STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-09-04

We're back from PAX + an extended Labor Day holiday, so this week was also a bit of a shorter one. Still, this patch has a bunch of new Ironclad cards, another Knowledge Demon rework, balance changes, and new art!

CONTENT

Ironclad:

• Added new cards
• Cascade
• Hone
• Pyre
• Smolder
• Inferno
• Pillage
• Spite
• Reworked Unmovable card
• Deprecated Combust card

Ancients:

• Deprecated Nonupeipe's Fancy Pin relic/blessing

Enemies:

• Reworked Knowledge Demon

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Changed Bloodletting card: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
• Changed Stampede card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Changed Fight Me! card:
• Damage decreased from 20(25) -> 16(20)
• Self Strength gain decreased from 2(3) -> 1(2)
• Enemy Strength gain decreased from 2 -> 1
• Rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon

Defect:

• Nerfed Lightning Rod card: turns affected decreased from 2 -> 1

Necrobinder:

• Nerfed Flatten card: damage scaling decreased from 5(8) -> 3(4)
• Buffed Restrain card: upgrade damage increased from +6 -> +8
• Changed Right Hand Hand card:
• Damage increased from 5(7) -> 8(11)
• Cost increased from 0 -> 1

Potions & Relics:

• Nerfed Pulsing Core relic: turn count increased from every 3 turns -> every 4

Enemies:

• Reworked Illusion monsters like Eye With Teeth and Parafright: no longer have infinite HP, and they no longer have both the Illusion and Disrupt power. Instead, when an Illusion is "killed", it immediately revives to full HP and is stunned.
• Buffed Living Shield: Smash move damage increased from 13(15) -> 16(18)
• Buffed Queen: Strength applied to Torchhead increased from 3 -> 4
• Buffed Terror Eel: HP increased from 131(133) -> 140(150)

ART

• Added portrait art for the following Regent cards:
• Bundle of Joy
• Hegemony
• Knockout Blow
• Make It So
• Pillar of Creation
• Added beta art for various cards and relics
• Cleaned up Ironclad's Epoch art

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• FTUE button outline now oscillates
• The Hunt card now properly shows the hovertip for Fatal

WORDING

• Event text has been updated to properly reference relics whose names have recently changed
• Updated Ambush card wording
• Invoke card has been reworded to be more consistent with other cards with dynamic energy costs
• Updated wording for Brain Leech event for clarity
• Updated a game over quote to only be for Daily Runs

BUG FIXES

General:

• Each act now properly shows its own different Rest Site visuals again
• Ambush, Frantic Escape, and Kingly Kick cards now have proper energy icons in their descriptions
• Confirm hotkey icon for FTUEs are no longer the incorrect color
• Events should no longer go into your won fights in the progress file
• Fixed being unable to open potion popup in shop

Necrobinder:

• If Invoke card is Transfigured and then Osty attacks, Invoke now properly costs 0 instead of 1

Potions & Relics:

• Foul Potion can now be thrown at Merchant via controller
• You can no longer use Lizard Tail relic to survive The Insatiable eating you

Ancients:

• Zlatir is now unlockable

Enemies:

• Fixed Soul Fysh staying invisible if it is hurt by Powdered Demise potion mid animation

Multiplayer:

• Fixed timing softlock related to Emotion Chip relic
• History Course relic no longer causes cards to get stuck on screen
• There is now more robust error handling around joining a game