STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-07-12

If you saw me accidentally hit enter early no you didn't 🙂 Anyways, it's build time! We've added a bunch of colorless cards and reworked/renamed multiple Pael options! Ok patch notes time.

Build links:

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CONTENT:

Colorless Cards:

• Added the following new colorless cards:

- Beat Down

- Contractility

- Fasten

- Omnislice

- Production

- Restlessness

- Ultimate Strike

Ancients:

• Added Smother card - Deal 10 damage. Whenever you rest, Upgrade this card. Can be upgraded any number of times. (damage scales like searing blow, +3, +4, +5, etc)
• Reworked Pael’s Essence relic -> Slumbering Essence: “At the end of your turn, if the enchanted card is still in your hand, reduce its cost by 1 until it is played.”
• Reworked Pael’s Eye relic -> Gloopy Eye: “The first time each combat you end your turn without playing cards, Exhaust your hand, and take an extra turn.”
• Reworked Pael’s Claw -> Cloudy Claw: “Create a new map with double the number of Rest Sites.”
• Reworked Patience card: “Innate. Ethereal. At the end of combat, gain a random relic instead of a Card Reward.”

BALANCE:

Silent:

• Buffed Envenom card: now costs 1 by default and deals 1 additional poison on upgrade

Potions & Relics:

• Reworked Royal Stamp: can only be applied to Skills and Attacks

Enemies:

• Nerfed Chomper:

- HP decreased from 83-88 -> 64-68

- Damage decreased from 10x2 -> 8x2

• Completely reworked Slimed Berserker combat
• Changed Toxic Goop Bowlbug: can no longer spawn with the Slumbering Beetle

ART & MUSIC:

• Updated art for Aroma of Chaos, Bugslayer, and Infested Automaton events
• Added alternate Act 3 music track
• Added smithing VFX
• Smithing VFX plays when you forge sovereign blade
• Added VFX for obtaining potions

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:

• Added a fade out to menu music
• Added SFX for the rest site, obtaining relics, card exhaust, reward screen popup, and combat start
• Stopped card reject SFX from proccing when a card is played
• It is now required to still select a card when smithing/removing even if you only have 1 valid card
• Saves that are unable to load are renamed as broken instead of deleted, which will help us debug save format issues
• Auto-placed enemies should avoid getting placed in the play zone
• Compendium cards now animate in and out
• Compendium screen now scales with ultrawide
• Power cards now swoosh when played
• Volume sliders now look better and smoothly animate
• Added Ancient icons to run history
• Adjusted hitboxes, scale, intent position, and VFX spawn position for ALL creatures A - N
• Adjusted hitboxes, intent position, VFX position, and scale for creatures O - Z
• Adjusted outlines, shadows, and font sizing rules for topbar text and gold gain VFX
• AOE description when there is a single enemy show powered description (for things like vulnerable)
• Current Run info now appears when hovering over the Continue button in main menu + removed various debug assets
• Disabled potion usage during enemy turn
• Extra dynamic text on cards (i.e finished) now remains on card when being played
• Flechettes now has extra text that tells you how many times it will hit
• Hovering over enchantment preview cards no longer enlarges them
• Hovertips now sit close to the button its hovering over
• Merchant room background now respects the screen aspect ratio
• Negative Dexterity now appears in red text in the power VFX
• Overhauled display settings, save window and screen positions; fullscreen is now a toggle
• Peek button now pulses when you are in peek mode
• Reduced option label font size from 28 -> 24 + they are now all consistent and nested under vbox containers

• Label changed from Resolution -> Windowed resolution
• Run history now groups cards with the same enchantments
• Added some logic to lock Necrobinder and Defect for now
• Updated datetime formatting for Continue Run info pane
• Updated Game Over screen banner, Proceed button position and prefab, and removed debug death screen asset

WORDING:

• Added clarification for when energy is received in Radiant Tincture's wording
• Added clarification for Exoskeleton: the roach does not die (does not trigger Gremlin Horn)
• Extra period removed from Room Full of Cheese event description
• Wellspring event lore text now refers to the correct color of the water
• There is no longer a space before the period in Corpse Explosion power's hovertip
• Well Laid Plans card’s description is now correctly pluralized

BUG FIXES:

Defect:

• Fixed various bugs with Echo Form duplicating the wrong card

Necrobinder:

• Chain Mail Pants card now applies Plating to Osty, not Necrobinder
• Osty now loses HP first at Slippery Bridge event

Potions & Relics:

• Amethyst Bangle relic now correctly gives colorless cards
• Joss Paper relic now shows correct count
• Gremlin Horn is now correctly triggered when Phrog Parasite is killed

Enemies:

• Enemies are now anchored to the center of the screen regardless of aspect ratio

Events:

• Medley option in Hungry for Mushrooms now correctly specifies Injury and not Writhe

Misc:

• Cards that are queued for selection (i.e. Prepared+) can now be clicked to deselect them
• Can no longer deselect creature for AOE card if you hover over it fast enough
• Nimble may now correctly be applied to Manifest Authority
• Rigid can only be applied to Skills and Attacks
• Corruption enchantment now properly previews damage modifications
• Fixed GetTopOfHitbox not returning top of hitbox
• Fixed unticking fullscreen not properly going into Windows mode, cleaned up display mode logic, and created hotkey for fullscreen enter/exit
• Removed Half Baked from the enchantment pool
• Right click card cancel now properly hides creature reticle
• Merchant shop’s colored cards now have guaranteed types rather than rarities
• The floor in Act 3 should now obey screenshake