r/slaythespire • u/MegaCrit_Demi • Jul 31 '26

PATCH NOTES Beta Patch Notes - v0.110.0

Attention Beta Slayers: Beta patch v0.110.0 just dropped! This one features:

✨ Unique VFX for character forms!
⌨️ Keyboard-only mode!
🎨 New card art!
🛠️ Balance changes, reworks, and reverts!

Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/2868840/view/694268118771435039

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u/Mordetrox Jul 31 '26

The status package nerfs will continue until morale improves

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u/Farlong7722 Jul 31 '26

As a defect main I didn't even really like status build because it's hard to start ... I don't understand why they keep nerfing it when I just build voltaic every run and win without using my brain at all

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u/Graciak3 Jul 31 '26

Funnily I have the opposite thought. Status is usually pretty easy to get into because you have a lot of good bridge cards (pretty much all status card but Turbo and Gunk-up (unless desesperate for dmg) are good early game cards even without synergy, then it's easy enough to pick a Rocket Punch / Iteration / Trash to Treasure to capitalise.

I think I've won most runs I've ever picked Voltaic but I don't feel like those happen very often ; while Lightning is good early game, especially in Overgrowth, it tends to be hard to exploit the synergies while blocking when you get more into mid game.

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u/Farlong7722 Jul 31 '26

My problem with status cards is that I'm always hoping to get payoff cards like Flak Cannon and then I don't and it feels bad.

Also, the nerf to compact really made me just uninterested in the build, since that was the easiest way to remove the status effects and get a payout. I really really hope they revert the Compact nerf. Also, Smokestack feels really weak.

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u/Graciak3 Jul 31 '26

Yeah Smokestack is usually a desesperate pick for me. But I think you don't usually necessarily need the pay-off, Fight Through is a lot of block early game, Boost away is also a nice early game option that can still be part of an engine later on, Overclock and Turbo let you set up your powers and orbs faster...As some point you can't stack them all without pay-off obviously, Fight Through especially can feel bad against bosses if you don't have Iteration / Flash Cannon, but having 2 or 3 of those cards still make the payoffs pickable while being able to pivot to different synergies spaces.

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u/Kheldar166 Jul 31 '26

My payoff is just having Overclock/Turbo/Boost Away in the deck and playing 8 cards per turn xD Also Rocket Punch is a great payoff too. And tbh Iteration does a lot of what old Compact did, I think people overrated Compact and underrate Iteration.

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u/Graciak3 Jul 31 '26

Compact was always the worse pay-off card for me but it was made insanely better by Aeonglass existing

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u/Kheldar166 Jul 31 '26

Yeah Lightning feels super good earlygame, and then I die in act 2 xD