The brown chaos serpent is an enemy from Hexen. It looks just like its green counterpart, except that its skin is a rich brown rather than grey-green. The manual includes a single entry for both types of serpent:
"D'Sparil once had a Chaos Serpent for a mount. On this world the Serpents run loose, uncontrolled by any higher intelligence. One breed of Chaos Serpent will scorch you with fiery blasts, while a second variant of this creature belches poisonous gas."
― Hexen instruction manual
Combat characteristics[edit]
The brown chaos serpent is for the most part simply a reskin of the green chaos serpent and can be fought in the same manner. They have the same stat values and behavior, however they are treated as a separate species and if the two types of chaos serpents are mixed, infighting can occur. In spite of the manual's description, the green gas balls do not have the poison effect caused by some attacks. Instead, the projectile does fire damage just like that of the green chaos serpent, and players and objects destroyed by it will use their incineration death sequence, if present.
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| Attributes
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| ID # |
8080 (decimal), 1F90 (hex)
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| Hit points |
250
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| Speed |
13 map units per frame
(151.7 map units per second)
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| Width |
64
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| Height |
64
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| Reaction time |
8
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| Pain chance |
50 (19.53%)
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| Pain time |
8 tics
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| Mass |
220
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| Bits |
4194310
8654880
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| Bits list
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1: Obstacle
2: Shootable
22: Affects Kill %
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5: Floor Clip
12: Pass Mobj
18: Telestomp
23: Monster Cross Lines
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| Sprites & sounds
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| Sprite name |
DEM2
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| Alert sound |
SBTSIT5
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| Active sound |
SBTSIT5
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| Pain sound |
MINACT1
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| Death sound |
SBTDTH3
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| Melee attack
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| Damage |
1-8 * 2 (always even numbers)
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| Sound |
DEMATK2
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| Ranged attack
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| Type |
Projectile
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| Speed |
15 map units per tic
(525 map units per second)
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| Damage |
5-40
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| Width |
20
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| Height |
6
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| Sprite name |
D2FX
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| Sound |
IMPFIRE2 (firing)
IMPACT3 (impact)
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Appearance statistics[edit]
In the IWADs the brown chaos serpent is first encountered on these maps per skill level:
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| Cooperative
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| Game / Hub |
1-2 |
3 |
4-5
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| Hub 1: Seven Portals |
Hub 1: Bright Crucible |
Hub 1: Bright Crucible |
Hub 1: Bright Crucible
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| Hub 2: Shadow Wood |
Hub 2: Darkmere |
Hub 2: Darkmere |
Hub 2: Darkmere
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| Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary |
- |
- |
-
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| Hub 4: Castle of Grief |
Hub 4: Effluvium |
Hub 4: Effluvium |
Hub 4: Effluvium
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| Hub 5: Necropolis |
Hub 5: Necropolis (map) |
Hub 5: Necropolis (map) |
Hub 5: Necropolis (map)
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| Expansion Hub 1: Blight |
Hub 1: Blight |
Hub 1: Blight |
Hub 1: Blight
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| Expansion Hub 2: Constable's Gate |
Hub 2: Constable's Gate |
Hub 2: Constable's Gate |
Hub 2: Constable's Gate
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| Expansion Hub 3: Nave |
Hub 3: Chantry |
Hub 3: Chantry |
Hub 3: Chantry
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| Expansion Hub 4: Transit |
Hub 4: Castle of Pain |
Hub 4: Castle of Pain |
Hub 4: Castle of Pain
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The IWADs contain the following numbers of brown chaos serpents per skill level:
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| Cooperative
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| Game / Hub |
1-2 |
3 |
4-5
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| Hub 1: Seven Portals |
9 |
12 |
14
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| Hub 2: Shadow Wood |
48 |
53 |
59
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| Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary |
0 |
0 |
0
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| Hub 4: Castle of Grief |
5 |
7 |
8
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| Hub 5: Necropolis |
24 |
35 |
42
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| Hexen |
86 |
107 |
123
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| Expansion Hub 1: Blight |
45 |
63 |
73
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| Expansion Hub 2: Constable's Gate |
44 |
54 |
68
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| Expansion Hub 3: Nave |
10 |
16 |
18
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| Expansion Hub 4: Transit |
4 |
4 |
4
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| Deathkings of the Dark Citadel |
103 |
137 |
163
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See also[edit]
