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- I've seen a number of wads in which the arch-vile bug happened
- accidentally. Making it happen on purpose, without fail, in a
- controlled manner, though, is a trickier matter than I thought it
- would be. It works beautifully in The Waterfront. In case you
- don't know, this bug manifests itself when a creature has been
- squashed flat either by a crusher or killed normally and then
- flattened by a closing door or similar structure. If an arch-
- vile ressurects them, any shots will pass right through them.
- Keep in mind that you can't kill these guys by shooting them.
- The crusher has no effect on them either. For that matter, one-
- sided lines or "blocks monsters" lines don't mean squat to these
- guys, either. What will kill them is a rocket fired into a wall
- next to them. The blast will kill them. I've also seen them
- accidentally shoot the arch-vile and he turned on them and killed
- them. I don't know if other monsters can kill them. I know they
- will not turn on each other as zombie-men do when they shoot each
- other.
- A while back, I was po'ed at Id for not fixing this bug with the
- various patches. Now I'm glad they didn't. If you dont' want it
- to happen, it's fairly easy to avoid. And making it happen on
- purpose basically creates a new class of monsters!