Paint — Weapon Guide, Applies Lag (AVS03)

What’s confirmed about Paint

• Paint is a weapon — one of the 24 weapons in the full game, added to the demo in Demo Update 1.2.
• Official behavior (Demo Update 1.2, verbatim): “draws circles and fills them in that damage over time and add stacks of Lag to enemies.”
• Paint applies Lag — one of the game’s three status effects, alongside Heat (Firewall) and Infect (Bubbles). The full stack mechanics are in the status effects guide.

The theme writes itself: in a game about a 2003 machine choking on malware, a weapon that inflicts lag on your enemies is a very good joke.

What Lag does — the official part

Per Demo Update 1.2, Lag slows the enemy — with enough stacks, freezes them in place. Statuses are stackable, tick every half second and decay 20% per tick. Not yet published: the slow percentage, exact freeze threshold and duration — those get tested from launch.

Paint in a build

A control-flavored status effect pairs naturally with damage-over-time and area setups — whether Paint earns a slot in top builds depends on the full driver and plugin pools. That’s a launch-testing question for the builds hub. Its unlock condition is also pending.

FAQ

Does Lag slow enemies or their attacks? Officially: it slows the enemy’s movement, and enough stacks freeze them in place (Demo Update 1.2). Whether it also affects attack speed is not stated — tested at launch.

Is Paint in the demo? Its Lag application is Demo Update 1.2-verified — see the demo guide.