Conditions

All condition icons, in no particular order, without type coloration.

Conditions in Everspace 2 are modifiers to the stats or behavior of a combatant. The player ship, enemies, and some environmental objects can inflict conditions on each other, and they come in three main types: buffs (green), debuffs (red), and equipment conditions (yellow).

• Conditions currently applied to the player ship can be inspected on the Ship tab of the in-game menu; as well, their icons show up at the top of the screen with information on remaining duration and number of condition stacks, where applicable.
• Conditions currently applied to non-player entities can be inspected by targeting that entity or coming within interaction range of the entity.

Buffs

Buffs, indicated with green icons, improve the performance of a combatant in some way.

• Common sources of buffs on the player include certain consumables; ship class-specific passives, specials and ULTs; equipment modifiers and set bonuses; conditional perks; and sphere-type puzzle elements.
• Common sources of buffs on NPCs include enemy type-intrinsic mechanics and modifiers applied by High Risk Areas and Ancient Rifts.

Assorted Player Buffs

• Weapon Boost: Increased damage output. Sources:
  • Heat Sphere (until the sphere is thrown or expires)
  • Bloodstar Raid set (+25% Bloodstar weapon damage while boosting)
  • Union Eclipse set (+30% primary weapon damage for 5s on switching primary weapons)
  • Advanced Combat challenge mastery (+50% damage for 20s upon arrival at a location)

• Engine Boost: Increased engine performance.
  • Sources: Rare energy orbs (+20% handling for 10s)

• Boost Speed Increase: Increased boost speed and acceleration.
  • Sources: Raid Booster (+50% boost speed for 3s on kill)

• Energy Flow: Unlimited weapon and boost energy.
  • Sources: Energy Sphere (until the sphere is thrown or expires), The Magic of Umami (activated by HIVE for part of the mission's Sato Orbit segment)

• Protector Sphere: Prevents debuffs and environmental damage from being applied to the player, regardless of their source, until the sphere expires or the player leaves its aura.
• Reckoning: Builds up to a 100% charge when dealing damage. At full charge, the next secondary weapon fired deals 500% damage. Source: Final Reckoning weapon effect.
• Toxic Revenge: Stacks up to 10 times, causing your primary weapon hits to consume a charge to apply 6s of Corrosion. Corrosion damage equals 50% of the weapon's kinetic damage. Source: Toxic Revenger shield effect.

• Reflect: Damage taken is reflected back to the attacking source. Amount depends on the buff sources:
  • Stormchaser 3/4 set bonus: When collecting an energy orb, reflect 4% of incoming damage back to your attackers for 20s. Stacks up to 40%.
  • Stormchaser 4/4 set bonus causes all enemies within 800m to take all reflected damage.
  • Tailwind - While boosting, reflect 10% of incoming damage back to your attackers.

• Cloaked: Renders the ship invisible. Firing weapons will briefly give away the ship's location to nearby enemies. Sources:
  • Cloak Field Generator (15s)
  • Pango's Pride (after not boosting for 3s)
  • Shadow Strike (until manually cancelled or ULT gauge empties)
  • Stinger passives (5s on shield shutdown)
  • Redemption Set 4/4 bonus (10s after flying into an orange jellyfish)

Consumable Buffs

• Energy Injector: +100% energy core output for 10s.
• Damage Limiter: -30% damage taken for 20s.
• Damage Booster: +40% primary weapon damage for 20s.
• Energy Shield: Grants invulnerability for 8s or until the shield absorbs damage equal to 60% of maximum hull.
  • Main mission bosses and certain neutral entities can also be protected by energy shields, with the condition for breaking the shield varying on a case-by-case basis.

