Archviles' resurrection ability weirdness

[Blue Shadow]

Tested with: 2.9pre-410-ga605913


Load the attached map with Doom 2 on map01. You'll see a bunch of pinky demons, which after a second, will die. A second and half after that, an archvile will spawn and start resurrecting some of them (in my tests, it always resurrects the same ones, oddly) despite the fact that the demons are a good distance away from it. In 2.8.1, it cannot do that.

vile_map.wad

[_mental_]

It appeared that resurrection distance was checked between archvile... and archvile I fixed it here, in a portal-aware way hopefully.

[Jimmy]

Oh God it WAS a bug!! This was making tourniquet's Miasma map so frustrating. Like look at the pure bullshit this vile was pulling on me.

It appeared that resurrection distance was checked between archvile... and archvile I fixed it here, in a portal-aware way hopefully.

Could you elaborate on the side-effects this bug created? I didn't play/test much, but does it mean that basically any monster could be revived if there was an active archvile in the map anywhere?

[Graf Zahl]

No, only in the same blockmap blocks.

[Jimmy]

Ah, gotcha.