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Buffs that have consequences (BIG)

Feb 5, 2020
Buffs that have consequences (BIG)
  • Buffs that have consequences (BIG V2.4)

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    Buffs that have 1 consequence are marked in yellow.
    Buffs that have 2 or more consequences are marked in orange.

    NOTE: All of the buffs listed here either have an incompability with 1 or more buffs or have another specific reason related to affecting stats of the survivor in any negative way or what the survivor may not want to have on them.

    Offensive Buffs:
    1. Excitement
    2. Ranged Expert
    3. |V| Over Excitement
    4. |E| Smasher Pan

    Excitement
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Over Excitement Buff.

    Ranged expert
    • Consequence: Assault Rifles and SMGs are changed to ignore defenses on enemy infected, not affected by attack bonuses from buffs, shoot and reload -25% slower. Some people may not want that on their rifles and smg weapons.

    |V| Over Excitement
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Excitement Buff.

    |E| Smasher Pan
    • Consequence: You may not want to have a modified Frying Pan melee weapon.

    Defensive Buffs: <top>
    1. Anger Ignition
    2. Morphine Injector
    3. |E| Enhanced Anger Ignition
    4. Mindset Change
    5. Tenacity
    6. |E| Advanced Morphine Injector
    7. |E| Tank Duelist
    8. |V| Persistence
    9. |E| Promise
    10. |E| Pain Moderation

    Anger Ignition
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Enhanced Anger Ignition Buff.

    Morphine Injector
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Advanced Morphine Injector Buff.

    |E| Enhanced Anger Ignition
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Anger Ignition Buff.

    Mindset Change
    • Consequence: You will never be able to unequip it for less incapacitations and normal maximum incapacitation health.

    Tenacity
    • Consequence: You will not be able to use any buffs that benefit yourself while you are incapacitated.
    • Consequence: You may not want to have increased maximum HP, especially in the case of certain scenarios.

    |E| Advanced Morphine Injector
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Morphine Injector Buff.

    |E| Tank Duelist
    • Consequence: You may not want to have increased tank aggro with this buff equipped.

    |V| Persistence
    • Consequence: This buff is compatible with the Tenacity Buff.
    • Consequence: You may not want to take double damage while incapacitated.

    |E| Promise
    • Consequence: You may not want to take damage every time a survivor dies.

    |E| Pain Moderation
    • Consequence: Temporary Health will decay faster than it normally would when you gain any temporary health through this or any other buff.

    Ability Buffs: <top>
    None.

    Equipment Buffs:
    1. Cheap Goggles
    2. Heat Missile
    3. Seeking Grenade
    4. Frag Grenade
    5. Advanced Grenade Launcher
    6. Compressed Shell
    7. Freezing Grenade
    8. |E| Flaming Sword
    9. |E| Healing pipe bombs
    10. |V| Electric Frag Grenade
    11. |V| Flamethrower
    12. |V| Double Barrel Shotgun
    13. |C| Spin-up M60
    14. |C| Rocket launcher

    Cheap Goggles
    • Consequence: If you have already binded the Goggles Buff or plan on binding it, it is useless to also bind this buff as well. It has the same buff effects as the other buff mentioned.

    Heat Missile
    • Consequence: You may not want your grenade launcher projectiles to seek out and target Special Infected.

    Seeking Grenade
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Frag Grenade Buff.
    • Consequence: You may not want your pipe bomb projectiles to seek out and target Special Infected.

    Frag Grenade
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Seeking Grenade Buff.
    • Consequence: You may not want your pipe bomb projectiles to explode immediately on impact.

    Advanced Grenade Launcher
    • Consequence: You may not want to have an increased clip size and long reload time with your Grenade Launcher.

    Compressed Shell
    • Consequence: You may not want to have all of your shells reload at once and also have a long reload time as well.

    Freezing Grenade
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with other buffs that change grenade contents.
    • Consequence: You may just want your pipe bomb projectiles to explode without having any additional effects on survivors or infected.

    |E| Flaming Sword <top>
    • Consequence: You may not want the melee weapons that this buff works with to also deal fire damage as well as melee damage.

    |E| Healing pipe bombs
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with other buffs that change grenade contents.
    • Consequence: You may just want your pipe bomb projectiles to explode without having any additional effects on survivors or infected.

    |V| Electric Frag Grenade
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with other buffs that change grenade contents.
    • Consequence: You may just want your pipe bomb projectiles to explode without having any additional effects on survivors or infected.

    |V| Flamethrower
    • Consequence: Your M60 weapon will shoot flames out of a flamethrower and will no longer be able to benefit from damage increases, fire rate increases or ammo save modifiers.

    |V| Double Barrel Shotgun
    • Consequence: Your tier 1 shotguns will become shotguns with only 2 shells in a clip size, instant fire rate and reloading which fills both shells at once.

    |C| Spin-up M60
    • Consequence: Your M60 will have decreased fire rate initially and will gain more fire rate as you shoot more at the infected.

    |C| Rocket Launcher
    • Consequence: Your Grenade Launcher will shoot out grenade launcher projectiles like rockets at the infected and will no longer be able to benefit from grenade launcher buffs.

    Utility Buffs: <top>
    1. Field Medic
    2. |V| War Wounds

    Field Medic
    • Consequence: You will no longer be able to take any pain pills and adrenaline shoots, also picking up any of them will make the generated health item disappear if you had one.

    |V| War Wounds
    • Consequence: You may not want to have increased maximum HP, especially in the case of certain scenarios.

    Economy and Exp Buffs:
    None.

    Miscellaneous Buffs:
    1. |E| Helping drone
    2. |V| Assassin Drone
    3. |E| Supporting Role

    |E| Helping drone
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Assassin Drone Buff.

    |V| Assassin Drone
    • Consequence: This buff is incompatible with the Helping drone Buff.

    |E| Supporting Role Buff
    • Consequence: You will deal reduced damage to tanks at the cost of increased damage towards special infected.