Slay the Spire 2
by Mega Crit · 5 Mar, 2026
2,682 downloads
Multiplayer · Cracked Only
Cracked Co-op Only
Online works only between cracked copies — you can't join official servers or players who bought the game.
ProtonDB: Platinum
About the Game
Slay the Spire 2 is Mega Crit's long-awaited sequel to the genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder. The core loop is the same — you climb a procedural tower, picking cards and relics that synergize into devastating builds, and a single bad combat early on can snowball into a winning run. What's different is everything around the loop: new characters, new card archetypes, a redesigned relic economy, multi-character co-op runs, and a substantially evolved boss design that demands sharper deck-building than the original.
The 1,000-year dormancy framing in the campaign isn't just flavor — Spire 2 is built around the assumption that you played the original. Mechanics, card names, and even some specific encounters are knowing callbacks. New players can drop straight in (the tutorial doesn't assume prior knowledge), but the depth of the references rewards veterans.
Released as OFME, build 22340209. 1.2 GB installed. The new co-op mode works between cracked clients via the Online-Fix relay — no Steam account required from any player. Single-player runs work fully offline.
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On the site: Build 23811903
Up to date
Another beta patch just dropped! This one contains a host of balance changes and reworks. Notably, Mirage and Pillar of Creation have been reverted back to their pre-0.109.0 versions and have also been slightly buffed and nerfed, respectively. We've also implemented a brand new feature in this patch--a keyboard-only control option! So be sure to let us know what you think if you try it out. In terms of art, many cards have new, polished portrait art and, excitingly, characters now have VFX for their unique forms!
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CONTENT & BALANCE:
Ancients:
- Buffed Neow's Abundance card:
- Now always creates Upgraded powers
- Upgrade changed to lower Energy cost by 1
- Now always creates Upgraded powers
- Reworked Tezcatara's Toasty Mittens relic: "At the start of your turn, Exhaust the top card of your Draw Pile and gain 1 Strength." -> "At the start of your turn, Exhaust 1 card from your Hand and gain 1 Strength."
- Buffed Tezcatara's Seal of Gold relic: Gold loss decreased from 5 -> 3
- Changed Nonupeipe's Beautiful Bracelet relic:
- Cards enchanted increased from 3 -> 4
- Swift amount decreased from 3 -> 2
- Cards enchanted increased from 3 -> 4
- Buffed Nonupeipe's Fur Coat relic: marked combats increased from 7 -> 8
- Nerfed Nonupeipe's Signet Ring relic: Gold decreased from 999 -> 888
- Buffed Pael's Relax card: Block increased from 15(17) → 16(18)
- Buffed Tanx's Whistle card: cost decreased from 3 -> 2
- Buffed Tanx's Maul card: Maul damage scaling increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
- Reverted Vakuu's Fiddle relic: card draw decreased again from 3 -> 2
Ironclad:
- Buffed Mangle card: damage increased from 15(20) -> 20(26)
- Buffed Pact's End card: damage increased from 17(23) -> 18(24)
Silent:
- Reworked Haze card: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 3 - "Sly. Apply 4(6) Poison to ALL enemies." -> Uncommon - Skill - Cost 2 - "Apply 4(6) Poison and 1(2) Weak to ALL enemies."
- Reworked Outbreak card into a Rare Skill: Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - "Whenever you apply Poison, deal 4(5) damage to ALL enemies." -> Rare - Skill - Cost 3 - "Apply 9(12) Poison to ALL enemies. Poison triggers immediately."
- Reworked and renamed Scare card -> Sidestep: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Apply 1 Weak to ALL enemies. Exhaust. (Lose Exhaust.)" -> Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Next turn, gain 1(2) Energy."
- Changed Mirage card:
- Reverted back to its previous version (i.e. gains Block based on enemy Poison again)
- No longer Exhausts
- Reverted back to its previous version (i.e. gains Block based on enemy Poison again)
- Nerfed Well Laid Plans card: cost increased from 1(0) -> 2(1)
- Changed Echoing Slash card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
Regent:
- Reworked Regalite relic: "Whenever you create a card, gain 2 Block." -> "The first time you create a card each turn, gain 6 Block."
- Buffed Terraforming card: Vigor increased from 6(8) → 7(10)
- Changed Pillar Of Creation card:
- Reverted back to its previous version (i.e. effect is no longer triggered just once per turn)
- Block decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3)
- Reverted back to its previous version (i.e. effect is no longer triggered just once per turn)
- Buffed Crush Under card: damage increased from 7(8) -> 8(9)
Necrobinder:
- Changed Eidolon: can no longer be generated mid-combat
- Buffed Sacrifice card: Block gain increased from double -> triple Osty's Max HP
- Buffed The Scythe card: damage scaling increased from 4(5) -> 5(7)
Defect:
- Buffed Biased Cognition card: Focus increased from 4(5) → 5(6)
- Buffed Refract card: damage increased from 9(12) -> 10(13)
- Nerfed Rocket Punch card: "Whenever you create a Status, reduce this card's cost to 0 Energy until played." -> "Whenever you create a Status, reduce this card's cost by 1 Energy until played."
- Buffed Synchronize card:
- Upgrade changed to increase temp focus from 2 -> 3
- No longer Exhausts
- Upgrade changed to increase temp focus from 2 -> 3
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
General:
- Added support for keyboard-only mode
- Added a "Share" button on the map screen which takes a screenshot of the entire map
- Added a "Listening For Input" popup when a player is remapping inputs or bindings
- Updated padding, font sizes, and color for input remap screen
- Updated input glyph positioning on various buttons
- Updated change profile button to render a larger input glyph
- Updated keyboard-mode glyph asset from placeholder -> style match
- Adjusted hotkey icon size and position in top bar
- Updated generic selection reticle asset to improve contrast and resolution. It's now rendered very slightly smaller as well.
- If a binding is missing, a gray hyphen is now rendered rather than nothing in input settings
- Users are now informed if Steam Input is activated or not in a more explicit way
- Scrollbar in settings screen is now placed better in non-standard aspect ratios
- When using a controller, the game now always tries to initially hover a map node connected to your current one when you have Winged Boots relics
- Disabled left/right paging for Stats screen as Achievements screen does not exist yet
Multiplayer:
- Made the UI for joining a friend's run nicer looking
- Tutor card now un-ends the target's turn if they have ended their turn
- Removed "Waiting for Players" screen when dying to Architect
ART:
- Added form VFX
- Added portrait art for the following cards:
- Constellation
- Blade Symphony
- Concoct
- Tutor
- Imitation Learning
- Soulbound
- Fade
- Constellation
- Added beta portrait art for Sidestep card
- Added fire to Test Subject burn animation
WRITING:
General:
- When the word "potions" shows up in option descriptions or relic descriptions it is now gold and capitalized
- Fixed Slow debuff power description not displaying its active multiplier in the hovertip
- Fixed typos in Abundance and Blade Symphony cards
- Updated Diamond Diadem relic's wording to be clearer about how long its effect lasts
- Renamed Full Keyboard -> Keyboard-Only
Localization:
- Updated translations for various languages
- Fixed translation errors in the following languages:
- French
- Italian
- Russian
- Thai
- Turkish
- Traditional Chinese
- French
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Uncommon cards show up slightly more often (as intended)
- Players can no longer discern the shuffle order of cards in certain scenarios
- The run history is now centered on ultrawide screens
- Fixed an issue where an Epoch unlock earned at the end of a run could be lost, permanently blocking Timeline progress (affected saves are repaired on load)
- Fixed an issue where leaving the game over screen mid-animation could award an Epoch unlock without spending the score that paid for it
- Fixed being able to controller navigate to card grid while inspecting a card in the Compendium
- Fixed opening the settings screen when a player would hit "escape" to close the potions popup
Enemies:
- Tough Egg can now have 1 more max HP
- Decimillipede now correctly displays stats in the Bestiary
- Fixed error that occurred when Tough Egg would hatch in the Bestiary
Events:
- Fixed typo in Lantern Key event
Potions & Relics:
- Bellows relic now properly upgrades the extra card when Pendulum relic triggers on turn 1
- Fixed Dowsing missing card preview for Abundance
Ironclad:
- Fixed Juggling card so that when your third attack also auto-plays an attack (for example, Uproar card), Juggling now properly copies the original attack instead of the auto-played attack
Multiplayer:
- Fixed chosen card getting stuck if another player gives you the Touch of Insanity potion
- Feral card now puts The Ball card into your hand instead of another player's
- Imitation Learning card no longer softlocks with Replay, now ignores duplicate plays
- Tutor card no longer softlocks with Replay
- Players can Abandon Run outside of combat again
MODDING:
- The "Report Bug" button is no longer shown in error dialogs when any player in a session has mods
Got a tiny patch today with one important hotfix for players playing in Traditional Chinese!
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BUG FIXES:
- Synced corrected Traditional Chinese translations to fix broken plural evaluation
Another beta patch is here, Slayers! This one brings a host of balance changes, bug fixes, and new Epoch art. We've also begun to translate the game into Traditional Chinese (no timeline just yet on official support for other languages, but we'll let people know when we are looking for additional translators.) Perhaps most notably, two new Neow relics have been introduced, one of which grants a powerful, exclusive potion and the other a brand new quest card (with some cute beta art!)
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CONTENT & BALANCE:
Ancients:
- Added new Neow relic, Dowsing Rod - "Upon pickup, add 1 Dowsing to your Deck."
- Dowsing - Quest - 0 cost - "After entering 5 more ? rooms, transform this into Abundance."
- Abundance - Ancient - Skill - Cost 1 - "Choose 1 of 3 (Upgraded) Powers to add into your Hand. It is free to play this turn. Exhaust."
- Dowsing - Quest - 0 cost - "After entering 5 more ? rooms, transform this into Abundance."
- Added new Neow relic, Neow's Sacrifice - "Upon pickup, procure 1 Ambergris and add 1 Guilty to your Deck."
- Ambergris potion - "Heal for 50% of your max HP. Take an extra turn after this one."
- Ambergris potion - "Heal for 50% of your max HP. Take an extra turn after this one."
- Reworked Nonupeipe's Diamond Diadem relic: "Whenever you play 2 or fewer cards in a turn, take half damage from enemies." -> "Start combat with 20 Block. Block is not removed at the start of your next turn."
