💥 Damage Types - Posture, Ignite & Stasis

Three layers, one core. The core is posture: every parry-able hit you land builds toward a stagger-critical, and the finisher is where damage lives. Over it sit two verified status systems — Ignite, the burn pressure the flamethrower and torch-wielding enemies trade in, and Stasis, the lock that holds heavies still. The achievement list certifies both: Fight Fire With Fire for burn, Statue of Insanity for Stasis.

Burn is the game's patient damage. The Fight Fire With Fire achievement — ignite an enemy while you are also burning — is a joke on the surface and a lesson underneath: fire does not care who it troubles, so the flamethrower's burst is as much about denial as damage. Packs of Howlers, the Carrion's mass, Experiment 83's assembled parts — anywhere the fight lasts longer than your patience, Ignite is the pressure that never stops contributing.

Stasis holds an enemy still, and in a posture game stillness is a death sentence: the locked wind-up becomes a free punish, the locked heavy becomes the safest critical in the run. The Statue of Insanity achievement makes the Iron Regiment the system's final exam — fully lock one in Stasis and the achievement certifies your timing. Against bosses, community consensus treats Stasis as a saved question: hold it for the wind-up that scares you most.

Between posture and status sits aim. The Grenadier's bucket, the Spewer's mucus formation, the head that every bucket was protecting — weak-point hits are how firearms stay relevant in a melee-first game, and God's Trigger (ten in a row without a miss) is the certificate. The bestiary names each enemy's answer; the discipline is believing the camera when it shows you the target.