Lost soul limit

To prevent overloading the engine with Lost Souls, a hard-coded limit was added that prevents Pain Elementals from spawning them if there are already 20 Lost Souls in the level. Because the Pain Elemental has no other attack, this has the side effect of rendering them helpless when this limit is reached.

This limit is removed in some source ports. In Boom and its close derivatives, the limit may be toggled in the compatibility options.