- Moved Orobos' Sand Castle relic moved from Pool 1 -> Pool 2 (second option instead of first option)
- Changed up Darv blessing pools for more variety (will see Energy relics more often)
- Nerfed Tanx's Meat Cleaver relic: HP gain decreased from 9 -> 5
- Buffed Tezcatara's Toybox relic: relics gained increased from 4 -> 5
- Buffed Vakuu's Fiddle relic: card draw increased from 2 -> 3
- Changed Vakuu's Sere Talon and Distinguished Cape relics: swapped downsides
Enemies:
- Nerfed Aeonglass: Ebb move damage decreased from 26(32) -> 22(26) to lower its front-loaded damage
- Buffed Torchhead Amalgam: now starts with a new Strong Tackle move on turn 1 to increase front-loaded damage from 18(22) -> 26(32)
Events:
- Nerfed History Course relic: now only repeats Attacks, does not affect Skills
Ironclad:
- Buffed Demon Form card: Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
- Buffed Expect a Fight card: no longer says "You cannot gain additional this turn."
- Buffed Primal Force card: Giant Rock token damage increased from 16(20) -> 20(24)
- Changed Taunt card:
- Block gain decreased from 7(8) -> 6(7)
- Rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
- Block gain decreased from 7(8) -> 6(7)
- Changed Bloodletting card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
- Changed Cruelty card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
- Changed Dominate card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
Silent:
- Reworked Mirage card: Uncommon - Skill - 1(0) - "Gain Block equal to Poison on ALL enemies. Exhaust." -> Uncommon - Skill - 0 - "Next turn, gain 1(2) Energy."
- Reworked Well-Laid Plans card:
- Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - "At the end of your turn, Retain up to 1(2) card(s)." -> Rare - Power - Cost 1(0) - "At the end of your turn, you no longer discard your Hand."
- Now also available in multiplayer, was previously singleplayer-only
- Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - "At the end of your turn, Retain up to 1(2) card(s)." -> Rare - Power - Cost 1(0) - "At the end of your turn, you no longer discard your Hand."
- Reworked Expertise card: "Draw cards until you have 6(7) in your hand." -> "Draw 2(3) cards. They gain Retain this turn."
- Buffed: Outbreak card: damage increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)
- Changed Accelerant card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
Regent:
- Reworked Pillar of Creation card: "Whenever you create a card, gain 3 Block." -> "The first time you create a card each turn, gain 5(7) Block."
- Nerfed Collision Course card: damage decreased from 11(15) -> 10(14)
Necrobinder:
- Reworked Eidolon card: "Exhaust your Hand. If 9 cards were Exhausted this way, gain 1 Intangible." -> "Play ALL Ethereal cards in your Exhaust Pile. Exhaust."
Defect:
- Buffed Hyperbeam card: damage increased from 28(36) -> 30(38)
- Buffed Sunder card: damage increased from 24(32) -> 26(34)
- Changed Trash to Treasure card: upgrade changed from gains Innate -> lowers cost by 1
Multiplayer:
- Added new Regent card, Tutor: Rare - Skill - 1(0) - "Another player chooses a card in their Draw Pile to add into their Hand."
- Nerfed Midnight card: damage decreased from 99(120) -> 60(72)
- Nerfed The Ball card: scaling decreased from +15(25) -> +10(15)
- Nerfed Blade Symphony card:
- Cost increased from 1 -> 2(1)
- Upgrade no longer increases Shiv count
- Cost increased from 1 -> 2(1)
USER EXPERIENCE & INTERFACE:
General:
- Seeds are now 12 characters long and internal seed is larger
- Removed faint white outline from game cursor
Multiplayer:
- You can now play nearly any potion on another player
- Map ink circles are now the same for all players
ART:
General:
- Added Epoch art for:
- Annihilation
- To Kill
- Futility
- Annihilation
Ancients:
- Added assets for Dowsing Rod and Neow's Sacrifice relics
- Added asset for Ambergris potion
- Added beta portrait art for Dowsing and Abundance cards
Enemies:
- Swapped Aeonglass double and heavy attack animations and improved the double attack VFX
Multiplayer:
- Added portrait art for the following cards:
- The Ball
- Plot
- The Ball
- Created "Failed to join" text VFX
WRITING:
Localization:
- Added Traditional Chinese (zht) as a selectable language with English fallback
- Added Traditional Chinese fonts (Source Han Serif TC, Noto Sans Mono CJK TC)
- Updated translations for various languages
- Fixed translation errors for French, Italian, Russian, and Thai
- Removed stale translations for redesigned Well-Laid Plans, Fuel, Outbreak, Sere Talon, Cacophony
BUG FIXES:
General:
- VSync setting in Graphics options now shows the correct On/Off state after restarting
- "Power wears off" notification no longer blocks mouse input
- Placeholder Orb numbers no longer briefly show up at the start of combat
- Correctly snapped scrolling menus at low FPS
Ancients:
- Fixed Tanx's Whistle card preview and tooltip snapping to the top-left corner when hovered
Enemies:
- Fixed awkward delay when Osty and Kaiser Krab would spawn at start of combat
- Fixed Fabricator animations that weren't playing right
- Fixed Fat Gremlin sometimes spawning without a bag of money when it should
Silent:
- Expose card now properly triggers Hand Drill relic
Necrobinder:
- Soulbound card now shuffles souls into Draw Pile instead of putting them on the bottom
Multiplayer:
- One for All card no longer previews damage up on X-cost cards
- Fixed Unmovable card causing other players to receive double Block from Demonic Shield card when it was not the first Block card played
- Imitation Learning card now clones cards before they are played instead of after, allowing enchantments like Swift to apply to the cloning player
- Underworld card no longer causes Doom to be applied to players when enemies deal attack damage
- Fixed an issue where, if a player played The Ball card while another played had History Course relic, History Course could incorrectly end up playing a copy of The Ball next turn
- Fixed divergence that would sometimes occur when ending combat with The Ball card
- Hibernate card no longer gives block to dead players
- Hibernate card now correctly displays stacks in its power icon
- If Huddle Up triggers a choice for another player, the playing player is no longer blocked from playing cards
- The Ball now triggers the playing player's relics, not the receiving player's
- Fixed card effects breaking when a player dies while their own card is still resolving (e.g. to Thorns)
- Fixed divergence that would occur if one player took a long time to enter combat
- Player icons are rendered above the ink circle on the map
- Resolved issue where, if Epochs were deprecated, that player could no longer join multiplayer games
MODDING:
- Merged SavedPropertySerializationCache into ModelIdSerializationCache. SavedProperties are now included in its hash.
- Models from non-gameplay-affecting mods are now properly excluded in the hash
For all you beta testers who have been chomping at the bit for a new patch to chew on... here it is! Today's beta patch brings a ton of fixes, balance changes, some UX additions, a BIG batch of new multiplayer cards, and new art additions--including some animations for the latest boss, Aeonglass!
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We've also got some big updates in the modding realm to call out...
Thank you to our incredible community of modders (and mod players) for all of your feedback since we released Steam Workshop support! We've got quite a few changes that will be relevant to modders at the bottom of the notes, but first we wanted to specifically call out some major fixes and changes that affect players.
Previously, when launching the game with mods enabled for the first time, it appeared as though your progress was wiped. That is because unmodded saves are saved separately from your modded ones as a protective measure, and we defaulted to having the modded saves start entirely from scratch. Now, your unmodded saves are automatically copied over to the modded saves and a popup appears to explain the process to new mod users. They are still saved separately, though, which means any progress you make when playing with mods enabled will not be reflected after switching to unmodded and vice versa.
Additionally, players have been frequently encountering version conflict errors when doing modded multiplayer runs. We're introducing some fixes which should reduce those instances and more detailed error popups when they do occur. Note that we still recommend having the same exact mods enabled as your teammates, particularly if they actually affect gameplay and are not merely cosmetic.
We plan for these changes to come to the main branch soon, so non-beta-testers can keep an eye out for that! For more info on modding and playing with mods, check the patch notes from Major Update 2. Now it's time for the rest of today's patch notes...
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We've also got some big updates in the modding realm to call out...
Modding Updates
Thank you to our incredible community of modders (and mod players) for all of your feedback since we released Steam Workshop support! We've got quite a few changes that will be relevant to modders at the bottom of the notes, but first we wanted to specifically call out some major fixes and changes that affect players.
Previously, when launching the game with mods enabled for the first time, it appeared as though your progress was wiped. That is because unmodded saves are saved separately from your modded ones as a protective measure, and we defaulted to having the modded saves start entirely from scratch. Now, your unmodded saves are automatically copied over to the modded saves and a popup appears to explain the process to new mod users. They are still saved separately, though, which means any progress you make when playing with mods enabled will not be reflected after switching to unmodded and vice versa.
Additionally, players have been frequently encountering version conflict errors when doing modded multiplayer runs. We're introducing some fixes which should reduce those instances and more detailed error popups when they do occur. Note that we still recommend having the same exact mods enabled as your teammates, particularly if they actually affect gameplay and are not merely cosmetic.
We plan for these changes to come to the main branch soon, so non-beta-testers can keep an eye out for that! For more info on modding and playing with mods, check the patch notes from Major Update 2. Now it's time for the rest of today's patch notes...
CONTENT & BALANCE:
General:
- End-of-turn Orb passives now trigger before Doom
- This means that, if a player would die to self-Doom (ex. from Neurosurge card) but also has an Orb with an end-of-turn passive that would kill the last remaining enemy (ex. Lightning Orb while the enemy is at 3 HP), they will now win the combat instead of losing it after ending their turn
- This means that, if a player would die to self-Doom (ex. from Neurosurge card) but also has an Orb with an end-of-turn passive that would kill the last remaining enemy (ex. Lightning Orb while the enemy is at 3 HP), they will now win the combat instead of losing it after ending their turn
Enemies:
- Buffed Torch Head Amalgam: increased damage at Ascension 9
- Weak Tackle damage increased from 14(15) → 14(16)
- Tackle damage increased from 18(19) → 18(22)
- Weak Tackle damage increased from 14(15) → 14(16)
Potions & Relics:
- Changed Regen Potion: its healing effect now triggers before Doom, preventing the player from dying to self-Doom in certain situations
Ironclad:
- Nerfed Colossus card: Block gain increased from 5(8) → 4(7)
- Nerfed Crimson Mantle card: Block gain decreased from 8(10) → 7(10)
- Buffed Howl From Beyond card: Damage increased from 16(21) → 18(24)
- Buffed Setup Strike: Strength gain increased from 2(3) → 3(4)
Silent:
- Reworked Outbreak card: "Every 3 times you apply Poison, deal 15 damage to ALL enemies." → "Whenever you apply Poison, deal 3(4) damage to ALL enemies."
