Bubbles — Weapon Guide, Applies Infect (AVS03)

What’s confirmed about Bubbles

• Bubbles is a weapon — one of the 24 weapons shipping at launch.
• Bubbles applies Infect, straight from the developer’s Demo Update 1.2.
• Infect is an official status effect — sibling to Heat (Firewall) and Lag (Paint). See the status effects guide for the full mapping.

Thematically it’s the odd one out — bubbles read playful, Infect reads nasty — which is exactly the early-2000s screensaver-gone-wrong tone the game is going for.

What Infect does — pending verification

The developer confirmed the name and the applier, not the mechanics. Infect’s damage profile, spread behavior (if any) and duration are unpublished. This page does not invent them. Tested Infect numbers land here after launch, each tagged with the game version verified.

Bubbles in a build

An Infect applier lives or dies by the plugins and drivers that amplify it — that’s the hypothesis launch testing puts to the numbers. If Infect spreads or scales, Bubbles is a build cornerstone; if it’s a flat debuff, it’s a utility pick. Either way the verdict goes in the builds hub, backed by runs, not vibes. Unlock condition: pending.

FAQ

Is Bubbles playable in the demo? Its Infect application is Demo Update 1.2-verified, so the demo covers it — details in the demo guide.

Does Infect spread between enemies? No official source says so. The word “Infect” invites that reading — we’ll test it properly at launch instead of printing a guess.