Slay the Spire 2 Releases New Character and Modes

CONTENT & BALANCE:

General:

• New character: The Fool
• New game mode: Dread
• New game mode: Blitz
• Rest sites can now appear one floor earlier in every act

Ancients:

• Buffed Neow’s Dowsing Rod relic:
  • Its Dowsing card now transforms after 4 ? rooms instead of 5
  • The ? room that transforms it can no longer be a combat
• Nerfed Nonupeipe’s Brilliant Scarf relic. From 5th card -> 6th card.

Events:

• Added Byrdpip evolution.
• Added new Underdocks events:
  • Waterfall of Obvious Secrets
  • Wuppy in Trouble
• Added new Act 2 event: Museum of Torture
• Added new Act 3 events:
  • Shrine of the Warlord
  • Thermae Nonupeipe
• Added new event cards:
  • Dingy Dagger (Waterfall of Obvious Secrets)
  • Mighty Weapon and Mighty Shield (Shrine of the Warlord)
• Changed Doors of Light and Dark event: the Light Door now Upgrades 1 card of your choice instead of 2 random cards
• Changed Zen Weaver event’s Breathing Techniques option:
  • Gold cost decreased from 50 → 25
  • Now adds 1 Enlightenment card instead of 2
  • Enlightenment card no longer has Exhaust
• Nerfed Waterlogged Scriptorium event: Prickly Sponge Gold cost increased from 99 → 120

Enemies:

• Changed Axebot: HP is now a fixed value instead of a range, from 70-78 → 70 (76-86 → 80 at A8)
• Changed Infested Prism:
  • No longer uses its Radiate move. Its pattern is now Jab, Jab, Whirlwind, Pulsate
  • Pulsate move no longer gains 20 Block (22 at A8). It now applies 1 Vulnerable instead
• Buffed Tunneler: Attack from Below move renamed to From Below, and its damage increased from 23 → 24 (26 → 28 at A9)

Colorless Cards:

• Added new Colorless card: My Shinies
• Nerfed Salvo card: damage decreased from 12(16) → 10(14)

Ironclad:

• Reworked Expect a Fight card: from Uncommon – Skill – Cost 3 – “Gain 15(16) Block. Gains 5(8) additional Block for each Strength you have.” → Uncommon – Skill – Cost 3 – “Gain 15(20) Block. Attacks in your Hand cost 1 less Energy until played.”
• Nerfed Forgotten Ritual card: reverted to only gaining 3(4) Energy if you Exhausted a card this turn

Silent:

• Reworked Expertise card: from Uncommon – Skill – Cost 1 – “Draw 2(3) cards. They gain Retain this turn.” → Uncommon – Skill – Cost 1 – “Draw 2(3) cards. Retain your Hand this turn.”
• Reworked Memento Mori card: from Uncommon – Attack – Cost 1 – “Deal 9(11) damage. Deals 4(5) additional damage for each card discarded this turn.” → Uncommon – Attack – Cost 3 – “Sly. Deal 19(23) damage to the enemy with the lowest HP.”
• Buffed Speedster card: damage increased from 2 → 3
• Nerfed Phantom Blades card: additional Shiv damage decreased from 9(12) → 8(11)

Regent:

• Nerfed CHARGE!! card: Minion Dive Bomb damage decreased from 13(16) → 11(13)

Defect:

• Buffed Power Cell relic: now picks zero-cost cards without Innate before Innate ones

Potions & Relics:

• Added new event relics:
  • Wuppy (Wuppy in Trouble)
  • Obsidian Vice, Thumbscrew and Tormentous Collar (Museum of Torture)
  • Mighty Wings (Shrine of the Warlord)
  • Bath Towel and Bath Robes (Thermae Nonupeipe)
• Buffed Ringing Triangle relic: now gives Retain Hand at the start of combat, so it stacks with other Retain Hand effects like Equilibrium

WRITING:

