A tyrant firing upon the player.
The tyrant is a monster added to Doom and Doom II by the Legacy of Rust expansion and is further specified within the ID24 editing standard. It is a slightly (about 10%) smaller variant of the cyberdemon, without horns or cybernetic legs, and with green wires.
Combat characteristics[edit]
The tyrant is a weaker cyberdemon, with only one fourth of the hit points, making it similar to other recolored weaker cyberdemon enemies as seen for example in the Wormwood series. Its sounds are slightly faster and higher pitched than those of the cyberdemon.
There are three separate versions of the tyrant, allowing to use several groups of them with different boss death effects. The three versions are identical mechanically, except that the latter two variants have a longer respawn time in Nightmare! difficulty, making them more suited as boss monsters for this skill level.
Tactical analysis[edit]
The tyrant behaves similarly to the cyberdemon in combat, firing volleys of three rockets. Despite its closeness with the cyberdemon, it can infight with its stronger cousin.
- In Legacy of Rust, the tyrants have editor numbers of 3012, 3013, and 3014, and use the MT_EXTRA05 / Deh_Actor_155, MT_EXTRA06 / Deh_Actor_156, and MT_EXTRA07 / Deh_Actor_157 slots. The data below corresponds to the ID24 specifications.
| Tyrant data
|
| Thing type |
-28667 (decimal), 9005 (hex)
-28666 (decimal), 9006 (hex)
-28665 (decimal), 9007 (hex)
|
| Enum |
0x9000 0005
0x9000 0006
0x9000 0007
|
| Appears in |
Legacy of Rust
|
| Hit points |
1000
|
| Speed |
16 map units per frame
(186.7 map units per second)
|
| Radius |
40
|
| Height |
110
|
| Mass |
1000
|
| Reaction time |
8 tics
|
| Pain chance |
20 (5.47%)
|
| Pain time |
10 tics
|
| Flags |
4194310 (decimal)
00400006 (hex)
|
| MBF21 Bits |
303720 (decimal)
4A268 (hex)
|
| Flags list |
1: Obstacle
2: Shootable
22: Affects kill %
|
| MBF21 Flags list |
3: No radius damage
5: higher missile probability
6: uses half distance
9: boss monster
13: E2M8 boss
15: E4M6 boss
18: full volume sounds
|
| Spawns |
MT_ROCKET (rocket)
|
|
| State |
Frames
|
| Idling |
2 [AB]
|
| Chasing |
9 [AABBCCDDD]
|
| Attacking |
6 [EFEFEF]
|
| Hurting |
1 [G]
|
| Dying |
10 [HIJKLMNOPP]
|
|
| Ranged attack
|
| Type |
Projectile
|
| Enum |
MT_ROCKET (33)
|
| Velocity |
20 map units per tic
(700 map units per second)
|
| Damage |
20-160 (direct hit)
0-128 (blast radius)
148-288 (direct hit + blast radius)
|
| Radius |
11
|
| Height |
8
|
| Sprite |
MISL
|
| Frames |
1 [A] (in flight)
3 [BCD] (impact)
|
| Sound |
DSRLAUNC (firing)
DSBAREXP (impact)
|
| Flags |
67088 (decimal)
00010610 (hex)
|
| Flags list |
4: No blocklinks (Inert)
9: No gravity
10: Drops off ledges
16: Projectile
|
| Projectile group |
3 (ID24 specs), 2 (Legacy of Rust code)
|
| Splash group |
3 (ID24 specs), 2 (Legacy of Rust code)
|
|
Damage done by a full rocket volley
- This table assumes that all calls to P_Random for damage, pain chance, blood splats, and bullet dispersal are consecutive. In real play, this is never the case: counterattacks and AI pathfinding must be handled, and of course the map may contain additional moving monsters and other randomized phenomena (such as flickering lights). Any resulting errors are probably toward the single-shot average, as they introduce noise into the correlation between the indices of "consecutive" calls.
- Assumes that the target takes a direct hit from each shot.
- Assumes that direct hits are possible, which does not occur in any stock map.
Appearance statistics[edit]
In Legacy of Rust the tyrants are only encountered on this one map per skill level:
|
|
| Multiplayer
|
| Episode |
1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| Counterfeit Eden |
MAP14: Brink |
MAP14: Brink |
MAP14: Brink
|
|
Legacy of Rust contains the following numbers of tyrants per skill level:
| Single-player
|
| Episode |
1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| Counterfeit Eden |
4+1+24
|
|
| Multiplayer
|
| Episode |
1-2 |
3 |
4-5
|
| Counterfeit Eden |
4+1+24
|
|
