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Daemons are installed on mainframe devices, so the risk/reward mechanism is whether or not accessing that device is worth incurring the debuff for whatever you're trying to accomplish. While you may be willing to forgo a safe, for instance, the same might not be true of something more critical to the mission objective.

Determining whether or not the penalty is worthwhile can be made easier by hacking Daemon Mainframes prior to breaking the firewalls on the relevant devices, as it'll expose the name and impact of the resident daemon. You can also use INCOGNITA's Daemon Sniffer program or the Scan Chip item to more selectively scout daemons, if you have them.

Note too that there are actually a few "reverse" daemons which have positive effects:

  • Attune, which decreases program PWR requirements by 1
  • Fortune, which gives you an additional 200 credits
  • Order, which increases agent AP by 3

I'm not sure exactly how common these are, but I've gotten Fortune at least once. They occur a small percentage of the time as a result of hacking a normal (malicious) daemon, and you receive their benefit instead of the debuff.

Daemons are installed on mainframe devices, so the risk/reward mechanism is whether or not accessing that device is worth incurring the debuff for whatever you're trying to accomplish. While you may be willing to forgo a safe, for instance, the same might not be true of something more critical to the mission objective.

Determining whether or not the penalty is worthwhile can be made easier by hacking Daemon Mainframes prior to breaking the firewalls on the relevant devices, as it'll expose the name and impact of the resident daemon. You can also use INCOGNITA's Daemon Sniffer program or the Scan Chip item to more selectively scout daemons, if you have them.

Note too that there are actually a few "reverse" daemons which have positive effects:

  • Attune, which decreases program PWR requirements by 1
  • Fortune, which gives you an additional 200 credits
  • Order, which increases agent AP by 3

I'm not sure how common these are, but I've gotten Fortune at least once.

Daemons are installed on mainframe devices, so the risk/reward mechanism is whether or not accessing that device is worth incurring the debuff for whatever you're trying to accomplish. While you may be willing to forgo a safe, for instance, the same might not be true of something more critical to the mission objective.

Determining whether or not the penalty is worthwhile can be made easier by hacking Daemon Mainframes prior to breaking the firewalls on the relevant devices, as it'll expose the name and impact of the resident daemon. You can also use INCOGNITA's Daemon Sniffer program or the Scan Chip item to more selectively scout daemons, if you have them.

Note too that there are actually a few "reverse" daemons which have positive effects:

  • Attune, which decreases program PWR requirements by 1
  • Fortune, which gives you an additional 200 credits
  • Order, which increases agent AP by 3

I'm not sure exactly how common these are, but I've gotten Fortune at least once. They occur a small percentage of the time as a result of hacking a normal (malicious) daemon, and you receive their benefit instead of the debuff.

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Tim Stone
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Daemons are installed on mainframe devices, so the risk/reward mechanism is whether or not accessing that device is worth incurring the debuff for whatever you're trying to accomplish. While you may be willing to forgo a safe, for instance, the same might not be true of something more critical to the mission objective.

Determining whether or not the penalty is worthwhile can be made easier by hacking Daemon Mainframes prior to breaking the firewalls on the relevant devices, as it'll expose the name and impact of the resident daemon. You can also use INCOGNITA's Daemon Sniffer program or the Scan Chip item to more selectively scout daemons, if you have them.

Note too that there are actually a few "reverse" daemons which have positive effects:

  • Attune, which decreases program PWR requirements by 1
  • Fortune, which gives you an additional 200 credits
  • Order, which increases agent AP by 3

I'm not sure how common these are, but I've gotten Fortune at least once.