The newest update to the beta version of Slay the Spire 2 has removed the Doormaker boss, which many players found frustrating after a recent change. This is Mega Crit’s first big update for the sequel to their popular deckbuilding roguelike, and it includes significant balance adjustments that are now live in the main game. Overall, the update makes Slay the Spire 2 more challenging at higher difficulty levels and reduces the effectiveness of strategies that allowed for seemingly endless gameplay.
Players reacted strongly to Doormaker, the reworked boss in Act 3 of Slay the Spire 2, leading to another wave of negative reviews. The main issue wasn’t that Doormaker was too powerful overall – the developers at Mega Crit actually noted it was a bit easier than the other Act 3 bosses – but rather that its mechanics severely limited the variety of viable card strategies. Doormaker cycles through three negative effects that can stop players from drawing cards, remove cards immediately after playing them, or drain their energy, making many popular builds ineffective and the game less enjoyable.
The latest update to Slay the Spire 2 (version v0.105.0) replaces the boss Doormaker with a new Act 3 boss called Aeonglass. The developers at Mega Crit Games felt Doormaker was too complicated, despite some interesting choices it presented to players. They’ve decided to completely rework the boss fight. For now, Doormaker remains in the main game, and Mega Crit will decide later if they want to implement these changes into the full release.
Aeonglass is a boss fight that feels less complicated than the Doormaker. It mainly challenges players who use decks that play a lot of cards each turn. Characters with abilities that remove cards from their hand, get rid of cards, change cards, or benefit from status effects – like a Defect using Flak Cannon – will find this fight much easier.
This update introduces the Bestiary, letting players look up details on enemies they’ve faced during their Spire climbs. Along with the new boss, the patch adjusts card balance, improves animations and sound effects, adds new music for two bosses, and fixes many bugs – including a particularly frustrating one that caused issues with multiplayer in Slay the Spire 2.
Players can try out the latest changes in Slay the Spire 2 by joining the optional beta branch and sharing their thoughts. Keep in mind the game is still very much in development, so big adjustments – like removing bosses or completely changing how cards work – are all part of the development process. If you’re looking for a challenge, now’s the time to defeat Doormaker in the main version of Slay the Spire 2 before this challenging boss is removed.
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Slay the Spire 2 Beta v0.105.0 Patch Notes
The following changelog contains spoilers for the Beta v0.105.0 update
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
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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
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
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
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