Deacon



The Deacon is a flying cybernetic enemy in Ion Fury. It is a human torso with extensive cybernetic modifications, armed with long-range homing projectiles fired at a rapid rate, and heavily armored. They leave a trail of magenta smoke as they floating in the air and talk in a deep murmuring voice. They're mildly durable airbone enemies that can take punishment but not agile.

Deacons generally roam around in flocks of two to four, also like to make dramatic entrances by blowing up walls and try to remain hidden from plain sight to ambush. Their behavioral instinct to stay hidden until noticed quickly changes into a target seeking mode once they're revealed or noticed the presence of player and can't make eye contact. Their homing misille attack is one of the highest damaging burst volley in the game and should be avoided at all costs. Damage of projectiles, missiles shot at a single barrage and behaviours to remain hidden then seek the target scales up with difficulty.

They can endure 2-3 explosive shots such as Clusterpuck or Disperser grenade shots. Unless landed a headshot, Ion bow will only taze and stun them for a small duration, dealing minimal damage. Fastest way to dispatch of them proven to be Penetrator's incendiary flechettes fired in small bursts to their head. Chain gun can also be a good choice for dealing with them but slow wind up of the weapon allows them to have free attack opportunities. Loverboy can be a good last ditch effort to kill them when you're out ammo on other ranged options but it takes quite a few secondary shots from it just for one Deacon.

Bowling bomb is not a fitting weapon to deal with Deacons' as their toss height is pretty limited. However, at enclosed spaces in rare occassions if they can be lured close enough to the ground, two well charged homed-in bombs tossed from a cover can collide and explode just under them taking them out right away. At a similar fashion Disperser buckshots lacking burst to distant targets and delays between shots will not be capable of dropping Deacon before it becomes a threat.

They first appeared in the PAX South 2019 version Heskel's House of Horrors mission, but did not have any sounds related to it other than its weapon.