Ultimate

Ultimates or ULTs are special ship abilities that can be activated to unleash a mighty offensive or defensive power. ULTs require 100% ULT energy to be activated, which is charged by killing enemies.

The ULT can be used when fully charged by pressing G by default on PC, or DPad Up on gamepad. The same button can be used to prematurely cancel an ultimate while in use.

Charging

• The ULT only charges for kills that give or would give level experience. Therefore, enemies that are a much lower level than the player do not charge the ULT.

Interactions

• All ships can generate with passives that affect their specific ULT in unique ways.

Perks

• Adam has several perks that have effects based around ULTs:
  • Level 25: Ulterior Motive - 100% increased ULT generation while shield is depleted.
  • Level 25: Unyielding Assault - Activating the ULT instantly repairs 50% of armor and removes all debuffs.
  • Level 25: Critical Faculty - Critical hits have a 30% chance to restore 1% ULT energy.
  • Level 30: Overkill - After your ULT expires, your primary weapons remain charged with Ancient energy, increasing their damage by 20% and allowing them to pierce shields and armor. Up to 15.0s duration, depending on ULT energy spent.

• The final level of Delia's energy orb perk allows rare energy orbs to charge the ULT.

Equipment

• The Devotion coil gun uses 5% ULT energy per shot.
• The Eye of the Storm sensor makes secondary weapons always critical hit while the ULT is below 50% charge.
• The Tides of Siren's Sea Set has two ULT-based set bonuses:
  • 2/4 Set Items: 30% increased ULT generation
  • 3/4 Set Items: Shield capacity is increased by 100% but doesn't recharge. Instead, using the ULT restores it to full capacity.
• The Hydrosurge Drive booster has a unique trait that gives 20% increased boost speed while the ULT is active.
• There are three universal modifiers that can generate on all modules:
  • 5% increased ULT generation
  • 10% increased ULT duration
  • 5% increased ULT damage.

List of ultimates

Icon	Ultimate	Ship Type	Effect
	Void Swarm	Stinger	Instantly resets all device cooldowns and releases a huge swarm of aggressive micro-bots that will consume everything in their way, prioritizing the locked target. Upon return, they will restore hull and armor based on the total damage dealt.
	Shadow Strike	Scout	Renders the ship invisible to enemies and gradually increases weapon damage up to 300%. Resets 1s after a shot was fired. Firing weapons will also draw attention and let enemies briefly target the ship.
	Time Extender	Vanguard	Bend the spacetime continuum to dilate the flow of time around the ship.
	Weapon Overdrive	Interceptor	Heavily boosts weapon damage and fire rate and provides unlimited energy. Killing an enemy increases the remaining duration by 1.0s.
	Static Overload	Sentinel	Turns the ship's primary weapons into lightning guns, firing arcing electricity at enemies and everything around them.
	Quantum Tether	Striker	Turns the target into a tether anchor that connects them with up to 5 surrounding enemies who will also receive all damage applied to the target. Damage increases by 5% with each tethered enemy.
	ARC-9000	Bomber	Fire a huge ball of destruction that damages enemies in its vicinity and explodes on impact.
	Turret	Gunship	Automated turret that fires projectiles at your enemies for 20s after activation.
	Phalanx	Vindicator	Greatly increase your drones' fire rate and synchronize them to attack your locked target. Temporarily spawns any missing drones for the duration of the effect.