- Buffed Anticipate card: Dexterity increased from 2(3) → 2(4)
- Buffed Flick-Flack card: damage increased from 6(8) → 7(9)
- Nerfed Tracking card: "Weak enemies take double damage from Attacks." → "Weak enemies take 50% more damage from Attacks."
Regent:
- Buffed Devastate card: damage increased from 30(40) → 35(45)
- Buffed Divine Destiny relic: Star gain increased from 6 → 7
- Nerfed GUARDS!!! card's Minion Sacrifice token: Block gain decreased from 8(11) → 7(10)
- Buffed Resonance card: Star cost decreased from 3 → 2
Necrobinder:
- Buffed Haunt card: HP loss increased from 6(8) → 7(9)
- Buffed Reave card: damage increased from 9(11) → 10(13)
- Buffed Soulstorm card: additional damage increased from 2(3) → 4(6)
Defect:
- Nerfed Compact card's Fuel token:
- No longer draws cards
- Upgrade changed from increasing card draw → granting 1 additional energy
- No longer draws cards
- Buffed Momentum Strike card: damage from 10(13) → 11(15)
- Changed Scrape card: no longer discards cards whose energy costs are temporarily set to 0 by global temporary effects (ex. Pounce card's "The next Skill you play is costs 0 Energy" effect)
- Changed Shatter card: now Exhausts
Multiplayer:
- Added new multiplayer Ironclad cards:
- Midnight: Rare - Attack - Cost 12 - "Deal 99(120) damage. Costs 1 less for each card Exhausted this combat by ANYONE."
- Blaze: Uncommon Skill - Cost 2 - "Give another player 5(7) Strength."
- Outrage: Uncommon - Attack - Cost 0 - "Deal 9(13) damage. Add a copy of this card into EVERYONE'S Discard Pile."
- Midnight: Rare - Attack - Cost 12 - "Deal 99(120) damage. Costs 1 less for each card Exhausted this combat by ANYONE."
- Buffed and slightly reworked Tank card: "Take double damage from enemies. Allies take half damage from enemies." → "Take 50% additional damage from enemies. Allies take 50% less damage from enemies."
- Added new multiplayer Silent cards:
- Blade Symphony: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 1 - "Add 2(3) Shivs to ALL players Hands."
- Concoct: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Another player's Attacks apply 3(4) Poison this turn."
- Fade: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Retain. Another player gains 6(9) Dexterity this turn."
- Blade Symphony: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 1 - "Add 2(3) Shivs to ALL players Hands."
- Changed Flanking card: rarity increased from Uncommon → Rare
- Added new multiplayer Regent card:
- Plot: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 1 - "Next turn, ALL players draw 2(3) cards."
- Constellation: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Another player draws 1 card, gains , and gains 9(12) Block."
- Plot: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 1 - "Next turn, ALL players draw 2(3) cards."
- Added new multiplayer Necrobinder card:
- Underworld: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 2 - "Whenever other players deal attack damage this turn, apply that much Doom. Exhaust. (Lose Exhaust)"
- Soulbound: Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - "(Innate.) Choose an ally. Whenever you create a Soul, add a Soul to their Draw Pile."
- Cacophony: Rare - Power - Cost 2 - "Every 33 cards drawn by ALL players, deal 66(99) damage to a random enemy."
- Underworld: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 2 - "Whenever other players deal attack damage this turn, apply that much Doom. Exhaust. (Lose Exhaust)"
- Changed Legion of Bone card: no longer Exhausts
- Added new multiplayer Defect cards:
- Hibernate: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 2 - "Channel 2(3) Frost. This turn, your Frost grants ALL allies Block."
- One For All: Rare - Power - Cost 1 - "EVERYONE'S 0 energy Attacks deal 3(4) additional damage."
- Imitation Learning: Rare - Skill - Cost 1 - "Choose another player. The next 2(3) times they play a Power, you play a copy of it. Exhaust."
- Hibernate: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 2 - "Channel 2(3) Frost. This turn, your Frost grants ALL allies Block."
- Changed Ignition card: rarity decreased from Rare → Uncommon
- Added new multiplayer Colorless card:
- The Ball: Uncommon - Attack - Cost 1 - "Deal 10 damage. Increase this card's damage by 15(25) this combat and give it to a random ally."
- The Ball: Uncommon - Attack - Cost 1 - "Deal 10 damage. Increase this card's damage by 15(25) this combat and give it to a random ally."
- Nerfed enemy block scaling in 2-player multiplayer
- Nerfed Beacon of Hope card: cost increased from 1 → 2
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
General:
- Added a Randomize button to the Custom Run screen which randomly selects 2 good modifiers and 1 bad one, and randomizes the selected character
- The run timer is now paused while the Pause Menu is open during a single player match
- Added a selection reticle for potion holders
- Created a stats section in the Bestiary
- Added event combat encounters to the Bestiary
- Hid moves with duplicate animations for some monsters in the Bestiary
- Slightly adjusted selection arrow in Bestiary monster list
- Players can now see which rooms were affected by Fur Coat relic in the Run History
- Relics skipped in the Merchant?? event are now recorded in the Run History
- Room Full of Cheese event now shows the cards that were skipped in the Run History
- All controller input deadzones have been set to 0.5, meaning joysticks should feel less sensitive and trigger buttons must be pressed in slightly more before the input is received now
Regent:
- Pale Blue Dot power now counts down the number of cards that need to be played before it procs next to its icon
Multiplayer:
- Version mismatch error now contains more information
ART:
- Added portrait art for Wither status card
- Added Aeonglass animations
- Updated Gremlin Merc animations
- If you kill Gremlin Merc before it steals any of your gold, Fat Gremlin now spawns without holding a bag of gold
- Added Epoch art for:
- Ablaze
- Arise
- Darv
- Preon
- Slumber
- Spireborn
- The Architect
- The Pact
- Ablaze
- Added Orb passive activation VFX
- Added card removal VFX
- Added new card Exhaust VFX
WRITING:
- Big Game Hunter modifier's hovertip now specifies that it makes elites drop rare card rewards instead of just "better rewards"
- Helix Drill card's wording has been updated to be clearer that it only counts energy spent on other cards
- Clarified that Silken Tress relic applies only to the player who chose it in multiplayer
- Updated translations for various languages
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Details are now included in the Steam initialization error popup
- Saving is now retried when antivirus or cloud sync briefly blocks the save file
- Run timer no longer starts a run hidden if you have "always show run timer" toggled on
- Fixed crash when returning to the main menu while a card-selection prompt is open
- Fixed broken controller navigation to the "mod settings" button in the main menu
- Fixed controller navigation breaking if you opened up the deck view while holding a non-targeted card
- Fixed combat music sometimes continuing on the map and other non-combat screens
- Fixed Epoch paginator arrows becoming unclickable
- Fixed softlock when opening the Bestiary in the treasure room from a fresh save/reload
- Fixed Run History death quote getting cut off if it was too long
- Run History now shows the boss icon for old runs that fought The Doormaker
- Fixed stats screen showing that you have discovered more monsters than there exists in game
- Fixed the Daily Run leaderboard failing to load for some dates
- Fixed many instances of weird RNG behavior (shoutout again to tckmn!)
- Fixed being able to controller navigate to Byrdpip
Ancients:
- Fixed Elite music playing in Neow room if you died to an Elite your previous run
- Tezcatara's Toy Box relic no longer flashes once it is used up
Enemies:
- It is no longer possible to get two encounters in a row that contain Slime monsters
- It is no longer possible to get two encounters in a row that contain Snapping Jaxfruit monster
- If an attack enchanted with Replay kills the last enemy on its first play, the subsequent plays are now skipped
- This fixes an issue where, if a card with Replay is enchanted with Corrupted, the player would lose extra HP even after the first play killed the last enemy
- This fixes an issue where, if a card with Replay is enchanted with Corrupted, the player would lose extra HP even after the first play killed the last enemy
- Fixed a visual issue where, if the player uses Thorns to kill a monster that spawns more monsters on death (i.e. Axebot, Phrog Parasite), the dead monster's attack wouldn't visually occur until after the new monsters had spawned
- Fixed Cubex Construct's intents overlapping with its body if it takes damage while transitioning to its charging animation
- Fixed Inklet's head getting cut off during Doom animation
- Fixed Slithering Strangler playing its hurt animation for its Thwack move
- Fixed Wrigglers spawning offscreen in 4:3 aspect ratios
- Fixed Torch Head Amalgam's laser attack VFX not reaching the player when it was shrunk
- Fixed impact SFX playing for Kin Priest Soul Beam move in the Bestiary
- Kaiser Crab no longer covers the monster title in the Bestiary
- Repeatedly clicking Knowledge Demon's Curse of Knowledge move in the Bestiary no longer causes its animation to stop playing
- Added missing Tunneler animations to the Bestiary
- Tunneler animations can now be played regardless of Burrowed state in the Bestiary
Potions & Relics:
- Fixed an issue where Bone Tea relic could fail to upgrade your hand if you also have Toolbox relic
- Fixed an issue where, if a player auto-plays their entire start-of-turn hand draw (via an effect like Hellraiser), Unceasing Top relic may not trigger despite their hand being empty
- Fixed Planisphere relic proccing twice in the Battleworn Dummy event
- Fixed Pollinous Core relic counting up past 4 if you end combat after your turn but before you draw cards
- Lasting Candy no longer procs if the reward set has no card rewards
- Unsettling Lamp relic no longer get used up if the target's Artifact blocks the debuff
- White Beast Statue relic no longer decreases your normal potion odds when it guarantees getting potion rewards to prevent you never rolling potions again if it gets removed mid-run
- Fixed several ways you could obtain duplicate relics on the first run
- Fixed Flex Potion description appearing twice on the character when applied
- Fixed a softlock that could occur when throwing multiple Foul Potions in quick succession
Events:
- Fixed an issue where Vigor was only applying to the first of Mad Science card's 3 hits when it was created with the Violence option
- Fixed death quotes for dying to Punch Off and Mysterious Knight encounters
Colorless Cards:
- Fixed Entropy card being able to transform curses into Ascender's Bane
Ironclad:
- Hellraiser card no longer infinitely plays Shining Strike card when it's enchanted with Swift
Silent:
- Nightmare card can no longer be generated during combat
Regent:
- Fixed Minion Strike card becoming stuck on screen if played too quickly
- Fixed History Course copy of Shining Strike card going back into your Draw Pile
- Fixed Supermassive card not scaling from cards generated by Mad Science card
Necrobinder:
- Fixed a crash that could happen when an enemy dies to Doom
- Transfigure card can no longer be generated during combat
- Fixed Enfeebling Touch + Misery combo causing enemies with Artifact to gain Strength next turn
- Forbidden Grimoire card's card removal reward will now show up after Battleworn Dummy fight if you are successful
Defect:
- Disabled controller navigation to Orbs while in another card selection screen
- Fixed the Subroutine power hovertip typo if you have more than 4 Subroutines
- Feral card no longer puts History Course copy of Helix Drill card back into your hand
- Fixed Gold Plated Cables relic flashing if the Orb's passive is not firing
- Gold Plated Cables relic now procs if Emotion Chip relic triggers Orbs at the start of your turn
Multiplayer:
- Fixed even more instances of Daily runs diverging based on player net ID
- Fixed divergence caused by discarding a potion while moving to a new map point
- Fixed bug where you could set yourself ready for the next act two acts in advance
- Fixed state divergence caused by taking a reward as you are transitioning to another map point
- Fixed divergence caused by host changing the Ascension as the game is starting
- Fixed divergence when player has Music Box relic and combat ends while making a choice
- Fixed divergence when playing cards very fast while killing yourself
- Fixed Ghost Seed relic adding Ethereal to Strikes and Defends generated by other players during combat
- If you open a screen during a treasure room relic fight, the hands now behave correctly
- Fixed mouse remaining hidden forever if the game ended while in potion targeting
- Event RNG seeds are now consistent across all multiplayer Daily Runs
- Jungle Maze Adventure event no longer appears if a player doesn't have enough HP for the solo option
PERFORMANCE:
- Compressed various combat background assets
MODDING:
- Unmodded saves are now copied to the modded save directory if you are launching modded for the first time
- Added controller support for Modding menu
- Fixed Steam mods causing ReflectionHelper.ModTypes to return nothing
- SavedProperty IDs from mods are now properly sorted for multiplayer
- Content from mods with affectsGameplay set to false are now sorted to end of ID maps
- Mods can now register multiple assemblies
- SerializableSave.NumReloads is now consistent across peers
- Steam mod now takes precedence over local if the version is greater
- Batched the Steam Workshop call for checking branch support, meaning mods should load faster
- Began publishing STS2.dll XML documentation
- Fixed issues in multiplayer where players with the same mods would get "version mismatch" (thanks to OLC of RitsuLib for helping out with this!)
