STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-11-06

Greetings, playtesters! This week's patch brings various balance changes and reworks--including a total rework of Ascension 10--along with a few new relics and combat encounters. You'll also notice that quite a few enemies may have some snazzy new sounds or visual effects. Time to dig in...

CONTENT

General:

• Reworked Ascension 10

Ironclad:

• Reworked Grapple card

Defect:

• Reworked Streamline card and renamed -> Momentum Strike

Necrobinder:

• Reworked Reaper Form card
• Reworked Enormous Ring relic

Regent:

• Reworked Terraforming card
• Reworked Fencing Manual relic

Colorless Cards:

• Reworked Prep Time card

Potions & Relics:

• Added new relics:
• Vexing Puzzlebox
• Squeeze Toy
• Miniature Canon
• Reworked Tuning Fork relic

Enemies:

• Added new Glory Weak encounter - Construct Menagerie
• Added new Hive Weak encounter - Exoskeletons

Ancients:

• Reworked Tanx's Oddly Heavy Stone relic

Events:

• Reworked Sapphire Seed event
• Deprecated Sapphire Seed relic
• Deprecated Sprouted enchantment

BALANCE

General:

• Changed Ascension 2 - Weary Traveler: now also affects your starting HP

Ironclad:

• Changed The Ironclad Epoch: unlocked card changed from Grapple -> Dominate

Defect:

• Changed Spinner card:
• No longer requires an empty Orb slot
• "At the start of your turn, Channel 1 Glass."

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Countdown card:
• Doom increased from 11(14) -> 13(17)
• Now triggers at the start of the turn
• Changed Flatten card:
• Energy cost decreased from 2 -> 1
• Damage decreased from 15(25)->10(10)
• Rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
• Changed Rattle card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Soul Storm card: now adds Souls to your Draw Pile instead of your Hand

Regent:

• Buffed Comet card: Star cost decreased from 6 -> 5
• Nerfed Decisions, Decisions card: Star cost increased from 5 -> 6
• Changed Genesis card:
• Energy cost increased from 1 -> 2
• Rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Star gain from increased 1 -> 2(3)
• Upgrade no longer grants Innate
• Nerfed Resonance card: cost increased from 1 Energy -> 1 Energy + 2 Stars
• Changed Spectrum Shift card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
• Buffed Void Form card now makes cards "free to play" instead of lowering [E] cost to 0 (i.e. Star costs also get reduced)

Colorless Cards:

• Changed Eternal Armor card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Common relic rarity roll from 48% -> 50%
• Changed Intimidating Helmet relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Kusarigama relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
• Changed Mercury Hourglass relic: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
• Changed Reptile Trinket relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon

Enemies:

• Nerfed Bygone Effigy: no longer gains Strength when attacking
• Nerfed Doormaker: Door now gives Dazed statuses instead of Void
• Changed Frog Knight:
• Strike Down Evil move damage changed from 10(12)x2 -> 21(23)
• Tongue Lash move no longer gives Dazed statuses, now -> applies 2 Frail
• Nerfed Guardbot: Block decreased from 20 -> 15
• Nered Stabbot:
• Damage decreased from 14(15) -> 11(12)
• Debuff applied changed from Weak -> Frail

Ancients:

• Changed Defect's Claw Neow Bundle: now contains 3 Claw cards
• Changed Necrobinder's Flatten Neow Bundle: Afterlife card replaced with -> Rattle
• Buffed Orobas' Necrobinder Transcendence blessing: Phylactery Unbound also Summons 5 at the start of each combat

ART

• Added new Shout and Spooky Shout VFX

AUDIO

• Added SFX for the following enemies:
• Slithering Strangler
• Living Fog
• Punch Construct
• Phantasmal Gardener
• Cultists
• Waterfall Giant
• Added background music for Waterfall Giant

USER EXPERIENCE & INTERFACE

• Added Rest Site FTUE
• Added temp SFX & VFX to Doll Room, Dense Vegetation and Jungle Maze Adventure events
• Ancient names now persist on screen
• Card types are no longer gilded in event, potion, and relic descriptions (similar to how cards display them)
• Pressing the Peek button now shrinks the currently-playing card and moves it above the Peek button instead of moving it to the top-right of the screen
• When pressing the Peek button on a card selection screen, the currently-being-played card now shrinks in addition to moving to the top-right of the screen

Multiplayer:

• Added a poor network indicator when a poor network connection is detected
• Network problem overlay is now shown when client hasn't heard from host in a long time

WRITING

• Added missing periods to the end of a few encounter death quotes
• Mango??? relic now has the correct title

BUG FIXES

General:

• Fixed Steam cloud sync softlocking in rare circumstances
• Cards with built-in energy cost reduction effects (ex. Ambush, Banshee's Cry, Force Field) no longer double their reduction when cloned
• Fixed an issue where damage values on multi-target cards (ex. Echoing Slash) would stop previewing modifications from relics (ex. Pen Nib) when you dragged the card up out of your had to prepare to play it
• Fixed Continue panel not being sized correctly
• Peek button now only plays buzzer when trying to play cards
• Statistics screen now has the correct value for the total number of Epochs
• The "damage fully blocked" VFX no longer plays when HP loss is fully prevented (by an effect like Tungsten Rod) while you have Block
• The relic dev console command no longer returns the fake version of a relic when the real version's ID is entered
• The player's energy counter now properly flashes if they spend and gain the same amount of energy while playing a card

Potions & Relics:

• Astrolabe relic now displays the transformed cards in a grid instead of randomly scattered
• Fixed an issue where certain relics that trigger when a card is added to your deck (ex. Darkstone Periapt, Lucky Fysh, and Fable) weren't triggering when a card in your deck was transformed
• Fixed Potion of Sadness liquid VFX rendering too large and playing on player instead of monster
• Magic Pot relic no longer lets you select unupgradable cards
• Orichalcum and Orichalcum??? relics now stack properly
• Screamer Pod throw VFX now is no longer thrown at player

Enemies:

• Fixed Fat Gremlin run animation when game is in Fast Mode
• Fixed issue with The Insatiable sometimes not playing its roar animation
• Fixed Make It So VFX causing weird visuals in the Decimillipede fight

Ancients:

• Pael's Goopy enchantment now states that it applies Exhaust

Events:

• Can no longer click on invisible corner cells in Crystal Sphere event minigame

Multiplayer:

• Fixed potion throw VFX positioning for self-targeting potions in multiplayer
• Fixed map drawing issues when drawing really fast
• Hardened map drawing against packet loss
• You can no longer hover over allies' powers when their HP bars are invisible