Arc Emitter
WEAPON CORE
A steady beam straight ahead that hits the first wolf in its way.
DPS 54 · Range 640 px
Another copy: a second beam close beside the first.
BAArrage
The cards
Every card in the climb, as the game says it: 8 Weapon Cores, 93 cards to stack and 12 Anomalies. Every level-up offers you three of one tier.
Weapon Cores
Your gun. Every climb starts with one, and a boss can give you another. A second copy of one you fly changes its pattern.
Lash Tether
WEAPON CORE
A lamb on a leash hunts the nearest wolf in reach and bites it. The leash itself does no damage.
DPS 60 · Range 350 px
Another copy: another leashed lamb, and every leash a little longer; past four, the lambs bite harder instead.
Mortar Rack
WEAPON CORE
Lobs shells over clouds and wrecks. Each explodes where it lands in an AREA blast that reaches past cover.
Damage 40 · Shots 1 · Fire rate 1/s · DPS 40 · Blast radius 155 px · Lands 300 px ahead
Another copy: a second shell beside the first.
Null Ray
WEAPON CORE
A long thin ray that hits the first wolf in its way and MARKs it: MARKed wolves take more damage from everything.
DPS 34 · Range 700 px · MARK 4/s · MARKed take +75% damage
Another copy: a second ray close beside the first.
Rail Lance
WEAPON CORE
One heavy shot at a time that pierces a line of wolves.
Damage 60 · Shots 1 · Fire rate 1.3/s · DPS 78 · Pierce 4
Another copy: it fires again right after each shot.
Scatter Bloom
WEAPON CORE
A wide cone of pellets that hit hardest up close and fade with distance.
Damage 14 · Shots 9 · Fire rate 1.6/s · DPS 202 · Damage -12% per 100 px flown
Another copy: four more pellets in the same cone, and they reach a little further.
Splitshot
WEAPON CORE
A narrow fan of quick shots. A solid all-rounder.
Damage 10 · Shots 3 · Fire rate 4.2/s · DPS 126
Another copy: two more shots, and the fan a little wider.
Swarm Battery
WEAPON CORE
A fast stream of small shots.
Damage 6 · Shots 1 · Fire rate 15/s · DPS 90
Another copy: a second barrel beside the first.
Common cards
Offered most: the base of a build.
Ablative Layer
COMMON · DEFENCE
More max hull.
Max hull +2
Beacon Drone
COMMON · DRONES
A drone that flies from wolf to wolf, MARKing each one and the pack around it.
MARK on what it passes · Reach 110 px
Concussion
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your AREA blasts knock wolves back and stun them for a moment.
Knockback 70 px · Stun 0.5 s
Needs AREA blasts
Coolant Rupture
COMMON · STATUS
When you're hit, everything on screen freezes for a moment, then stays CHILLed.
CHILL after the freeze · Freeze 1 s
Cornered Ram
COMMON · DEFENCE
At half hull or less, you fire faster and fly faster.
Fire rate +40% at half hull or less · Move speed +30% at half hull or less · Blink after a hit 0.5 s longer at half hull or less
Cryo Wash
COMMON · STATUS
Your AREA blasts CHILL what they hit.
CHILL each AREA hit
Needs AREA blasts
Escort Drone
COMMON · DRONES
A drone that orbits you and shoots the nearest wolf.
Damage 12 · Fire rate 2/s · DPS 24
Fire Burst
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
A ring of fire spreads out from your ship, hitting and BURNing every wolf it reaches.
BURN 2 stacks on each wolf it reaches · Damage 12 · Reach 1000 px · Every 6 s
Firefly
COMMON · DRONES
Little drones dart from wolf to wolf, setting each one BURNing.
BURN 1 stack on what it passes · Reach 60 px
Frostline
COMMON · STATUS
Your beams CHILL what they touch.
CHILL every 0.5 s
Needs BEAM
Gravity Well
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Pulls the wolves around you together into a clump in front of you.
