STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-07-10

This week's patch graces you with the presence of a new Act 3 Ancient, whose name may seem oddly familiar... Also, the Test Subject boss has received a major rework, maps have been slightly rebalanced, various UI/UX improvements have been made, and lots of new card and beta art has been added!

CONTENT

Ancients:

• Added new Act 3 Ancient, Nonupeipe

Potions & Relics:

• Reworked Merchant's Robes relic into a new Nonupeipe relic

Enemies:

• Reworked Test Subject

BALANCE

Defect:

• Nerfed Glass Orb: starting value decreased by 1
• Changed Adaptive Strike card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Genetic Algorithm card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Buffed Hotfix card: Focus gain increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
• Nerfed Refract card: damage decreased from 11(13) -> 9(11)

Regent:

• Buffed Conqueror card: upgraded damage increased from +1 -> +4

Enemies:

• Nerfed Fabricator: big attack damage decreased from 25(28) -> 18(21)
• Nerfed Infested Guardian: no longer attacks when it does its Adapt move
• Nerfed Magi Knight:
• Block gain on first Shield decreased from 8 -> 5
• Shield damage decreased from 8(9) -> 6(7)
• Spear damage decreased from 15(17) -> 10(11)

Events:

• Changed Sunken Treasury event: no longer has a medium chest option
• Changed Trash Heap event: no longer gives the player Gold

General:

• Increased Shop count to 3 and decreased Elite count to 5 per map
• The Draft modifier now presents rewards in order and no longer lets you skip

ART

• Added card art for the following cards:
• Entropy
• Hidden Gem
• Prowess
• Rolling Boulder
• Added beta portrait art for the following cards:
• Glasswork
• Refract
• Spinner
• The Scythe
• Bombardment
• Crash Landing
• Forgone Conclusion
• Royalties
• Sword Sage

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Added hovertip for Whistle card's Stun effect
• After Image power and Barnacled Pipe relic now grant block much faster
• Boss nodes are no longer hoverable if you cannot travel to it
• Changing the boss in the Reflections event now updates the top bar UX
• Got rid of the room icon at the top of the Run History screen
• Poison damage ticks now have the same wait time regardless of whether they kill enemies
• Reduced screenshake and audio volume when you skip through the game over animation
• Trash Heap event cards are now considered event cards in the compendium
• When Necro dies to Doom, Osty dies as well

WORDING

• Renamed Enfeeble card to Debilitate in order to avoid confusion with Enfeebling Touch card
• Improved wording for Bombardment and Cinder cards
• Fixed capitalization error in the Channel hovertip
• Improved Smoggy affliction's wording and tooltip
• Updated wording for static Glass Orb description on cards

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Eternal Armor card and Oddly Heavy Stone relic now combine to properly give twice as much block instead of four times as much block
• Eternal Armor card now properly consumes the trigger of relics like Vambrace and Oddly Heavy Stone

Silent:

• Fixed an issue where killing an enemy with Poison and Accelerant could cause a softlock

Defect:

• All For One card now properly retrieves cards from the discard pile if their cost has been reduced to 0 via a passive effect like Feral card
• Refract card now deals damage before applying the new Orbs

Necrobinder:

• Bound Phylactery now properly triggers after Friendship card, preventing it from permanently giving you 1 extra energy
• Mischief card no longer triggers if unblocked damage is 0
• Fixed various visual issues with Osty and Sandpit
• Hand Drill relic is now properly triggered when Osty breaks an enemy's block
• Osty now actually shakes when you play an Osty attack while it's dead
• Sleight of Flesh card now properly triggers when applying negative amounts of certain buffs (like Strength)
• Spirit of Ash card no longer incorrectly triggers itself when it's been given Ethereal by an effect like Spectral Knight monster's Hex power

Regent:

• Regent no longer has a Neow bundle with a rare card; Beat Into Shape card replaced by Wrought in War card
• Black Hole card now decreases Star cost on upgrade
• Fixed an issue where, if you had Oracle Bone relic and you played Void Form as your first card, your second turn would end immediately after it started
• Glow card no longer exhausts
• Heavenly Drill card no longer hits all enemies
• Pillar of Creation card now properly triggers when a card is transformed

Colorless Cards:

• Fixed an interaction between Mayhem and Relax
• When Mayhem would auto-play Relax, its extra card draw would trigger immediately, while its energy gain would wait until next turn. Now, both properly wait until next turn.
• Fixed delay after Automation power would trigger
• The second hit from Omnislice card now properly triggers Phantasmal Gardener monster's Skittish power

Enemies:

• Knowledge Demon's intent no longer overlaps with the relic bar

Ancients:

• Folly curse card can no longer be upgraded
• Tanx transforming cards into Maul preview no longer shows broken card descriptions

General:

• Cards in queue now properly disappear after combat ends
• Echoing enchantment no longer duplicates the Echo keyword
• Fixed a number of issues caused by temporary card energy cost offsets clearing static temporary card energy costs before applying
• Fixed an interaction between on-shuffle effects and card draw
• Fixed sorting issue in deck view between cards of different colors
• Scrolling through climb histories should now be less laggy

Multiplayer:

• Fixed an issue with Phantasmal Gardener monster's Skittish power in multiplayer
• Gravity Well card's power no longer triggers when a teammate plays a card
• Bound affliction no longer counts other players playing bound cards as your own in multiplayer
• Fixed softlock when playing Sly Acrobatics from Tools of the Trade power
• Fixed stuck cards when playing them before Tools of the Trade power triggers
• You can no longer hover your own player intent anymore
• Osty is no longer summoned by dead players' Bound Phylacteries