August 7, 2025

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-08-07

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-08-07

A new week, a new patch! This one introduces a few card reworks, a balance pass (especially for the Necrobinder), lots of UI & UX improvements, more card art, and some shiny new main menu music!

CONTENT

Ironclad:

  • Added Laughing Stone relic

Necrobinder:

  • Reworked the following cards:
  • Right Hand Hand
  • Invoke

Regent:

  • Reworked Resonance card
  • Reworked Dowsing Blade card into Furnace

Ancients:

  • Deprecated Nonupeipe's Feather Boa blessing

BALANCE

General:

  • Fatal effects like Hand of Greed card no longer trigger on infinitely-reviving enemies like Decimillipede unless they've been killed for the final time

Ironclad:

  • Nerfed Unmoveable card: Block decreased from 6(8) -> 4(5)

Defect:

  • Nerfed Compute card:
  • Bit Rot status cards added to Discard pile increased from 1 -> 2
  • Buffed Uproar card: damage increased from 9(13) -> 11(15)

Necrobinder:

  • Buffed Deathbringer card:
  • Now also Applies 2 Weak to ALL enemies
  • Rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Buffed Devour Life card:
  • Now has Retain
  • Upgrade changed from cost reduction -> +1 Strength
  • Buffed Drain Power card: upgraded cards increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
  • Buffed Empower card: now also says "Osty no longer loses Buffs on Death"
  • Buffed End of Days card: Doom increased from 26(34) -> 29(37)
  • Buffed Flatten card: now checks each time you have Summoned this combat instead of this turn
  • Changed Scourge card:
  • Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
  • Doom decreased from 18(23) -> 9(12)
  • Buffed Symbiosis card: Energy cost decreased from 2 -> 1
  • Buffed Tag In card: Strength increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)

Regent:

  • Nerfed Black Hole card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1

Colorless Cards:

  • Nerfed Thrumming Hatchet card: damage decreased from 12(16) -> 12(15)

ART

  • Added Slithering Strangler and Terror Eel animations
  • Updated Cleanse card portrait art
  • Added portrait art for the following cards:
  • Debilitate
  • Eidolon
  • Hang
  • Reaper Form
  • Sleight of Flesh
  • The Scythe
  • Added beta portrait art for the following cards:
  • Ice Lance
  • Junk Ball
  • Lightning Rod
  • Shadow
  • Synthesis
  • Uproar

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

  • Back button is no longer shown while the Timeline is growing (its not interactable anyways)
  • Created Map Select FTUE for first time map open
  • Further optimized startup and menu load times
  • Hovertips for locked Epochs no longer go offscreen
  • Added previous + next Epoch navigator buttons
  • Updated timing for when the Timeline Completed achievement is shown
  • Removed Select Room message on map screens
  • Swapped chapter and story label positions as well as some formatting to make it look nicer
  • The year for each Era column now shows up 0.5s faster
  • Added controller hotkey to preview all card upgrades in the deck view
  • Discarding a potion no longer breaks controller navigation

Regent:

  • Orbit card's power icon no longer flashes when you spend 0 energy to play a card
  • Particle Wall card now pauses for a moment while being played so it feels less jarring when it returns to your hand

Colorless Cards:

  • Contractility card now uses the Block Next Turn power
  • Entropy power hovertip's card count is now properly colored blue

Potions & Relics:

  • Nye Essence and Ancient Tea Set relics now display the Energy hovertip

Events:

  • Potion Courier event's potion count in the "Grab Potions" option is now properly colored blue

AUDIO

  • Added new Main Menu music

WORDING

  • Renamed Energized power to Energy Next Turn
  • Added a missing period to The Defect's character selection screen description.
  • Removed stray quotation mark from Defect's "Ooh Shiny!" Epoch description
  • Updated Defect4 Epoch
  • Fixed Royalties power name from "Royalties Power" -> "Royalties"
  • Fixed typo in Tyranny power
  • Fixed typo in Electrodynamics power

BUG FIXES

General:

  • Cards no longer get stuck on screen if they are queued before all cards are drawn and the combat ends
  • Card targeting now cancels itself once the headbutt card selection screen appears
  • Cards with no on-play logic (like Toxic) no longer instantly disappear from the play area when played
  • Clicking on a creature with a mouse no longer breaks controller navigation
  • Energy hovertip no longer displays the colorless energy icon while in a climb
  • Fixed divergences related to differing potion unlock states
  • Fixed deck view cards going off screen
  • Painful Stabs power no longer flashes if Wounds were not applied
  • Rerolling card rewards no longer breaks controller navigation
  • The run timer now ends as soon as you beat the Act 3 boss
  • Vigor power is now properly previewed in Attack card descriptions and monster intents
  • When the Card Library is viewed during a run, it no longer shows the current character's energy icons in other characters' card text

Silent:

  • The Hunt power now gives a Rare card reward at bosses
  • Twisted Funnel relic no longer gets applied before start of turn Artifact
  • Upgraded Prepared card now respects the order cards were selected

Defect:

  • Fixed Glass Orb going negative when it loses temporary focus
  • Uproar card now properly moves the chosen card to the discard pile if it's Unplayable
  • Uproar card now properly shuffles your discard pile into your draw pile if your draw pile is empty

Necrobinder:

  • Osty attacks no longer glow red when combat ends
  • Single-target Osty attack cards no longer hit all enemies

Regent:

  • Glitterstream card now properly previews block-modifying buffs (like Dexterity) on the next-turn block value in its description
  • Void Form card no longer counts auto-plays from effects like Bombardment against the 2-cards-per-turn limit

Colorless Cards:

  • Omnislice card's second hit now properly triggers Thorns
  • Removed Energy hovertip from Hidden Gem card

Potions & Relics:

  • Fixed visual bugs when buying multiple potions/relics from the same slot with the Courier relic
  • Heart Piece relic no longer works outside of combat
  • Heart Piece relic now properly excludes damage dealt to Osty from its 20-damage-per-turn threshold
  • Starter Flare relic no longer wakes Lagavulin Matriarch up before she can gain block from her Plating power
  • Toolbox relic now properly triggers before you draw your opening hand
  • Tuning Fork relic can no longer flash at the end of combat

Ancients:

  • Removed gold highlighting on "cards" in Nonupeipe's Beautiful Bracelet blessing description

Events:

  • Players can no longer mash "Fight" choice in Lantern Key event
  • Fixed ordering issue on Abssyal Baths event on "Immerse" choice
  • Tinker Time event now properly shows the "Body" word choice as giving the card 3 Strength instead of 5

Multiplayer:

  • Fixed softlock that would occur when autoplaying multiplayer cards that require targeting an ally
  • Fixed a state divergence related to Focus and Glass Orbs
  • Fixed state divergence related to playing Void Form when other player had already ended their turn
All Patches
Newer → 2025-08-14