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Friday Fun Thread for March 6, 2026

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Video Game Thread!

Anyone playing Slay The Spire 2? :D

I'm a filthy noob at this type of game but I'm having fun with it. I abandoned my first run on the second map after realizing I picked what was by far the worst bonus at the start of that map.

Playing my second run I'm using an unlocked character called The Silent. My max hp increases by 5 ever time I rest (a bonus).

Not sure if I should seek out the Elite enemies on the map...?

Also - I'm getting the sense that a smaller deck with stronger cards is better because the deck keeps getting recycled over an over in combat. So should I not pick the normal grey 'add a card to your deck' option at the end of battles?

StS2 is on my list, but not buying it yet because I just recently got Esoteric Ebb (Disco Elysium-esque "chat with your head while the plot makes fun of politics" but in a fantasy setting) and Mewgenics (turn-based XCOM/Into the Breach-like tactics, but you control ugly cats and have to breed more of them between runs), and nowhere near done with those.

In StS, having a thin deck is generally very strong for the reasons you stated. You still want to add cards to your deck at the start because the starting cards are subpar (all of my advice is based on the first game but should hold for the second if they didn't change the formula completely). Just make sure that your build is somewhat coherent.

Fighting elites is desirable when possible because (in StS1) they give a bonus relic.

The game is making me feel dumber than I am. I died on act 2 with The Silent, and then again on floor 2 with The Regent.

I hunted some elites with the latter and then died to one of them just prior to the boss.

I'm starting to think that mapping a good route from the first choice on the map is essential.

I just run out of hp at some point and have no healing potions or the like.

*Act, not floor.

Do you mean on floor 2 or act 2? It's pretty impressive to die to floor 2.

Oh, perhaps I used the wrong terms. I meant, the part after you beat the first end boss, the next map! So tower 2 or act 2 I guess. Assuming that it is each combat that is called a 'floor'?

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