STS2 Patch Notes — 2024-09-26

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Nerfed Tear Asunder card: cost increased from 1 -> 2

Regent:

• Nerfed Pale Blue Dot card:
• Cost increased from 0 -> 1
• No longer Innate

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Courier relic: rarity upshifted from Uncommon -> Rare

Enemies:

• Changed Burrowing Buddies encounter: can now also feature the Rock Workbug
• Buffed Bygone Effigy: strength scaling increased from 5->10; initial damage lowered by 5 to compensate
• Buffed Byrdonis: Territorial power strength gain increased from 1 -> 2
• Buffed Entomancer: HP increased from 136 -> 155
• Buffed Flyconid: HP increased from 44-49 -> 49-53
• Buffed Hunter Killer: Bite move damage from 15 -> 19
• Buffed Nibbit: Slice move damage and Block gain increased from 7 -> 8
• Buffed Ovicopter:
• Bite move damage from 16 -> 19
• HP increased from 122-129 -> 132-138
• Buffed Phrog Parasite: Infection cards given from Infest move increased from 3 -> 4
• Buffed Thieving Hopper: now also attacks for 19 damage on its Theft turn

Misc:

• Legendary cards are now rarer to find, especially when not at Elites or Bosses
• The Merchant can no longer generate Legendary cards

ART

• Added card art for The Gambit

Enemies:

• Updated boss map node animations
• Added art for The Insatiable and The Queen map nodes
• Added a player-eating animation for The Insatiable
• Added Spectral Knight animations
• Added fire VFX For Spectral Knight and revised VFX for Mecha Knight
• Updated map pencil cursor

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

Silent:

• Storm of Steel is now faster

Enemies:

• Thieving Hopper now shows the stolen card as a hovertip

Misc:

• Added scroll functionality for patch notes screen
• Added a scrollbar to the rewards screen for when you have a lot of rewards
• Map nodes are now highlighted when you hover over them in the legend
• Map nodes no longer pulse when being hovered over
• Increased the speed of gold gain animation for large amounts
• Re-added the combat reward FTUE
• Cards are now scaled down a bit when they enter the play pile
• Tweaked card bundle spacing
• Updated large scrollbar size, color, anchoring logic, and assets

WORDING

• Fixed Curl Up and Sandpit power descriptions
• Tweaked Tezcatara’s Ember description now that Eternal is its own keyword
• Fixed typo in Cruelty card’s description

BUG FIXES

Regent:

• Fixed Mold the Stars power counter
• Kingly Punch card now correctly ends combat

Silent:

• Fixed softlock when card play gets canceled by Tools of the Trade

Colorless Cards:

• Toric Toughness card now applies correct amount of Block even if you can't apply Block this turn

Potions & Relics:

• Dolly's Mirror relic can no longer clone quest cards
• Mummified Hand relic no longer can pick Tezcatara's Ember cards
• Necrobinder and Defect cards are now prevented from showing up via Prismatic Shard relic
• Screaming Flagon relic no longer triggers if your hand is only Burn cards

Ancients:

• Added “gain 999 gold” to Zlatir’s Perpetual Coin relic description
• Folly curse card now only deals damage if it is in hand when a card begins play
• Wax Choker relic now melts wax relics from left to right

Enemies:

• Amalgam now properly plays its death animation when Queen dies first
• Generated cards like Shivs are now excluded from Thieving Hopper’s theft pool
• Spectral Knight’s Hex move now applies Ethereal to cards generated in combat

Misc:

• Abandoning run/losing run and returning to main menu no longer sometimes softlocks at a blurry screen
• Battle Horn no longer sends you to an empty rest site on normal combat nodes and elite counter is now incremented
• Disrupt power now displays the correct partial amount in description
• Fixed softlock at refinement choice
• Hovertips with details about the current combat situation (like Strength 2 saying "Increases attack damage by 2") are no longer overridden by hovertips without details (like the amount-agnostic "Strength adds additional damage to Attacks" version of the Strength hovertip)
• Map no longer plays circle animation for previous nodes when you reload a save for the first time
• Previewing non-upgradable cards no longer causes an error
• Star UI now appear for characters that get star cards
• Transforming cards no longer messes up deck card counter UX
• Upgraded card names are now always displayed with a “+”