Class Buffs

• Device Master (Stinger): Powers the ship's third hardpoint, increasing DPS and energy consumption rate of primary weapons by 50% with at least one buff stack. Using a device adds a stack for 5.0-12.5 seconds based on Expertise.
• Shadow Strike (Scout): +20% weapon damage per stack, capping at 10 stacks (+200% total). Stacks are gained over time by not firing weapons; all stacks are removed 1 second after any weapon is fired.
• Static Overload (Sentinel): Overrides primary weapons with a lightning gun that chains between enemies.
• Weapon Overdrive (Interceptor): Primary weapons fire much faster and deal more damage, and the ship is granted unlimited weapon and boost energy.
• Close Combat (Striker): +5% weapon damage per stack, capping at 6 stacks (+30% total). Each enemy within 500m grants a stack.
• Reanimator (Vindicator): +20% shield capacity per stack, capping at 5 stacks (+100% total). The ship starts with all 5 stacks but loses a stack for each living drone.

Perk Buffs

• Exit Strategy: -25% damage taken. Active only while boosting.
• Close Call: Invincible for 10s. Triggers once on taking otherwise-lethal damage, then must be refreshed by docking the ship at a landing pad before it can be triggered again.
• Downtime Warrior: -15% weapon energy consumption per stack, with each device currently on cooldown adding a stack.
• Reactive Armor: The next impact taken by the ship is negated. Activating a warfare device while Play It Safe is active grants 4 stacks for 5 seconds.
• Excessive Force: +30% energy damage of primary weapons. Active only while the shield is at 100% charge or greater.
• ULT Regeneration: +100% to ULT energy gains. Losing all shield hitpoints with the Ulterior Motive perk active applies this buff until shield hitpoints are raised above 0.
• Preparation: +5% secondary weapon damage per stack, capping at 6 stacks (+30% total). Stacks are gained over time by avoiding damage (1 stack per second); taking damage removes all stacks.

Common Enemy Buffs

• Armored: The enemy benefits from a temporary layer of armor hitpoints until the source is destroyed. Typical sources of this buff are Outlaw Armor Drones and Outlaw Link Drones.
• Damage Boost: The enemy deals much more damage until the source, usually an Outlaw Damage Booster in a nearby base, is destroyed.
• Damage Reduction: The enemy takes less damage than usual.
  • Outlaw Vipers gain this buff when they transform into their close-quarters combat form, and Redeemer Crusaders have this buff active while their frontal shield is not in use.
  • Secure Hold passive also adds this buff to the player - collecting loot grants 8% damage reduction for 4s, to a max of 40%.
• EMP Immunity: Usually granted to enemies after an EMP debuff expires, this buff protects them from being affected by EMP again for a time equal to 2x the duration of the preceding EMP debuff (e.g. 16 seconds if the preceding EMP was 8 seconds long).
• Frost Shield: Granted by Retaliator Frostshield Drones to nearby fighter-class Retaliators.

High Risk Area/Ancient Rift Buffs

• Evolution: +1 to enemy level every 15 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
• Hull Repair: Lost hull regenerates over time. Granted by the Enemy Regen modifier.
• Strength in Death: +5% to speed and all health types whenever an ally is destroyed, stacking indefinitely.

Debuffs

Debuffs, indicated with red icons, degrade the performance of a combatant in some way. Most debuffs on the player can be removed using a System Recovery Routine.

Common Debuffs

• Corrosion: The victim takes shield-bypassing kinetic damage over time. Multiple debuffs of this type can stack for additional damage.
  • Player Sources: Flak, Pulse Laser, Rail Gun and Scatter Gun variants with a corrosion modifier (3s); Corrosion Missiles and Scorpion Missiles (8s); Corrosion Mines (4s); Corrosion Injector (7-12s)
  • Non-player Sources: Outlaw Viper missiles and death cloud, bio tank ruptures, Alcyone Station's acid clouds, hostile Corrosion Mines, Cave Crawler projectiles, large Hydra and Acid Pouch emissions
• EMP: The victim's electrical systems are overloaded, disabling engines and weapons.
  • Player Sources: Shields with an EMP modifier (5s), EMP Missiles (6s or longer), EMP Generator (6-8s), Sentinel passives (5s)
  • Non-player Sources: Lightning crystal discharges
• Shield Shutdown: The victim's shield is temporarily disabled. However, the shield bar will return with all of its prior hitpoints still intact once the debuff expires.
  • Player Sources: Coil Gun variants and Gauss Cannons with a shield-disabling modifier (2s)
  • Non-player Sources: Outlaw Bomb Thrower pods
• Webbed: The victim's engines are overwhelmed by a sticky substance, slowing them to a crawl.
  • Player Sources: Web Missiles (6.0s or longer), Web Mines (4.0s or longer), Energized Boost's Great Escape mode (4.0s), Dogmatic Scanner (on crit, 3.0s)
  • Non-player Sources: Outlaw Webber Drones, hostile Web Mines, Outlaw Raider missiles

