Abolisher

Name: Abolisher
Difficulty: Hard
Connection: Uses plasma ball hit sounds
Summon: Abolisher
Melee: No
Distance: Projectile
Type: Demon, Cybernetic
Brightmaps: No

Submitted: Doomfan667
Decorate: Doomfan667
GLDefs: Doomfan667
Sounds: id Software, Re-Logic
Sprites: 3d Realms, id Software, Skulltag Team
Sprite Edit: Doomfan667
Idea Base: Gatekeeper, Moloch and the Source Guardian



This cybernetic gargantuan is very powerful, boasting 6000 HP and has 3 attacks. His first attack is firing 3 grenades, he only fires them up close and can be a big problem in smaller arenas. His second attack are very fast lasers, he fires them rapidly and they can get annoying at some times. His third attack is an orange homing BFG, it's quite slow but is still quite dangerous, especially when it hits you.

Download link: https://www.m*diafire.com/file/ju5vi0ib7sw4cyx/THE+ABOLISHER.wad

From just reading this, I already like the idea behind it. It's also great to see another badass style monster with this sprite set. The only niggling problem for some would be it's high amount of health (personally, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I also use a lot of very higher powered weaponry than Doom's original set & have made enemies with the same amount of health, varied attacks like this has, to keep boss fights interesting). But for some, a Cyberdemon is hard enough to kill & it only has that standard 3 rocket attack.

Fighting it with just the vanilla weaponry, where a BFG seems the only way to survive might deter some people, if it takes too long to kill it, you'll usually end up dead (but that's up to those using it, where they place it & what supplies/weapons they can get to stay in the fight) & guys like this need sometimes seem to have limited use, maybe appearing once or twice throughout a 30 level campaign in massive arena style levels like the Tower of Babel or DIS.

But that's just a first impression, with how I'd most likely use it & without testing it yet, so I hope you don't take this as criticism, it looks great, it certainly appears to have the tools to put up a decent fight & keep the player on their toes.

[Edit]
Tested, a good challenge but the Grenades & Plasma balls were a bit off, it didn't look like they were being fired from it's arm, so I changed the offset to about 32, to line up with it's arm. If you're going to update this, I'd recommend in doing so, see if you think it's better suited.
The grenades don't have a long range, so it might be a good idea to have the Abolisher jump to this attack if the Player is at a certain distance away from it rather then jumping to it within it's standard Missile State set up. When it's firing grenades & your too far away for them to hit you, it's too easy to land a barrage of rockets, plasma or a BFG shot on it.

I'll just quote myself from the Cybertron thread regarding the sprites:

I wrote: Since we've already seen these sprites before (at least two monsters on the repository use those), this suffers a lot in the sprite department. Besides, I have never found those particular Duke Nukem 3D sprites appealing - they're of low quality and kind of ugly.

Yes. This means it'd be better if you find a different sprite set.

Blue Shadow wrote: I'll just quote myself from the Cybertron thread regarding the sprites:

I wrote: Since we've already seen these sprites before (at least two monsters on the repository use those), this suffers a lot in the sprite department. Besides, I have never found those particular Duke Nukem 3D sprites appealing - they're of low quality and kind of ugly.

Yes. This means it'd be better if you find a different sprite set.

Cybertron was just a shoddier one with no GLDEFs and was really stupid, did you even test the Abolisher? He makes a good challenge. Just because they use a specific sprite set doesn't mean you can get mad at me.

New Download Link: http://www.m*diafire.com/file/0ngn8775bd667ie/THE+ABOLISHER.wad

I can't seem to find the edit button for the main topic anywhere. It disappeared after you all started replying.

DoomFan667 wrote: Just because they use a specific sprite set doesn't mean you can get mad at me.

I'm not mad. I simply dislike that sprite set. But this is my own opinion. The other staff members might have a different one.

I need to add the damn new link! If I don't then he won't get submitted. The edit button has suddenly disappeared for me in case you're wondering.

You'll have to wait for Tormentor to see what's going on with that.

DoomFan667 wrote: I need to add the damn new link! If I don't then he won't get submitted. The edit button has suddenly disappeared for me in case you're wondering.

Since when is it gone? Do you still see the "Action" button underneath your posts?

It's still there, but edit isn't an option. There's only Reply Topic, Unsubscribe and Favorite.