STS2 Patch Notes — 2026-01-08

CONTENT

Necrobinder:

• Reworked the following cards:

- Protector

- Spur

Ancients:

• Added new positive Neow blessings:

- Patience

- Violence

• Reworked Empower into a downside Neow blessing
• Reworked Windfall Neow blessing
• Reworked Vakuu's Music Box relic

BALANCE

General:

• First run is now more set in stone
• Changed Ascender's Scorn card: now also says "At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 1 damage."

Silent:

• Changed Memento Mori and Shadowstep cards: swapped rarity
• Buffed Bubble Bubble card: upgrade Poison increased from +2 Poison -> +3 Poison

Defect:

• Buffed Refract card: upgrade damage increased from +2 -> +3
• Buffed Shadow Shield card: Block increased from 10(14) -> 11(15)
• Buffed Adaptive Strike card: damage increased from 17(21) -> 18(23)
• Changed Gunk Up card: now puts the Slimes into the Discard Pile
• Changed Power Through card: now puts the Wounds into the Discard Pile
• Changed Hyperbeam card:

- Energy cost decreased from 3 -> 2

- Damage decreased from 30(40) -> 26(34)

Necrobinder:

• Nerfed Bodyguard card: Summon decreased from 5(7) -> 4(6)
• Nerfed Unleash card:

- Upgrade no longer based on Osty's max HP; stays based on Osty's current HP

- Damage decreased from 8(8) -> 5(8)

• Nerfed Banshee's Cry card: damage decreased from 39(47) -> 33(39)
• Changed Fetch card:

- Upgrade no longer increases card draw

- Upgrade damage increased from +1 -> +3

• Nerfed Haunt card: hits ALL enemies -> hits a random enemy
• Changed Necrobinder's Haunt Neow bundle: replaced Haunt card -> Death March
• Changed Drain Power and Reave cards: swapped damage values

Regent:

• Cards with Replay no longer use up multiple Void Form card triggers
• Buffed Bombardment card: damage increased from 16(22) -> 18(24)

Potions & Relics:

• Nerfed Rainbow Ring relic: can now only trigger once per turn

Enemies:

• Changed Knowledge Demon: no longer has his Have a Taste move; it is now skipped in his turn order
• Buffed Thieving Hopper: HP increased by 4
• Buffed Queen: Burn Bright For Me move now also gains 20 Block for herself

Events:

• Change Welcome to Wongo's event: spawn requirement is now 100 Gold
• Changed Field of Man-Sized Holes event: Enter Your Hole option no longer costs HP
• Changed Sunken Statue event: gold option now has randomization of +-10 gold

ART

• Updated Inklet animations
• Added Mawler roar animation
• Added Deadly Poison VFX
• Added Scratch VFX
• Added Shiv Throw VFX
• Added Spore Impact VFX
• Added beta portrait art for the following cards:

- Compact

- Subroutine

- Smokestack

• Fixed misnamed and misplaced beta art, removed deprecated
• Added portrait art for Quadcast card
• Added art for Trophies Epoch
• Updated the multiplayer rock-paper-scissors hands art

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Added focus reticles for main menu text buttons
• Adjusted hitbox and position for the following enemies:

- Bygone Effigy

- Scroll of Biting

- Hunter Killer

- Terror Eel

- Flail Knight

- Mysterious Knight

- Insatiable

- Turret Operator

- Punch Construct

- Slimed Berserker

• Raised intent slightly for Louse Progenitor as when it's curled up it's taller
• Made Test Subject opaque again if it is killed while it has Intangible
• Adjusted placeholder Adversary assets
• Adjusted thinky dots bbcode VFX to be slightly less aggressive
• Adjusted character select screen UI when waiting for other players in multiplayer + localizability
• Textures are now allowed to be set for badges + added "i like shiny" badge
• If the player wins with an unusual deck size, there is now a badge at the end of the run
• Added gold and HP related badges
• Fixed indentation of upgraded cards in run history
• Language dropdown is now grayed out during run and is clarified that it can only be changed in main menu
• Localized the pause menu
• Made main menu loc reactive
• Updated profile screen padding, hover effects, positions, and messaging
• Updated sentence casing for various card selection screen behaviors
• Adjusted text for timeout screen
• Updated Delete profile button asset and hover behavior
• Discovered Epochs now have a chain and lock on them until revealed
• When loading profiles or multiplayer things, the text is smaller, in the bottom right corner, and green + localization support
• Windows executable now displays custom game icon
• Added controller navigation for orbs

