Playtest notes 29 May 2025
This is a pre-release internal note from the closed playtest, quoted as it was written for testers. It describes a build that no longer exists; treat it as history, not as a description of the current game.
It's the last weekly patch... of May 2025 that is!
Okay okay, this week brings back the game mode: Custom.
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It's called Custom Climb and is available for both Singleplayer and Multiplayer. Daily Climbs are now also available for Multiplayer. It'll be interesting to see how scores differ between a variety of group sizes.
Multiplayer also gets more interesting with the addition of cards exclusive for multiplayer!
These cards are sold by the Merchant, but depending on their popularity we may look into expanding how you get them and how much of this kind of content there is :).
We're deprecating a few Neow choices as we'll be bringing in changes here next week and potions are getting renames as their art assets will be getting a fresh look soon. Okay have fun.
Items in this note
22 cards
Relics, potions and powers
Block Potion
Bone Brew
Duplicator
Explosive Ampoule
Mazaleth's Gift
Ship in a Bottle
Vulnerable Potion
Duplication
PoisonEnemies and events
Lagavulin Matriarch
Seapunk
ToadpoleContent
Ironclad
- Deprecated Limit Break card
Silent
- Deprecated Corpse Explosion card
Necrobinder
- Reworked Harvest card -> Sow
Regent
- Added new Sealed Throne card
Ancients
- Added new Neow blessing, Lean
- Updated all Neow Bundles
- Deprecated Neow's Apothecary blessing
- Deprecated Neow's Lament blessing
Events
- Added new Trash Heap event
Multiplayer
- Added new multiplayer-exclusive cards:
- Beacon of Hope
- Believe in You
- Coordinate
- Alley-Oop
- Gang Up!
- Huddle Up
- Intercept
- Mimic
- Rally
- Rope Rebound
- Support
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Multiplayer (continued)
- Tank
- Added multiplayer Daily Climb
General
- Added custom climbs for singleplayer and multiplayer
Balance
Silent
- Changed Accelerant card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
- Changed Catalyst card: rarity from Ancient (Darv) -> Rare
Necrobinder
- Nerfed Eradicate card: damage decreased from 11(16) -> 11(14)
Regent
- Changed Heirloom Hammer card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
Enemies
- Buffed Seapunk:
- Kick move damage increased from 8(9) -> 9(10)
- Spinning Kick move damage increased from 1x4 -> 2x4
Art
- Added portrait art for Nostalgia, Death's Door, and Luminesce cards
- Added the Lost and the Forgotten enemy animations
- Updated Toadpole enemy animations
User interface & experience
- Players are now allowed to skip the run summary animation
- Game mode is now displayed in top right corner of climb history screen
- A separate death quote is now displayed before the run summary
- The potions a player has at end of a run are now displayed in the climb history screen
Wording
- Renamed various potions:
- Block Potion 2 -> Ship in a Bottle
- Cultist Potion -> Mazaleth's Gift
- Duplication Potion -> Duplicator
- Explosive Potion -> Explosive Ampoule
- Fear Potion -> Vulnerable Potion
- Necro Milk -> Bone Brew
- Fixed Unrelenting card's language to match other similar cards
Bug fixes
Defect
Enemies
- Lagavulin Matriarch no longer wakes up if its Block gets broken but no damage is taken
- Poison now wakes up Lagavulin Matriarch (like with Lagavulin in StS1)
General
- Players can now properly hover over previous nodes to see the node history hovertip
- Fixed progress migration failure
- Run history no longer becomes offset until game restart if there's any overflow of certain nodes
- Star counter now properly appears for all characters when they have any Stars
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