Doom 64: Lowered Targeting Threshold?

This is really just a dumb little piece of trivia that I've wondered about for years.

In old gaming magazines that had coverage of Doom 64, I recall mentions of the monsters being more aggressive, as in they had a tendency to infight more often. Was there any truth to this? I know there was a new monster flag added in Doom 64 so the level designers could specifically force certain monsters not to infight, but was the opposite also true? Was the targeting threshold of the monsters actually lowered so they had a greater chance of going after new targets and thus getting into brawls with fellow demons more easily? Or was this just crap the gaming magazines made up?

Thanks in advance!

Megamur said:

This is really just a dumb little piece of trivia that I've wondered about for years.

In old gaming magazines that had coverage of Doom 64, I recall mentions of the monsters being more aggressive, as in they had a tendency to infight more often. Was there any truth to this? I know there was a new monster flag added in Doom 64 so the level designers could specifically force certain monsters not to infight, but was the opposite also true? Was the targeting threshold of the monsters actually lowered so they had a greater chance of going after new targets and thus getting into brawls with fellow demons more easily? Or was this just crap the gaming magazines made up?

Thanks in advance!

Seems legit; dunno why any magazine(s) (in gaming, that is) would make something like this up.

I don't know if it matters that much to begin with. From what I recall, Doom 64 does not have as much monster infighting as the classic games.

Kaiser would be the man to ask about this, although he's probably busy converting yet another console FPS to PC.

Chewyninja69 said:

Seems legit; dunno why any magazine(s) (in gaming, that is) would make something like this up.

Relatively many gaming magazines and review sites contained misinformation about Doom games, frequently the type of generalized hyping statements that weren't technically true, or other misconceptions. One example for all: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/33664-a-treat-scans-of-magazine-review-of-doom-2-from-1994/ And then there were things like this: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/10387-a-christian-guide-to-doom/

Dave The Daring said:

Kaiser would be the man to ask about this, although he's probably busy converting yet another console FPS to PC.

I'm hoping he'll eventually arrive and solve the mystery, yes. :)

scifista42 said:

Relatively many gaming magazines and review sites contained misinformation about Doom games, frequently the type of generalized hyping statements that weren't technically true, or other misconceptions. One example for all: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/33664-a-treat-scans-of-magazine-review-of-doom-2-from-1994/ And then there were things like this: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/10387-a-christian-guide-to-doom/

Very interesting reads. Thank you.

I can confirm this. BASETHRESHOLD was lowered to 90 in which the original games was set to 100.

Well! Looks like they weren't just pulling reports out of thin air after all. Thanks, Kaiser!