STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-10-09

This week's patch is a shorter one, but there will be a big balance patch next time around! One highlight to look out for this week is the rework to Knowledge Demon's banes.

CONTENT

Defect:

• Added new card, Bulk Up
• Deprecated Reprogram card

Regent:

• Reworked Beat Into Shape card

Enemies:

• Reworked Knowledge Demon's banes

Ancients:

• Deprecated Neow's Mystery Machine blessing
• Deprecated Neow's Valor blessing

BALANCE

Defect:

• Changed Uproar card: damage changed from 11(15) -> Deal 6(8) damage twice

Colorless Cards:

• Nerfed Eternal Armor: now Exhausts
• Buffed Rolling Boulder card: upgrade scaling damage increased from +1 -> +3

Potions & Relics:

• Buffed Beetlejuice potion: Shrink duration increased from 3 -> 4

Enemies:

• Buffed Infested Guardian: HP from 190(195) -> 199(206)
• Buffed Infested Purifier: HP from 175(180) -> 189(194)
• Buffed Mad Crab: Smash move damage increased from 8(9) -> 9(11)

Ancients:

• Changed Looming Fruit relic: moved pools from Darv -> Pael
• Nerfed Neow's Chosen One blessing: card selection decreased from 1 of 3 Rares -> 1 of 2 Rares
• Changed The Defect's Neow Bundle blessing: replaced Reprogram card -> Bulk Up

Events:

• Changed Round Tea Party event: Pick a Fight option costs 25 -> 20 percent max HP

ART

• Added portrait art for the following cards:
• Rocket Punch
• Pyre
• Bubble Bubble

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Added colored outlines for character-specific potions in Potion Lab and sorted them so that they are last in each potion category
• Added transform hovertips to event options that transform cards
• Added fancier character unlocking
• Players can now skip intro logo on click
• Card Library text search now initially searches through all card pools
• Cards like Perfected Strike that deal varying amounts of damage based on the state of combat now visually update the additional damage they'll do for multiplicative effects like Vulnerable and Weak powers
• Fixed text size getting small too early for Ancient event choice options
• Intro logo was too big, sizing down
• Updated the visuals for Proceed button
• The timeline screen scrolling now has bounds
• Updated text spacing for profile selector UI in main menu

AUDIO

• Added BGM for Underdocks
• Added room transition SFX
• Added Tickbox SFX
• Updated buff/debuff SFX
• Updated Block gain, hit, and break SFX
• Updated button hover SFX

WRITING

• Renamed The Reflection That Wasn't event -> Doors of Light and Dark and updated the text to be shorter and simpler
• "Attack damage" is now referred to as "hit" in many places (ex. "Whenever this enemy takes attack damage" is now "Whenever this enemy is hit")
• Improved wording for Pael's Wing blessing
• The Gambit card now specifies that only unblocked attack damage will kill you
• Updated text for the following events:
• The Round Tea Party
• The Sunken Statue

BUG FIXES

General:

• Fixed an issue where selection screens for generated cards (ex. Attack Potion) could display incorrect amounts for cards with calculated values (ex. Blizzard)
• Fixed problem with loading a saved game after resetting tutorials
• Actually fixed softlock that would occur when you get an achievement
• Relic/Potion lab no longer gets banished to the shadow realm after hitting F2

Ironclad:

• Playing Perfected Strike card while you have Little Ghost relic no longer buffs Perfected Strike before it deals damage

Defect:

• Feral card now properly triggers on the turn it was played if a zero-cost attack was played on a previous turn
• Searching Status cards in Compendium now shows Defect cards with the term "Status" in its description

Regent:

• Fixed Supermassive card description not showing increased damage in combat
• Fixed pluralization issue with Resonance power hovertip

Enemies:

• A10 Test Subject no longer disappears if it is killed by Doom on its 3rd form
• Knowledge Demon's Have a Taste move no longer incorrectly applies Weak
• Tough Egg now grows back to full size when Shrink is removed while it's hatching

Ancients:

• Added the missing Ancient relics back into the Compendium

Events:

• Mad Science card no longer sets generated cards' star costs to 0 when the Soul option is chosen