- Build the serialization cache from ModelDb instead of via reflection
- Sort content by ModelId instead of typename
- Use more tiebreakers when sorting
- Sort epoch IDs in
ModelIdSerializationCache - Exclude non-gameplay-affecting models from the
hashModelIdSerializationCache
- Build the serialization cache from ModelDb instead of via reflection
- The correct mod lists are now logged in the non-gameplay mod mismatch warning
Another bi-weekly beta patch is here! This one is a bit smaller as it is intended to lay the groundwork for moving the beta branch to the main branch. Therefore, these updates are mostly focused on stability: a lot of bug fixes, UI/UX/QOL additions, and performance improvements along with just a few balance changes and art additions....
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Without further ado, let's dive in...
Enemies:
Potions & Relics:
Ironclad:
Regent:
Necrobinder:
General:
Ancients:
Enemies:
Necrobinder:
General:
Ancient:
Enemies:
Potions & Relics:
Events:
Silent:
Necrobinder:
Multiplayer:
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Without further ado, let's dive in...
CONTENT & BALANCE:
Enemies:
- Buffed Skulking Colony: now gets +1 Strength on its Strength gain turn on high Ascension
- Changed Aeonglass:
- No longer applies the Ebb debuff
- Now gains Block on its Ebb move (single hit) instead of its Increasing Intensity move
- No longer applies the Ebb debuff
Potions & Relics:
- Buffed The Boot relic: damage increase now also applies to Osty's attacks
Ironclad:
- Buffed Juggernaut card: damage increased from 5(7) -> 6(8)
Regent:
- Buffed Monarch's Gaze card: Energy cost decreased from 3(2) -> 2(1)
- Nerfed Reflect card: Block gain decreased from 16(20) -> 15(20)
Necrobinder:
- Buffed Sic 'Em card: Summon increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
- Buffed The Scythe card: damage increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)
QUALITY OF LIFE:
- During the Gremlin Merc fight, if Gremlin Merc didn't steal any gold but Fat Gremlin escaped, the player now receives 50% of the normal gold reward instead of 0%
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
General:
- If errors occur on run start, a popup is now displayed instead of a black screen
- Implemented preferred Ascension for random character option
Ancients:
- When Vakuu tells you how many times you've visited him, the number he says is now accurate
- Pael's Flesh relic now visually increases the maximum energy amount shown in your Energy counter
- For example, if you have 3 max energy before Pael's Flesh triggers, your energy counter will show 4/4 instead of 4/3 after Pael's Flesh triggers
- For example, if you have 3 max energy before Pael's Flesh triggers, your energy counter will show 4/4 instead of 4/3 after Pael's Flesh triggers
Enemies:
- The Wither status card preview upgrade level now matches the upgrade level that Aeonglass is actually on
Necrobinder:
- Sacrifice card now previews how much Block it will gain, so that it's easier to plan with effects like Dexterity and Frail
ART:
- Added Epoch art for:
- Devastation
- The 12
- The Giant
- Devastation
- Added Defect power up animation
- Added new Soul Nexus VFX
WRITING:
- Updated translations for various languages
BUG FIXES:
General:
- If you have Steam Cloud turned off, cloud files no longer overwrite local ones
- First floor of Act 2 can no longer be a ? room instead of a fight when carrying Spoils Map quest card
- Fixed card Energy cost sometimes showing the wrong value when its cost is randomized
- Fixed cards returning to the wrong spot in your hand after deselecting them during a card selection
- Card draw is now stopped after combat ends during the draw phase
- Overgrowth act now plays both of its music tracks instead of always the same one
- Music no longer restarts twice at the start of a run
Ancient:
- Fixed an issue where, if the player has Vakuu's Whispering Earring relic and it auto-plays Void Form card, it could sometimes continue auto-playing cards on the player's next turn
- Fixed Nonupeipe's Diamond Diadem relic resetting its count after Hellraiser power plays cards at the start of the turn
Enemies:
- Aeonglass's Wither status card no longer briefly returns to your hand before you discard your hand at the end of your turn
- Can no longer upgrade Wither status card with Armaments or Drain Life cards
- Fixed an issue where, after killing Spectral Knight, cards that would normally be Ethereal could sometimes become non-Ethereal
- Fixed creature and boss VFX occasionally failing to appear
- Fixed Flyconid spore effect lingering when its attack is interrupted
- Fixed Fossil Stalker VFX continuously playing in the Bestiary
- Fixed the Living Fog encounter name in the death quote
- If you kill Gremlin Merc before he steals any gold from you, the rewards screen no longer says "Mugged..." even if Fat Gremlin escapes
Potions & Relics:
- Fixed an issue where, if the player hatched Byrdonis Egg at a rest site while the rest of their deck was upgraded and they had Miniature Tent relic, they were unable to upgrade the newly-added Byrd Swoop card until the next rest site
- Fixed an issue where, if Pantograph relic healed the player above 50% health, Red Skull relic's Strength increase would still apply until an attack was played
- Snecko Skull relic now always triggers before Unsettling Lamp relic
- Fixed visual errors with the outline of some potion assets
Events:
- Gnarled Hammer relic can no longer be traded at the Relic Trader event
- Fixed Perfect Fit enchantment not working correctly if you play Reboot card while the enchanted card is in your hand or draw pile
- Fixed War Historian Repy event not removing all duplicates of Lantern Key card if you have more than 2
Silent:
- Fixed an issue where, if the player had Unceasing Top relic, played Hidden Daggers card, and discarded a Sly card, Unceasing Top could cause the player to incorrectly draw a card before the Shivs were added to their hand
Necrobinder:
- Fixed an issue where, if the player played Lethality card and the first attack of the turn had Replay, the replayed attack would incorrectly display Lethality's buffed damage amount before correctly dealing its base damage amount
Multiplayer:
- Fixed crash when using potions in multiplayer due to state divergence
- Fixed rare issue which caused incorrect cards to be shown when obtaining cards at certain events
- Nightmare card VFX no longer plays for all players
PERFORMANCE:
- Reduced stuttering when combat effects appear for the first time in a run
MODDING:
- Base game no longer deletes progress from mods that are removed or errored
Hey Slayers! Today we are pushing out a bugfix patch that brings tons of bugfixes from the beta branch over to main.
