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Bobby Prince said: ”For his death sound, I recorded a young girl saying 'why,' pitch shifted it down and mixed it with other sounds. The Archvile just doesn't understand why anyone would want to kill him as he sees himself as only doing good for his fellow demon."

Hey, not all Archviles are bad. The one in DOOM II MAP27 that lets you skip the whole level, opening the red door for you, is a true gentleman.

Demons dont attack Archvile beacuse if they killed him there would be no one to ressurect him. This guy is probably the most respected demon in hell

Video: “Arch-viles cannot revive other Arch-viles Me: Ironic. They could save others from death, but not themselves.

I'm just grateful that Arch-Vile's can't resurrect each other.

*Meanwhile, a swedish man is screaming in agony in the distance.*

The arch vile is actually just a misunderstood soul, he's just trying to play patty cake with doomguy but accidentally keeps frying him.. :(

"At least these suckers are rare" _[Cries in Plutonia]_

If you hear closely. You can hear the faint screams and cries of a Swedish man everytime an Archvile attacks

"At least these suckers are rare." Hell Revealed II would like to disagree.

"There's a ghostly meatball no-clipping around" Is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while.

There's an unused ability about an arch vile turning enemy giblets into lost souls.

4:54 Love the faint “yeet.”

"At least these suckers are rare" even the devs hate him

Arch-vile: *uses power on lost soul* Lost Soul: *Yeet*

Each version of the Arch-Vile brings something unique. The Doom 2 version had extreme hitscan damage output, the Doom 2016 version (Summoner) had high agility, the Doom Eternal version was a tank with a wide range of abilities, and the Doom 3 version had boxing gloves for hands.

>Opens innocent door >OOPS, All Archies.

"If you see an Arch-vile, kill it!" I'm taking notes here.

The Archvile's alerted sound and Spider Mastermind's walking noise are two sound effects that scare the shit out of me more than horror movies could.

The Arch-Vile, AKA Joel's nightmare incarnate.

Sandy Petersen had some hand in the Arch-Vile's development, together with Adrian Carmack and Bobby Prince, conceptualizing it as an evil healer with a childlike mentality, not understanding why anyone would hurt it, hence the death scream is a highly distorted *"Why?!"* The Arch-Vile fits his idea of a Lovecraftian kind of monster, and in fact was suitable for when he recreated one of his personal recurring nightmares as a part of Map 27 : Monster Condo Quoting him here: *One of my recurring, and quite specific nightmares, also one of the most terrifying, is for me to be in an old house (often my grandfather’s or father’s), or an old library, and to discover that there is a small secret room there. This secret room is always small, and triangular, tucked into a corner of the building. It has a clouded window shedding a nasty yellow light over the interior. There are occult-looking papers and parchments scattered over an old desk, and on the floor, and old books laying everywhere. An overpowering musty smell is all around.* *As I look around this strange area, I become aware of movement in the corner. I turn, and a withered, hideous undead Thing rises up - the inhabitant of the secret room. Always mummified and awful, it reaches out a blackened claw towards me. I so far have always awakened before it touched me.* *This nightmare is so specific (it starts out general, can be in any building, and then becomes more and more specific towards the end), that my fear is sometime it might come true. Logically I know this is impossible. But nightmares aren’t about logic.*

"Luckily, these suckers are rare." *Terry trap PTSD intensifies*

i wish there were more enemies like this in more games... enemies that make you shout "FUCK NO" as soon as you see them.

'At least they're rare." Plutonia Experiment: **Hellish laughing noises**

Inb4 "HERE COMES FLAME BOI"

* Tormented cries of a Swedish guy in the background *

I always love how creative and sometimes funny you are with the doom analysis video thumbnails

I don’t even play doom and that intro still activated my fight or flight response

3:52 this view makes me uncomfortable

5:22 Praise the Almighty spider deamon!!

"Atleast, they are rare" *laughs in plutonia*

I always loved Arch-vile's wake-up sound. It's so different from the usual monster roar and it still freaks me out.

1:33 Mind blown! I always thought, ever since I was a kid, that marble texture was a depiction of a mancubus 😮

1:23 this part made me smile

1:22 Arch vile spin

Decino: uploads a video about the archvile Me: *Plutonia Experiment flashbacks*

Whenever you hear their sound, you instantly go: "HERE COMES DAT BOI"

They nailed it with this monster. Also the noise he makes when wandering around, this growl... It is perfect!

0:01 vibe check

I'm really curious how the Arch-vile is going to work in Doom Eternal, I just can't imagine it working exactly the same.

"Why-hy-hy do you hate us?!"

