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Cacodemon

  • Health: 200
    Attack Damage: 20 from bite, 12 from fireball, and up to 5 from fireball splash damage
    First Seen: Communications Transfer

    These flying freaks only vaguely resemble the infamous "red-head" cacodemons from the original DOOM. However, they work much the same. They're tough, they're fairly slow, they spit big fireballs at you, and you can "push" them around with weapons fire. One new thing is the fact that you can destroy their fireballs by shooting them before they reach you. Also, the fireballs now do splash damage, whereas they didn't in the older games.

    One cool strategy you could use if you're only fighting one cacodemon at a time is to get directly underneath it and fire up at it. This "pushes" the thing straight up, and it's harder for it to get a bead on you to fireball you. Failing that, always aim directly at the center of their mouths in order to guarantee that you'll disrupt their fireballs as they fire them. I find that the machine gun usually works best for this.