[Danukem]

At what point does the game count an actor as an enemy for the purposes of calculating max_actors_killed?

Let's say that there is a hardcoded enemy in the map, and at map load time I change it to a different picnum, which is defined as "notenemy". Will max_actors_killed include the hardcoded enemy that got changed?



On a related note, "enemy" has some messed up behavior as compared with "notenemy" in some situations. Example: there's a corridor in E2L3, one of the skinny ones on the "thruster" part of the level. My custom enemy, and also hardcoded Commander, act like they are half-submerged when in that area. I tried a lot of stuff and I could not get them to stand normally on the floor. Finally, I changed my enemy to "notenemy" and that fixed it immediately. And no, the sector is not tagged as water or tagged at all, and I already set the bit on my actor which prevents it from being half-submerged when on water (also tried deactivating that bit too).

[TerminX]

It gets counted at spawn time.

[Danukem]

TerminX, on 15 March 2016 - 12:13 PM, said:

It gets counted at spawn time.

So if there is a respawn in the map that is never triggered, the respawn enemy is not included in max_actors_killed? (You can tell that I have never paid attention to kill stats).

[TerminX]

I think that's correct... otherwise you would have to kill the various women present throughout the game in order to get 100% kills.

[Fox]

I assume it's to avoid RESPAWN effectors that are never triggered, which could be easily misplaced in maps.

The max_actors_killed is increased for all enemy/enemystayput useractors. For hard-coded enemies there are several exceptions or other issues that result in a broken kill count at the end of the level.