STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-05-08

CONTENT

Potions & Relics:

• Added new relics:
• Enormous Ring
• Immortal Soul
• Merchant Robes
• Ornate Reliquary
• Added StS1 relics:
• Emotion Chip
• Gold Plated Cables

Events:

• Reworked and reworded Violent Heroes 2 event

BALANCE

Enemies:

• Buffed Thieving Hopper: Flutter power now applies to and is affected by all damage
• Buffed Mad Crab: Zoom damage increased from 13(14) -> 14(16)
• Buffed Mytes: Bite damage increased from 8(10) -> 9(12)
• Buffed Wasp Prisms:
• Radiate damage increased from 5(6)x2 -> 6(7)x2
• Volatile damage increased from 11 -> 15
• Nerfed Waterfall Giant: Stomp move's Weak applied decreased from 2 -> 1
• Buffed Thieving Hopper & Gremlins: no longer give gold (or give less gold) if they escape

Ancients:

• Buffed Orobas' Transcendence blessing: now maintains enchantments on the transformed card

Events:

• Changed The Drowning Beacon event:
• Barnacled Pipe relic's Block gain decreased from 2 -> 1
• Waterlogged curse's HP loss decreased from 5 -> 3
• Changed the Forsaken Citadel event: gold amounts are now randomized

ART

• Added portrait art for Automation, Beckon, Spirit of Ash, Afterlife, Necro Mastery, Neurosurge cards
• Conducted a beta art pass

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

• Implemented Mute in background toggle, set to true by default
• Added window resize option into graphics settings
• Added MSAA setting
• Added a small wiggle when you try and fail to buy things at the merchant
• Added an additional "you win" room before dying when winning a climb
• Added more confirmation when you check/uncheck settings tickboxes
• Adjusted Treasure room UI positions, size, hitbox behavior, etc.
• Proceeding after selecting a relic in a Treasure Room is now 0.5 seconds faster
• Players can now sort cards in deck view
• Card library filters are now unticked by default, and all cards are shown
• Created separate glow VFX for rare relic glowing
• Created setting to allow run timer to always be shown
• Hovering over the in-world representation of the Sovereign Blade now shows a hovertip
• Made modal fade-in smoother
• Relic pulse effect is now less bright
• Relics are now 2x size when viewing in Treasure Room
• Repositioned controller button for chest open prompt
• Unknown card portraits in card library are now blurred
• Updated all popups to look nicer
• You can now inspect relics by right-clicking on them in shops or left-clicking on them in the topbar

Multiplayer:

• A checkmark is now displayed over the player at the top-left when they have voted for a map point
• Enchantment VFX now only shows up for the player that enchanted a card
• Map vote is now displayed at the current map point until the player votes for a new point
• Updated multiplayer relic positions

BUG FIXES

Defect:

• Echo Form card now works properly when playing two copies spread out across multiple turns

Enemies:

• Fossil Stalker now properly gains Strength when dealing unblocked attack damage to Osty
• Owl Magistrate's Scrutiny power now properly deals 2 damage instead of 1

Ancients:

• Triplecast card can no longer be given by Darv

General:

• Cancelling a card play while targeting a vulnerable enemy now un-previews the vulnerable damage
• Players can no longer search or view cards that haven's been discovered in the card compendium
• Fixed setting lists so that they include their values
• Fixed an issue where killing an enemy with an attack that also applied a power to them (like Bash) caused a softlock

Multiplayer:

• Fixed a state divergence caused by Vibrant Halo relic
• If you have Doom at the end of combat, it no longer stays on your top-left healthbar on teammates' screens
• Recursive Core and Vibrant Halo relic hovertips no longer include your teammates' characters' card and relic hovertips