ZDoom

Looking for a monster pack for that weapon mod of choice that you like? Look no further! Thanks to people updating this thread occasionally, I've decided to re-purpose this thread to act as a hub for links to monster packs.

Be warned, though. The quality of these mods may vary. But they are monster packs nonetheless -- and they deserve to be shown to everyone to try out.

DoomRL: Monster Pack
Dark Doom Creatures
Hard Doom
Colorful Hell
Colorful Hell Custom Difficulty Addon
Kriegsland Enemy Pack
Bratwurst
The Western Patch (ModDB Link)
Legion of Bones
Stylish Doom (Good for La Tailor Girl!)
Doomless
Shades of Doom
CHAMPIONS
Cyber's Monster Randomizer
Untitled's Touhou Doom Gameplay Mods
DoomKraken's Monster Randomizer
Legendoom
Rampancy
Combined Arms
Vanilla Doom Plus - Monster Randomizer
Less Frustrating Doom Monsters!
SpaceHunter Enemies Standalone
ContraDoom Monsters
Daggerfall Monsters
Catacomb 3D Monsters (ModDB Link)
Starship Troopers Monsters (ModDB Link)
Left 4 Doom Monsters (Recommended to use AI Director!)
ScoreDoom Monster Replacement Randomizer (ModDB Link)
Project Malice (Discord Link)
Rebel Rumble Monsters-Only
Mellow Heretic
Sun Damage Omen Enemies Pack
Angelic Aviary | (Doomworld Link, Formerly known as "Angelic Waifus")
KRUGLY! (Cacodemon Mayhem!)
Standalone DOOSK Monsters (ModDB Link)
Meatgrinder Monsters Only (ModDB Link)
Smooth Doom Monsters Only (ModDB Link)
SMart Extreme UNhindered MONsters (SM-EX-UN-MON) (ModDB Link)
Theatrical Horror of Hell's Terror Monster Pack (ModDB Link)
AvP Monster Pack
Shut Up and Bleed Monsters (ModDB Link)
Dehacked Attack - Blast from the Past
Heretic: Legions
Brutal Doom: Monsters Only (ModDB Link)
Realms of the Haunting: Monsters Only (ModDB Link)
Terminator Mayhem: Monster (ModDB Link)
Xenomorph Madness
Rebel Rumble Monsters Only
Xim's GZDoom3 (Monsters Inside!)
Russian Mercenaries
ERLBA Monster Pack (Hexen)
EVP Monsters
Xim's Star Wars Doom Monsters (ModDB Link)
Scalliano's Shuffle GOLD (Monsters Inside!)
LEGION
Wave Attack! (In OP)
DoomLess SNAFU Cut
Universal Entropy
10.5x (DOOM.WAD, but it's Hell Revealed 2)
Corruption Cards
Duke Nukem 3D v10b Monsters (ModDB Link)
Classic Doom3 Monsters (ModDB Link)

Honorable Mentions:
Babel
Monster Enhanced AI

If anyone has any more suggestions with links, please hit me up.

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Hey guys. I normally avoid this at all costs, but my loyal friend has been rather short with answers. Are there any good monster packs? I'm not referring to Realm667 packs either. I'm talking about a good pack which can be used with any weapon or enhancement mod out there. My primary method of playing Doom for the past half year is using Weapons of Saturn (modified slightly, but still WoS). But playing against the same vanilla monsters without any challenge has been boring.

Oh, one thing. These monsters can't be silly-like. I've tried Colorful Hell - great concept. Until I ran into what my friend called Benelus on Map02 for Doom II (much to his laughter and going 'rip rip rip rip rip'). Any ideas or is someone working on such a thing?

Sometimes I use the monster models from Enjay's Gene_Tech.

I sort of wonder about this; there appears to be a legitimate "market" for monsters-only mods. I do have some designs lying around that are intended for full-on gameplay mods, but maybe they'd be better off as one mod that only changes the monsters?

Possibly. With the mass production of weapon packs, there's not so many monster packs out there that can be teamed up with them. Usually however, people make monsters to go with their weapons. Rather hard to rip them out.