AUDIO

• Added SFX for the following enemies:

- Decimillipede

- Fossil Stalker

- Mecha Knight

- Slumbering Beetle (snoring)

- Inklet

• Added Forge SFX
• Added new Burn SFX

WORDING

• Changed Orobas' Vibrant Halo description to say "Transform" instead of "Replace"
• Regent's Gamma Beam card renamed -> Gamma Blast
• Defect's Black Beam card renamed -> Null
• Clarity potion renamed -> Clarity Extract
• Neow's Focus blessing renamed -> Discipline
• Updated more sentence casing
• Removed Instant Mode reference from Fast Mode tooltip
• Save profiles are now referred to as Save Profile rather than Profile in the profile selection screen
• Updated the wording in hovertips for cards that channel Dark or Glass Orbs for clarity

BUG FIXES

General:

• All "defeat 10 bosses" Epochs now correctly count bosses
• Attacks, Skills, and Powers obtained from Events now properly appear before Curses and Statuses when viewing your Draw, Discard, and Exhaust piles
• Creature cleanup is now ensured even if death VFX fails during scene transitions
• Fixed crash when applying a power to a creature removed from combat
• Fixed crash when pressing back during character unlock animation
• Fixed a wait time that was accidentally 1000 seconds
• Fixed softlock when all Epochs are unlocked via scorebar
• In-game reporter should now still work if you have a lot of files in your save directory
• Main menu text buttons now longer have the wrong pivot that made them look off when pressing them
• Newly-discovered Epochs are now properly displayed in the Discoveries section of the Game Over screen
• Removed Diamond Diadem power title
• Renamed cards now appear in Compendium for existing players
• Simplified an Epoch state logic check to greatly increase safety and backwards compatibility
• The sun, flower, and cupcake will no longer block you from clicking feedback buttons
• Added bounds checking for dev console commands with target indices

Silent:

• The green Poison overlay on the health bar now properly accounts for the player having both Accelerant card and Soup Recipe relic at the same time

Defect:

• Updated atlas references for renamed Defect cards (Compact, Subroutine, Smokestack)

Necrobinder:

• Fixed crash when abandoning run as Necrobinder outside combat
• Necro Mastery power icon now properly displays its stack count

Potions & Relics:

• Fixed Tiny Mailbox relic breaking controller hotkeys after resting
• Removed the Strength hovertip from Screaming Flagon potion
• Potion targeting is now canceled when potion is removed to prevent NRE

Enemies:

• Decimillipede's Reattach heal intent now shows after a segment is killed
• Fixed crash during Vantom boss fight
• Fixed crash when Doormaker is removed from combat then dies
• Fixed softlock when Doormaker dies from reflect damage during Get Back In move
• Gremlin Merc now correctly steals gold on its third move
• Infested Automaton event's options now properly take card reward rarity odds into account
• Rampart power icon now includes the amount of Block it is applying

Ancients:

• Fixed crash when loading save with deprecated Ancient event
• Hovertip position is no longer off when you first enter Ancient rooms with a controller
• Orobas now uses grid layout instead of horizontal for 6-card upgrade
• Potion slot no longer locks up when using potion during Whispering Earring relic auto-play
• Wish curse card no longer displays draw pile in shuffle order
• Sand Castle relic no longer shows unnecessary counter

Events:

• Fixed The Future of Potions event requiring 3 potions instead of 2 to appear
• Hand of Vakuu event no longer shows empty screen before proceed button

Multiplayer:

• Fixed crash when disconnecting during combat
• Fixed crash when player disconnects during combat sync
• Fixed multiplayer crash when syncing Discovered Epochs
• Lobby no longer goes into an invalid state when a player disconnects during the handshake
• Ping button shows up on the first turn of combat
• Player state container is correctly aligned
• Reduced the chances of seeing a relic that another player obtained at a chest
• Shared events no longer diverge after completion
• You can no longer unready your turn while dead in rare circumstances
• Necrobinder's Sic 'Em card no longer Summons for other players when their Osty hits the target in multiplayer
• Fishing Rod relic now uses player-scoped RNG to prevent potential multiplayer desync

PERFORMANCE

• Compressed and resized nearly all Hive Rest Site assets
• Removed several unused pointlights in Hive Rest Site
• Updated Rest Site light asset to be smaller and compressed (affects all Rest Sites)
• Converted smoke particle effects from CPU -> GPU and reduced particle count by half
• Cursor images are now preloaded