Can you make monsters fight each other?

[Bogeybum]

My favourite bit of I & II was getting one monster to hit another, then watching the two of them fight it out. Especially the flying tomato things.

Can you do this in III?

[Darkhaven]

No, IIRC, it's not possible. Sorry.

[Bogeybum]

Bugger

[Bogeybum]

I just looked up IIRC, it's "If I recall correctly" right?

Does that mean you're not sure?

I'm clutching at straws here, the monster in-fighting thing really pumped my nads. It would be a huge step backward if ID have dropped it.

[JimboC]

Darkhaven said:

No, IIRC, it's not possible. Sorry.

I got into a room with a Revanant and a couple of imps. The revenant moved between me and the imps and when the imp hit him with a fireball, the revanant started attacking the imp. Of course the imp totally ignored the revanant, so it was pretty useless as I had to take the imp down quickly before he killed me. But the monsters do fight each other, to some degree.

[Epyo]

Yes.

[Technician]

Yup I got em to fight. Rare though because most of the monsters are the same breed that attack at once.

[Scabbed Angel]

The caco was attacking me, and then was shot by a security guy. It left biting me to kill the security guys and came back to finish me off. Very cool scene.

[Godshatter]

i saw a revenant wail on a commando gunner. he boxed the shit outa him.

[Inferno]

Godshatter said:

i saw a revenant wail on a commando gunner. he boxed the shit outa him.

LoL

[Wobbo]

yeha it does happen, sadly, its hard to notice because all the monsters are triggered and scripted to come out, they dont get to roam around like Doom I and II, so you can rarely lead them anywhere

when it does happen its cool though

[Sephiroth]

i have gotten imps, cacodemons, revenants, and others to fight each other.

[Disorder]

An automated turregtun killed a few imps in Delta labs, that was pretty handy.

[AirRaid]

And of course the Security bots will shot at anything that noves that isn't you.

Just don't get in their way...

[Gremlin]

I had one yesterday where an imp fireballed a hell knight and the HN toasted the imp. Would have made a great screenie but I missed it!

I want one of those security bots for my house...It'd be great for clearing out parties....uuuhh...'cept for the mess. ;^)

[Reisal]

Earlier in Recycling 1, an imp in the background's fireball hit the one attacking me, which killed it since I already shot it.

[SteelPH]

The monsters in Doom 3 can apparently be killed by one another's projectiles, regardless of who/what they are. They will not fight eachother, if one monster hits another, the monster that was hit will attack, while the other continues to attack you. I haven't found a way to make two monsters attack eachother, as opposed to only one fighting and one trying to kill me.

You could probably script for them to fight, though.

[Reisal]

Somewhere in the DEF files or something else, it might be possible to make that work.

OT: I found a monster_zombie_female DEF file but most of the file is placeholders with fat zombie and other parts commented out.

[XXoXX]

Wonder why id dropped the monster infighting thing until it's rare to see it? I enjoyed pitting monsters against each other in Doom 2..

[Tetzlaff]

From what I heard you can asign a "team" key to each monster, meaning monsters within the same team don´t fight each other. To get a more varied combat experience with the possibility of monster infighting, someone can write a mod that puts all the monsters in a level into different teams.

[sp00ky]

i wish i could do taht

[Reisal]

XXoXX said:

Wonder why id dropped the monster infighting thing until it's rare to see it? I enjoyed pitting monsters against each other in Doom 2..

I hope there is somewhere in the SCRIPT files that can enable this..or else a mod needed for the classic-doom infighting.

[Enjay]

Just another one to add to the catalogue:

I had just finished the level where you get the communication data from the last marine from Bravo Coy. The next level starts in an air lock and there is a short run across the surface with a caco or two attacking you. Just for giggles to see what would happen, I put on god mode and let a caco follow me into the air lock on the far side. When the airlock opened to let me into the next part of the base, a zombie was firing his machine gun and hit the caco. The caco broke off attacking me and flew over to the zombie and killed him.

Points to note:

I don't know if the zombie ever tried to hit the caco after getting hurt by it (he took 2 or 3 hits to go down).

At no point did I do any damage to the caco, which may be relevant.