What's the point of this thing?

>>716247428 (OP)
To bring all of the other enemies back to life and screw you over.

Attack you anywhere
Make every aspect of the experience worse

HERE COMES FLAME BOI

>>716247428 (OP)
To give Swedish people a heart attack.

>>716247898
beat me to it

>>716247428 (OP)
It's a great enemy. No matter how good you are, the arch-vile is a big enough threat to keep your attention. Even if you have cover to avoid his flame attack, the fucker will be reviving everything you've just killed. In normal maps he's fine, but in community content one nasty arch-vile placement can make an okay fight pretty tough.

>>716247898
FLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAME

>>716247485
The archvile is not that bad.
Unless you're playing Hideous Destructor. The modder must've smoked something sinister to come up with that shit.

>>716247428 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_IVpOrfCWo

>>716247428 (OP)
makes you shit bricks

>>716249079
qrd

>>716249317
Alien faggot helping out the demons.

>>716248223
He's a better boss than the Cyber even.
And no other enemy will ever infight with him, he's just that based. If an enemy attacks him he might fight back and kill that enemy but they'll never retaliate against him. Subtle mechanics that make the angry martian even scarier.

>>716249370
The archvile is buffed to the extreme, is tanky as hell, and can (and will) resurrect the whole fucking map if you let him. When you kill him, his invisible ghost follows you around and resurrects anything in a radius around you.
He also releases a shitton of demonic energy when he dies, which also resurrects random enemies.

>>716247428 (OP)
Adds to game difficulty. Has a LOS insta attack that can kill you from full health and armor in like 2 hits. Forces you to take cover. Resurrects ungibbed enemies forcing you to change your tactics when engaging in a room full of enemies and an Arch-Vile.

>>716250086
>2 hits
3.
Max damage is 90.
>ungibbed
They can resurrect those as well, because they still leave a corpse. The only corpses they can't resurrect are crushed corpses because those become paste.

>>716250556
Well shit it's been a while

>>716250556
>The only corpses they can't resurrect are crushed corpses because those become paste.
Depends on the source port. In the orginal they resurrected crushed corpses as ghost monsters, they could even resurrect pain elementals that way.
The only corpses they can't resurrect are boss monsters(spiderdemon and cyberdemon), lost souls(even when crushed) and other arch-viles.

>>716251784
Ghost monsters are clearly a bug and not intended to be in the game.

>>716247428 (OP)
I always forget this thing made it into Doom 3.

>>716251867
That is true. But some fanmade megawads did make use of it like Icarus Alien Vanguard and Hell Revealed, so some source ports still keep it in just for that.

Arch Ville, along with the Revenant, are the two most important monsters added to Doom 2. Ironically, they were the two monsters removed from Doom 64, and one of the reasons why that game sucks.
All the additions to Doom 2 were important, actually. Before Doom 2, all enemies that fired projectiles worked the same way, with projectiles aimed at the player.

Imp: aimed projectile
Caco: aimed projectile
Baron: aimed projectile
Cyber: aimed projectile

With Doom 2, the monsters added depth to the game, and takes it from something shallow (doom 1) to something complex (doom 2):

Revenant: melee, targeted projectile, guided projectile
Mancubus: projectiles that spread
Arch Ville: magic attack
Pain Elemental: projectiles are actually enemies

The Hell Knight, mini spider, and heavy weapon dude don't add anything revolutionary, but they are also important and add depth nonetheless.

>>716249587
>his invisible ghost follows you around and resurrects anything in a radius around you.
How do you avoid this?

>>716253784
>How do you avoid this?
No fucking clue. It takes some time before the ghost shit starts so you can gib enemies to slow the resurrection, try to finish the map before it starts, or just find a corner to hide in until it goes away.

>>716247428 (OP)
Being a tanky support enemy.

Doom 64 is better

>>716247428 (OP)
Being behind 5000 revemants

I just think they're neat

>>716247428 (OP)
Any enemy with potential to drain extra resources (pain elemental too) is a kill on sight for me

>>716254453
anon i.

why only rapey monsters in Doom 2 anyway?