A new Slay the Spire 2 patch went live on the game’s beta branch on Thursday night, and it’s good news all around. The Steam players who might be cheering the loudest, however, are The Silent players and The Regent’s vassals.
The change that’s hogging the spotlight right now is the reversal of the controversial Prepare card, which will once again allow you to draw a card and discard a card for zero energy. As fans are aware, the last beta branch patch for Slay the Spire 2 made Prepared more expensive to play, and the tweak pissed many people off. Prepared is considered a linchpin of Sly decks, which rely on cards with discard abilities. Though people had to opt into the changes, these players expressed their frustration en masse by leaving negative reviews on the game’s store page. Developer Mega Crit would go on to remind folks that the point of early access is to experiment. To wit, the first Slay the Spire saw many, many changes before it was officially released.
In the latest patch notes, one of the developers explained that Mega Crit worries about the dominance of Sly deck strategies. Based on player feedback, however, Mega Crit cedes that Prepared is an integral part of that deck’s identity. Despite undoing the changes to Prepared, Mega Crit notes that the developers are still thinking about ways to make the Sly deck less prominent.
It’s the adjustments to the Regent, however, which quietly have massive implications for the game at large. The sneering character got a handful of buffs across the board:
-Buffed Falling Star card: Damage increased from 7(11) -> 8(12)
-Buffed Glitterstream card: Next Turn Block increased from 4(6) -> 5(7)
