How Builds Work in Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional

AVS03 builds combine 24 weapons, 50 drivers and 62 plugins. How the systems stack — and why our tested builds arrive only after launch verification, not before.

9/26/2026 Official AVS03 Wiki Editorial Last updated: 9/29/2026 4 min read

The three layers of an AVS03 build

Layer 1 — your weapon. 24 ship at launch; seven are named in official marketing (Pinball, Solitaire, Mines, Firewall, Bubbles, Paint, C: Drive) and the demo build’s data holds official descriptions for twelve. The weapon sets your damage profile and, for the officially confirmed set, your status effect — Heat (Firewall, FontArt), Lag (Paint) or Infect (Bubbles, Solitaire).

Layer 2 — drivers. 50 driver attachments modify weapons. The driver pool is where a single weapon becomes a personalized kit.

Layer 3 — plugins. 62 plugins installed via the officially named Plugin Installer warp the run itself. Plugins are the layer most likely to define what a “build” even is — the difference between a weapon setup and a strategy.

Around all three sit the run economy: file types, BeanZ and meta upgrades, and the difficulty folders in protocols and policies.

The 18 player stats

Every stat that weapons, drivers and plugins push around, with the demo build’s own descriptions verbatim (typos included — “Resistence” and “dogde” ship in the game):

Stat	Official description
Armo(u)r	Resistence from all incoming Damage. (Exponential)
Coin Gain	Multiplies the amount of all Coin received.
Crit Chance	Chance to cause Crit Hit.
Crit Damage	Multiplies Damage on Crit Hit.
Damage	Multiplies all Damage output.
Packet Loss	Chance to dogde all incoming Damage. (Exponential)
EXP Gain	Multiplies the amount of all EXP received.
Health Regen	Amount of health regen every 20s.
Luck	Increases odds for better rolls, resulting in higher rarities amoung other benefits.
Magnetism	Multiplies the radius that pulls in EXP and other pickup items.
Max Health	Additional Max HP.
Weapon Power	Increases power of Repel, Heat, Infect and Lag from all weapons.
Processing Speed	Multiplies the speed that all files process at, including .zip, .bat, LemWire etc. (Exponential)
Weapon Refresh	Multiplies the speed that all weapons cooldown. (Exponential)
Cursor Speed	Multiplies the player movement speed.
Weapon Amount	Chance of additional weapon spawns on attack. Relative to base amount.
Weapon Size	Multiplies the size of all weapons.
Weapon Speed	Multiplies the speed that all weapons attack. (Exponential)

Read the theming for what it is: Packet Loss is the dodge stat (dropped packets never arrive), Processing Speed is attack-casting for your file-opening, and Weapon Power feeds all four status effects at once — which is why the demo’s status effects guide treats power as the shared status multiplier. Four stats are flagged Exponential in the game’s own text; per-point values are a measured-data question, not a strings question.

Why there are no tier lists on this site yet

Here is this site’s build policy, stated plainly: a tier list written before the game launches is fiction. Every “S-tier build” article published in the pre-release window is guessing at numbers nobody has measured. We don’t do that.

From September 28, 2026, this hub fills with tested builds — each one listing its weapon, drivers, plugins, protocol difficulty, and the game version it was verified in. Builds get re-tested after balance patches, and stale ones get marked, not quietly left up.

What a good pre-launch build plan looks like

Play the demo to learn the loop — Firewall, Bubbles and Paint are demo-stage verified.
Pick a status effect that suits you — the Heat/Lag/Infect trio is the confirmed mechanical identity of the game so far.
Save your BeanZ instincts for real data — see BeanZ and meta upgrades.

FAQ

When will the best builds be published? Within the first days after launch, once runs can be tested against the full 24/50/62 pool. Each build page carries its verification date — the freshness stamp is the point.

Will builds differ per protocol? Very likely — that’s what 5 difficulty folders are for — but it’s a testing question, not a confirmed fact. See protocols and policies.