The chaos serpent is a monster added to Heretic by the Faith Renewed expansion. It is visually identical to the green chaos serpent from Hexen, but has a different fireball attack.
When killed, chaos serpent has a ~18% chance to drop a crystal vial and a ~2.7% chance to drop a Bag of Holding.
Tactical analysis[edit]
Chaos serpents behave similarly to their counterparts from Hexen, but have 750 hit points rather than the original's 250. When attacking from a distance, the serpent will either breathe three pairs of fireballs, or a single wave of three fireballs.
| Chaos serpent data
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| Thing type |
3103 (decimal), C1F (hex)
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| Enum |
SuperDemon
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| Appears in |
Heretic: Faith Renewed
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| Hit points |
750
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| Speed |
13 map units per frame
(113.8 map units per second)
|
| Radius |
32
|
| Height |
64
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| Mass |
500
|
| Reaction time |
? tics
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| Pain chance |
40 (15.6%)
|
| Pain time |
8 tics
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| Flags |
4194310 (decimal)
00400006 (hex)
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| Flags list |
1: Obstacle
2: Shootable
22: Affects kill %
|
| Flags2 |
4128 (decimal)
00001020 (hex)
|
| Flags2 list |
5: Feet can be clipped
12: Pass over/under mobj
NoMeleeGhost?
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| Spawns |
SuperDemonFX1 (fireball)
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|
| State |
Frames
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| Idling |
2 [AA]
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| Chasing |
4 [ABCD]
|
| Attacking (melee) |
3 [GFE]
|
| Attacking (missile) |
4 [EEFG] (double)
10 [EEFGEFGEFG] (triple)
|
| Hurting |
2 [EE]
|
| Dying |
9 [HIJKLMNOP]
|
|
| Fireball ranged attack
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| Type |
Projectile
|
| Enum |
SuperDemonFX1
(inherits from MT_SRCRFX1)
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| Velocity |
15 map units per tic
(525 map units per second)
|
| Damage |
8-64
|
| Radius |
10
|
| Height |
10
|
| Sprite |
FX14
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| Frames |
3 [ABC] (in flight)
5 [DEFGH] (impact)
|
| Sound |
SBTHIT (firing)
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| Flags |
67088 (decimal)
00010610 (hex)
|
| Flags list |
4: No blocklinks (Inert)
9: No gravity
10: Drops off ledges
16: Projectile
|
| Flags2 |
65664 (decimal)
00010080 (hex)
|
| Flags2 list |
7: No teleport
16: Fire damage
|
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Appearance statistics[edit]
In Faith Renewed the chaos serpent is first encountered on these maps per skill level:
|
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| Multiplayer
|
| 1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| E1M3: Crimson Palace |
E1M3: Crimson Palace |
E1M3: Crimson Palace
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|
Faith Renewed contains the following numbers of chaos serpents per skill level:
| Single-player
|
| 1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| 7 |
19 |
28
|
|
| Multiplayer
|
| 1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| 7 |
19 |
28
|
|
- When Faith Renewed was first released, chaos serpents shot their fireballs straight forward, causing them to go over the player's head and making them harmless if the player stood on the same floor as the serpent. This was fixed in Update 1 for Heretic + Hexen.