Pull radius 500 px · Pulls to 300 px ahead of you · Pull lasts 0.6 s · Every 8 s
Haggler
COMMON · SCALING
Everything in the shop costs less: cards, repairs and new stock.
Shop prices -10%
Headbutt
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles hit harder the closer the wolf they hit, fading to nothing further out.
Projectile damage +80% point blank · Fades out by 800 px
Needs PROJECTILE
Hull Weave
COMMON · DEFENCE
Repairs your hull after every wave you clear.
Heals 1 hull a wave
Incendiary Tips
COMMON · STATUS
Your projectiles BURN what they hit.
BURN 1 stack each hit
Needs PROJECTILE
Inertial Dampener
COMMON · DEFENCE
You move faster.
Move speed +25%
Ion Wash
COMMON · STATUS
Your beams put STATIC on what they touch.
STATIC 1 stack every 0.5 s
Needs BEAM
Kinetic Amplifier
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles hit harder, but your weapons fire more slowly.
Projectile damage +50% · Fire rate -25%
Needs PROJECTILE
Lance Overflow
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Part of your beam's damage spills to the wolves directly behind its target.
Spills 50% to wolves behind
Needs BEAM, a straight beam
Long Leash
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your tether's leashes are longer: its lambs hunt further from you.
Leash reach +20% · Lamb speed +10%
Needs a tether's lambs
Mine Layer
COMMON · DRONES
A drone flies into the pack and drops mines that explode as AREA blasts.
Damage 40 · Radius 100 px · Trigger radius 55 px · Fuse 2 s · Every 3.5 s
Napalm Payload
COMMON · STATUS
Your AREA blasts BURN what they hit.
BURN 1 stack each AREA hit
Needs AREA blasts
Nova Pulse
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
A ring of frost spreads out from your ship, hitting and CHILLing every wolf it reaches.
CHILL on each wolf it reaches · Damage 20 · Reach 1000 px · Every 6 s
Overclock
COMMON · SCALING
Your weapons fire faster.
Fire rate +15%
Overpenetration
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles pierce more wolves, losing damage with each one they pass.
Damage -20% per wolf passed · Pierce +2
Needs PROJECTILE
Painter Array
COMMON · STATUS
MARKs the toughest wolves on screen.
MARK 3 wolves every 3 s
Plasma Bleed
COMMON · STATUS
Your crits BURN what they hit.
BURN 1 stack each crit
Needs a crit chance or a crit chance vs MARK
Precision Optics
COMMON · SCALING
Your hits can crit.
Crit chance +10%
Reactive Armour
COMMON · DEFENCE
Each hit you take speeds up your weapons for a while. It stacks.
Fire rate +20% a stack · Stacks up to 3 · Lasts 5 s
Recoil Vent
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles hit harder, and each shot nudges you backward.
Projectile damage +35% · Recoil 3 px a shot
Needs PROJECTILE
Retaliation
COMMON · PROJECTILE
When you're hit or block a hit, a ring of shots bursts out all around you.
Damage 15 · Ring 12 shots round you · Cooldown 1 s
Ricochet Plating
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles bounce on to the nearest wolf they haven't hit.
Bounces 1
Needs PROJECTILE
Sabot Core
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles ignore part of a wolf's armour, but your crit chance drops, even below zero.
Crit chance -15% · Armour 50% ignored
Needs PROJECTILE
Salvage Drone
COMMON · DRONES
A drone that chases down falling scrap and collects it, sometimes with a bonus.
Bonus scrap +50% every 4th pickup · Gathers within 100 px
Scrap Magnet
COMMON · SCALING
You pick up scrap from further away.
Pickup radius +100%
Searing Beam
COMMON · STATUS
Your beams BURN what they touch.
BURN 1 stack every 0.5 s
Needs BEAM
Shaped Charge
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your AREA blasts are smaller but hit much harder.
