Monsters that have inaccurate, repeating, or blast-damage attacks ( Zombiemen, Shotgun Guys, Heavy Weapon Dudes, Wolfenstein SS officers, Mancubi, Arachnotrons, Spiderdemons and Cyberdemons) are particularly likely to cause infighting.Īny monster that fires projectiles (the previous plus Imps, Cacodemons, Revenants, Hell Knights, and Barons of Hell) can be maneuvered into doing this. 6.4 Mass infighting in Heretic and Hexen.

6.2 Monster infighting in Doom (2016).1 Monsters capable of causing infighting.Finish them off only after defeating the stronger demon if they are not dead. You can trick enemies into assist you in fighting other stronger demons, while treating them as your 'temporary allies'. Two Shotgun Guys fighting a group of Barons of Hell in Brutal Doom v20 Some games, however, such as Postal 2, incorporates enemy infighting into the atmosphere of the story. Additionally, in more recent first-person shooters, enemies are either intelligent enough not to fire if a fellow enemy is in the way, or to avoid the line of fire of other enemies. Indeed, most games do not give the enemies the ability to hurt each other, much less the ability to retaliate. Monster infighting has become a novel aspect of Doom and its progeny. Here, in Heretic, an Undead Warrior has managed to anger a Golem. In the Doom games, monsters will also retaliate when damaged indirectly by exploding barrels. The damaged monster may then target the attacker, where combat between the two monsters will soon follow and continue until one participant either dies or is distracted by a third party's attacks. Since a monster does not have the intelligence to cease fire in the event that a fellow monster blocks their line of sight, it will attack in revenge without regard, possibly resulting in friendly fire. This can usually be accomplished by getting into a position where one monster is in the line of fire of another. In the Doom games, Heretic, and Hexen, many of the enemy monsters can be tricked into fighting each other, a phenomenon which is generally called monster infighting. In DOOM, a Shotgun Guy killing another of his kind.

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