STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-02-27

CONTENT

General:

• Added the Timeline

Ancients:

• Added new Magic Pot relic to Pael's blessings

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Buffed Pact's End card: required Exhausted cards decreased from 6 -> 3

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Misery card: damage increased from 6(9) -> 9(11)

Regent:

• Buffed Heavenly Drill card: damage increased from 6(7) -> 6(8) per spent Star

Enemies:

• Changed Axebots:

- HP increased from 38(40)-42(44) -> 40(42)-44(46)

- One Two Punch move damage decreased from 8(9) -> 4(5)

• Changed Knowledge Demon: reordered moveset
• Nerfed Scroll of Biting: HP values decreased from 38(39)-45(46) -> 31(32)-38(39)

Ancients:

• Buffed Tezcatara's Brightest Flame card:

- Max HP loss on play decreased from 2 -> 1

- Damage increased from 11(13) -> 11(15)

Events:

• Buffed Self Help Book event: enchantment option for Power cards increased from 1 -> 2 Swift
• Buffed Symbiote event's Corrupted enchantment: HP loss on play decreased from 3 -> 2

ART

• Added beta art for various relics:

- Lantern Key

- Smoldering Wick

- History Course

• Added portrait art for some Necrobinder cards:

- Rattle

- Favorite Stick

- Soot

- Debris

• Updated portrait art for various cards:

- Ashen Strike

- Blood Wall

- Howl from beyond

• Replaced Shining Strike card's portrait art with Polish card's art
• Updated Wraith Form card to normal portrait art aspect

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

Necrobinder:

• Osty now grows in size as he gains more max HP

Enemies:

• Scrutiny debuff description now mentions Exhaust

General:

• Card grids now fade out at the top and bottom using a gradient mask rather than a dark image overlaid on top
• Cards with the same enchantment now stack in the run history screen
• Character select button now shows a lock icon if it is locked
• Added glow effect on character select button outlines when selected
• Starting on turn 2, the End Turn button label begins to show the turn number

Multiplayer:

• You can now undo your turn in multiplayer
• After ending turn in multiplayer, your hand is lowered and grayed out
• Dead players now automatically end their turn in combat
• Fixed up various multiplayer abandon/quit flows:

- As client, you can only disconnect from a game (no abandon or save/quit option)

- When disconnecting from a game as client, run history is not saved

- When abandoning a game as host, the client also abandons run

- Upon save/quit as host, the client also quits without saving run history

• Improved hovering on remote player intents
• Players that have ended turn are now displayed above the End Turn button
• Ping button is now separate from End Turn button
• When a remote player is picking a card, the card/power/relic they're choosing for is displayed (applies to things like Survivor, Gambling Chip, Choice's Paradox, and Well-Laid Plans)

WORDING

• Bone Shards card now displays how much damage it will do
• Dense Vegetation event now shows "Fight some enemies" choice in red
• Strange Hoof relic no longer says that it can only enchant Skills with Nimble, since it can also enchant non-Skill cards that gain Block
• Harvest card's random Retain power was incorrectly named "Blight Strike" and has now been corrected to "Harvest"

BUG FIXES

Necrobinder:

• Fixed an issue where playing Shared Fate card would cause a softlock if Osty was dead
• Neurosurge card's power is now categorized as a debuff so it can be negated with Artifact
• Transfigure card now properly allows you to add Replay to Unplayable cards
• You can no longer drag cards while you are peeking from the Forever Young card select screen

Colorless Cards:

• When cards that require card selection are autoplayed by Mayhem, the start of turn sequence no longer continues behind the choice screen

Potions & Relics:

• Dybbuk Cube relic now properly doubles Vulnerable applied by Taunt card
• History Course relic now properly displays the card that it's autoplaying

Enemies:

• Decimillipede's intents now properly disappear when combat ends
• Fixed an issue that caused Test Subject to softlock if you killed him with Doom before he reached his final form
• Fixed an issue where Perfect Reflection card caused a softlock if its damage reflection killed Bowlbug (Rock) while also fully blocking one of its attacks

Multiplayer:

• Correct player intents are shown in MP for player choices initiated by auto-played cards
• Dying as the last player in multiplayer with a Fairy in a Bottle no longer ends the combat with a loss
• Equilibrium card now only affects the player who played it
• Fixed state divergence in multiplayer related to Tezcatara's Wax Choker relic
• Fixed exception related to Abandon Run selection and trying to close map screen
• Fixed a state divergence related to Hungry for Mushrooms event
• Fixed softlock when you are disconnected from multiplayer while drawing
• When abandoning a multiplayer run, the multiplayer save is now deleted, not the singleplayer one
• You can now target other players and yourself with potions outside of combat (applies to things like Fruit Juice and Blood Potion)
• You can play cards while someone else is choosing a card for Choice's Paradox