Blast damage +50% · Blast radius -25%
Needs AREA blasts
Shock Payload
COMMON · STATUS
Your AREA blasts put STATIC on what they hit.
STATIC 1 stack each AREA hit
Needs AREA blasts
Slipstream
COMMON · DEFENCE
Keep moving and you fly faster and hit harder while you do.
Damage +15% while moving · Move speed +30% · After moving 2 s
Spotter Charge
COMMON · STATUS
Your AREA blasts MARK what they hit: MARKed wolves take more damage from everything.
MARK each AREA hit
Needs AREA blasts
Static Coils
COMMON · STATUS
Every few hits puts STATIC on the wolf you hit.
STATIC 1 stack every 3rd hit
Targeting Virus
COMMON · STATUS
Each kill MARKs the nearest wolf.
MARK 1 wolf each kill
Thunderhead
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Lightning strikes the toughest wolf on screen in an AREA blast that puts STATIC on what it hits.
STATIC 2 stacks on each wolf it strikes · Damage 40 · Radius 80 px · Every 5 s
Trophy Hunter
COMMON · PAYOFFS
MARKed wolves give more XP when they die.
XP +50% from MARKed
Needs MARK
Twin Bore
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Every few volleys fire an extra projectile.
Extra projectile 1 every 3rd volley
Needs PROJECTILE, a gun that fires volleys
Wide Aperture
COMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your beams are much wider, so they catch more wolves, but each deals a little less.
Beam damage -20% · Beam width +100%
Needs BEAM
Wolfsbane Tips
COMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles hit elites and bosses harder.
Projectile damage +50% vs elites and bosses
Needs PROJECTILE
Uncommon cards
Offered less often, and stronger.
Adaptive Core
UNCOMMON · SCALING
You hit harder for every card you hold.
Damage +2% per card held
Afterglow
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
A wolf your beam leaves keeps taking damage for a moment.
Afterglow 30% of the beam · Afterglow lasts 1.5 s
Needs BEAM
Aftershock
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Every AREA blast goes off a second time in the same spot, weaker.
Aftershock 50% of the blast · Aftershock after 0.5 s
Needs AREA blasts
Barbed Anchors
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your tether's leashes are barbed: each one hurts every wolf it sweeps through.
Leash DPS 30 to every wolf it sweeps
Needs a tether's lambs
Brittle
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
CHILLed wolves take more damage from everything.
CHILLed take +30% damage
Needs CHILL
Capacitor Burst
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your beams build up charge and release it in a burst on everything they touch.
Pulse 4 ticks of damage at once · Pulse every 3 s
Needs BEAM
Cluster Shells
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Every AREA blast scatters bomblets that burst around its edge a moment later.
Each bomblet 30% of the blast · Bomblets 3
Needs AREA blasts
Combustion
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
BURN deals more damage, but wears off sooner.
BURN damage +150% · BURN length -50%
Needs BURN
Compact Core
UNCOMMON · DEFENCE
Your core is smaller, so you're harder to hit.
Core 60% of its size
Compound Interest
UNCOMMON · SCALING
You hit harder the more scrap you hold. Spending it takes the bonus away.
Damage +1% per 10 scrap held · Up to +100%
Conductive Frost
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
STATIC hits CHILLed wolves harder.
STATIC +50% damage to CHILLed
Needs CHILL and STATIC
Daredevil
UNCOMMON · PROJECTILE
Every graze makes you hit harder for a while.
Projectile damage +10% a graze · Up to +80% · Lasts 5 s
Needs PROJECTILE
Detonation Field
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Wolves killed near you explode as an AREA blast.
Damage 40 · Radius 120 px · Kills within 200 px of you
Emergency Vent
UNCOMMON · DEFENCE
When you're hit, an AREA blast bursts around you and you can't be hit for a moment.
Damage 30 · Radius 260 px · Invulnerable 1 s · Cooldown 15 s
Flashpoint
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
A wolf that piles up enough BURN bursts in an AREA blast and keeps burning.
