Malignant Survivors 2 — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Season of the Cult | 2026-10-15 | A new season has started, Season of the Cultist.Added 2 new heroes, Cultist and Clown. They require a new season profile.Added 8 new spells and 4 new legendaries with the new heroes.Now the game has fewer difficulties, but more challenge inside the difficulties. Torment I, Torment II, Torment III, Torment IV, and Torment V are now replaced by Torment.2 new dangerous enemies added: plants and giant worms. They don’t move unless you push them, and they are very dangerous. Quality of Life ImprovementsRealtime DPS calculator, which shows the total damage of the spell so far + damage per second.Item tooltips in the game that you open with a hotkey |
| Hotpatch #5 | 2026-09-19 | Fixed-Blinking indicator on tutorial open. -Stuck on prologue due a tutorial error. -Minimap is too small for the eye on Prologue. -Generally minimap's map area is bigger by %50. -Item drops were overpowered due a item drop algorithm issue at higher difficulties. Now; the game is properly balanced but you may not drop game killer items in high frequency anymore; when the new season comes; It will make more sense. -Minus gold requirement values on upgrade recipes on superbly high combat powered items. Balance -Game is harder now, as expected. You may want to avoid from the horde way more now. Added -3 new upgrade recipes; Remove Legendary, Rem |
| Hotpatch #4 | 2026-09-08 | Added: Different leaderboards for extra difficulties. Added: New minimap icons, for each rarity of items. Added: Minimap sizes on options. Added: Item sets bonuses now getting multiplied by the average combat power of the full set. Fixed: Stuck on proceeding after realm completion, on salvaging items when item's combar power is super high. Fixed: Crazy critical hits on higher difficulties. Fixed: Combat power cap increased from 1b to 999b. Balance: More agile character controller. |
| Hotpatch #3 | 2026-09-04 | New: Prologue now has a reward chest with a spell, which explains the looting. New: Able to skip the prologue on extra difficulties. New: DPS info on the damage spells. New: Hero Rank leaderboard. Fixed: Resolutions higher than 1920 width were missing from the list. Fixed: Wrong language in the fullscreen window dropdown. Fixed: The Hellgate map was too easy to finish due to a small bug; now it will be as challenging as intended. Fixed: Deleting a profile causes critical issues. Balance: Prologue now has proper, challenging balance, and it is affected by extra difficulties. Balance: You will now see better items in the early stages of the gam |
| Hotpatch #2 | 2026-08-31 | Fixed: Energy ball now pulls the enemies away. Fixed: Jittering on character movement on lower FPS QoL: More agile heroes, more responsive character movement Fixed: If you open the game with 4K desktop resolution; the game will start with 4K and cause massive FPS drop. Added: Adaptive resolution; the game will start with the best resolution/aspect ratio option. Fixed: Cannot salvage items with 1b combat power. Added: Full Screen Mode on options (Exclusive Fullscreen, Fullscreen Windowed (Default), Maximized Window, Window) Fixed: In game shop is fixed and re-activated, you can get crafting materials from there |
| Hotpatch #1 | 2026-08-29 | Gold count requirements reduced for recipes. Prologue map is not affected from the difficulty anymore. So you won't be stuck there in Sin Mode etc. Item store icon is removed, since it's not working. |
| Malignant Survivors 2 is released. | 2026-08-28 | From now on, Malignant Survivors 2 is ready to play. 3 important tips:Use upgrade recipes to increase your resistances.A colored item doesn't always mean it's the best. Don't forget to focus on your health with basic items too.Stay away from giants.The developers: me (Eren Aydin) and my friend (Serhat Yücekaya). We hope you like and enjoy MS2. |
| Final Playtest is completed | 2026-07-16 | Final Playtest is now complete. Thanks for attending!see you in the release!Erensan |
| New play testing at 7th of July | 2026-06-27 | I would like to announce the new play testing at 7th of July. It will be way different from the last playtest with bunch of changes and news. You can now request to join; I will allow first 250 players for testing. Enjoy, Erensan |
| Playtest is closed. Next one is in July! | 2026-06-03 | Thanks for all attending the playtest, who hadn't get invite yet, we will open another one in July. We have gathered many helpful feedbacks from you to make the game better. See you in the next Playtest! |
| Playtest Update-1 | 2026-05-24 | With this update, your progress will be wiped. Leaderboards will be reseted. If you don't update the game, you can still play the old version with old leaderboards.A new ancient unique set. 6 pieces for the end game.Performance optimization.Full Steam Deck port.Overpowered Knight is now balanced.General balancing.Treasure Hunter endless loop fixed.Cynderfell Steppes huge monster amount fixed.Resolution setting on options.Necrotic pool balancing.Restored store item products. |
| Playtest is now available for first 250 players. | 2026-05-16 | We are now ready for Playtest to test the first build of the game. It's still so early, we will gather ideas from you, collect bug reports and balance the game to have a perfect feeling at the release. Enjoy the Playtest! |
| Dynamic Vegetation | 2025-06-28 |