Lost Souls, they have got to be one of the most annoying enemies in the Doom series. They are insanely fast, and travel in large packs.
And then there are Pain Elementals!!! These jerk infinitely spawn Lost Souls! ERRRR!!!! These things make you wanna use the BFG 9000 just to kill them...
So that is why I view both of these things as being a little on the trollish side.
Lost Souls with their speed, I mean they are on the other side of the room and then they are right on you.
And Pain Elementals with shooting Lost Souls at you...
By the way I have been playing a lot of Doom 64 lately and man is it fun!
And then there are Pain Elementals!!! These jerk infinitely spawn Lost Souls! ERRRR!!!! These things make you wanna use the BFG 9000 just to kill them...
So that is why I view both of these things as being a little on the trollish side.
Lost Souls with their speed, I mean they are on the other side of the room and then they are right on you.
And Pain Elementals with shooting Lost Souls at you...
By the way I have been playing a lot of Doom 64 lately and man is it fun!
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I hate Lost Souls just as much as I do and depending on the situation I do use the RPG 9000 on them but I think the most effective weapon for killing them is the Chaingun or Plasma Gun. Their high "pain chance" (doom wiki) makes them almost impossible to shot out Lost Souls with the fire rate of those weapons.
You complain about snemies spawning? Did you EVER play any of the Serious Sam games? They spawn RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU and in numbers you usually only see in movies!
Imegine me, Serious Sam BFE....BAM, an army of enemies with ALL friggin weapons available spawn around me without warning....THAT sucks ice
Imegine me, Serious Sam BFE....BAM, an army of enemies with ALL friggin weapons available spawn around me without warning....THAT sucks ice
I haven't actually played Doom 64 so I can't really comment on those ones (other than OH GOD WHY DO THEY SHOOT TWO AT ONCE WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS), but Pain Elementals in Doom 2 are not a big deal at all. They're incapable of doing anything if you're right up in their face. You can literally just stand there and punch them to death and there's nothing they can do to stop you. Or you could just hit them with rapid fire since they go into pain 50% of the time. Annoying if they're on the other side of a huge open area, though, since then they can just keep spamming at you and you don't notice until you're knee-deep in the dead-er, in lost souls. On the other hand, the old .EXE had a hard limit of 20 lost souls at a time; If there were 20 or more of them at a time, PEs couldn't spawn any until their numbers dropped, so it's hard to actually get a huge swarm unless you're using a source port that allows you to disable that limit.
Lost souls are more of a nuisance than a threat, honestly, since they tend to just end up crashing into eachother and then getting into a massive infight-fest until there's only one or two left. And then you can chainsaw them to death since they have a 100% pain chance. Soooo easy to provoke infighting with them, really. They're dumb as a brick, although they also hit about as hard as one.
They're still totally trolls though. Them and Archviles can just go straight to hell.
...wait a minute...
Yeah, and I have only played the SNES and N64 ones, so I have not encountered Archviles. But I have seen them on Let's Plays. But yeah, in the N64 one I am not sure what the sprite limit is, but the final level has a TON of enemies coming at you all at once.... Including upwards of 3 Pain Elementals....
That's Doom 2 that has that.
Doom 64's last stage looks like this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9099276/
Doom 64's last stage looks like this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9099276/
This image didn't age well, both due to the meme and because of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJcf0aOwmiA
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If you want real pain, just play WOOO 3 and choose Ultra-Violence for the difficulty like a real man always does. Oh wait, they moved Ultra-Violence to the space where Hurt Me Plenty used to be. You just clicked "Ultra-Painelemence," which replaces all the enemies with Pain Elementals, including Lost Souls. So you end up with a bunch of Pain Elementals, which all shoot out more Pain Elementals, and whenever you kill one, three more take its place.
All of the other monsters decided to have a picnic and eat your framerate.
(skip to 2:10)
If you want real pain, just play WOOO 3 and choose Ultra-Violence for the difficulty like a real man always does. Oh wait, they moved Ultra-Violence to the space where Hurt Me Plenty used to be. You just clicked "Ultra-Painelemence," which replaces all the enemies with Pain Elementals, including Lost Souls. So you end up with a bunch of Pain Elementals, which all shoot out more Pain Elementals, and whenever you kill one, three more take its place.
All of the other monsters decided to have a picnic and eat your framerate.
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