• Improved wording for the Tracking card: Weak enemies take 50% more damage from “your” Attacks (was “from Attacks”)
• Renamed the Kaiser Crab boss’s Rocket moves: Targeting Reticle → Calculating, Precision Beam → Precise Smash, Laser → Rocket Claw
• Fixed some typos in The Round Tea Party event
• The buff from the Ambergris potion is now called Extra Turn

USER EXPERIENCE & INTERFACE:

• Opening a run saved by a newer version of the game now tells you to update the game instead of reporting a corrupt save
• The character select screen for Standard runs now starts on the character you last played (Random included), remembered separately for singleplayer and multiplayer
• Improved controller navigation at the Merchant: rows now wrap around from one end to the other, and moving between the cards, relics, potions and card removal goes to the nearest item
• Inspecting a card now shows its high-resolution portrait
• Relics revealed from treasure chests now show their high-resolution art
• Fiend Fire card now shows how many times it will hit while in combat

ART:

• Added portrait art for the following cards:
  • Blaze
  • Outrage
  • Sidestep
  • Abundance
  • Dowsing
• Added art for the following Epochs:
  • Ancients
  • Bigger Prey
  • Buy Something!
  • Confrontation
  • My Face
  • Resolving Bugs
  • Snuffed
  • The Daily
  • The Spire
  • Underdocks
• Enhanced the Infested Prism death animation

AUDIO:

• Added a second background music track to the Underdocks
• Added music and voice lines for the Welcome to Wongo’s event
• Added voice sound effects and ambience for Tezcatara
• Added a sound effect for The Architect‘s lightning attack
• Added or updated sound effects for the following enemies:
  • Aeonglass
  • Corpse Slug
  • Haunted Ship
  • Living Shield
  • Mawler
  • Nibbit
  • Snapping Jaxfruit

BUG FIXES:

General:

• Fixed an error when using Save and Quit while the game over screen was still animating the run summary
• Opening a run or a Run History entry on an older version of the game no longer deletes it on your other devices
• Fixed feedback screenshots from ultrawide screens being sent blurry and larger than intended
• Fixed in-game feedback sometimes failing to send
• Fixed the feedback response text box not working in Keyboard Only mode
• Made a rare crash to desktop during creature animations less likely
• Seeded runs are more consistent:
  • Events and the merchant no longer change future card reward rolls
  • The following now use the correct random streams: Beat Down, Uproar, Stampede, Entropy and Catastrophe cards, the Entropic Brew potion, the Alchemical Coffer, Delicate Frond and Phial Holster relics, and the Thieving Hopper
• Two players who launched the game in the same second no longer get the same run seed
• Fixed the Skip button on card choice screens not being localized
• Fixed a shop item losing its tooltip when the mouse and the focus were both on it
• Fixed the shop sometimes offering two of the same card when a Daily or Custom run has a character cards modifier
• Fixed seeing several “Hatch” options at rest sites with more than one Byrdonis Egg card in your deck (e.g. from the Hoarder modifier)
• Fixed the Dowsing card’s transform animation not playing right after a combat
• Cards that are downgraded now keep keywords added by other effects (e.g. the Ghost Seed relic)
• Fixed seeing duplicate visuals for the same card in your hand
• Fixed the ascension tutorial popup blocking the character unlock animation
• Fixed right-click to inspect a card not working during the Neow’s Fury card selection
• Daily scores now post to the day you played, even when the daily resets while the game is open
• Fixed the daily leaderboard letting you page to days that have not happened yet
• Fixed Top Bar button hotkeys breaking after using the share button on the map

Ironclad:

• Fixed a copy of Stomp card made by Juggling card not keeping the cost reduction from the original

Silent:

• Fixed cards copied by Nightmare card keeping “free this turn” from a Bullet Time card played the turn before
• Fixed Echoing Slash card not playing its attack animation

Defect:

