DBP#48: AVP VS TERMINATOR VS JASON VS HELL VS SEAGAL

No it isn't balanced.  And that isn't making sense.   You can't rely on infighting all the time.   That is a really ridiculous buff for them and it renders the shotguns and any weapon with a reload time nearly worthless against them.   Normally it's possible to two shot them with an SSG and guaranteed take them down with three shots.   They heal 7/8 of their life in 3 seconds or their whole life in 3.5 seconds.   Using one of the new weapons where its clip runs out, it just clicks, and has a long reload sequence, forget it.   Cacodemons are all back at full health and it's worse if they're up in the air in a big outside where your shots push them farther away over a lava pit stopping you from following.   The super shotgun's reload is 1.5 seconds long and the regular shotgun's is 2/3 of a second.   So in the 1.5 seconds before you can fire the SSG again which might have possibly taken half its life, it already regained almost half its life.   That's totally unreasonable.

In fact the following enemies have faster healer due to their fewer walking/chasing frames:

Lost Soul:

See2:
SKUL AB 6 Bright A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(10)
Loop

Same goes for Beta Souls but you never see them.

See2:
SKUL BCDA 5 A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(10)
Loop

Pain Elemental:

See2:
PAIN AABBCC 3 A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(10)
Loop

(I temporarily had a Pain Elemental in nmap11 but removed it due to the map getting totally spammed with Lost Souls in testing, before I knew they were all healing all the time.)

Demon's are faster healing than the Pain Elementals due to their frames only having 2 duration but fortunately you can still take them out quick.

See2:
SARG AABBCCDD 2 Fast A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(10)
Loop

But Cacodemon is really the worse:

See2:
HEAD A 3 A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(10)
Loop

Those should have healing reduced by adding chase frames like this or reducing the heal amount:

SKUL BCDABCDA 5 A_Chase

PAIN AABBCCAABBCC 3 A_Chase

SARG AABBCCDD 2 Fast A_Chase
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("DemonicTarget")
TNT1 A 0 HealThing(7)

HEAD AAAAAAAA 3 A_Chase

That at least slows the Cacodemon's healing to the same rate as most enemies.

If you want an additional super buffed Nightmare Caco that can go toe-to-toe with other big new enemies, that's cool.   Just the regular Caco is ridiculous right now.

Here's a Nightmare Caco I made up but you'd have to adapt it like you have the other enemies in the mod,

but I already extended its chase frames into 8 frames since I made two frames have a chance of quick dodging strafing.

Having both dodging and super healing would be utterly insane.   So pick either super healing with no dodging, or regular/SlightlyFast healing with dodging.

ACTOR NightmareCaco : Cacodemon 3022
{
//Translation "168:183=192:207", "184:191=240:247", "16:47=192:207", "167:167=204:204", "223:223=240:240", "64:79=199:207"
BloodColor "00 00 FF"
Health 600
PainChance 96
Speed 14
RenderStyle "Subtract"
Alpha 1
States
{
See:
HEAD AAAAAA 3 A_Chase
HEAD AA 3 A_Chase ("Melee", "Missile", CHF_FASTCHASE)
Loop
Melee:
Missile:
HEAD B 5 A_FaceTarget
HEAD C 5 A_FaceTarget
HEAD D 3 BRIGHT A_CustomComboAttack ("NightmareCacoBall", 32, random(1, 8)*3, "melee", "", 1)
HEAD D 3 BRIGHT A_CustomMissile ("NightmareCacoBall", 32, 0, random(-12, -5))
HEAD D 2 BRIGHT A_CustomMissile ("NightmareCacoBall", 32, 0, random(5, 12))
Goto See
}
}

Actor NightmareCacoBall
{
Translation "168:191=192:207", "208:223=192:207", "224:231=192:199"
Radius 6
Height 8
Speed 20
Damage 5
Projectile
+RANDOMIZE
RenderStyle "Add"
Alpha 1
SeeSound "caco/attack"
DeathSound "caco/shotx"
States
{
Spawn:
BAL2 AB 4 BRIGHT
Loop
Death:
BAL2 CDE 6 BRIGHT
Stop
}
}