Perks guide

Overview

This is a list of all 55 perks and their descriptions.As for what some of them actually do? Well, you’ll just have to find out…

First row of perks

BLOODY MESS
The more the merrier. More blood guarantees a 30% better experience.

SHARPSHOOTER
Your aiming improves drastically with a fancy new laser sight. You’ll also do slightly more damage and get one extra bullet in your clip – Make it count!

FASTLOADER
Man, you sure know how to load a gun.

LEAN MEAN EXP MACHINE
Why kill for experience when you can make some of your own for free!? With this perk, the experience just keeps flowing in faster and faster.

LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
You move like a train that has feet and runs. You’ll move faster the longer you run without stopping.

OUT OF THIN AIR
Powerups appear randomly around the field, even without blood being spilled.

INSTANT WINNER
5,000 experience points or 10% of your total experience – whichever is the highest. Right away. Take it or leave it.

GRIM DEAL
I’ll make you a deal: I’ll give you 66% more experience points, and you’ll give me your life. So you’ll die, but score higher. Ponder that one for a sec.

PLAGUEBEARER
You carry a horrible disease. Good for you: You are immune. Bad for them: It is contagious! (Monsters become resistant to it once in a while though.)

EAGLE EYES
View the world from a higher perspective. You know, like an eagle. (Because they fly high.)

AMMO MANIAC
You squeeze and you push and you pack your clips with about 20% more ammo than a regular fellow. They call you Ammo Maniac with a deep respect in their voices.

Second row of perks

RADIOACTIVE
You are the Radioactive-Man; You have that healthy green glow around you! Monsters near you lose health at a constant rate. It does affect your social life a bit.

FASTSHOT
Funny how you make your gun spit bullets faster than the next guy. Even the most professional of engineers are astonished.

FATAL LOTTERY
Fifty-fifty chance of dying or gaining 66K Experience points. Place your bets. Interested, anyone?

RANDOM WEAPON
Here, have this weapon. No questions asked.

MR. MELEE
You master the art of melee fighting. You don’t just stand still when the monsters come near. You hit back. Hard. Even when you have shield.

SLOW TIME, HIGH DAMAGE
You do quad damage while time is slown down, but your reflex powerup duration is halved. You will also do 50% more damage when you’ve got Reflex Boosted perk.

FINAL REVENGE
Pick this and you’ll get your revenge. It’s a promise.

TELEKINETIC
With the power of your magnificent mind, you slowly but steadily move the nearest powerup at your direction.

PERK EXPERT
You sure know how to pick a perk — Most people just don’t see that extra perk lying around. You will also get more perks: You reach the next level 25% earlier than before.

UNSTOPPABLE
Monsters can’t slow you down with their nasty scratches and bites. It still hurts, but you simply ignore the pain.

REGRESSION AMMO
Shooting with an empty clip is not a problem for you, but each shot fired this way leads to a severe loss of points! But hey, whatever makes them go down, right?

Third row of perks

INFERNAL CONTRACT
In exchange for your soul and 99% of your health, a dark stranger is offering you three (3) new perks. Just sign down here below this pentagram.

POISON PROJECTILES
You tend to explicitly treat each of your projectiles with rat poison. You do it for good luck, but it seems to have other side effects too.

DODGER
It seems so stupid to just take in all the hits. Each time a monster attacks you, you have a chance to dodge the attack.

LUCKY
You somehow seem to lure all kinds of powerups to appear around you more often.

URANIUM FILLED BULLETS
Your bullets have a nice creamy uranium filling. Yummy. Now that’s gotta hurt the monsters more, right?

DOCTOR
With a single glance, you can tell the medical condition of, well, anything. Your vast knowledge of anatomy enables you to do slightly more damage with your attacks, and get more out of each medkit you pick up.

HOT TEMPERED
It literally boils inside you. That’s exactly why you need to let it out once in a while, unfortunately for those near you.

BONUS ECONOMIST
Your bonus powerups last 50% longer than they normally would.

THICK SKINNED
Trade 1/3 of your health for only receiving 2/3rds damage on attacks.

BARREL GREASER
After studying a lot of physics and friction, you’ve come up with a way to make your bullets fly faster. More speed, more damage.

AMMUNITION WITHIN
An empty clip doesn’t prevent you from shooting with a weapon; instead, you shoot firebullets and the ammunition is drawn from your health while you are reloading.

Fourth row of perks

BAD BLOOD
The monsters are experiencing problems with their cardiovascular system. Their movement speed is slowed down and they have less health.

HIGHLANDER
You are immortal. Well, almost immortal. Instead of losing health on attacks, you’ve got a 5% chance of dying whenever a monster attacks you. There can be only one, you know.

REGENERATION
Your health replenishes at a very slow rate.

PYROMANIAC
You enjoy using fire as your tool of destruction and you’re good at it too; your fire and plasma based weapons range is increased and they do a lot more damage.

NINJA
You’ve taken your dodging abilities to the next level; monsters have a really hard time hitting you.

COLD-BLOODED
Your blood runs freezing cold. Everyone around you gets frozen solid whenever a monster scratches or bites you!

JINXED
Things happen near you. Strangest things. Creatures just drop dead and accidents happen. Beware.

PERK MASTER
You are now ready to take your perk expert training to the next level. You can now select between six perks, and you reach the next level 50% earlier than regulars.

REFLEX BOOSTED
To you the world seems to go on about 10% slower than to an average person. It can be rather irritating sometimes, but it does give you a chance to react better.

GREATER REGENERATION
Your health replenishes faster than ever.

BREATHING ROOM
Trade 99% of your health for the killing of every single creature on the screen. Yes, you do get the experience.

Last row of perks

DEATH CLOCK
You die exactly in 30 seconds. You can’t escape your destiny, but for your remaining seconds, all score gained will be doubled. Feel free to go on a spree. Tick. Tock.

MY FAVOURITE WEAPON
You’ve grown very fond of your piece. You polish it all the time and talk nice to it, your precious. (+2 Clip size, no more random weapon powerups)

BANDAGE
Here, eat this bandage and you’ll feel a lot better in no time. Restores you to full health.

ANGRY RELOADER
You hate it when you run out of shots. You hate hate hate reloading your gun. Strangely enough, your hate materializes as might balls of fire each time you reload.

ION GUN MASTER
You’re good with your ion weapons. You’re so good that not only your shots do more damage, but your ion blast radius is also increased.

STATIONARY RELOADER
You know it’s hard reloading a gun when moving around. Stop moving and you reload your gun faster. Monsters around you may also freeze when you start reloading.

MAN BOMB
You have the ability to go boom for you are the Man Bomb. Each time you pick up a power up, you go boom.

FIRE COUGH
You have a fireball stuck in your throat. Repeatedly. Mind your manners.

LIVING FORTRESS
There comes a time in life when you’d just rather not move anymore. You do more damage and take in less damage the longer you stand still.

TOUGH RELOADER
You don’t receive any damage while you’re reloading your weapon.

LIFELINE 50-50
The computer removes half of the wrong monsters for you. Yes, you get the experience poitns for it too!