Engineer's weapon special effects are experimental effects that have a chance of being applied to a weapon as a result of applying weapon modifications.
Their effects act in addition to the modification, and remain the same at all grade levels.
They are usually limited to a specific weapon type.
Available Effects
The following is a list of special effects available to each weapon type[1]:
Beam Laser
Burst Laser
Cannon
Fragment Cannon
Mine Launcher
Missile Rack
- Drag Munitions (Seeker only)
- Emissive Munitions
- FSD Interrupt (Dumbfire only)
- Overload Munitions
- Penetrator Munitions (Dumbfire only)
- Thermal Cascade
Multi-cannon
Plasma Accelerator
Pulse Laser
Railgun
Torpedo Pylon
Special Effect Indicators
When your ship, or the ship that you have currently targeted, takes certain types of damage (whether from a modified or standard weapon) the ship HUD will indicate this via the display of weapon effect icons shown below the relevant schematic for the affected ship.
A description of the damage icons and their meaning is shown in the table below:
| Icon | Description |
|---|---|
 | Corrosion |
 | Engine Disruption |
 | Engine Reboot |
 | FSD Reboot |
 | Hull Breach |
 | Impulse Attack |
 | Increased Emissions |
 | Internal Damage |
 | Malfunction |
 | Mass Locked |
 | Regeneration |
 | Sensor Disruption |
 | Shield Breach |
 | Shield Cell Cascade |
 | Shield Generator Attack |
 | Shield Reboot |
 | Target Interference |
 | Targeting Overload |
 | Thermal Attack |
