New Animations on Thralls…?

Hello Exiles

So I’ve been watching some you tubers and their thralls are doing some weird and new animations. Do you know what these are?

One looks like a pinkish purple lightning bolt that appears while the thrall is fighting.

The other is a bunch of floating black bubbles around the thrall.

What do these do? How do you get them?

Texture are wonky at the moment, the purple flash is probably a texture being loaded.

I think this is one of the new authority perks?
Buffs your thrall(s), can’t test to confirm that at the moment but there is a visual to it.

Both the lightning and the black bubbles are graphical depictions of buffs given by the player character’s authority perks to their followers. I always thought that the bubbles look more like blood cells.

The lightning happens when the first corrupted authority perk triggers I think. (It triggers when player character does damage to the enemy, every once in a while). The bubbles mean that the thrall is affected by a damage increase buff.

Aaaah thank you!