monster combination ideas?

[BFG]

snake projectile from Powerslave mixed with lost soul fire.

[Matt]

heh mancu"bone"otron

...or man"cubone"otron

[raymoohawk]

cool concepts posted over at doomworld

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Chaingunner + Revenant = a medium-HP enemy who shoots volleys of very fast and slightly homing projectiles with slight randomized spread.

Arachnotron + Mancubus = a high-HP enemy who constantly shoots projectiles with medium spread.

Lost Soul + Shotgun Guy = a flying hitscanner with medium damage and just enough health to be killed by 1 shotgun blast.

Cacodemon + Cyberdemon = an actually dangerous flying enemy.

Zombieman + Demon = a pinky demon who may also shoot you with a pea shooter, so that you can't outsmart and outrun him so easily anymore.

Imp + Hell Knight = a simple medium-HP medium-damaging enemy.

Pain Elemental + Baron of Hell = a high-HP pain elemental who can actually defend himself at close range.

Spectre + Spider Mastermind = a large hitscanner with temporary invisibility as a compensation for his disadvantaging mobility.

Archvile = the only remaining enemy whose behavior is the best as is.

Pinky + Lost Soul = Enemy that leaps at you and bites at close range. Looks like a burning, skeletal Pinky(more or less Serious Sam's Kleer)

Pain Elemental + Archvile = Archvile that can spawn "Vile Souls". The Vile Souls can attack like regular lost souls but they can also possess dead enemies, reanimating them. Looks like a fatter Archvile with one big eye.

Revenant + Hell Knight = An enemy with decent health, but less agressive homing fireballs. Sligthly slower than the regular Revenant. Looks like a Satyr skeleton.

Baron of Hell + Arachnotron = A 750hp noble with a Plasma Rifle arm. Can also claw you at close range with his other arm. Looks like the Cybruiser from Realm 667.

Cacodemon + Mancubus = Flying enemy that rains volleys of fireballs from above. Doesn't have as many horns and the skin is smoother, with a more tan tone to it.

Spider Demon + Cyberdemon = Attacks with a volley of bullets and shoots two rockets, similar to General Fettgesicht, from wolfenstein. Looks like a stubbier Cyberdemon, the Chaingun is strapped to his chest's armor, and his arms are the rocket launchers.

i still like vaecrius the most, notice how horromovieguy also described the appearences. how do you imagine your proposals vaecrius?

[BFG]

I would like to see a Doom64 Caco/Pain mix

[Matt]

i still like vaecrius the most, notice how horromovieguy also described the appearences. how do you imagine your proposals vaecrius?

Before I read the quotes:

Zombiegunner: I imagined black-masked ISIS dudes by default, though having an 80s metal song stuck in my head all week I'm leaning towards street gangbangers in leather and denim, lol.

Impinky (I keep wanting to use "pimpy" but let's not go there): I keep thinking something like a more furry, bestial "average" between the weredragon and the clink from Heretic.

Lostre: There's one custom monster from Strange Aeons that works pretty much exactly as how I'm imagining this (and is pretty much my inspiration, no pun intended).

Cacoknight: A much darker ironlich with only one eye and no nose (like a caco!).

Anthropotron: Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2.

Barromero: Xenomorph egg. Maybe veinier?

Archduke Villenand: Pretty much just like the baron.

Cyberdemancubus: Mancubus with more muscle and metal bits.

Boner Mastermind: A huge screaming skull-faced mess of metal and flesh, can't really see when it's moving whether its limbs look more like a spider, a monkey or a man. (think a fusion of Kraang, the sentinels from The Matrix, and General Grievous.) Revenant rockets pop out of its giant exposed brain like baby Surinam toads.


(EDIT: fwiw, I'm definitely liking HorrorMovieGuy's takes more than scifista42's. The latter seems to be more focussed on mitigating weaknesses, while the former takes one strength from each.)

[Matt]

so uh i made a thing

EDIT: Requires latest SVN!

EDIT: new version below

[raymoohawk]

i got this

Script error, "decorate.undiversify.txt.7z:decorate.undiversify.txt" line 73:
Invalid state parameter {

EDOY

oh sorry about that XD
got the latest zdoom, its working now so i'll give it a spin

2nd eit

tried it. it is more diffiult than i imagined, but fun

[Matt]

New version, less unplayable

[Mav3rick]

Mancubus + Revenant = Kind of zombiefied mancubus body with holes to see their bones, with the armor of the Revenant and tween rocket launcher, the mancubus fireblaster will be change by a small version of chaingun blaster with 3 cannons that shoot flaming rockets, they explode and left all on fire, and if the player get too close the tween cannon will burn with flames or poison gas

[raymoohawk]

i think the alien rip off thingy from abuse would be a great design for vaecrius' pinky imp

[leileilol]

any monster combined with mancubus would be hilarious really. Especially Imp after applying spikes in all the right places

[Matt]

Assuming we can just jettison the plot and aesthetics:

All zombies and imp: Spread blaster trooper and rapid-fire blaster trooper, have glowing zap bayonets up close

Pinkie, spectre, lost soul: Wyrm-dog (slithers about in the dark, low profile and hard to see, climb walls and drop on you)

Mancubus, baron, archvile: huge immovable bullet-sponge that summons barrels in the air above you that drop down and explode. (but sometimes it doesn't ignite and the goo wanders off to seep into something dead and possess it.) The barrels spawn from the ceiling and split if they fall too far.

Knight, painelemental: Big burly blaster trooper with a sack full of wyrm-dogs, whips out a blaster (which slows down his throwing wyrm-dogs at you) once you start killing his doodz.

Cacodemon, arachnotron: Aerial hunter-killer dual-rapid-fire blaster drone.

Cyberdemon, spidermastermind, revenant: Drone carrier platform that launches dozens and dozens of little light-blaster flying robots after you - they take one shot each to kill but they move very quickly, block your shots from the boss, and explode violently which they also do once they're up close.

Archvile, bossbrain: A tiny, extremely fast-moving clown-car-like transport that keeps dropping blaster troopers everywhere (including the vermi-K9 units), occasionally stopping to repair and reboot the remains of a broken robot.