• One for All card now only boosts the damage of autoplayed cards that would have cost 0
• Fixed Helix Drill card hitting the wrong number of times when its cost was raised by Transfigure card and it was then made free
• Fixed Imitation Learning card losing a charge when its copy could not be played (e.g. a Bound card after you had already played one that turn)

Regent:

• Foregone Conclusion card no longer skips next-turn draw effects like Guiding Star card
• Plot card now highlights its upgraded draw count in upgrade previews
• Fixed the Pale Blue Dot counter not visually resetting at the start of the turn

Colorless Cards:

• Effects that trigger on attack damage (e.g. Reaper Form and Envenom cards) now trigger on Omnislice card’s second hit
• Fixed Catastrophe card letting you go over the 6 card limit of the Velvet Choker relic

Ancients:

• Losing HP from Tezcatara’s Brightest Flame card no longer uses up Buffer

Potions & Relics:

• Regal Pillow relic’s heal amount is now shown in green like other healing relics
• Fixed the Miniature Cannon relic making a downgraded attack sometimes show its damage in red
• Using an Ambergris potion no longer uses up the Pael’s Eye relic’s extra turn when you end your turn without playing any cards
• Fixed the Letter Opener relic flashing outside of combat
• Fixed the Kusarigama relic flashing after combat ended
• Fixed the Pael’s Legion relic doubling the Block of both cards when a Block card autoplayed another one (e.g. Survivor card discarding Untouchable card)
• Fixed a Music Box relic copy of a card duplicated by the History Course relic being removed from combat after it was played
• The power made free by the Jeweled Mask relic now stays free for the whole combat instead of only turn 1

Enemies:

• Ceremonial Beast no longer regains its Strength at the end of Plow if it was stunned during the attack (e.g. by Thorns)
• Fixed Gas Bomb triggering the Gremlin Horn relic twice when it exploded after already being killed by Reflect or Thorns
• Thieving Hopper can no longer steal Quest cards
• Fixed a card copied by the Hoarder modifier not getting its 2 extra copies when taken back from the Thieving Hopper
• With the Bing Bong relic, a card taken back from the Thieving Hopper is now always copied

Multiplayer:

• When the Whispering Earring relic plays Tutor card, the other player still gets to choose
• Fixed several softlocks with Tutor card, including one when it was played at the start of the turn
• Potions can no longer be used or discarded while moving between rooms. Fixed a potion used just before a room change taking effect at different times for different players, and a softlock where a potion used just before a fight could stop the enemy turn from starting
• Osty no longer becomes interactable by other players while reviving
• Fixed enemies losing Shrink from the Beetle Juice potion when the player who used it died
• Fixed Act 3 maps sometimes having no rest sites before the final row
• Doll Room whispers no longer keep playing after the host leaves the game
• Sic ‘Em card is now tracked separately for each player
• The Book Repair Knife relic no longer triggers when an ally dies to Doom
• Fixed a softlock when a player killed themselves with Brand card
• When hovering an ally’s enchanted card that gains energy, the ally’s energy icons are now shown instead of yours
• With the Night Terrors modifier, the Mend rest site option now says the mended player will lose 5 Max HP
• Hosting a Daily Run no longer times out a friend who joins right away
• Joining a friend on a different game version now shows the right error
• The “ascension unlocked” text now only shows for players who actually unlocked it

Controller:

• Right stick move prompts in the Bestiary now work with Steam Input
• Fixed the hand pulling focus away from what you were hovering when a turn starts
• Fixed navigation breaking if you selected a targeted card during the Phrog Parasite death animation
• Fixed being unable to reach the top bar when the Lord’s Parasol relic gave you Cauldron in the shop
• Fixed a softlock when pressing right mouse button while selecting a non-targeted card
• The daily leaderboard’s Global Rank checkbox no longer responds while it is hidden

PERFORMANCE:

• Reduced the hitch when entering the Waterfall Giant fight
• Compressed the textures for Ancient backgrounds, high-resolution relics, Timeline art, the character select screen and some enemy effects, so they load faster and use less memory