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DOOM][ MONSTERS

Which enemies will attack each other?

In all most all cases, monsters will attack other monsters of differing species if they are inadvertantly attacked when another monster misdirects a projectile or scratching/biting attack meant for a player.

Some exceptions are
1 ArchViles, who will retaliate against other monsters, but other monsters don’t seem to be able to tell where the attack is coming from and rarely intentionally attack an Archie. However, after experiments in God Mode in small areas I discovered ArchViles invoking damage not only each other but can kill themselves if you force their attack in an area where they are exposed.

2 Pain Elementals will direct Lost Souls toward an attacker, but the attacked monster only retaliates against the LS’s, not the PE, although they usually get killed in the line of fire directed toward the LS’s.

3 Of course the Boss Brain has no defense or offensive means.

Projectile monster attacks do not (usually) hurt other monsters of the same species. For example, Imp fireballs do not hurt other Imps; but do hurt other monsters. Baron green acid-balls don’t hurt other Barons; Cacodemon gasballs don’t hurt other Cacodemons; same deal with PlasmaSpiders, Revenants and Mancubi; and Cyberdemons are immune to their own or other Cybie rockets.

Bullet attacks, however, damage all other monsters, friend or foe. Troopers, Sergeants, Chaingunners, WolfensteinSS and Spiderdemons all kill their own kind, intentionally and inadvertantly.

Scratching and biting attacks are hard to misdirect but it does happen, and when it does, Demons will happily go after each other, as will Spectres, Imps, Lost Souls (contact attack) or Barons.

In rare cases, monsters will even commit suicide. There exists a demo (E1M8) of a Baron acid-balling himself to death after he causes a barrel to explode and burns himself.

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DOOM][ MONSTERS PER LEVEL

Lev	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	Tot.
HS	10	22	15	6	16	2	.	.	9	71	8	.	.	12	43	.	9	1	16	.	.	.	.	.	17	.	18	3	13	.	.	.	290
SG	.	50	20	15	25	30	.	5	38	31	12	15	.	20	43	.	24	28	10	13	19	.	.	.	35	2	22	5	21	.	.	.	483
WS	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	128	28	156
CG	.	.	9	10	11	11	.	.	17	4	4	9	.	17	17	.	22	.	.	12	11	25	17	25	10	14	11	6	11	.	.	.	273
IP	17	16	22	20	54	44	.	55	103	95	13	44	72	23	42	97	36	58	101	22	76	18	31	46	24	27	21	24	22	.	.	.	1223
DN	.	2	8	1	1	7	.	43	9	31	1	.	15	.	.	4	.	43	36	.	.	3	28	56	.	.	16	6	.	.	21	.	331
SP	.	.	4	3	7	11	.	3	5	10	12	.	2	3	.	4	11	21	27	.	3	7	.	8	6	1	9	17	1	.	.	.	175
LS	.	.	.	.	6	2	.	2	33	18	9	9	16	6	9	.	.	.	10	9	.	.	.	16	4	29	7	12	.	.	.	.	197
CA	.	.	.	.	3	.	.	11	6	.	10	16	10	.	11	25	13	19	6	11	.	.	.	8	.	23	.	1	15	.	.	.	188
HK	.	.	.	.	1	2	.	.	4	.	2	.	.	.	3	.	1	5	.	1	6	.	9	6	2	.	21	7	5	.	.	.	75
BH	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	20	.	.	.	1	.	.	2	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	2	1	.	3	.	.	.	31
AR	.	.	.	.	.	.	12	.	.	7	3	6	6	1	1	.	2	.	2	.	.	.	7	.	1	.	4	12	.	.	.	.	64
PE	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	4	10	7	4	.	.	.	6	.	4	.	.	5	2	.	6	.	3	.	4	5	4	.	.	.	64
RV	.	.	.	.	.	4	.	.	.	4	1	.	4	1	.	14	2	2	.	2	4	2	4	.	1	.	21	17	6	1	.	.	90
MN	.	.	.	.	.	.	7	.	5	.	.	9	1	.	.	15	.	1	.	.	3	.	1	2	.	3	13	2	4	.	.	.	66
AV	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	2	1	.	.	2	.	.	2	.	1	.	2	4	1	.	.	.	17
SB	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.	.	5
CD	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	5
BB	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1
Tot.	27	90	78	55	124	114	19	144	238	279	80	109	126	84	177	161	125	178	208	80	124	56	106	167	104	101	170	123	107	2	149	29	3734

DOOM][ MONSTER HITPOINTS

Monster Hitpoints

This chart shows the amount of each type of ammunition it takes to kill enemies (direct hits only). Missed shots increase the amount of ammo required to kill any enemy. The last three columns relate to missiles fired by monsters. Same-species damage here is theorectical only, since same-species are (usually, see above) immune from their own projectiles (excepting bullets).

Imps and Lost Souls do the same damage as single bullets. This chart pertains to Ultra-Violence mode.

Why don’t some attacks add up correctly?

Looking at the chart below, we notice that it takes 400 bullets to kill a Cyberdemon, and 10 to kill a player, indicating that a player has of course 100 hit points to give and a Cybie 4000, yet it only takes 3 shots from a BFG to kill a cybie, seeming to give a BFG not 50 points but instead over 1333 at least. My theory is that various Monsters come with Armor values. Armor seems to be ineffective against plasma attacks from BFG, but protect against bullets and rockets, taking about a point of Armor with each point of Health from an attack, effectively doubling your Health.

The values given here are for a play with 0% Armor. Various discrepancies in the math of hit points is probably due to the varying degrees of armor each Monster has against various attacks. It seems to work out that Monsters are most armored against attacks similar to their own mode of attack.