Monster Train 2

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Patch Notes, Spoiler Warning, and a Thank You 3

New content 1

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  Added The Punished clan DLC.

Soundtrack 1

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  Updated the Soundtrack with all post-launch songs.

Banished 2

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  Increased Martyr’s Signet’s health gain from 6 to 8.

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  Fixed a typo in Skysong Trumpet’s Hymnist counter.

Pyreborne 1

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  Fixed Magma Core’s description failing to update its Pyregel amount when enhanced by Hellfire Bellows.

Luna Coven 1

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  Updated Heavenfall’s damage across all floors and the resulting death effects to resolve one floor at a time to smooth out camera movement.

Underlegion 4

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  Fixed Rally triggering one time too many the first time a Funguy stack is created on a floor.

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  Fixed an issue where Reanimate could cause units to overlap and become impossible to target when Funguy spawned.

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  Fixed Fertile Ground's card text not counting the base Spawn amount (no mechanical change, text fix only).

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  Fixed World-ending Strain artifact not always applying to enemies.

Railforged 11

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  Fixed a softlock when a boss died while a Sentry Turret reaction was pending.

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  Added Pyre Blast to Pyre Steward, with a 3-turn cooldown, 3 damage to the Pyre, and damage equal to the Pyre’s attack to enemy units on its floor.

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  Fixed Molten Manifold’s effect doubling when copied by Spellchain.

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  Fixed the Forge Points display failing to appear after a Smelt card such as Foundry Line was added to a run without Railforged.

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  Fixed an issue where smelting merged equipment granted no Ember or Forge Points.

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  Fixed an undo failure after gaining and then losing a Forge card in a run where you are not playing the Railforged clan.

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  Fixed an undo failure in some situations when casting Fused Weaponry and canceling out of the second step.

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  Fixed a visual glitch on Full Throttle.

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  Fixed a typo in Trap Chute’s lore.

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  Fixed Spikedriver Spider’s art failing to load when Spikedriver Factory was used with Our Powers Combined.

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  Fixed Heph’s Metalworker path missing “Added Card” tooltip on the unit in battle at tiers 2 and 3.

Hellhorned 3

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  Increased Horned Warrior’s attack from 15 to 20.

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  Fixed Shardtail Queen’s Imp Toss ability ignoring Spell Shield.

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  Added Piercing to Shardtail Queen’s Imp Toss ability.

Awoken 1

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  Updated Restoration Detonation to count as a damage spell for interactions such as Conduit Tethys.

Stygian Guard 3

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  Reduced Guard of the Unnamed’s health from 25 to 20, added 20 starting Armor, and increased its Armor gain on Incant from 3 to 4.

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  Clarified Kinstone Totem’s description to specify that it triggers when a unit, spell, or artifact discarded a card before the end of the turn.

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  Fixed Ancient Synergy not counting consumed spells from your deck.

Melting Remnant 4

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  Reduced Formless Child’s Ember cost from 2 to 1.

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  Removed accidental undocumented Piercing from Exploding Candle.

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  Fixed Encased Ember not triggering when a Tomb unit dies with Reanimate.

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  Rector Flicker’s Dark Calling no longer puts cards into your draw pile when your hand is full and can no longer be activated with a full hand.

Wurmkin 2

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  Fixed a harsh visual edge on Infused cards.

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  Echo Seedling no longer puts cards into your draw pile when your hand is full.

Pyre Hearts 1

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  Heart of the Pact now works in the Deployment Phase.

Clanless artifacts 3

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  Fixed an interaction between Crystallized Wing and Freezestone that caused a card to lose Permafrost when its Ember cost dropped below 3.

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  Fixed Crystallized Wing incorrectly freezing discounted Spellchain copies of cards that cost less than 3 Ember.

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  Fixed Sketches of Salvation summons failing to trigger Rally effects.

Events 4

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  Fixed champion-specific and clan-specific event dialogue failing to appear in some languages.

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  Prevented Clipped Wings upgrades from being applied to Immobile units.

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  Fixed erroneous double application of Dusk Mantle granted via Red Crown when not playing Luna Coven on turns where it is New Moon.

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  Updated Dante’s Inferno’s damage and the resulting death effects to resolve one floor at a time to smooth out camera movement.

Shops and upgrades 3

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  Fixed duplicate shop upgrades appearing after a reroll in some circumstances.

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  Fixed a typo in the Freezestone upgrade descriptions.

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  Fixed Holystone not able to be applied if you reduced a spell's base cost to zero.

Enemies and combat 8

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  Made bosses immune to Immobile and clarified the Relentless tooltip.

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  Fixed status-effect visual effects not displaying on Savagery and Dominion.

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  Fixed a softlock where the boss kill camera could play erroneously during your turn after a unit with Trample attacked, reported most frequently with Sentry Turret, but could also happen in other situations.

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  Fixed Room card visual effects persisting after the floor is destroyed by a boss.

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  Clarified the Fate Link tooltip’s status immunities and movement restrictions.

