Probability of BFG9000 to oneshot Cyberdemon

[Combinebobnt]

The BFG with zdoom random can theoretically do alot of damage so we wanted to figure out the chance of oneshotting a cyberdemon with it. We ran a script calculating the damage for 100+ million runs but never got a 4000, so it needed some math estimation to get an answer...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lV_ ... X9KMplTIhs

Got 0.00000000000000000323‬ % chance as an answer. Hope the math is correct!

I didn't find anything about this on the googleinterwebs so the people must know.

[Rachael]

So in other words, theoretically possible, but with a chance so low that you might as well get struck by lightning first, before you ever see this happen.

[Graf Zahl]

Interesting paper you wrote there. Scientific proof of Doom game mechanics is a new one...

[Darkcrafter]

Holy st, what kind of things actually happen beyond our scope of perception!

[Enjay]

From this, I assume nobody will ever oneshot a cyberdemon with a bfg ball for centuries to come.

Or, if it is just a random (albeit tiny) chance, it could happen the next time someone shoots a Cybie. Hey, it may have even happened already!

[Graf Zahl]

No idea what's realistically doable. Just for fun I tried a few notarget attacks in E2M8, the best damage I got was 3550 hit points.