Well, I figure that mods like Russian Overkill that contain no monsters of their own would probably benefit from a new external pack of monsters...with any luck, said packs would become popular enough that weapon mod authors don't necessarily feel obligated to replace all the monsters themselves.

(But knowing my luck, said monster packs would become UNpopular because they break compatibility with the Doom community's most polarizing mod.)

Have you tried the mod listed below. It works fine with FASPONS, that is similar to WOS;

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=48949

wildweasel wrote:Well, I figure that mods like Russian Overkill that contain no monsters of their own would probably benefit from a new external pack of monsters...with any luck, said packs would become popular enough that weapon mod authors don't necessarily feel obligated to replace all the monsters themselves.

(But knowing my luck, said monster packs would become UNpopular because they break compatibility with the Doom community's most polarizing mod.)

I was just thinking about starting a thread asking if there are any decent monster mods that would go well with Russian Overkill. I'm getting a bit bored with the vanilla monsters.

For a shameless plug, I wouldn't really consider Hard-Doom a Realm667 pack. We did a LOT of tweaking to each individual monster for balance, and several (sonic railgun zombie, for example) were in Hard-Doom before they were on R667.

Genisys wrote:Have you tried the mod listed below. It works fine with FASPONS, that is similar to WOS;

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=48949

Okay, now THAT is a well done monster mod. Adds a nice amount of challenge as well. Love it.

wildweasel wrote:I sort of wonder about this; there appears to be a legitimate "market" for monsters-only mods.

Honestly this is something I've been wanting to see for a long time. I've tried my own hand at it but coding is hard. D:

Like, my ideal monster-only mod would be a mash-up of the monsters (minus overlap because I'm almost certain some custom monsters appear more than once in these mods in some way, shape, or form) from DoomRLA, Scalliano's 667 Shuffle, Quakestyle ZX, Hard Doom, Project MSX, other iD games (Heretic, Hexen, and Strife come to mind), ZDoom monster resource pack, and whatever's left in the R667 bestiary that isn't in one of the mods listed. Bonus points if said mod was made compatible with DoomRLA.

I guess it would be something like a playable archive of every custom monster ever created that would be updated with new stuff. :v

I'll keep dreaming that it'll happen one day I suppose. d:

A total plug, and probably not a Fair and/or balanced "monster only" mod, but I did manage to pull Suab's monsters out of the mod and make it a stand-alone mod (for reasons, of course.) Of course, I have a version of that that's stripped of NIY stuff and Obituaries added back in, if anyone cares.

Have you tried Colorful hell? It's like a hot sauce to me, i just use it with everything

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whoops didn't read all the way

its a shame you didn't like it, it really is the only one besides "Hard Doom" thats noteworthy

It's an old thread, and it might get scrapped now, BUT...!

The question is STILL relevant, even 2-3 years later. What are the various monster packs? Which mods should one say they fit the best with?

And... for my question... Is there a CYBERNETIC monster pack only? = ) I want to play Diabolus Ex, with LITHIUM, to really get that cyberpunk feel, but in order to do that, I also need cybernetic monsters, otherwise the experience will be INCOMPLETE!

So, help me out fellow doom-fans, where can I find a cybernetic monster pack?

DoomN00b wrote:It's an old thread, and it might get scrapped now, BUT...!

The question is STILL relevant, even 2-3 years later. What are the various monster packs? Which mods should one say they fit the best with?

And... for my question... Is there a CYBERNETIC monster pack only? = ) I want to play Diabolus Ex, with LITHIUM, to really get that cyberpunk feel, but in order to do that, I also need cybernetic monsters, otherwise the experience will be INCOMPLETE!

So, help me out fellow doom-fans, where can I find a cybernetic monster pack?

DoomRLA's monster pack has a cybernetic enemy mode: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=37044
I'd be interested to see any other cyborg doom monster packs as I'm making a cyborg doomguy mod

If the question is still relevant, I see no problems with this thread being bumped like it has.