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Mancubus AI

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skarczew:

--- Quote from: Uitë on April 02, 2012, 17:00 ---Mancubus-Vile packs are really not a lot of trouble, if you can move/dodge well enough, or have resistances. All the missed mancubus shots will annihilate the viles (and each other) leaving you to do the mopping up.

I love taking advantage of that!

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"If"

Without cerberus armor (or whatever it is called) it is highly unlikely to live through it ...

Uitë:
Actually, zerk plus a little extra fire resist easily works well enough.

Creaphis:
I've noticed that mancubi are able to fire from out of LOS sometimes. I thought this was a bug.

I think I would like the DoomRL mancubus better if it was easier to dodge its fire completely. It's no fun dodging the centre shot just to take a direct hit from one of the peripheral projectiles. Maybe these outer shots could be fired at a larger angle from centre so that they wouldn't ever hit the player directly but would still cause a lot of chaos. Or, maybe the mancubus could fire only two shots at a time so that the player can dodge them all with a left-right-left movement pattern (like in Doom).

skarczew:

--- Quote from: Creaphis on April 15, 2012, 14:11 ---I've noticed that mancubi are able to fire from out of LOS sometimes. I thought this was a bug.

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I noticed it too ...no idea if it was due to some strange FOV / LOS settings, bigger sight range, or some bug. Or not.

ZicherCZ:

--- Quote from: Creaphis on April 15, 2012, 14:11 ---I've noticed that mancubi are able to fire from out of LOS sometimes. I thought this was a bug.

I think I would like the DoomRL mancubus better if it was easier to dodge its fire completely. It's no fun dodging the centre shot just to take a direct hit from one of the peripheral projectiles. Maybe these outer shots could be fired at a larger angle from centre so that they wouldn't ever hit the player directly but would still cause a lot of chaos. Or, maybe the mancubus could fire only two shots at a time so that the player can dodge them all with a left-right-left movement pattern (like in Doom).

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In my experience, if you are five or more squares away from the M and you dodge the center rocket, the outer ones are spread out enough to miss you as well.

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