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Ironclad:
Silent:
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Events:
Ancients:
Multiplayer:
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BUG FIXES:
General:
- Improved the reliability of saving your settings on startup
- Fixed a crash when applying powers to dying creatures
- Fixed a crash when opening the card pile screen while targeting an enemy on controller
- Fixed a crash on Linux during combat when UI elements were removed mid-frame
- Fixed a crash on Linux when ICU libraries are unavailable
- Fixed audio staying muted after pressing the volume keys or alt-tabbing on Linux
- Restored the default rendering backend to D3D12 for Intel 620 GPUs
- Fixed number keys not selecting cards when your mouse cursor was too low on the screen
- Fixed being able to open the card inspection screen and toggle View Upgrades with the same button press
- Fixed being unable to use the View Upgrades hotkey in the card inspection screen
- Fixed the card inspection button blocking the "accept" hotkey on the Pandora's Box card view screen
- Fixed playing the Wish card on controller immediately selecting a card in the grid on the same button press
- Fixed broken controller navigation from your relics to the reward screen after clearing the top reward option
- Fixed the game rapidly switching between "Controller Detected" and "Mouse Detected" while playing on a controller
- Fixed being able to target dead enemies on controller
- Fixed being unable to navigate off of the top bar in the shop
- Fixed controller navigation in the shop after buying out all relics and colorless cards
- Fixed being unable to navigate rest site options on controller when you have two rows of relics
- Fixed being able to start a single-player run on controller while the Ascension tutorial was open
- Fixed errors in the input settings for new keybindings added after your settings were saved
- Fixed an error when unfocusing a potion slot during potion removal
- Fixed an error caused by an offscreen epoch indicator on the Timeline screen
- Fixed separator lines appearing on the Daily Leaderboard screen when no scores had been submitted, or while scores were still loading or had failed to load
- Fixed replayed cards not displaying the correct damage when powers wore off between replays
- Fixed the Night Terrors modifier being able to kill you
- Fixed loading a save file with a deprecated boss being able to roll the same boss twice in a double-boss fight
- Fixed not removing all Spoils Map cards when you complete the quest and somehow have more than one
- Fixed a rare softlock related to writing debug files
- Fixed an issue where your odds of receiving another potion reward could sometimes increase instead of decrease after winning an elite combat and receiving a potion
Ironclad:
- Fixed being able to select an already-upgraded card with Armaments when it was added to your hand by Largesse+
Silent:
- Fixed being able to skip the Survivor card's discard selection using the peek button
Defect:
- Fixed the Scrape card discarding cards that cost zero Energy but have a Star cost
- Fixed a spacing issue in the Consuming Shadow power's hovertip
Regent:
- Fixed the Summon Forth card so it now puts your existing Sovereign Blades into your hand before Forging instead of after
Potions & Relics:
- Fixed The Boot dealing 5 damage instead of 1 to you from the Bad Luck curse while you have Intangible
- Fixed the Self-Forming Clay relic being triggered by the Terminal modifier's max HP loss
- Fixed the Whispering Earring relic replaying Stardust for 0 Stars instead of the correct amount
Enemies:
- Fixed Lagavulin Matriarch's "zzz" sleep particles not going away in the bestiary when she is no longer sleeping
- Fixed a VFX glitch when Snapping Jaxfruit dies to the Reflect power
- Fixed the Zapbot's High Voltage power hovertip to correctly state it gains Strength at the end of its turn instead of the start
- Fixed Living Fog missing its smoke
- Fixed the Ceremonial Beast's music transition not lining up with when it gets stunned
- Fixed the Enfeebling Touch power causing the Ceremonial Beast to gain Strength after you stun it
- Fixed a softlock with the Thieving Hopper when you have no cards for it to steal
- Fixed the Parafright illusion keeping its negative Strength from Dark Shackles when you kill it for the turn
Events:
- Fixed cards from other characters appearing in the Infested Automaton event
- Fixed being unable to discard potions in the Punch Off event
- Fixed being unable to give the foul potion to the Merchant
Ancients:
- Fixed a crash when selecting Ancient relic options
- Fixed being able to navigate back to Neow's options while viewing the card library
- Fixed being able to slightly see the top of the next dialogue bubble before it animates in at the Ancients
- Fixed the Leafy Poultice relic transforming the upgraded Strikes and Defends granted by Neow's Talisman when you get both from Neow's Bones
- Fixed the Nutritious Soup option appearing in the Tezcatara screen when you have no Strikes
Multiplayer:
- Fixed the Pael's Legion and Vambrace relics not triggering when their owner applies Block to other players
- Fixed the Dense Vegetation event being able to appear when any player has 8 HP or less
- Fixed being able to start a loaded multiplayer game with only one player
- Fixed other players' HP bars going offscreen when resizing the window while in settings
- Fixed errors when players had square brackets in their name
- Fixed the "Show Multiplayer Drawings" checkbox not using its localized text
- Now showing the correct error message for a Steam multiplayer connection timeout (error 5008)
- Improved error reporting for a specific rare connection error
- Fixed a softlock related to using the Driftwood relic on your first run
Quick hotfix with a couple of Aeonglass-related fixes and some localization updates!
Enemies:
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WRITING:
- Updated translations for various languages
BUG FIXES:
Enemies:
- The player can no longer upgrade Wither status cards
- Wither status cards will no longer stick around in hand if they have Retain from something like the Runic Pyramid relic
It's time for another beta patch! A main focus of this one is enemy balance, including a rework of Infested Prism, more adjustments to Skulking Colony, and some changes to the new boss, Aeonglass. We've also got quite a few more Epoch art additions and more cool combat animations for some of the characters! Let's dive in...
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General:
Ancients:
Ironclad:
Silent:
Regent:
Necrobinder:
Defect:
Colorless Cards:
Potions & Relics:
Enemies:
General:
Ancients:
Necrobinder:
Silent:
Defect:
Colorless Cards:
Potions & Relics:
Enemies:
Events:
Multiplayer:
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CONTENT & BALANCE
General:
- If an enemy has Vulnerable and a player takes an extra turn via Pael's Eye relic, the enemy's Vulnerable amount no longer decrements before the player's extra turn
- This change also applies to other powers that decrement at the end of the enemy's turn (Frail, Intangible, Weak, etc.)
- This change also applies to other powers that decrement at the end of the enemy's turn (Frail, Intangible, Weak, etc.)
Ancients:
- Changed Neow's Scroll Boxes Silken Tress relics: swapped downsides and pools
Ironclad:
- Buffed Drum of Battle card: Energy gain on Exhaust effect now respects Replay and card play duplication effects like Duplicator potion
- Buffed Howl From Beyond card: trigger moved from start of turn -> end of turn
- Buffed Entrench card: can now gain extra Block from enchantments like Nimble
- Buffed Unrelenting card: damage increased from 12(18) -> 14(20)
Silent:
- Reworked and renamed Follow Through card:
- Rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
- Renamed -> Scare
- Rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
- Changed Predator card: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
- Buffed Pounce card: damage increased from 12(18) -> 14(20)
Regent:
- Buffed Furnace card: Forge increased from 4(6) -> 5(7)
- Nerfed Minion Sacrifice card: Block decreased from 9(12) -> 8(11)
- Changed Sealed Throne card: upgrade changed from Innate -> lowering Energy cost by 1
- Changed Astral Pulse card: damage changed from 14(18) -> 6x2(8x2)
Necrobinder:
- Buffed Death March card: additional damage increased from 3(4) -> 4(6)
- Nerfed Debilitate card: debuff decreased from 3(4) turns -> 2(3) turns
Defect:
- Changed Fusion card:
- Energy cost decreased from 2(1) -> 1
- Now Exhausts, and loses Exhaust on upgrade
- Energy cost decreased from 2(1) -> 1
- Buffed Synthesis card: damage increased from 12(18) -> 14(20)
- Nerfed Shatter card: damage decreased from 11(15) -> 7(11)
Colorless Cards:
- Nerfed Fasten card: additional Block decreased from 5(7) -> 4(6)
Potions & Relics:
- Buffed Mummified Hand relic: now randomly chooses cards in a way that's more favorable to the player
- Priority 1 is cards that currently cost 1+ AND with a base cost of 1+ before any current cost modifications
- Priority 2 is cards that currently cost 1+ regardless of base cost
- Priority 3 is cards with a base cost of 1+ that have been temporarily modified to cost 0
- If none of these priorities match, a completely random card in the player's hand is chosen
- Priority 1 is cards that currently cost 1+ AND with a base cost of 1+ before any current cost modifications
Enemies:
- Reworked Infested Prism
- Changed Aeonglass:
- Adjusted moveset
- Reworked Wither status and Withering Presence power
- Adjusted moveset
- Changed Haunted Ship: Ramming Speed move removed, now alternates between Swipe and Stomp instead (always starting with Swipe after Haunt)
- Changed Punch Construct:
- Fast Punch move now leads into Strong Punch instead of Strong Punch leading into Fast Punch
- Ready move now leads into Fast Punch
- Now applies Frail instead of Weak
- Fast Punch move now leads into Strong Punch instead of Strong Punch leading into Fast Punch
- Changed Skulking Colony:
- HP increased from 70(75) -> 75(80)
- Hardened Shell power increased from 15 -> 20
- Smash move removed, now uses Zoom move turns 1 and 2 instead
- No longer gains Block
- HP increased from 70(75) -> 75(80)
ART:
- Added new Ironclad heavy attack animation
- Added new Necrobinder cast animation
- Added new Regent Sovereign Blade animation
- Added Epoch art for:
- Booting Up
- Soup
- Poisoner
- Scribbles
- The Calm
- Booting Up
- Updated Epoch art for:
- Hello Hello!
- Friendship
- Hello Hello!