Bursts every 8 BURN stacks · Blast damage 5 a stack · Radius 100 px
Needs BURN
Follow Through
UNCOMMON · PROJECTILE
When a projectile kills a wolf, its leftover damage carries on to the nearest wolf.
Goes on to 1 more wolf · Reach 250 px
Needs PROJECTILE
Fracture Rounds
UNCOMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles split into shards on their first hit.
Each shard 40% damage · Shards 2
Needs PROJECTILE
Harmonic Field
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your AREA blasts hit harder for every wolf they catch.
Blast damage +15% per wolf caught
Needs AREA blasts
Lethal Calibration
UNCOMMON · SCALING
Your crits hit harder.
Crit damage +50%
Needs a crit chance or a crit chance vs MARK
Long Barrel
UNCOMMON · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles hit harder the further they have flown.
Projectile damage +8% per 100 px flown
Needs PROJECTILE
Momentum Bank
UNCOMMON · SCALING
You hit harder the longer you go without being hit. A hit resets it.
Damage +1% a second unhit · Up to +50%
Overclocked Chassis
UNCOMMON · DRONES
Your drones act faster, but an enemy shot can knock one out for a few seconds.
Drone speed +50% · Knocked out 5 s when shot
Needs DRONE
Overload
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
STATIC discharges sooner and chains to more wolves.
Discharges at 3 stacks · Chains to 3 wolves
Needs STATIC
Phase Drive
UNCOMMON · DEFENCE
Double-tap to dash to where you tapped. Nothing can hit you during the dash.
Dash 260 px · Invulnerable 0.4 s · Cooldown 8 s
Point Defence
UNCOMMON · DEFENCE
Shoots down enemy bullets that come near you.
Reach 150 px · Shots downed 1 each time · Every 1 s
Salvage Rights
UNCOMMON · SCALING
Wolves drop more scrap.
Scrap +25%
Shard Cluster
UNCOMMON · DRONES
Tiny drones that ram wolves and come back after they break.
Ram damage 15 · Drones 3 · Respawn 5 s
Sheepdog Whistle
UNCOMMON · DEFENCE
When a shot is about to hit you, a whistle clears the shots around you.
Clears shots within 140 px · Cooldown 10 s
Splitter Prism
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your beam forks, each fork at reduced damage.
Each beam 55% damage · Beams 2
Needs BEAM, a straight beam
Stampede
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your dash ends in an AREA blast where you land.
Damage 60 · Radius 120 px
Needs a dash
Static Fleece
UNCOMMON · STATUS
Each graze charges your next hits to put STATIC on the wolves they hit.
STATIC 1 stack each charged hit · Each graze charges the next 8 hits
Sustained Charge
UNCOMMON · BEAM AND AREA
Your beam hits harder the longer it stays on one wolf.
Beam damage +10% a second on one wolf · Up to +100%
Needs BEAM
Vivisect
UNCOMMON · PAYOFFS
Better crit chance against MARKed wolves.
Crit chance +40% vs MARKed
Needs MARK
Rare cards
Offered one time in five: the cards a build turns on.
Bellwether
RARE · DRONES
A belled lamb flies into the pack. Wolves near it shoot at it instead of you, and it soaks up their shots. Bosses ignore it.
Lures within 300 px
Bounty
RARE · PAYOFFS
MARKed wolves drop more scrap.
Scrap +100% from MARKed
Needs MARK
Chain Arc
RARE · BEAM AND AREA
Your beam arcs from the wolf it hits to the nearest other wolf, weaker.
Arcs on to 1 more wolf · Arc damage 40% of the beam · Arc reach 150 px
Needs BEAM
Cold Snap
RARE · PAYOFFS
A wolf that stays CHILLed long enough freezes solid for a moment and can't move or fire. Not bosses.
