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A ghost monster is a monster with unusual ghost-like properties. This is caused by a rare bug that occurs when the monster's corpse becomes a small pool of gore by being crushed under a door or ceiling and is then resurrected by an arch-vile. The ghost monster looks normal and still behaves like before being killed, except that it retains some of the properties of the pool of gore it had become. When moving, these properties allow it to pass through walls to sectors that are equal to or lesser in height in respect to the one it occupies. As far as combat is concerned, the ghost monster can usually only be harmed by splash damage, monster melee attacks, arch-vile attacks, and telefragging. Nonetheless, since its near-immunity to some attacks occurs because it cannot be aimed at, it is possi

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rdfs:comment	A ghost monster is a monster with unusual ghost-like properties. This is caused by a rare bug that occurs when the monster's corpse becomes a small pool of gore by being crushed under a door or ceiling and is then resurrected by an arch-vile. The ghost monster looks normal and still behaves like before being killed, except that it retains some of the properties of the pool of gore it had become. When moving, these properties allow it to pass through walls to sectors that are equal to or lesser in height in respect to the one it occupies. As far as combat is concerned, the ghost monster can usually only be harmed by splash damage, monster melee attacks, arch-vile attacks, and telefragging. Nonetheless, since its near-immunity to some attacks occurs because it cannot be aimed at, it is possi
dcterms:subject	Doom engine Errors and bugs Monsters
abstract	A ghost monster is a monster with unusual ghost-like properties. This is caused by a rare bug that occurs when the monster's corpse becomes a small pool of gore by being crushed under a door or ceiling and is then resurrected by an arch-vile. The ghost monster looks normal and still behaves like before being killed, except that it retains some of the properties of the pool of gore it had become. When moving, these properties allow it to pass through walls to sectors that are equal to or lesser in height in respect to the one it occupies. As far as combat is concerned, the ghost monster can usually only be harmed by splash damage, monster melee attacks, arch-vile attacks, and telefragging. Nonetheless, since its near-immunity to some attacks occurs because it cannot be aimed at, it is possible to harm it by hitting a specific, very narrow area at the base of its axis with a regular projectile attack, although this is very difficult to achieve. Some PWADs have used the ghost monster phenomenon as a feature, such as The Waterfront, Requiem's MAP23: Hatred, Icarus: Alien Vanguard's MAP24: The Haunting, Hell Revealed's MAP26: Afterlife, Hell to Pay's MAP14: The Habitat Deck and MAP22: Vile Temple, MAP15: Dead Zone (TNT: Evilution) and Plutonia 2's Map 32: Go 4 It. As with many notable Doom engine bugs that have been taken advantage of by mappers, some source ports make varying degrees of effort to support it; Doomsday features a compatibility option that allows the user to enable/disable the bug occurring, while ZDoom automatically enables it for maps widely known to utilize the bug, namely the above examples (but it can't be toggled on/off by the user). It is also possible in a ZDoom based source port to summon ghost monsters if playing E.g. Ultimate Doom when summoning a monster that isn't in that IWAD. In Hexen if you summon any Doom monster it will be a ghost monster with fully functional attacks but harder to dodge cause the missiles (in case of imps, revenants, cacodemons, barons of hell, hell knights, mancubi, arachnotrons and cyberdemons) are virtually invisible.

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