- Added alternate phobia mode art for:
- Fossil Stalker
- Haunted Ship
- Skulking Colony
- The Obscura
- Twig Slime M
- Fossil Stalker
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
- Improved Byrdonis's UX
- Territorial power's hovertip now mentions Byrdonis by name
- Hovering over Byrdonis now also shows the Strength hovertip
- Territorial power's hovertip now mentions Byrdonis by name
- Updated the Aeonglass boss node icon
- Added the following enemies to the Bestiary:
- Kaiser Crab arms
- Decimillipede
- Parafright
- Kaiser Crab arms
- Added global rank paginator and adjust arrow positions to leaderboards
- Leaderboards in game over screen have been moved a bit higher to allow room for toggle
- Ability to see other player scores near your score in leaderboards
- Added controller navigation for the modifer icons on the top bar
AUDIO:
- Added SFX for Skulking Colony
- Added SFX for when a card travels to a pile
WRITING:
- Fixed some inconsistencies in Jeweled Mask relic's wording
- Fixed Exterminate card's wording to be more consistent with Conflagration card
- The word "Power" is no longer keyworded in Lost Wisp relic's description
- Added more translated text for various languages
- Fixed formatting, numeric values, and punctuation in various languages
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Fixed vertical separators showing up for Daily Run screen even if no scores have been submitted
- Fixed an issue where, after switching between two languages and continuing a saved run, the hovertips for some items in the top bar could display in the wrong language
- Fixed an issue where, after winning an Elite combat and receiving a potion reward, your odds of receiving another potion reward in the next combat could sometimes go up instead of down
- Fixed being able to open the card inspection screen and toggle the View Upgrades button with the same button press
- Fixed broken controller navigation from relics to the reward screen if you clear out the top reward option
- Fixed cards in hand getting stuck if you try to play it while it is being transformed
- Fixed num keys for card selection not working if you mouse is too low on the screen
- If you load a save file with a deprecated boss, it can no longer roll the same double boss
- Controller input is now ignored when game window is unfocused
- Improved reliability of settings saves on startup
- Replayed cards show the appropriate amount of damage if powers wore off between replays
- Stopped cloud-syncing settings.save to prevent Steam Cloud conflicts
- Taking a card removal reward as the last reward no longer keeps the background faded out
Ancients:
- Fixed crash when selecting Ancient relic options
- Fixed Neow's Kaleidescope relic using up all of Silver Crucible relic's charges
- Fixed Neow's Silken Tress relic in multiplayer only affecting card rewards for the host
Necrobinder:
- Funerary Mask relic now shuffles Souls into Draw Pile before your hand is drawn
Silent:
- You can no longer play cards before Tools of the Trade triggers
Defect:
- Fixed spacing issue in the Consuming Shadow power hovertip
- Scrape no longer discards cards that cost zero Energy but have a Star cost
Colorless Cards:
- Fixed a softlock when playing Anointed card when your Draw Pile contains more cards than can fit in your hand
- Fixed being able to highlight creatures while the Purity card selection screen is open
Potions & Relics:
- Fixed broken controller nav from relics to card rewards after you reroll via the Driftwood relic
- Fixed completing Orrery relic's card selection in shop also buying/clicking on an item in the shop on controller
Enemies:
- Fixed Aeonglass first move intent showing a buff instead of a debuff
- Fixed Aeonglass background music
- Fixed Ceremonial Beast background music transition not lining up with when it gets stunned
- Fixed Living Fog missing its smoke
- Fixed Kaiser Crab's Rocket Claw's charge up SFX looping forever
- Fixed Test Subject starting phase 2 with extra strength if it is killed by Sleight of Flesh via Enfeebling Touch
- Fixed Thieving Hopper softlock if you have no cards for him to steal
- Fixed VFX glitch when Snapping Jaxfruit dies to the Reflect power
- Fixed Waterfall Giant not respawning in the Bestiary when you kill him
- Inklet and Vantom's Slippery power no longer loses a stack when fully blocking all damage from a hit
- Skulking Colony's per-turn damage cap now properly resets at the start of both the player's and the enemies' turns, fixing an issue where Poison damage counted towards the damage cap on the players' next turn
- Fixed softlock after defeating Infested Prism
- Zapbot's High Voltage power's hovertip now properly mentions that it gains Strength at the end of its turn instead of the start
- Added missing move names to the Bestiary
- Summoned monsters are now revealed in the Bestiary (you will have to defeat them once to reveal them)
- Hid Lagvulin Matriarch's zzz particle when it is no longer sleeping in the Bestiary
- Waterfall Giant steam spouts no longer misbehave after death animation in Bestiary
- Fixed a few issues with Test Subject in the Bestiary
Events:
- Fixed Crystal Sphere event potion rewards giving potions of the wrong rarity
- You no longer get rewards from the Battleworn Dummy event after saving and quitting
Multiplayer:
- Potions are now canceled if they're targeted on a creature that was killed by another player
- Corrected Test Subject HP scaling in multiplayer
- Fixed state divergences related to event combats
- Fixed state divergence that would occur after Crystal Sphere event
- Fixed possible state divergence when event option resolution took a long time
- Relics with turn-number-specific triggers like Candelabra no longer skip their trigger when another player takes an extra turn with Pael's Eye relic on the triggering turn
- Exiting the Merchant room no longer skips history recording for remaining players
- Orrery relic card rewards no longer report the wrong cards to other players
Quick hotfix today addressing several bugs related to the new Aeonglass boss and multiplayer state divergences.
- Updated the Aeonglass boss icon
Enemies:
- Fixed Aeonglass first move intent showing a buff instead of a debuff
- Fixed Aeonglass music not playing correctly
- Fixed Ceremonial Beast background music transition not lining up with when it gets stunned
Multiplayer:
- Fixed Silken Tress relic only affecting card rewards for the host
- Fixed state divergence when taking any rewards after a treasure room
- Fixed state divergence after Crystal Sphere event
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USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
- Updated the Aeonglass boss icon
BUG FIXES:
Enemies:
- Fixed Aeonglass first move intent showing a buff instead of a debuff
- Fixed Aeonglass music not playing correctly
- Fixed Ceremonial Beast background music transition not lining up with when it gets stunned
Multiplayer:
- Fixed Silken Tress relic only affecting card rewards for the host
- Fixed state divergence when taking any rewards after a treasure room
- Fixed state divergence after Crystal Sphere event
It's beta patch time!
For those new to Slay the Spire 2, keep in mind that these changes are pushed to our Beta branch to ensure stability, then eventually merged into the main branch. For those who play using controller, we highly recommend using the Beta branch as we're trying to resolve crashes related to selection screens when playing via controller/Steam Deck.
While our focus is still on fixing crashes and ensuring the game runs on as many hardware configurations as possible, let's look at some of this patch's highlights.
As you've probably noticed, we're moving to patch every 2 weeks rather than weekly as outlined in our Early Access Disclaimer. This may be a bit surprising as the first game patched weekly, but it was a lot of work so it really sucked.
Anyways, the 2-week cadence should make it less hectic for us, allowing bigger changes and more time working and polishing stuff before it goes out. It also allows more time for beta players to absorb and give feedback on changes.
This week brings... the Bestiary! While it's still an outline of what it will end up being, we hope that seeing these monsters and their animations and data (not yet implemented) all listed in a separate screen will be fun.
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Pro Tip: Press the 1 - 8 keys when you're viewing a monster.
Doormaker has been replaced with a brand new boss, Aeonglass! While Doormaker had interesting micro decisions in the fight, he was over the complexity threshold of what we want and had lingering issues. We decided that starting over fresh will let us hit what we actually want for an Act 3 boss.
General:
Silent:
Regent:
Defect:
Colorless Cards:
Enemies:
Ancients:
Events:
General:
Ironclad:
Silent:
Regent:
Necrobinder:
Colorless Cards:
Potions & Relics:
Ancients:
Enemies:
Multiplayer:
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For those new to Slay the Spire 2, keep in mind that these changes are pushed to our Beta branch to ensure stability, then eventually merged into the main branch. For those who play using controller, we highly recommend using the Beta branch as we're trying to resolve crashes related to selection screens when playing via controller/Steam Deck.
While our focus is still on fixing crashes and ensuring the game runs on as many hardware configurations as possible, let's look at some of this patch's highlights.
Bi-Weekly Patching
As you've probably noticed, we're moving to patch every 2 weeks rather than weekly as outlined in our Early Access Disclaimer. This may be a bit surprising as the first game patched weekly, but it was a lot of work so it really sucked.
Anyways, the 2-week cadence should make it less hectic for us, allowing bigger changes and more time working and polishing stuff before it goes out. It also allows more time for beta players to absorb and give feedback on changes.
The Bestiary
This week brings... the Bestiary! While it's still an outline of what it will end up being, we hope that seeing these monsters and their animations and data (not yet implemented) all listed in a separate screen will be fun.
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Pro Tip: Press the 1 - 8 keys when you're viewing a monster.
Doormaker Out, Aeonglass In
Doormaker has been replaced with a brand new boss, Aeonglass! While Doormaker had interesting micro decisions in the fight, he was over the complexity threshold of what we want and had lingering issues. We decided that starting over fresh will let us hit what we actually want for an Act 3 boss.
CONTENT & BALANCE:
General:
- The Bestiary is now available in the Compendium
Silent:
- Nerfed Blade of Ink card: Inky enchantment damage decreased from +2 -> +1
Regent:
- Slightly reworked Sword Sage card:
- Old: Sword Sage - Power - Cost 2(1) - Rare - "Sovereign Blade now hits an additional time."
- New: Sword Sage - Power - Cost 2(1) - Rare - "Sovereign Blade gains Replay 1."
- Among other things, this means that Sword Sage card now has synergy with Parry card
- Old: Sword Sage - Power - Cost 2(1) - Rare - "Sovereign Blade now hits an additional time."
- Nerfed Bulwark card: Block decreased from 13(16) -> 12(15)
- Buffed Crescent Spear card: base damage increased from 6 -> 8
- Nerfed Patter card: Block gain decreased from 9(11) -> 8(10)
- Buffed Royalties card: Gold Gain from 30(35) -> 30(40)
Defect:
- Buffed Infused Core relic: now also gains "Lighting Orbs deal 1 additional damage."
- Buffed Hyperbeam: damage increased from 26(34) -> 28(36)
- Buffed Shatter card: now Evokes all of your Orbs twice
- Buffed Tesla Coil+ card: damage decreased from 6 -> 4, but Lightning Triggers increased from once -> twice
- Buffed Uproar card: damage increased from 5(7) -> 6(8)
Colorless Cards:
- Buffed Gold Axe card: in multiplayer, now deals damage equal to the number of cards played by ALL players, not just cards played by its owner
Enemies:
- Reworked Doormaker to a new boss, Aeonglass
- Changed Fossil Stalker: in multiplayer, now gains a set amount of Strength if it hits any player, instead of gaining Strength for each player hit
- Changed Haunted Ship: now applies 3 Weak on Turn 1 instead of applying Weak when it attacks
- Buffed Soul Fysh: Scream move damage increased from 11(12) -> 13(15)
Ancients:
- Reworked Tezcatara's Pumpkin Candle relic
- Old: "Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3."
- New: "Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes after 5 combats. Can be Kindled at rest sites."
- Old: "Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3."
- Added new Neow relics:
- Kaleidoscope (temp name) - "Upon pickup, gain 2 card rewards with cards from other characters."
- Fishing Rod - "Every 3 normal combats, Upgrade a random card in your Deck."
- Silken Tress - "Enchant all cards in the first card reward with Glam."
- Kaleidoscope (temp name) - "Upon pickup, gain 2 card rewards with cards from other characters."