Freezes after 3 s CHILLed · Freeze 1 s
Needs CHILL
Conductor
RARE · PAYOFFS
STATIC chains reach one more wolf and put STATIC on every wolf they hit.
Chains to 2 wolves · STATIC 2 stack each chain hit
Needs STATIC
Deadman Switch
RARE · DEFENCE
The hit that would end your run clears the screen instead, and you survive on your last pip.
Saves 1 a run
Drone Bay
RARE · DRONES
All your drones get stronger: harder hits, faster repairs and bigger bonuses.
Drone strength +30%
Needs DRONE
Executioner
RARE · PAYOFFS
MARKed wolves die outright when their hull runs low.
Kills MARKed below 25% hull
Needs MARK
Flak Timer
RARE · PROJECTILE
Your projectiles explode in an AREA blast as they pass close to a wolf.
Blast damage 100% of the shot · Blast radius 110 px · Arms after 0.6 s
Needs PROJECTILE, a gun that fires volleys or a drone that shoots
Grazing Instinct
RARE · DEFENCE
Near misses build up shield charges, and each charge blocks a hit. A blocked hit still sets off your ON DAMAGED cards.
Block every 24 grazes
Repair Drone
RARE · DRONES
A drone that repairs your hull now and then.
Heals 1 hull · Every 20 s · Mends at most a pip every 2 s, all together
Shatter
RARE · PAYOFFS
CHILLed wolves explode as an AREA blast when they die.
Damage 60 · Radius 140 px
Needs CHILL
Wildfire
RARE · PAYOFFS
When a BURNing wolf dies, all its BURN spreads to the wolves around it.
Radius 250 px
Needs BURN
Anomalies
One pick after every boss: they bend the rules, and each comes only once.
Alloy
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Every status you apply also applies the other three, weaker.
Other statuses at 55%
Needs BURN or CHILL or STATIC or MARK
Black Sheep
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Each Cursed card you hold makes all your damage stronger, and Cursed cards come up more often.
Damage +12% per Cursed card held · Cursed cards x2 as often
Chimeric Loadout
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Pick another Weapon Core now. It fires alongside the rest.
Weapon Cores +1
Ghost Protocol
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Your drones' rams count as PROJECTILE hits: your projectile cards work on them, and armour blocks them as it does projectiles. Drone shots already count.
DRONE counts as PROJECTILE
Needs DRONE, a drone that rams
Hive Mind
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
One more of every drone you own, room for twice as many, and all of them stronger. A drone that flies alone gets twice as strong instead.
Drones +1 of each kind · Drone strength +25% · A lone drone's strength +100% · Drone limit x2
Needs DRONE
Homing Servos
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
One projectile in each volley homes in on the nearest wolf.
Homing shots 1 a volley
Needs PROJECTILE, a gun that fires volleys or a drone that shoots
Mirror Hull
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
A phantom copy trails you, firing your weapons at reduced power.
Phantom fires at 60%
Proliferation
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Your INTERVAL abilities fire more than once, the repeats weaker.
Each at 80% · Fires 2 times
Needs INTERVAL
Refraction
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Your beams hit harder and count as PROJECTILE hits: your projectile cards work on them, and armour blocks them as it does projectiles.
BEAM counts as PROJECTILE · Beam damage +30%
Needs BEAM
Static Bloom
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
STATIC chain hits count as ON HIT for your other abilities.
STATUS counts as ON HIT
Needs STATIC
Sympathetic Ignition
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Your AREA blasts hit harder, and count as ON HIT for your other abilities.
AREA counts as ON HIT · Blast damage +25%
Needs AREA blasts
Vector Inversion
ANOMALY · NEVER TWICE
Every kill counts as taking damage for your ON DAMAGED abilities.
ON KILL counts as ON DAMAGED
Needs ON DAMAGED
Hidden merges
Every Weapon Core hides a merge: hold the core and the right two cards, and at the end of a wave it becomes something new. They aren't listed anywhere until you find them. The Codex keeps the ones you have.