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Monsters switching target to players without being hurt

 
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:40 am    Post subject: Monsters switching target to players without being hurt Reply with quote

Behavior in vanilla, Boom, (G)ZDoom and MBF21:
If a monster is targeting a monster/player that hurt it, it can't switch targets until either its original target is dead or it's hurt by a different monster/player.

Current behavior in ZDaemon:
The monster switches target after a certain threshold passed, with its original target still alive and without ever being hurt by another monster/player.
The default behavior in MBF is similar but it is generally considered bad and it was one of the incentives that prompted the creation of the new MBF21 standard.

test wad (the zip includes a vanilla-compatible and a Boom-compatible demo to demonstrate the behavior in vanilla/Boom)


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In vanilla Doom there is a difference between singleplayer and multiplayer:
In multiplayer the monster will search for a new player target after 100 tics "timeout" (in code actor->threshold and BASETHRESHOLD).

In function A_Chase ()


The same happens in ZD, which always runs in multiplayer mode.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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