hungry for Mushrooms event: now heals more and gives Injury instead of Writhe
• Changed Relic Trader event: you can no longer trade melted wax relics
• Changed Sword of Stone option from Sunken Statue event: now only requires 4 elites to transform instead of 5
• Reworked Living Cocoon event

- First option gives a Chrysalis; Chrysalis is now an event card

- Second option lets player choose a card to transform, losing 7 HP

- Third option now heals 15 HP

• Reworked Soul's Power from Field of Forgotten event: now plays the enchanted card twice when played (the enchantment option should be less buggy now, too)
• Reworked Symbiote event

- First option now costs 9 max HP instead of 6 HP.

- Second option now allows you to choose a card to remove.

• Reworked Telepathic Spiders event:

- Third option now costs 200 gold and adds one Mind Blast and two Enlightenment to the player's deck; Mind Blast and Enlightenment are now event cards

• Reworked Wood Carvings event: third option now transforms all Defends into Toric Toughness

ART:

• Added Globe Head animations
• Updated Bedlam Beacon, Cursed Choice, Field of the Forgotten, and Tinker Time event art

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:

• Corrupted cards now glow red when they will kill you
• Curse and Status cards that trigger at end of turn now preview correctly
• Game no longer freezes briefly when clicking proceed at the end of an act
• You can now preview all cards in deck as upgraded
• Cards with Sly now glow gold when you're choosing a card from your hand to discard
• Stats screen and some basic stat tracking has now been set up
• You can now hover over the cards in your hand while in peek mode
• You must now throw the Foul Potion at the Merchant to receive the gold reward
• Changed Vigor power: instead of dealing 8 additional damage once, it deals 8 additional damage on first play (for UX reasons rather than balance)

WORDING:

• Replaced number in Knockout Blow with multiple star icons
• Updated Kindle keywording
• Reworded Perfect Reflection card description show its specific attack damage

BUG FIXES:

Ironclad:

• Hellraiser now correctly procs Kunai, Ornamental Fan and Shuriken relics

Silent:

• Fixed punctuation on Master Planner card

Regent:

• Decree of Entropy card can now transform Tezcatara’s Ember cards
• Kingly Kick description now specifies unblocked damage
• Manifest Authority card now has the Block tooltip
• Tyranny card stacking no longer softlocks
• Wrought in War card no longer has Fatal keyword

Colorless Cards:

• Playing Apotheosis is no longer super laggy

Potions & Relics:

• Foul potion has been filtered from potion pools
• Made a number of relics non-tradable

Ancients:

• Fixed punctuation on Tezcatara’s Candle relic description
• Tezcatara's first choice now shows the Kindle hovertip
• Hungering Brooch relic now prevents you from going to next room from map

Enemies:

• Fixed softlock in Frog Knight encounter if it has exactly half health
• Shrink now always applies its damage decrease after Strength

Events:

• Fixed softlock on Stone of All Time if you try to enchant something with an enchantment
• Push option in Stone of All Time now correctly removes 12 HP
• The Legends Were True should only show up in Acts 1 & 2

Misc:

• Cards in grid views should no longer flicker when scrolling to the bottom of the grid
• First turn no longer skips if you save and reload during enemy attacks
• Game no longer briefly freezes at the end of combat
• Game no longer softlocks if you click on a potion, dismiss the menu, then choose option 1 at the potion courier event
• Targeted potions no longer require two left clicks in an empty space to be canceled