Status Effects

See also: Enemies, Difficulties, Game Mechanics

Status Effects are modifiers which affect and determine the specific properties of enemies in ULTRAKILL. They can be caused by a number of external sources, such as arena conditions, weapons in the player's arsenal, and even other enemies. While some work to the advantage of the player, others may make enemies more dangerous to confront.

Listed below are each of the various Status Effects which can be applied to enemies and their respective traits/characteristics.

Effects

Enraged

Enrage is an effect applied through various enemy-specific means, but most commonly when an enemy's health is low enough. Not all enemies can be enraged, with some having enrages locked to higher difficulties. Enraged enemies gain unique behavioral effects which cause them to act more volatile or reckless. Though these are more often buffs, some effects can be at the detriment of the enemy. Some enrages are permanent and last until the enemy dies, while others naturally go away after some time.

Enraged enemies who move on the ground do not avoid charging off of ledges into environmental hazards when performing some of their attacks, allowing for an easy kill by luring them near one. Otherwise, strategies vary for dealing with enraged enemies due to the effect's enemy-specific nature.

Enraged enemies appear bright red, gaining various yellow accents, and a glowing, circular red aura with intermittent lightning effects.

Causing an enemy to enrage gives the player the + Enraged style bonus. There is currently only one exception to this- during V2's second encounter, punching them with the Knuckleblaster instead gives the player the + Stop Hitting Yourself style bonus.

Enemies with Enrage Conditions
Enemy	Difficulty	Enrage Condition	Enrage Effects
Swordsmachine	All Difficulties	Enrages when any of their sword-based attacks are parried.	Becomes faster and rushes at the player, losing access to their ranged attacks. Is temporary, and wears off after a short time.
V2	All Difficulties	Enrages when the player keeps their distance from V2 for too long, indicated by a smaller bar below their healthbar.	Begins to move very quickly and aggressively, cancelling their slides to accurately chase the player, and has no cooldown on Piercer charge shots. Is temporary, and wears off after the player remains close to V2 for some time.
Mindflayer	Violent and higher	Enrages once reaching half health.	Begins to teleport significantly more often.
V2 (2nd)	All Difficulties	Enrages when the player keeps their distance from V2 for too long, indicated by a smaller bar below their healthbar, or if the player punches them with the Knuckleblaster.	Begins to move very quickly and aggressively, cancelling their slides to accurately chase the player, and has no cooldown on Piercer charge shots. Does not throw coins, and ignores any coins thrown by the player via the Marksman Revolver. Is temporary, and wears off after the player remains close to V2 for some time.
Gutterman	Brutal and higher	Enrages when their shield is broken, or when parried.	Melee attack becomes unparriable. Is temporary, and wears off after 10 seconds.
Malicious Face	Violent and higher	Enrages once reaching half health.	Fires their Malicious Beam attack near-exclusively, occasionally performing two beams in quick succession with no charge time between them.
Cerberus	All Difficulties	Enrages when any other Cerberus in the level is killed while they are alive.	Begins to move much faster and aggressively, and can occasionally dash off of ledges attempting to reach the player.
Hideous Mass	All Difficulties	Enrages once they have reached 20% health as a boss, or 33% health in regular encounters.	Rolls onto their back, exposing both of their weakpoints on the stomach and tail. Begins to wildly flail and constantly shoot Hell Mortars in various directions.
Gabriel, Judge of Hell	All Difficulties	Enrages once he has reached his second phase at half health.	Begins to move much more quickly and aggressively.
Virtue	Standard and higher	Enrages after firing five Divine Beams without dying, or after firing three on Violent and higher. Cannot enrage while blessed by an Idol unless on Violent or higher.	Divine Beam insignias become bright red, and attempt to predict the player's movement once fired.
Gabriel, Apostate of Hate	All Difficulties	Enrages at the very start of his fight.	More reckless movement, though temporary, as he loses his enraged status upon reaching his second phase.
Mysterious Druid Knight (& Owl)	All Difficulties	Enrages after entering their third phase at half health.	Moves faster and more erratically.

Sanded

Sanded enemies do not bleed, meaning the player cannot use their blood to heal.

This effect is sometimes applied by default to certain enemies depending on the level, but is most commonly applied by Stalkers. Stalkers approach other enemies while preparing to self-detonate around nearby enemies, leaving behind a sand explosion that causes them to become sanded.

Although sanded enemies are incapable of bleeding, parries performed via the Feedbacker or Shotgun can still allow the player to heal off of them, making parries a reliable method of countering sanded enemies.

Sanded enemies appear with a scrolling, golden sand texture over them, as well as dripping sand particles.

Blessed

Blessed enemies cannot be damaged by any non-environmental factor.

This effect can only be applied by Idols, who apply it to a single enemy at a time and cannot have the effect applied to themselves.

Players can counter blessed enemies by killing the Idol that is protecting the enemy or by having the enemy die from an environmental hazard. Falling Malicious Faces count as environmental hazards, making them a fantastic choice if an Idol is in an inconvenient position or protected.

Blessed enemies appear with a bright blue sheen, faint white circles over them, and a translucent beam of light connecting them to their Idol.

