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DoomRL => Requests For Features => Topic started by: Xander Morhaime on January 04, 2011, 15:53

Title: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Xander Morhaime on January 04, 2011, 15:53
How about an added option during new level generation? Make the monster spawns on the area only one type... kind of a Cave level, but with a larger population and more varied terrain.

Example messages at entry:

"You hear the clatter of bones." - Revenants
"You hear countless shrieking voices." - Lost Souls
"You hear many marching feet." - Former Humans
"You hear crackling flames." - Arch-Viles
"You hear deep, guttural noises." - Mancubi
"You hear many heavy footfalls." - Knights / Barons
"You hear lots of snarling." - Demons

So for example, you might have:

"You enter level 9. You hear deep, guttural noises. You sense something of great value! Where the hell is the way out of here?! Hee hee, this will be a mess..."

...well, that's a more extreme scenario.
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Gargulec on January 04, 2011, 15:54
:D

Me wants!
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: ParaSait on January 04, 2011, 16:50
Quote from: Xander Morhaime on January 04, 2011, 15:53
"You hear crackling flames." - Arch-Viles
WH... WHAT!
*Mrazerty almost chokes in his tea*
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on January 04, 2011, 16:55
This might be interesting tactically...
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: MICu on January 04, 2011, 17:13
Another cave type levels...

"You hear many marching feet." - maybe not only Former Humans, but any other human type as well. Variety of them depends how deep you are

How bout " You hear mechanical clicks AGAIN! " after entering/beating Spider's Lair ?
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Fanta Hege on January 04, 2011, 17:34
I like this idea allready!

Though I think Cavern enemies should be excluded from this if the level area is in the same level as they would spawn in Cavern.
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: ParaSait on January 05, 2011, 04:53
I dun like this idea, really. :<
'cept if they're cave levels, maybe. That could work.

But Kornel, I wonder how exactly is this "tactically interesting"?
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Generic on January 15, 2011, 19:01
"Plasma rifles charge in the distance..." - Arachnotron (maze = oh dear god no)
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Deathwind on January 15, 2011, 23:03
It should read "You hear plasma charge in the distance..." as they don't have hand to hold rifles.

If it spawns a vile level it'll need to also spawn corpses to revive.
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Generic on January 16, 2011, 11:45
Well, of course they don't have hands. The plasma rifle is built into the arachnotron, remember?
Also, I'm trying to stay away from starting EVERY SINGLE ONE of the monster arena messages with 'You hear...'. It's a bit tedious.

Also, some more suggestions:
Bones clatter all around you.Revenant
There's no corpses. Only bones.Revenant (alternate)
Blue blood and red carcasses litter the room.Cacodemon
It's tomato smashing-time in this town.Cacodemon (alternate)
Sweet christmas! Big-mouthed floating thingies!Cacodemon (lol)
There's shrieks of agony everywhere.Lost Soul
Silence for a moment, then cries of agony.Pain Elemental
Something tells you you had friends here. Had.Former family
Many somethings reload their weapons.Former family (alternate)
Corpses of many types litter the floor.Arch-Vile
Hellish magic haunts the corpses...Arch-Vile (alternate)
A battle cry chants in the distance.Baron family
The walls are scratched and flame-scorched.Imps
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Fanta Hege on January 16, 2011, 16:51
I'm personaly against the idea of corpses on an archvile only level, archvile fire blast alone deals a quaranteed 10 damage, they are tough and hellova fast.
I'm sure if I'd like mortuary, I'll just go to mortuary.

Also for the level feel ideas;

"Things are about to get hot in here.."                Mancubi or Archvile
"You wish you didn't wake up"                           Nightmare Cacodemons
"You feel its time to be cruising for some bruising" Bruiser Brothers
"You step on a round table"                               Hell Knights
"Things appear to be pink as Hell"                       Demons
"You feel as if you were allready dead"                Angels of Death (ohgod)
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Shoop da Whoop on January 17, 2011, 11:17
"You can't see, but you hear them coming..." Invisible demons, yeah
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Kamikaze14 on January 31, 2011, 11:21
Quote from: Generic on January 16, 2011, 11:45
Sweet christmas! Big-mouthed floating thingies!Cacodemon (lol)
This needs to have a chance of happening in Caco caves.
Title: Re: New Level Event: Single Monster-Type
Post by: Kashi on January 31, 2011, 11:48
Quote from: Shoop da Whoop on January 17, 2011, 11:17
"You can't see, but you hear them coming..." Invisible demons, yeah
That would be helluva insane. If dealing with a bunch of demons can get nasty if they mob you (Happens), imagine when a bunch of INVISIBLE demons (With increased dodge, I suppose) mob you.