Wasteland 2 status effects

This page lists all status effects in Wasteland 2.

The content is not described in full detail on this page. For details, please see the respective articles. For status effects in other Wasteland games, please see "Status effects".

Description

At any time a Ranger's performance can be influenced by a variety of Status effects, which either act as buffs or debuffs: in other words, they give an increase or decrease to specific attributes or skills, or sometimes cause a Ranger to lose CON over time.

List of status effects

Positive

Type	Name	Effect	Duration	Origin
	Altered Mind	-1 Intelligence, +2 Action Points	600s	Poppy Syrup
	Baby Ruth	+1 Blunt Weapons, +1 Brute Force, +1 Coordination	60s	Baby Ruth
	Banana pudding	+1 CON every 10 seconds, +3 Action Points	300s	Banana Pudding
	Calcification	+1 Brute Force, +1 Hard Ass	500s	Milk
	Chasing the Scorpion	+2 Strength, -2 Awareness	500s	Roasted Scorpions
	Cock of the walk	+2 Awareness, +2 Charisma, +2 Coordination, +2 Intelligence, +2 Luck, +2 Speed, +2 Strength, +2 Action points, +10 Chance to Evade, +4 Damage, +0.1 Combat Speed	240s	Sriracha
	Egg	+1 Action Points, +1% Chance to Hit	10s	Hard Boiled Egg
	Electrolytic Infusion	+20% Chance to Evade, +1 Action Points	600s	Highpool Energy Water
	Honeydew melon	+1 Charisma, +2 Action Points	120s	Honeydew melons
	Jalapeno hurry	+3 Speed	720s	Sliced Jalapeno
	Mystery meat	+5 CON every 10 seconds, +2 Luck	75s	Mystery Meat
	Pickled health	+3 CON every 30 seconds, +2 Awareness	500s	Pickled Daikon and Carrots
	Pleasant Buzz	+1 Luck, -1 Awareness, +1 Perception	500s	Pot Cookies
	Special squeezins	+2 Luck, -2 Coordination	200s	Special Squeezins
	Tipsy	+3 Strength, -2 Speed, -2 Intelligence	300s	Beer Snake Squeezins Tequila
Special	Mending	+1 CON every 10 seconds	-	On losing consciousness
	Vivification	+5 Constitution	1800s	Ag center serum

Negative

Effects Type	Name	Effect	Duration	Origin	Removal
	Arm wound	decreases all Combat Skills
	Bleeding out	causes a steady loss of CON if the character is unconscious
	Blood Loss	-5 base CON	300s		Cannot be removed
	Brain Damage	-2 Awareness, -2 Charisma, -2 Coordination, -2 Luck, -2 Intelligence, -2 Speed, -2 Strength	400s	On recovering consciousness after coming close to death	Cannot be removed
	Broken bone	decreases Coordination
	Confusion	-2 Awareness, -2 Intelligence	300s	On recovering consciousness	Cannot be removed
	Discobot Scan	Increases enemy Chance to Hit	-	Discobot
	Diseased	-3 Strength, -3 Speed, -3 Coordination	420s	Cockroach
	Drippy Dragon	-3 Intelligence, -1 Charisma	500s	Using Pam's 'services'
	Eye wound	decreases Awareness, Perception and attack range
	Head wound	decreases Intelligence
	Hand wound	decreases effectiveness at manual actions (Alarm Disarming, Field Medic, Lockpicking, Safecracking and reloading).
	Injured Leg	-4 Speed	-	Waste wolf Nuke Pooch
	Leg wound	-2 Speed		Feral dog Waste wolf
	Nauseous	-3 Action Points	300s	On recovering consciousness	Cannot be removed
	Poisoned	-10% of max CON every 10 seconds	40s	Gila Monitor	Antivenom
	Shock	-1 Awareness, -1 Charisma, -1 Coordination, -1 Intelligence, -1 Speed, -1 Strength	400s	On recovering consciousness	Cannot be removed
	Slurred speech	-2 Charisma, -2 Hard Ass, -2 Smart Ass, -2 Kiss Ass	300s	On recovering consciousness	Cannot be removed
	Slicer Dicer energy field	-4 Coordination	-	Slicer Dicer
	Stiffness	-1 Coordination, -1 Speed	300s	On recovering consciousness	Cannot be removed
	Stunned	-3 Speed, -3 Awareness	300s	Thresher Clawer Workerbot
	Stunned	-2 Awareness, -5 Action points	-	Pig	Expires on the characters next turn
	Venom
	Worm Disease	-3 Coordination, -3 Awareness	500s	Drinking from the well in the crater located in Rodia
Special	Fractured fibula	-4 Brute Force	300s	Critical fail using Brute Force
	Plague	-2 Intelligence, -4 Charisma	10800s	Darwin lab, first door	Antibiotics Turn on ventilation system in lab
	Pod infection	Turns into Acute pod infection at end of timer	14400s	Exploding pod, Pod person	Ag center serum
	Radiation	-10 CON every 5 seconds	10s	Radiation fields in Los Alamitos
	Tetanus	decreases Charisma and Coordination		Critical fail using Mechanical Repair
	Tortured tootsies	-2 Brute Force, -1.0 Combat Speed	300s	Critical fail using Brute Force
	Zap!	-1 Awareness, -4 Alarm Disarm	300s	Critical fail using Alarm Disarm
Weapons	All Tied Up	-3.0 combat speed, -10% chance to evade, -5% Chance to Hit, -3 Combat Initiative	40s	The Lariat
	Bleeding wound	-6% of max CON every 10 seconds	120s	Beer Knuckles Hoblet's Problem Solver Honey badger Honeydew's rifle This is a Knife The Blood Staff
	Blocked	-1 Action points	40s	The Notch
	Bombs Bursted in Air	-2 CON every 12 seconds, -3 Armor	60s	Rauhman Candle
	Burn	-1 CON every 10 seconds	300s	Charged round sniper rifle Environmental fire
	Concussion	-1 Awareness	-	Lexcanium's bionic arm	Surgeon NPC Doctor
	Crippled
	Eye Put Out	-30% Chance to hit	10s	Red Ryder BB Gun
	Face/Off	-2 Combat initiative, -20% Chance to Hit	60s	The Face Ripper
	Junkie Fever	-2 Action points	300s	Syringe
	Laser Burn	-20 CON every 6 seconds	12s	Xenon Cannon
	On Fire	-3 CON every 6 seconds, -5% Evasion	18s	Infernator
	Opened Up	-1 CON every 6 seconds	-	Shu-Model Ranger combat knife Toxx claws Wegman Aether Corrupter	Suture kit
	Radiation Sickness	-4 CON every 30 seconds, -3 Intelligence, +4 Strength	300s	Dirty Grenade
	Rocket's Red Glare	-45% Evasion, -45% Chance to Hit	60s	Rauhman Candle
	Shamed	-10% Chance to Hit	10s	Spike Bat of Shame
	Vomiting	-3 Combat Initiative, -2m Optimal Range	60s	Upchucker