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Friday Fun Thread for March 13, 2026

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What are you playing this week?

After 20 hours total spent on the game, I finally finished a run in Slay the Spire 2. Very happy. :) I used The Defect and lots of 0 cost attack cards + draws.

I also played STS2! I immediately won my first run with the Ironclad (mixed build). Then I won my first run with the Silent (poison). Then I lost two and won on the third try with the regent (mixed build). Then I won my first with the Defect (claw, just like you probably did). Then it took me another few tries with the Necrobinder until I got a win in. The pattern is pretty clear - game knowledge from the first STS is still fully applicable, and the top builds from back then still work. So it didn't take me 20 hours to get that far. Around 3, I think.

So it didn't take me 20 hours to get that far. Around 3, I think.

Except it sorta did. You leaned on all your STS knowledge where you no doubt spent many hours.

Absolutely true. Many more than 20, then.

I'm actually playing STS1 now. It's alright, though clearly less polished than the sequel, even in the latter's EA state.

I just finished my first real run in it, using The Silent. It seemed way easier than any run in 2. I barely even lost any hp to the act 3 boss. Maybe Silent is even more OP in 1 than she is in 2?

StS 1 doesn't have Flanking, so that's automatically wrong. :P

Joking aside, Silent in 1 has the most difficult early game of all the characters - she has the largest starting deck and the lowest damage output, so she demands more transforms/removes and more thought put into your routing to achieve any level of consistency. While she has tons of synergies available, getting of her engines online takes comparitively more pieces (draw/discard cards, energy generation, upgrades) than Watcher or even Ironclad. Not to say she's weak per se, but she's far from overpowered especially when Watcher exists.

Silent is my only A20H character, incidentally. I haven't finished pushing A20 on the others because I plan on pushing Defect and oops I picked knife wife again.

Silent in 1 has the most difficult early game of all the characters

I always figured it was the Defect, who if you hit the Gremlin Nob as the first elite would generally wipe your silly robot ass from existence.

Dualcast is 16 damage though, and your starting lightning orb is a free half-strike per turn.

Sure, but Silent is in a similar boat against Nob and especially Lagavulin.

This happened to me on my first Defect run in STS1. :(

Also tried Silent again and it didn't go so well. I think I probably got lucky with the first STS1 Silent run.

Did beat the game with Ironclad yesterday though!

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