- Moved Tezcatara's Seal of Gold relic to option 3 so that it is in the same pool as Pumpkin Candle
Events:
- Something special now happens if you have multiple Lantern Key cards (doesn't apply to multiplayer)
ART:
- Added art for Friendship Epoch
- Added new power art for Smoggy
- Added multi-hit animation for Corpse Slug
- Added unstun animation for Rock Bowlbug
- Tweaked Vantom explosion to look right on shrunken Vantom
- Added a phobia mode alternate portrait for the Zen Weaver event
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
- Limited the total number of cards rendered when playing the Clone animation at a rest site to 15
- Added translation issue dropdown option to the in-game feedback form
- Outline darkness of continue button now matches the next dialogue arrow
- Adjusted Gremlin Mercenary combat enemy hitboxes, speech bubble, and intent positions
- Skulking Colony's health bar now changes color to indicate that it cannot take any more damage this turn
- When hovering over stale dialogues at Ancients, all of the dialogues will become opaque instead of just the one currently being hovered over
- Added a more informative error popup for Steam BadCert error in multiplayer
- If you move a current_run.save with a modded character in it back to unmodded, you get an error instead of a black screen
WRITING:
- Reworded Axebot death message to reflect that there is only 1 of them now
- Added more translated text for various languages
- Fixed translation errors in:
- German
- Latin American Spanish
- Castilian Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Thai
- Turkish
- German
AUDIO:
- Added Soul Fysh background music
- Added Kaiser Crab background music
- Added Kaiser Crab SFX
- Added hyper beam SFX
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Fixed save files being lost or corrupted after a PC crash, blue screen, or power outage
- Fixed black screen softlock when Steam would disconnect during room transitions
- Fixed the Sealed Deck modifier not being affected by the multi-character card modifiers
- Night Terrors modifier can no longer kill you
- The Perfect badge is no longer awarded if you abandon run at a boss
- Fixed being unable to navigate off of top bar in shop room
- Fixed being unable to controller navigate through rest site options when player has 2 rows of relics
- Fixed controller navigation in shop if you buy out all relics and colorless cards
- The game no longer rapidly switches between "Controller Detected" and "Mouse Detected" when playing with a controller
- Fixed being able to start a single player run via controller while the Ascension tutorial was open
- Fixed potion hovertip not appearing if you press "b" in the potion popup screen
- Fixed errors in input settings for new keybindings added after saving
- Fixed rare problem where feedback screen is stuck open on game launch
- Fixed rare softlock when playing Compact with status cards in hand
- Fixed softlock after the popup about shuffling in the tutorial
- Fixed Steam cloud sync errors when syncing many run history files
- Fixed duplicate files appearing in run history after Steam cloud sync
- Restored the default rendering backend to D3D12 for Intel 620 GPUs
- Fixed audio staying muted after pressing volume keys or alt-tabbing on Linux
- Fixed crash on Linux when ICU libraries are unavailable
Ironclad:
- To avoid softlocking after setting up an infinite loop (i.e. Hellraiser + 2 Pommel Strike cards), Hellraiser will only play 9 cards per turn if all enemies have infinite HP
- Hellraiser card now properly plays cards containing "Strike" against enemies with infinite HP
- Hellraiser card now properly plays cards containing "Strike" against enemies with infinite HP
Silent:
- Fixed Fan of Knives card VFX not playing
Regent:
- Fixed not being able to select cards with controller when you choose all the cards in your hand via GUARDS!!! card
Necrobinder:
- Fixed Fetch card not glowing gold if it is drawn by Gambling Chip relic
- Fixed Enfeebling Touch power causing Ceremonial Beast to gain Strength after you stun it
Colorless Cards:
- Fixed VFX sometimes failing to appear during Rolling Boulder power effect
Potions & Relics:
- Players are now disallowed from throwing the Foul Potion if the Merchant inventory is open
- Using Foul Potion on the Merchant no longer freezes the game on controller
- Bookmark relic is now able to properly apply its cost-reduction effect to a card that has been retained by a "Retain your Hand" effect like Equilibrium card
- Fixed Beetle Juice potion causing Vantom's tail to become visibly cut off
- If the player has The Boot relic and deals Skulking Colony 1-4 damage, they now properly take 5 damage
Ancients:
- Fixed issue where the top of the next dialogue bubble was slightly visible before it would animate in at Ancients
- Fixed being able to navigate back to Neow's blessing options while looking at the Card Library
- Fixed card inspection button blocking "accept" hotkey when looking at the Pandora's Box relic card view screen
- Fixed issue where playing Wish card via controller would immediately select a card in the grid on the same button press
Enemies:
- Fixed Kaiser Crab appearing if you load into an already completed boss room
- Recentered Axebot in fight so it looks like there is supposed to be only one of them
- Fixed a softlock that occurred if the player set up an infinite against Skulking Colony
Multiplayer:
- Fixed player names with brackets (e.g. clan tags like ) causing errors in multiplayer
- Fixed state divergence related to Mad Science, Juggling, and mixed combat speeds
- Fixed Strangle power proccing off of other player's card plays
- Fixed occasional black screen when loading into a saved multiplayer combat
- Fixed occasional state divergence caused by Stampede + Headbutt cards
- Other players' HP bars no longer go offscreen when resizing the window while in settings
- Disallow War Historian Repy duplicate Lantern Key card bonus if you are in multiplayer
Hey Slayers, we're back to updating the beta branch this week! Here's an overview of our goals with this patch.
On Ascensions:
When it comes to general balance, the base difficulty is quite hard right now. We're continuously adjusting this baseline difficulty to make it more accessible for a wide range of players, while also continuing to deliver a challenging game at the highest Ascensions.
Similarly to the first game, completing runs of Slay the Spire 2 at the highest difficulty should feel like a monumental achievement for a fraction of players devoted to understanding the ins and outs of the game's mechanics. Upon beating your first run, we added a message to communicate this intention for the Ascension system.
On Doormaker:
We are currently monitoring the Doormaker and looking at a combination in-game feedback, social media posts, and metrics. We want to give players time to adjust a bit, otherwise we'll be balancing around kneejerk reactions. Currently, from looking at millions of runs, Doormaker's overall difficulty/winrate is in a good place (slightly weaker than the other Act 3 bosses both in kill rate and damage dealt). However, we do want to ensure that its mechanics aren't too abrasive against certain playstyles.
Miscellaneous:
In other news, we've also got a few card reworks, new Badges, and a balance pass (notably, a Neow's Fury buff is here). One oft-requested feature we've added is an error message when in-game feedback is not received (for instance, if a player is offline), so that should make it clearer when your feedback was actually able to be properly submitted. We've also got a ton of fixes for various crashes and bugs as well as cool new art for some cards (and a certain Ancient)!
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General:
Ironclad:
Anthony's note: Drum of Battle was previously the lowest picked Uncommon Ironclad card, and generally unpopular. This rework attempts to put it into a more interesting spot and adds some synergy to Exhaust decks. Conflagration had low pick rates and middling win rates for a Rare, while also feeling more like an effect that belonged on the Silent (caring about number of card plays). It has been reworked into a simple AOE card that can act as a Strength payout. The numbers will likely need tuning to get into a desired spot, but this should feel like a more appropriate part of the Ironclad's kit.
Regent:
Anthony's note: Parry's numbers are looking correct now, but we think it will be more fun showing the effect on the Blade itself. Relics and powers now being able to interact with the Block should open up new fun interactions. As a result of this change, its numbers may need further tweaking in the future, but we will start with it as is.
Enemies:
General:
Silent:
Regent:
Ancients:
Enemies:
Anthony's note: We are slowly starting the process of making lower Ascensions a little easier, and high Ascensions slightly harder. We want to do this gradually instead of all at once.
Events:
Multiplayer:
General:
Ironclad:
Silent:
Regent:
Necrobinder:
Defect:
Potions & Relics:
Ancients:
Enemies:
Events:
Multiplayer:
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On Ascensions:
When it comes to general balance, the base difficulty is quite hard right now. We're continuously adjusting this baseline difficulty to make it more accessible for a wide range of players, while also continuing to deliver a challenging game at the highest Ascensions.
Similarly to the first game, completing runs of Slay the Spire 2 at the highest difficulty should feel like a monumental achievement for a fraction of players devoted to understanding the ins and outs of the game's mechanics. Upon beating your first run, we added a message to communicate this intention for the Ascension system.
On Doormaker:
We are currently monitoring the Doormaker and looking at a combination in-game feedback, social media posts, and metrics. We want to give players time to adjust a bit, otherwise we'll be balancing around kneejerk reactions. Currently, from looking at millions of runs, Doormaker's overall difficulty/winrate is in a good place (slightly weaker than the other Act 3 bosses both in kill rate and damage dealt). However, we do want to ensure that its mechanics aren't too abrasive against certain playstyles.
Miscellaneous:
In other news, we've also got a few card reworks, new Badges, and a balance pass (notably, a Neow's Fury buff is here). One oft-requested feature we've added is an error message when in-game feedback is not received (for instance, if a player is offline), so that should make it clearer when your feedback was actually able to be properly submitted. We've also got a ton of fixes for various crashes and bugs as well as cool new art for some cards (and a certain Ancient)!
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CONTENT:
General:
- Added three more Badges
- Damage Leader - Dealt the most damage to enemies in multiplayer.
- Debuffer - Applied the most Debuffs in multiplayer.
- C-c-c-Combo - Played 20 cards in a single turn.
- Damage Leader - Dealt the most damage to enemies in multiplayer.
Ironclad:
- Reworked Conflagration card:
- Old: Conflagration - Attack - Cost 1 - Rare - Deal 8(9) damage to ALL enemies. Deals 2(3) additional damage for each other Attack you've played this turn.
- New: Conflagration - Attack - Cost 1 - Rare - Deal 2 damage to ALL enemies 4(5) times.
- Old: Conflagration - Attack - Cost 1 - Rare - Deal 8(9) damage to ALL enemies. Deals 2(3) additional damage for each other Attack you've played this turn.
- Reworked Drum of Battle card:
- Old: Drum of Battle - Power - Cost 0 - Uncommon - Draw 2(3) cards. At the start of your turn, Exhaust the top card of your Draw Pile.
- New: Drum of Battle - Skill - Cost 1 - Uncommon - Draw 2 cards. When this card is Exhausted, gain 2(3) Energy.
- Old: Drum of Battle - Power - Cost 0 - Uncommon - Draw 2(3) cards. At the start of your turn, Exhaust the top card of your Draw Pile.
Anthony's note: Drum of Battle was previously the lowest picked Uncommon Ironclad card, and generally unpopular. This rework attempts to put it into a more interesting spot and adds some synergy to Exhaust decks. Conflagration had low pick rates and middling win rates for a Rare, while also feeling more like an effect that belonged on the Silent (caring about number of card plays). It has been reworked into a simple AOE card that can act as a Strength payout. The numbers will likely need tuning to get into a desired spot, but this should feel like a more appropriate part of the Ironclad's kit.
Regent:
- Reworked Parry card:
- Old: Parry - Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - Whenever you play Sovereign Blade, gain 10(14) Block.
- New: Parry - Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - Sovereign Blade now gains 10(14) Block.
- This means Parry's Block is displayed on the Sovereign Blade card and is now also affected by powers like Dexterity and Frail.
- Old: Parry - Uncommon - Power - Cost 1 - Whenever you play Sovereign Blade, gain 10(14) Block.
Anthony's note: Parry's numbers are looking correct now, but we think it will be more fun showing the effect on the Blade itself. Relics and powers now being able to interact with the Block should open up new fun interactions. As a result of this change, its numbers may need further tweaking in the future, but we will start with it as is.