Debuffs from Player Sources

• Destabilized: The target's structure is weakened, making it take more damage from all sources, including damage over time debuffs.
  • Sources: Destabilizer Missiles (+50% or more damage taken for 6s or longer), Pulse Laser (ES2) variants and Rail Guns with a hull damage modifier (+100% damage taken for 5s), and the Vigilante Set's 2/3 bonus.
• Speed Reduction: The target is slowed, but not stopped entirely.
  • Sources: Striker passives (20% reduction while the target is locked); Vindicator passives(?); Flak, Pulse Laser, Rail Gun and Scatter Gun variants with a slowing modifier (50% reduction for 3s)
• Weapons Jammed: The target temporarily loses its ability to attack.
  • Sources: Peacemaker (5s), Pulse Laser variants with a jamming modifier (2s)
• Quantum Tether (Striker): The target has been linked to one or more allies, causing direct damage taken to also apply to linked allies. Damage taken by the target is increased by an additional +5% for every linked ally.
• Annihilator Virus: The target has been infected and will take a large amount of kinetic and energy damage once the debuff wears off or when the player manually triggers the device again.
• Magnetic Repulsor: The target is disoriented, losing its ability to take action and receiving an additional +100%-200% collision damage for 5-7s.
• Quantum Entangler: The target has been tethered and will take any damage received by the player, plus an additional 40-100% damage, for the next 14-19s or until the tether is manually severed.
• Malware: The target's mainframe has been subverted, disabling engines and weapons indefinitely. Can only be inflicted during certain main missions.

Debuffs from Other Sources

• Infested: Deals damage over time. Inflicted by Athorian Worms when they attach to their targets. Killing the worm or escaping its grasp will clear the debuff.
• Radiated: Maximum hull reduced based on the number of stacks. Stacks are inflicted by traversing radiation clouds and allowing Radiation buildup to reach 100%. Accumulated stacks can only be purged by docking at a landing pad.
• Scorching: Overheats two equipped items per stack for a time, reducing their effectiveness. Inflicted by allowing Heat buildup from Zurilia attacks and mine explosions or environmental damage to reach 100%.
• Frozen: Disables all player ship functionality for a short time. Inflicted by allowing Frost buildup from Retaliator attacks and mine explosions or environmental cold to reach 100%.
• Submerged: Disables weapons, devices and consumables. Upon exceeding a certain depth, also deals shield- and armor-bypassing damage over time.
• Solar Exposure: Deals heavy energy damage over time and induces Radiation buildup. Stacks up to 10 times.
• Jump Supressor: Disables the player's supralight capability, preventing them from leaving the location. Inflicted by Okkar Suppressor Drones as part of the wanted system.

Equipment Conditions

Equipment conditions, indicated with yellow icons, degrade the performance of specific pieces of equipment.

• [Equipment Type] Overheated: Inflicted by heat accumulation and certain enemy missiles, this condition temporarily reduces the performance of one or more items in a specific equipment slot, cutting an equipment type-specific stat in half until the condition ends. Overheated weapons in particular are marked in the heads-up display by a red overlay.
  • Primary / Secondary / Energy / Shield / Plating / Sensor / Booster / Cargo

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• [Equipment Type] Damaged / Sensor Impaired: Inflicted randomly when taking hull damage, this condition reduces a equipment type-specific primary stat (e.g. energy damage on Cruise Missiles) by 50% (multiplicative) until the affected equipment is switched out or repaired.
  • Additionally, damaged equipment suffers a 70% reduction in credit value. Repairs at a station hangar or via use of a Nano Repair Kit will restore this lost value after the player leaves the hangar.
  • Debuff icons shown are the same as the overheated icons, just without the flame/heat symbol in the background.