Bubbles — Weapon Guide, Applies Infect (AVS03)

What’s confirmed about Bubbles

• Bubbles is a weapon — one of the 24 weapons shipping at launch, added to the demo in Demo Update 1.2.
• Official behavior (Demo Update 1.2, verbatim): “a floating bubbles screensaver that damages over time and adds stacks of Infect to enemies.”
• Bubbles applies Infect — one of the game’s three status effects, sibling to Heat (Firewall) and Lag (Paint). The full stack mechanics are in the status effects guide.

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 — the official part

Per Demo Update 1.2, Infect damages the enemy at half the amount of Heat and weakens it so any incoming damage is increased. Statuses are stackable, tick every half second and decay 20% per tick. Not yet published: Infect’s per-stack damage numbers and whether it spreads between enemies — those land here after launch testing.

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.