Enemies:
- Reworked Axebots combat to have just a single, more challenging Axebot
BALANCE:
General:
- Terminal run modifier can no longer bring a player below 1 HP
Silent:
- Changed Nightmare card: if you play it and select a card with an Affliction on it, that Affliction is now removed from the copies added to your hand the following turn
- Buffed Untouchable card: upgraded Block gain increased From +2 -> +3
Regent:
- Changed Tyranny card: now triggers before Bombardment card
- This means that if, for example, Tyranny exhausts Bombardment, Bombardment will be played immediately after
- This means that if, for example, Tyranny exhausts Bombardment, Bombardment will be played immediately after
- Nerfed Reflect card: Block decreased from 17(21) -> 16(20)
Ancients:
- Buffed Neow's Booming Conch relic: in addition to drawing extra cards, now gains 1 Energy at the start of Elite combats
- Buffed Neow's Fury card: instead of selecting randomly now allows you to choose which 2 cards will be put into your Hand from your Discard Pile (you may also now choose fewer than 2 cards if you want)
- Buffed Tezcatara's Nutritious Soup relic: in addition to making your Strikes cost 0 and giving them Eternal, now makes all your Strikes deal 3 additional damage
Enemies:
- Nerfed Ruby Raider Assassin: damage decreased from 11(12) -> 10(11)
- Changed Scrolls of Biting: have slightly less HP at low Ascension but slightly higher HP at high Ascension, changed from 31(32) - 38(39) -> 30(33)-37(39)
- Changed Owl Magistrate: now has slightly less HP at low Ascension, but slightly higher HP at high Ascension, changed from 234(243) -> 231(247)
- Changed Slimed Berserker: now has slightly less HP at low Ascension, but slightly higher HP at high Ascension, changed from 266(276) -> 261(281)
- Nerfed Vantom at lower Ascensions:
- Dismember move damage decreased from 27(30) -> 26(30)
- Slippery power goes from 9 -> 8(9)
- Dismember move damage decreased from 27(30) -> 26(30)
- Nerfed Waterfall Giant: now heals less at lower Ascension, HP healed changed from 15 -> 10(15)
Anthony's note: We are slowly starting the process of making lower Ascensions a little easier, and high Ascensions slightly harder. We want to do this gradually instead of all at once.
Events:
- Changed Slippery Bridge event: will no longer offer to remove the same card multiple times unless it has already offered to remove all other cards in your deck at least once
Multiplayer:
- Nerfed multiplayer scaling for enemy Artifact, Slippery, and Skittish powers
- Stratagem card is no longer banned from the colorless card pool during multiplayer runs (this banning was originally due to a bug with Stratagem in multiplayer, which has now been fixed)
- Buffed Tag Team card: Replay effect now triggers on "deal damage to ALL enemies" attacks too
ART:
- Added portrait art for the following cards:
- Feral
- Not Yet
- Spite
- Fight Through
- Hailstorm
- Synchronize
- Iteration
- Voltaic
- Apparition
- Abrasive
- Feral
- Revised Neow's Fury artwork (is now centered)
- Added Vakuu background art and VFX
- Added Skulking Colony animations
- Updated art for the following enemies:
- Tunneler
- Entomancer
- Mawler
- Tunneler
- Updated animation for the following enemies:
- Vantom
- Ceremonial Beast
- Entomancer
- Vantom
- Repositioned Sludge Spinner death landing spot
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:
- Added Ascension first-time tutorial popup for single player and multiplayer
- An error is now displayed when Steam crashes
- Feedback tool now displays an error if we didn't receive the feedback
- Adjusted hitbox, speech, and intent position of Underdocks Cultists
- Fixed intents being positioned too high or too low in multi-enemy combats
- Bestiary button now looks more locked (similar to how other buttons look locked)
- The player's hand now animates out of the way while it is the Enemy turn
- Updated Ancient card text backgrounds to fit more text and to be very slightly darker and embossed
- Set up controller navigation for Badges in the game over screen
- Added basic controller navigation to Badges in the run history screen
- Added controller navigation for the player info icons in the run history
- Improved controller navigation in the Fake Merchant shop
- Pause menu button controller navigation now wraps
WRITING:
- Brilliant Scarf relic description now specifies that it only counts cards played "from your hand" so it's clear that it doesn't count auto-played cards
- Reaper Form card wording has been changed to make it clear that the Doom is applied by Reaper Form's power rather than by the played card:
- Old: "Whenever Attacks deal damage, they also apply that much Doom."
- New: "Whenever Attacks deal damage, apply that much Doom."
- Old: "Whenever Attacks deal damage, they also apply that much Doom."
- Added translations for various languages
- Fixed various translation errors
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Score separator lines are no longer shown while fetching score or if it fails
- Effects that make the next card free to play (Unrelenting card, Void Form card, etc.) now properly take precedence over effects that increase the cost of all cards (Entangled affliction, Spiked Gauntlets relic, Borrowed Time card, etc.)
- Fixed combat softlock that could occur after returning to main menu and resuming a run
- Fixed crash when applying powers to dying creatures
- Fixed crash when closing the game during startup before saves are initialized
- Fixed crash when upgrading a card at rest site
- Fixed error caused by offscreen Epoch indicator on Timeline screen
- Fixed error when un-focusing Potion slot during Potion removal
- Fixed Linux crash during combat when UI elements are removed mid-frame
- Fixed crash when entering rooms
- Fixed an issue with the Game Over screen after discovering multiple enemies while playing in Polish
- Fixed being able to target dead enemies with controller
- Fixed crash when opening card pile screen while targeting an enemy with controller
- Fixed rare combat errors that could occur when re-entering combat
- Fixed rare softlock related to writing debug files
- Fixed softlock on run histories from older versions of the game
- Made save operations fault-tolerant to prevent softlocks
- Score is correct when at ascension 10
- Fixed wrong floor count when submitting Daily score
Ironclad:
- Howl From Beyond card now plays from the Exhaust pile after you've drawn your hand instead of before
- Fixed Anger card played by Havoc also Exhausting on play
- Fixed being able to select an upgraded card with Armaments card if it is added to your hand by Largesse+ card
- Not Yet card can no longer be generated via a Skill Potion
Silent:
- Fixed being able to skip the Survivor card discard selection via the peek button
Regent:
- Bombardment card now plays from the Exhaust pile after you've drawn your hand instead of before
- I Am Invincible card now properly triggers before you've discarded your hand instead of after
- Regalite relic no longer gains Block from enemies applying statuses
- Summon Forth card now properly puts existing Sovereign Blades into your Hand before Forging instead of after
Necrobinder:
- Fixed crash when Osty dies during scene transition
- Fixed Reave card always bottom-decking the Soul card it creates
Defect:
- Fixed Beckon still damaging the player if the combat is ended by Lightning orbs
Potions & Relics:
- Fixed The Boot relic amplifying Bad Luck curse's damage from 1 to 5 when the player has Intangible
- Self-Forming Clay relic is no longer triggered by Terminal modifier's max HP loss
Ancients:
- Players can no longer roll Tezcatara's Nutritious Soup blessing if there are no Strikes in their deck
- Fixed Vakuu's Whispering Earring not correctly playing Stardust card
- Leafy Poutice relic no longer transforms the upgraded Strikes/Defends from Neow's Talisman relic if you get both from Neow's Bones relic
- Unceasing Top relic now triggers properly when Vakuu's Whispering Earring relic plays the last card in your hand
Enemies:
- Fixed being unable to discard potions in the Punch Off event
- Fixed Parafright illusion keeping its negative Strength from Dark Shackles when you kill it for the turn
Events:
- Fixed being unable to give the Foul Potion to the Fake Merchant
- Fixed cards from other classes appearing in the Infested Automaton event
- Fixed softlock if you somehow die in the Battleworn Dummy event fight
- All Spoils Map cards are now removed if you complete the quest and you somehow have multiple
- You now get 600 gold for each copy of the Spoils Map quest card you have
Multiplayer:
- Fixed a rare issue in multiplayer when playing Armaments card during the Knight Gang encounter
- Fixed Pael's Legion and Vambrace relics not proccing from the owner applying Block to other players
- Dense Vegetation can no longer appear if any player has less than 8 HP
- Fixed softlock related to using Driftwood relic on your first run
- Fixed rare softlock loading into a treasure room when a teammate is using a controller
- Fixed state divergence related to using a potion just before combat began
- Improved error reporting for a specific rare connection error
- You can no longer buy items at the shop while transitioning rooms
- Pillar of Creation, Supermassive, and Arsenal cards now proc for the player that played Largesse card rather than the player who gets the generated card
- The correct error message is now shown for Steam multiplayer connection timeout (error 5008)
- "Show Multiplayer Drawings" tickbox is now correctly localized
- You can no longer start a loaded multiplayer game with only one person
Hey Slayers, we've got a quick beta branch hotfix for you today! There won't be a big beta patch this week, but you can expect the beta content, changes, and fixes to come to the main branch soon.
BUG FIXES:
General:
Multiplayer:
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BUG FIXES:
General:
- Fixed occasional crash when upgrading a card at rest site
- Fixed crash that would sometimes occur when entering rooms
- When transitioning between rooms, old assets were being freed immediately while the game was still rendering them on screen. This caused rare crashes to desktop, most often when entering events, shops, or campsites. The fix defers the actual freeing to the end of the frame, after rendering is complete.
- When transitioning between rooms, old assets were being freed immediately while the game was still rendering them on screen. This caused rare crashes to desktop, most often when entering events, shops, or campsites. The fix defers the actual freeing to the end of the frame, after rendering is complete.
- Fixed an issue with the Game Over screen after discovering multiple enemies while playing in Polish
- Fixed rare combat errors that could occur when re-entering combat
- Fixed softlock on run histories from older versions of the game
- Not Yet card can no longer be generated in combat by effects like Skill Potion
- Score is now correct when at Ascension 10
Multiplayer:
- Colorful Philosophers event can no longer be encountered if a player has only Ironclad unlocked
- Fixed curse mismatching when some players would take Neow's Bones relic
- Fixed state divergence when Neow's Bones relic would trigger multiple reward screens
- Fixed not being able to load into a Daily multiplayer run
Current Release
Build 23811903
Uploaded Jun 20, 2026
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10 (64-bit)
CPU
Dual-core 2.0 GHz
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
DirectX 12 or Vulkan compatible, 1 GB VRAM
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run SlayTheSpire2.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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