STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-09-12

CONTENT

General:

• Added Legendary card rarity

Ironclad:

• Added Corruption and Pact’s End Legendary cards
• Offering is now a Legendary card

Silent:

• Added Wraith Form and Memento Mori Legendary cards
• Adrenaline is now a Legendary card

Regent:

• Added Galactic Throne, The Smith, and Heavenly Drill Legendary cards

Ancients:

• Added Tanx, a new Act 3 Ancient
• Deprecated Pael’s Patience choice

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Changed Bludgeon card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon

Enemies:

• Changed Burrowing Buddies encounter: now has a Workbug paired with a Burrowing Bug instead of a Myte (which makes one less status-giving fight in Act 2)
• Buffed Entomancer:

- HP increased from 99 -> 136

- Now an Elite combat

• Nerfed Giant Louse:

- Now a normal non-elite combat

- No longer applies Vulnerable

• Changed Hunter Killer:

- No longer gives Wounds

- Bite damage decreased from 22 -> 15

- Puncture damage increased from 3x5 -> 4x6

Ancients:

• Buffed Tezcatara's Pitch Black Oil relic: upgraded cards increased from 3 -> 4 cards

ART

• Added new card art for Beat Down, Bolas, Gold Axe, Omnislice, Production, and Thrumming Hatchet cards
• Made an almost imperceptible refinement of Ceremonial Beast’s hurt animation
• Added unique animation for Ceremonial Beast dying while charging
• Added new art for treasure chests in Acts 2 and 3
• Updated Rest Site assets including Act 3 background art
• Added ambient lighting and particle effects
• Added Blood Wall VFX

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Added an in-game patch notes screen and uploaded all previous patch notes
• Added Legendary rarity filter to card compendium
• Merchant’s hand now points at things more accurately, sways a bit less, and covers less parts of card titles
• The FPS visualizer is now only shown if game is running in editor
• Slightly adjusted map legend text spacing
• The draw, discard, and exhaust pile buttons are now clickable while "peeking" in a card selection screen
• Run history icons are now utilized for the topbar current room icon rather than the map icon
• When loading the game for the first time on Steam Deck, the game defaults to fullscreen + native resolution

BUG FIXES

Silent:

• Card detail screen now shows Shiv+ preview for Storm of Steel card

Regent:

• Fixed duplicated Sovereign Blade from being pulled out by Summon Forth
• Minion Guard deck cards no longer update description during combat

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed typo in Foul Potion description

Events:

• Fixed Living Cocoon’s Transform selection prompt

Misc:

• Fixed Continue Run info padding
• Fixed an issue where ticking the "Show Upgrade" tickbox on the single-card detail screen wouldn't show the upgraded card
• If you're in peek mode on a card selection screen and you open the draw/discard/exhaust pile screen and then close it, the black backstop is now properly re-hidden
• Fixed instances of card type names being colored gold in card descriptions and not being colored gold in power descriptions