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  Fixed Frostpiercer and Plague Doctor applying no stacks to any enemy hit by a Sweep attack if the last enemy hit survived through Fate Link (such as Entropy at 1 HP).

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  Fixed a softlock that could occur when resuming a save after the game closed right as the Pyre is dying.

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  Fixed Ephemeral not triggering correctly when a card had temporary Consume added by Returned Soul or Gifts for a Guard.

Challenges and mutators 4

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  Fixed Daily Challenges incorrectly appearing expired in certain languages and regions.

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  Fixed Musical Chairs triggering Shift multiple times on the same unit in certain situations.

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  Prevented run history from creating challenges that required DLC no longer installed.

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  Fixed an Echoes challenge starting node revealing the original clans before they were unlocked, which could lead to a broken run.

Soul Savior 3

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  Fixed Light Forges failing to upgrade Mimic’s allied champion after your primary champion was purged.

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  Fixed Thaddeus the Indulgent's Thick Skinned ability having no description on higher difficulty tiers.

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  Fixed Keepstone’s Holdover effect failing after moving Goldie to another card.

Interface and Logbook 19

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  Fixed merged Equipment descriptions sometimes omitting keywords.

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  Fixed Logbook enemy tracking for alternate enemy versions, including Titan Trial Fleshlings.

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  Fixed tooltips sometimes erroneously missing damage/stack numbers in the Logbook when using card search.

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  Fixed Titans victory crowns appearing for champions that had only defeated the Titans below Covenant 10 after the clan’s other champion won at Covenant 10.

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  Fixed room card mastery nameplates showing the default grey instead of matching mastery frames.

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  Fixed a rare error when opening Light Forge Upgrades in the Logbook while some clans were still locked.

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  Fixed incorrect card names and Ember costs appearing while cards were played or discarded.

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  Fixed Ascend/Descend spell previews on units failing to account for room card effects in the destination room in certain situations.

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  Fixed room upgrade icons showing the wrong floor after a boss freezes or corrupts a floor.

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  Fixed the P key failing to toggle character tooltips during battle.

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  Fixed cases where the post-combat Purge reward could not be exited or canceled.

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  Fixed various translation bugs.

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  Fixed the run summary, run history and challenge details screens failing to show dates with Arabic (Saudi Arabia) regional settings, and showing the wrong year with Thai regional settings.

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  Fixed an issue where some characters and backgrounds could fail to appear in Celestial Alcoves on systems using Turkish regional settings.

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  Fixed an error when closing the Mutators screen after abandoning a Dimensional Portal run from its opening card screen and starting a new run.

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  Added a DLC banner to the Covenant Outpost.

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  Improved app icon on the Mac version.

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The Punished's Class Mechanic: The Monolith 5

The Punished Artifacts 6

• – Arena Armaments
• – Ceremonial Flogger
• – Darkened Plume
• – Darkshard Splinter
• – Friendly units have +15 ATTACK at half HEALTH or below.
• – When you deal damage to a friendly unit, deal 5 damage to the front enemy unit.

Zeal adds an additional +1 ATTACK per stack.At the end of battle, damaged friendly units permanently gain +6 HEALTH.Dungeon Mooring 13

• – Gloomstone
• – Litany of the Punished
• – Potent Chalice
• – Enemy units enter with Chained 1.
• – Friendly units enter with Tenacious.
• – The first time each turn you deal 10 or more damage to friendly units, draw 1 card.
• – Friendly units enter with an additional Zeal 1 per Monolith Level.
• – Tattered Vestments
• – Triptych Fragment
• – Unheard Confession
• – Revenge triggers an additional time.
• – At start of turn, if you have a damaged friendly unit on each floor, gain +1 EMBER.
• – When you deal 10 damage to friendly units, gain 1 Devotion.

The Punished Cards 49

• – Agonize
• – Annointing Oil
• – Arbitrary Verdict
• – Archus - Dark Worshipper I
• – Archus - Inquisitor I
• – Archus - Zealous I
• – Blinding Darkshard
• – Branded Apostate
• – Chainbearer
• – Cloister of Chains
• – Collective Punishment
• – Collector of Sorrows
• – Cruel Lesson
• – Dark Initiate
• – Divine Punishment
• – Drag Them Down
• – Echo of Pain
• – Exaltation
• – Flagellate
• – Forbidden Covenant
• – Forsaken Berserker
• – Imprison
• – Initiate Sermon
• – Lasher
• – Looming Darkshard
• – Mournguard
• – Pain Tithe
• – Penitent Sentinel
• – Penitent's Sanctuary
• – Punished Spike
• – Reaper of Suffering
• – Scarred Justicar
• – Scourged Zealot
• – Shackles of Spite
• – Shared Sentence
• – Shattering Darkshard
• – Sineater
• – Solemn Cantor
• – Spur the Faithful
• – The Condemned
• – Tome of Atonement
• – Trial by Fire
• – Unholy Communion
• – Venerate
• – Wicked Fervor
• – Zariel - Devout I
• – Zariel - Matriarch of Chains I
• – Zariel - Pain Maiden I
• – Zealot's Halo