What are demons???

[Bundesbert]

hi, im maybe stupid but I just dont get it. I want to go full Intelligence/Tech and I dont get what Demons are. I cant find them anywhere. Not even google helps me. plz, what are demons?? Are they just, like, passive skills?

[SoULLeSs]

I think they're hacks? Not sure though, all I know is that you install them into hack devices but idk for sure since my build is not much into hacking

[Orion Invictus]

You know when you perform a network breach and there are bits of code to the right that give you specific effects? Those are daemons.

[Mansen]

Daemons are effects you apply to anyone in that "network" when you do a breach (The hacking puzzle)

The first one you unlock makes goons affected 33% weaker to getting hit with guns and melee for the next 3 minutes.

This is in contrast to quickhacks, which you apply directly to a single person that you aim at with TAB.

[Mori]

Daemons and ICE are real things in the real worlds, they're just called something else - as language used every day changes over time, whereas with fiction if you stick with "familiar" language (be it technobabble or otherwise), you can convey something to a larger audience.

[Prometheus]

In game terms they are the things you upload when you do the number grid minigame. By default you have icepick (reduces hack costs on targets) and datamine (when you are hacking a node for resources).

You can get more in two other ways, both require investment in the Int stat. The first is get the perks in the breach category. Shutdown cameras, shutdown turrets, resistance reduction. Those are daemons added to the number grid minigame when you breach enemies.

You can also get some daemons from legendary tier hacks. This requires the hack crafting perks in the hacking tree. Every tier is required to craft the next one up. As in the blue hack requires the green version in your inventory and the right perk to craft. The daemons appear in the number grid minigame when you have the right legendary hack equipped.

[Greb]

Daemons are the things you trigger whenever you do a breach hack - when you're pairing up the strings of code or whatever in that puzzle minigame, etc. The options listed for each string of code is a "daemon" - an effect.

Without any points invested into unlocking new daemons via the breach skill tree, you'll just have datamines and a hack that reduces RAM costs by 1 on enemies. When you start going down the tree, you'll have access to more including wiping out the optics of every squad member in the network for a short time, turning off all the cameras and turrets, weakening all of the enemies in the network, etc etc. That kind of thing.

They're hack effects, basically. Like your quickhacks, only not as quick.

[Outplayed and Destroyed]

Its script.

[Mr Eos]

Originally posted by Todesbert:

hi, im maybe stupid but I just dont get it. I want to go full Intelligence/Tech and I dont get what Demons are. I cant find them anywhere. Not even google helps me. plz, what are demons?? Are they just, like, passive skills?

If you want help with demons, ask Ouija not Google.

[Luxxy]

Originally posted by Todesbert:

hi, im maybe stupid but I just dont get it. I want to go full Intelligence/Tech and I dont get what Demons are. I cant find them anywhere. Not even google helps me. plz, what are demons?? Are they just, like, passive skills?

They're the hacks that are applied through successful breach protocols, yeah the game doesn't do a good job of actually explaining what them.

[Bundesbert]

thank you guys! I got it now.