Weird Arch-Vile movement

[Xaser]

But how many of those 'bugs' actually turned out to be incredibly useful features?

Self-referencing sectors! Archvile ghosts! Voodoo dolls! Not "manikins".

I've seen no other game in wich such oddities in the code were utilized so expertly. ;P

[Captain Proof]

Archvile ghosts?

[Slasher]

Archvile ghosts?

In vanilla doom, if an archvile revived a monster that was gibbed by a crushing ceiling, the revived monster would become an "archvile ghost". It's an old Doom bug.

The Doom Wiki has an article about this.

[Project Shadowcat]

But how many of those 'bugs' actually turned out to be incredibly useful features?

Self-referencing sectors! Archvile ghosts! Voodoo dolls! Not "manikins".

I've seen no other game in wich such oddities in the code were utilized so expertly. ;P

Some of those bugs were thankfully fixed, but some like the Voodoo Doll were... awesome.
Also note that Doom was probably the most modded game then. It would only be a matter of time before some expert imagination captured some of these bugs and tore the game a new one. In a good way, of course, because it still made you think, over and over with the same game, "Whoa, that was cool!"

I miss those days.

[Captain Proof]

I ran into a few ghosts rarely...whenever I see an archvile I usually drop everything I'm doing and focus on him.I read about the Voodoo doll effect as well and it gave me some great Ideas...even though now that I think of it the sector effect Instant death makes the trick a little obsolete.

[Slasher]

If you want a really strange monster ghost effect, do this in DECORATE:

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Actor GhostImp : DoomImp Replaces DoomImp
{
   States
   {
   Death:
      Goto See
   XDeath:
      Goto See
   }
}

[Unknown_Assassin]

Holy shit epic! The Cyberdemon fires rockets from his crouch. .............

Archvile ghosts?

In vanilla doom, if an archvile revived a monster that was gibbed by a crushing ceiling, the revived monster would become an "archvile ghost". It's an old Doom bug.

The Doom Wiki has an article about this.

When you guys first said Archvile ghosts, I thought you guys meant you encountered an archvile that is actually a ghost. It's better to call it ghost monsters instead.

[Grimm]

Is it possible to fix that Cyberdemon bug?

[Zhs2]

Grimm: Redefining the missile state for a Cyberdemon in DECORATE would do it.

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Actor CyberFix : CyberDemon Replaces CyberDemon
{
States:
{
Missile:
CYBR E 6 A_FaceTarget
CYBR F 12 A_CustomMissile("Rocket",56,-24)
CYBR E 12 A_FaceTarget
CYBR F 12 A_CustomMissile("Rocket",56,-24)
CYBR E 12 A_FaceTarget
CYBR F 12 A_CustomMissile("Rocket",56,-24)
goto See
}
}

[Grimm]

I could never figure out the arguments for that action. Right on bro.

[Ceeb]

But how many of those 'bugs' actually turned out to be incredibly useful features?

Self-referencing sectors! Archvile ghosts! Voodoo dolls! Not "manikins".

I've seen no other game in wich such oddities in the code were utilized so expertly. ;P

Voodoo dolls were cool. The instagib in TNT's Last Call was neat... For the first ten seconds.

Self-referencing sectors?

[edward850]

Self-referencing sectors?

Plutonia map02 and 03.

[Ceeb]

I still don't follow you.

[XutaWoo]

The invisible bridges.

[neoworm]

Also monsters instantly popping from floor is old dirty trick. A pit without wall textures looks like normal floor from distance.