2024年5月17日

Hey everyone, latest build is **live!**

**Build links:**
· [Windows]REDACTED
· [Linux]REDACTED

**CONTENT:**

Ancients:
· A new Ancient, **Tezcatara** enters the Spire.
· **Pael** offers two new boons, his **Wing** and **Eye**.
· **Vlad** offers two new boons, his **Brooch** and **Earring**.

Relics:
· Implemented the following returning relics from STS1:
· Added Ice Cream relic.
· Added Kunai relic.
· Added Lizard Tail relic.
· Added Orrery relic.
· Added The Abacus relic.
· Added Toolbox relic.

Potions:
· Milk Potion has been reworked. Heals YOU for 6HP.
· Deprecated Ancient Potion.

Events:
· Self-help Book event now allows you to choose a card to apply enchantments to.

**BALANCE:**

Ancients:
· Relax's base energy and card draw have been increased to 2. Upgrade no longer increases energy and card draw.
· Pael's essence now exhausts before cards are drawn.

Powers:
· Plating no longer decreases when damage is received. Instead, it reduces by one every turn.

Regent:
· Decree of Unmaking can no longer apply Frail to enemies.

Necrobinder:
· Transfuse HP gain from 10 -> 5.
· Rattle hits decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3).
· Poke upgrade changed from additional hit -> +3 damage.
· For My Own Good rarity from Common -> Uncommon. Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
· Encase cost increased from 1 -> 2 and Plating lowered from 10(15) -> 7(9).
· Death grip hits down from 5 -> 4. Upgrading adds one hit instead of increasing damage.
· No Escape base turns changed from 3 -> 2. Upgrade changed to add Innate.
· Empower upgrade no longer ads vigor, instead removes exhaust.

Enemies:

· Bygone Effigy health increased from 90 -> 123.
· Bygone Effigy now rests for two turns and removes slow before attacking for the first time.
· Byrdonis HP lowered from 101-103 -> 93-98.
· Chomper HP lowered from 102-108 -> 83-92.
· Back Chomper in the automaton pair fight now screeches before attacking.
· Furry Worm Crawler Inhale strength gain increased from 3 -> 5.
· Hunter Killer Bite damage lowered from 20 -> 17.
· Hunter Killer Puncture damage lowered from 4x3 -> 3x3.
· Hunter Killer Tenderizing Goop now applies Frail instead of Vulnerable.
· Phrog Parasite HP lowered from 92-94 -> 81-86.
· Spiny Toad HP lowered from 154-166 -> 138-144.
· Stone armor plating reduced from 6 -> 5. Dexterity reduction reduced from 2 -> 1.

**ART:**
· New Animations for:
· Turret Operator
· Event Portrait updates for:
· Symbiote
· Wood Carvings
· The Sunken Statue
· Card Art for:
· Gamma Beam

**BUGFIXES:**
· Deathbringer and Spirit of Ash are now Skills, not Attacks.
· Blocking shrink with artifact no longer softlocks.
· Borrowed time card now correctly glows when it would be lethal.
· Can no longer spam proceed to skip acts after boss!
· Card titles now resize to fit within the title banner
· Chill card now locks the amount of frost orbs it will apply on play.
· Compendium search no longer un-upgrades cards.
· Crippling Cloud card now exhausts like in sts1.
· Nightmare now exhausts like in sts1.
· Encounters are no longer rerolled each time an instance is accessed.
· Fix card text not being vertically centered.
· Fixed softlock when playing an AOE while phrog parasite is dying.
· Giant rock is no longer affected by strike dummy.
· Pael Claw relic correctly references pael strike.
· Poison now properly ignores creature block.
· Slumbering beetle no longer gives player Plating instead of itself.
· Toothed enchantment now includes artifact hovertip.
· Toothed enchantment now properly targets Osty instead of Necro.
· Vlad's blood option now has the Vlad's blood tooltip.
· When Burst is played via an auto-play effect that was triggered by a Skill (like Sly + Acrobatics), it no longer copies that Skill.

**WORDING:**
· Curly quotes for brainbug event.
· Removed "card" from Howl From Beyond's description.

**USER INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE:**
· Event cards now have a special border.
· Relocating regent star energy combat UI.
· 3 digit health now looks better.
· Add bold font for events.
· Hover logic and ui position improvements for combat reward screen buttons.
· Numerous visual and hovertip improvements to the run history screen.
· Position energy UI based on if the player needs a star indicator or not.
· Update enchantment preview info in enchantment confirmation screen to utilize keywords + autosize text.
· Update font asset to remove intersections/artifacting + allow window resize.
· Update header for act history node lines.
· Update relic and deck headers for run history screen + margins.
· Update run history node size, tweens, removed sfx.
· Update sine wave text effect to be less intense.
· Update to relic container and relics UI and positioning.

**PERFORMANCE:**
· Fix loading spikes.
· Improve loadtime on game start by 2.7X!
· Optimize loadtime for card grid and card compendium.

**TESTING:**
· New Neow command to test specific neow options. Enter Neow followed by tab completing for the name of the choice you desire to see.