November 20, 2025

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-11-20

STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-11-20

This week's patch brings a big balance pass as well as some reworked cards, relics, and enemies. The Defect also gets a few new cards this week!

CONTENT

Defect:

  • Added new cards:
- Flak Cannon

- Voltaic

- Synchronize

  • Reworked the following cards:
- Compute

- Hailstorm

- Heatsinks (renamed Coolant)

Necrobinder:

  • Reworked the following cards:
- Countdown

- Invoke

- Tag In (renamed High Five)

- Twist

Regent:

  • Reworked the following relics:
- Regalite

- Vitruvian Minion

Potions & Relics:

  • Added a returning relic from StS1, Chemical X

Enemies:

  • Reworked Bowlbug (Egg)
  • Reworked Bowlbug (Goop) and renamed to Bowlbug (Nectar)
  • Reworked and nerfed Bowlbug (Rock)
  • Reworked Ceremonial Beast
  • Reworked The Kin
  • Reworked Waterfall Giant

Ancients:

  • Reworked Pael's Friend relic

BALANCE

Ironclad:

  • Buffed Bully card: damage scaling increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
  • Buffed Cinder card: damage increased from 18(24) -> 17(22)
  • Nerfed Dismantle card: upgrade damage decreased from 8(11) -> 8(10)
  • Changed Dominate card:
- Energy cost decreased from 2(1) -> 1

- Upgrade changed to remove Exhaust

  • Nerfed Howl From Beyond card: damage decreased from 21(27) -> 16(21)
  • Changed Setup Strike card:
- Damage decreased from 8(11) -> 7(9)

- Strength gain increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

Silent:

  • Changed Abrasive card: changed upgrade from +1 Dex and +2 Thorns -> +3 Thorns
  • Changed Hidden Daggers card: upgrade changed from generating +1 Shiv -> Shivs+
  • Changed Outbreak card:
- Every 10 applications of Poison -> every 3

- Damage decreased from 30(40) -> 15(20)

  • Nerfed Ricochet card: damage decreased from 3(4) x 5 -> 3 x 4(5)
  • Buffed Suppress card:
- Damage increased from 9(13) -> 11(17)

- Now has Innate

Defect:

  • Changed Compactor card: changed from transforming Statuses in Hand -> Discard Pile
  • Nerfed Ice Lance card: damage decreased from 22(28) -> 19(24)
  • Buffed Momentum Strike card: damage increased from 9(12) -> 10(13)
  • Nerfed Rocket Punch card: upgrade damage decreased from 15(20) -> 15(18)
  • Nerfed Synthesis card: damage decreased from 13(18) -> 12(18)
  • Nerfed Uproar card: damage decreased from 6(8) -> 5(7)

Necrobinder:

  • Buffed Blight Strike card: no longer requires the damage to be unblocked to apply Doom
  • Buffed Bury card: upgrade damage inreased from 61 -> 63
  • Buffed Negative Pulse card: Doom increased from 6(9) -> 7(11)
  • Changed Reaper Form card: upgrade changed from reducing Energy cost -> gaining Retain
  • Buffed Scourge card: Doom increased from 9(12) -> 11(14)

Regent:

  • Nerfed Celestial Might card: damage decreased from 7(9) -> 6(8)
  • Nerfed Conqueror card: Forge decreased from 10(13) -> 6(9)
  • Changed Mini Regent relic: changed from 1 Energy on trigger -> 1 Strength
  • Buffed Stardust card: damage increased from 4(5) -> 6(8)
  • Nerfed Supermassive card: scaling decreased from 4(5) -> 3(4)
  • Changed Terraforming card: changed from end of turn -> start of turn

Colorless Cards:

  • Buffed Apotheosis card:
- Now has Innate

- Moved pools from Darv -> Nonupeipe

  • Nerfed Rolling Boulder card: damage decreased from 10 + 5(8) -> 5(10) + 5

Potions & Relics:

  • Changed Frozen Egg relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
  • Changed Molten Egg relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
  • Changed Toxic Egg relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
  • Changed Lee's Waffle??? relic: healing decreased from 25% -> 10%

Enemies:

  • Nerfed Adversary: Artifact decreased from 1/2/3 -> 0/1/2
  • Changed Mytes: all Status cards are now added to your Hand

Ancients:

  • Buffed Darv's Lost Art blessing: cards now come pre-upgraded
  • Reworked Nonupeipe's Jewelry Box blessing: now adds Apotheosis to your Deck
  • Buffed Neow's Remove 2 blessing: downside changed from lose 8 max HP -> take 13 damage
  • Buffed Neow's Transform 2 blessing: HP cost decreased from 12 -> 10
  • Buffed Pael's Wing blessing: Sacrifices needed decreased from 3 -> 2
  • Changed Ironclad's Vulnerable Neow bundle: card content changed from Dominate -> Dismantle

ART

  • Added Big Slash VFX
  • Added portrait art for the following cards:
- Ascender's Bane

- Folly

- Spore Mind

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

  • Modified the rewards you receive on your very first run
  • Added Action list in Bestiary, allowing players to view a set of standard actions for each monster
  • Added transition animations to Bestiary
  • Adjusted position of text in Bestiary
  • Added placeholder button logic for Bestiary move buttons
  • Character Filters in Card Library are now toggles rather than radio buttons
  • Upgraded starter relics earned from Orobas now show as starter relics in the relic compendium
  • Hovertips are now displayed for relics in the inspect single relic popup

Multiplayer:

  • Added invite button to New Run lobbies
  • Players can now cancel joining a multiplayer game
  • Players can now unready themselves in a lobby

WRITING

  • Beacon of Hope card description now properly says "half that much" instead of "half than much"
  • Blessed Antlers relic description now properly specifies that it only triggers on unblocked attack damage
  • Improved Call of the Void card wording: "At the start of your turn, add 1 random card to your Hand. It gains Ethereal."
  • Translated common action names for creatures in bestiary

BUG FIXES

General:

  • An error is now displayed if Steam did not initialize properly
  • Fixed broken scrolling in Potion Lab
  • The ? room outcome odds are now properly reset between acts (Thanks @Cany0udance for catching this one!)
  • Unlock all now displays Ancient names in the Relic Collection
  • You can no longer draw on the map while it's animating

Defect:

  • Lidar relic description now properly ends with a period

Necrobinder:

  • Necro Mastery card's Summon hovertip now properly shows its Summon amount, and the word Summon is now properly keyworded in its description

Potions & Relics:

  • Fixed a softlock when Fairy in a Bottle potion is triggered outside of combat

Enemies:

  • Fixed a softlock when killing Doormaker boss with Thorns power
  • Waterfall Giant no longer plays win audio stinger when it goes into its steam explosion mode

Ancients:

  • Fixed Neow's Shiny Monocle relic offering wrong card count and enabling upgrade rolling

Multiplayer:

  • Gluttony debuff no longer exhausts cards for all players in multiplayer
  • Fixed Draft modifier option giving other players your draft
  • Timeout overlay no longer briefly shows after joining a multiplayer game
All Patches
Newer → 2025-12-04