The only ones whose absence I ever truly get close to lamenting are 1 and 4.ĭoom II is dreadfully lacking in Segway zombies. Raised/lowered platforms and block lines and stuff can work, but these setups often have to be less elegant than ideal. I also agree that some sort of immobile monster might be good.

Imps from long distance are often not much threat, but you still have to dodge that fire eventually. It might be cool if another monster had that same effect, but with a much greater range than melee only but much less than 1024 units, like a flamethrower or earthquaker or something, some sort of attack that you can totally ignore outside the range. Obviously, you can modify this stuff if you want, but these are things that could have added another dynamic, I think.Īrch-viles and demons are unique in that they are totally harmless from a certain distance. You can manipulate geometry so that some monsters are too tall / wide, but not so that Doomguy is. Something shorter and/or something skinnier than Doomguy. Sergeants are not totally comparable, and former humans are just so much weaker. Unfortunately, they're nazis, but they would often be a great sweeping replacement for commandos going from Ultra-Violence to Hurt Me Plenty, for example. Nazis are solid enemies in the human hierarchy. I think the custom suicide bomber that you see in a a lot of wads definitely has a clear function that you don't see in the vanilla roster: easy to kill, but do not get close. I agree that a weaker flyer with a projectile could definitely have a role, e.g.

Revenants are small enough and have the right HP, but their attacks are too powerful, as are the hell knights'. Cacodemons fly and are too big and still slightly too much HP. I think the monster I want most frequently that isn't actually there is basically a buffed imp / weakened hell knight.

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