Make gun randomly fire stronger projectile that paralyzes?

[MetroidJunkie]

I have a plan to make a weapon that has a 1/4 chance of shooting a more powerful projectile that also paralyzes enemies for a couple of seconds. My questions are, how do you make it randomly switch into another state with a 25% chance and how do you make a projectile cause an enemy to be stunned?

[wildweasel]

how do you make it randomly switch into another state with a 25% chance

With something like this:

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PISG A 2 A_Jump(64, "JumpGoesHere")

Bearing in mind that A_Jump chances are from 0 to 256(?), so 64 would be about 25%.

and how do you make a projectile cause an enemy to be stunned?

The way I did this in Weasel Presents Terrorists was by giving every monster a Pain.Taser state where they stand still for several seconds. I made this a little easier on me by putting said state in a parent class (using the "####" keyword instead of the sprite name; this makes the state look at the last sprite chosen), and then having all enemies inherit from that.

[MetroidJunkie]

Thanks for the help but this uses the existing Doom monsters since it's just a weapons mod. I ended up just replacing each monster individually and putting them in their pain state for the stun duration. Still, thank you for the information.