Radiance

Radiant enemies are granted additional strength in the form of increased damage, speed, and/or health (internally recognized as damage reduction) based on their respective values, escalating their difficulty.

Damage, speed, and health can be edited to be higher or lower per enemy individually via the Spawner Arm in the cheats menu, or all at once based on specific radiance "level" multipliers which go from 1x to 10x.

Despite the increased speed and health, faster attacks mean more parry windows for healing and damage. Parrying bypasses the damage reduction given by Radiance, making enemies faster to kill depending on what attacks they have.

Radiant enemies appear with a scrolling rainbow texture over them, as well as a scrolling rainbow outline.

Radiant enemies naturally appear within The Cyber Grind and encore levels. In The Cyber Grind, they spawn starting at Wave 25 and increase in quantity and possible enemy candidates as waves continue. Radiant enemies do not gain increased damage in The Cyber Grind, and do not have stat multipliers increase. In encore levels, they are set and predetermined encounters.

Fire

Only a select number of enemies are flammable by default, consisting of Filth, Strays, Schisms, Soldiers, and Sisyphean Insurrectionists.

If an enemy is flammable, they take 150% damage while inflamed, excluding damage dealt by explosions and the burn damage itself. If an enemy that is not flammable is set on fire using Gasoline, they do not receive this multiplier.

Each damage tick deals 0.2 damage. This does not get boosted by the burning multiplier as mentioned above, nor by the airborne multiplier on weak Husks. This passive damage cannot kill Insurrectionists.

Kills with fire damage give the player the + Fried style bonus. Killing enemies that are on fire gives the + Finished Off style bonus.

Duration

Burn duration is counted in ticks, and each tick lasts 0.5 seconds.
When a new burn is applied, it overwrites the old duration only if the new duration is longer.
Explosion damage fall-off applies to burn duration the same way it does damage, reducing duration to 2/3rds of its usual length.

Fire sources

8 ticks (4s)	Overheated Nails Overheated Saw Cerberus orbs (when not parried)
12 ticks (6s)	Projectile Boost Core Eject (Red explosions are the same) Parried projectiles Drone kamikaze Ferryman lightning explosions (when not chargebacked) Rocket Launcher explosions Gutterman corpse explosions Freezecharged Rocket Impact Hammer beam explosions Impact Hammer Overpump
16 ticks (8s)	Skull/Torch hit (also Moon Torch)
20 ticks (10s)	Shotgun Overpump Malicious Face beam explosions Malicious Railcannon explosions Streetcleaner canister explosions Ferryman lightning explosions (when chargebacked) S.R.S. Cannonball explosions Core/Rocket Impact Hammer beam explosions (but not freezecharged)
24 ticks (12s)	Hideous Mass mortars (parried or otherwise)
40 ticks (20s)	Streetcleaner flames Virtue beams

Flammable Enemies

Filth Stray Schism (Takes 50% fire damage) Soldier Sisyphean Insurrectionist (Takes 200% fire damage)

Gasoline

Any enemy covered in Gasoline can always be set on fire, regardless of if they are flammable or not. An enemy that is not flammable by default does not gain the usual 1.5x damage multiplier if set ablaze using gasoline.
Each drop of gasoline projected by the Firestarter Rocket Launcher is equivalent to 0.1 Fuel. The maximum Fuel an enemy can have is 5. Every burn tick, a coated enemy's normal burn duration does not decrease, and instead consumes 0.175 Fuel. The enemy is also dealt 0.5 damage rather than 0.2. When an enemy's Fuel reaches 0, they resume consuming normal burn ticks as usual starting from the next tick. Non-flammable enemies that run out of Fuel stop receiving damage from burn ticks and have their flames slowly shrink. Unless the flames are completely put out, the enemy can be set on fire again during this time if Fuel is added back without any fire source.

Wet

When an enemy is in a body of water, they become wet, and are unable to be set on fire in any way. Wet enemies also conduct electricity.
After an enemy exits water, they stay wet for exactly 7 seconds. The effect is visibly indicated by water droplets occasionally appearing on the enemy.
Streetcleaners immediately die under this effect, even if blessed by an Idol, although in this case their body remains blessed due to a bug.

Puppet

When an enemy is puppeted, they take on a very wobbly silhouette of their original body, and become completely composed of blood.

Any puppeted enemy takes 2× damage and has a 25% reduction to their speed. Additionally, if a puppeted enemy is to become sanded, they instantly die and cause a small cosmetic cloud of sand. Puppeted enemies do not increase level kill counts or style points in any form.

Puppets are always puppeted.

Puppeted enemies only spawn naturally in the level 7-3: NO SOUND, NO MEMORY, under large trees which act as locks to certain parts of the level. They spawn infinitely until their respective tree has been completely "filled" by blood from the surrounding area.

Media

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  An enraged Malicious Face.
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  A sanded Filth.
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  A radiant Filth.
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  A Swordsmachine partly covered in Gasoline.
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  A Swordsmachine inflamed using Gasoline.
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  A puppeted Stray.

• Enrage start
• Enrage loop
• Enrage end