Hi, everyone!

This is the post a lot of you have been waiting for: the full list of major balance changes coming to Monster Train 2 at the same time as Lost Arsenal. Below, you’ll find an explanation of the team’s goals for the changes made, why said balance changes were made, and, finally, the ultra-list of every balance coming to Monster Train 2.

A brief note: the below includes some Monster Train 2 spoilers. If you are alright with this, please keep reading!

Major Reworks

Engine Upgrade, Siren Song, and Crucible Extension were made into Room Cards. Alongside these cards, Memories of the Melted and Awaken also were updated to be Room Cards but now they are called Memorial of the Melted and Awakening Thicket.

One Spell card, Fortify, was updated to an Equipment card now named Fortified Pauldrons.

We also have several notable reworks to certain champion paths.

Hornbreaker Prince

Shardtail Queen

Wyldenten

Tethys Titansbane

Solgard the Martyr

Rector Flicker

Bolete the Guillotine - Executioner Path

As well as some reworks to regular cards:

Consumer of Crowns

Cuttlehex

Animus of Speed

Vinemother

Husk Hermit

Lady of the House

Offering Monument

In addition to the above, there are also some minor changes such as to Focused Growth or Edge Prior, as well as a breadth of balance changes.

Goals

With Lost Arsenal, we wanted to use the update as an opportunity to balance the cards from the original Monster Train and better integrate them with Monster Train 2’s new mechanics. 

We also wanted to add a fresh coat of paint to some cards like Husk Hermit (which was kind of a less interesting version of Shattered Shell). In conjunction with card updates, we also wanted to address some of the weaker cards and clans that didn’t get enough love in the first balance update. Some of the reworks to cards were simultaneously buffs, such as the update to Cuttlehex or Animus of Speed. And finally we also wanted to address some long-standing infinites that we felt were too easy and reliable to achieve.

To be continued...

Tomorrow, we’ll go into the challenges encountered when balancing Monster Train 2 along with a full list of all the balance changes that will be included with Lost Arsenal. Please let us know what you think in the comments or in the Shiny Shoe Discord server! Still craving more? Be sure to sign-up for the Shiny Shoe newsletter for behind-the-scenes sneak peeks!

And, as always, thank you so much for supporting Shiny Shoe and for playing Monster Train 2!

EDIT: The post did not mention the Bolete path that was affected. The path has been added to the main body of the text.