Whys is ZXmasTree invulnerable to all but fire?

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Whys is ZXmasTree invulnerable to all but fire?

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I probably should know this but...

What is is about the ZXmasTree actor [wiki]Classes:ZXmasTree[/wiki] that makes it invulnerable to "normal" damage?

I can shoot at it with just about anything*, but it only gets destroyed when using a weapon that does fire damage. Is it simply because it only has a burn death sequence and no others?

*the exception seems to be hitting it with MDK which just makes it vanish.
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Yes, it is the absence of a normal death state.
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Suspicious confirmed. Thanks. :)

I take that MDK destroying it (i.e. making it vanish) is something to do with MDK having massive overkill capabilities and the tree just going to a death state that it doesn't have? I note that the "massacre" cheat doesn't make that happen (I assume because the tree doesn't have the ISMONSTER flag).
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All correct. MDK has special code to force a death and 'massacre' only kills monsters.
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Perfect, thanks.
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