There's something intimidating that other demons dont retaliate against archviles

"At least these suckers are rare." Plutonia Experiment: *Laughs in Arch-vile Maze*

6:02 _oorrrr_ Use an arch-vile to resurrect shotgunners and chain gunners repeatedly to create infinite ammo. I usually get the attention of these guys and get them to follow me to a key door. Kill them all, then get an arch-vile to follow you. Hop through the key door, get the Archie to resurrect all the hit scanners, do the “peek-a-boo” with the key door and listen to the carnage! You can enjoy some coffee or tea while spamming the “open-close” of the key door until the hit scanners have killed the arch-vile. Mop up the survivors and now you have a huge pile of chain guns and shotguns. Hmm... imagine a DOOM map with no ammo, and you _have_ to do this in order to survive...

Arch-Viles are perfectly fine enemies, in my opinion. They're incredibly powerful and super annoying to fight, but they're also important and have to be taken out first. It adds another level of strategy. Not their fault many map makers stuff them in their levels to increase the difficulty artificially.

The flame blinds you for a moment, obscuring incoming fireballs you need to dodge, so there is that too.

I love that Decino plays "DOOM II - A Message for the Arch-Vile'' during the intro and outro

I love the YYEEEYY lost soul part

One of the three most mechanically interesting demons in game just after the Icon of Sin. The Pain Elemental is annoying to fight but the way it functions makes it one of the cooler monsters in Doom.

4:55 ARCH-VILE: YEET!

0:18 "At least these suckers are rare" Software, ID

"I fear no man. But that THING... it scares me..." - Heavy, TF2

Chris O' Neil of OneyNG/OneyPlays is a Patron of yours? Or is that name a coincidence? Either way fantastic stuff man.

These videos are truly amazing. Thank you so much. Doom is forever one of my favourite gaming experiences and I've dabbled into all sorts of WADs and map creation but to see how it actually works is.. Truly wonderful. Thank you.

2:37 Id Software making Doom Eternal: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!!

Arch-vile is awesome. He the only enemy every doom player is STILL terrified of. Gotta give him credit for that. He does suffer from being used very poorly in many many many many slaughtermaps. But in well-designed maps Archies work wonderfully well.

Normal folks do stuff like eat broken glass, climb buildings with no safety rope, jump into waterfalls, get deliberately stung by giant wasps... but noooo, that's way too soft for Decino. He wants to deal with freakin' Arch Viles :D

1:23 this is literally the funniest thing I've seen in months. My sense humor isn't even broken, it's just gone

6:11 this image is so sweet :3

very cool 4:53 "WHEEE!" lmao that's too funny

One time i used an archie to get through the final level of a wad, since if the boss dies the level will end even if you're dead, and the boss will never retaliate. It felt good

4:55 HOIYL FUC! I'm dying from the comedy of this bit.

I'm starting to believe decino's thumbnails are a gift from God himself

4:19 "Holy mackerel" Nice to see that reference when we're talking about the pissed-off martian.

I actually never knew that that wall face was an Archvile's, let alone that he had anything resembling a face. Always saw it as parts of his face glued together with the side of his teeth barely visible.

these analysis videos are great - fun, to the point and very informative. decino, thank you for making them!

In combination with their startling sound file and speed, they always know where you are once aggroe'd, and will be next to the closest wall to you if they can't physically reach you. And you did mention how other demons wont attack them back, don't forget that means the Archvile will beat both Spider Mastermind and the Cyber Demon 1v1. The Archvile is the ultimate doom demon! Nice video :)

Can you imagine if arch-viles could resurrect other arch-viles? Pure hell!

00:31 lol the foot race is too funny

i love the fact that you used Hunted's song from the Plutonia Midi Pack for the video! Excellent work as always!

I remember reading up about what exactly a ghost monster was. Then one day, I was playing the No rest for the Living maps, and had one happen. One kf the more thrilling moments. An imp corpse got crushed by a door, left 'crushed guts' pile. Got resurrected by an archvile. Boom, ghost monster. I think a better way it was stated is the crushed remains have a height set at 1 or 2 units high. And it resets to be flagged as non solid. So the monster is resurrected as being 1 unit tall, but with regular monster sprite. Only way to kill it is with splash damage, or crushing ceiling. Great video again. Makes me want to play DooM over and over again

You make the best technical DooM explanations ever on KZfaq, highly enjoyed this one, thanks!

5:23All hail King Mastermind.

1:00 No. Anybody got that reference?

Yes, they definitely pixel edited the Arch-Vile after video recording it, same as the other monsters. That's how they get pixel-perfect eyes, dead-on gun barrels, etc. (Also how they enlarged the Spider-Demon's gun, especially obvious because they missed a few rotations so it shrinks to a ridiculous degree from the side.)

Ah, my favourite enemy! About the revive-radius, it never factors the y-position for distance? I have yet to see how they implement it in Doom Eternal, will be interesting to see.

I love Archviles. Their concept is just outstanding

I heard the Archviles were supposed to be something like demon medics at first, its deathscream being a warped "Why?" because it's like why are you murdering a doctor? I wonder if an archvile variant could be coded that doesn't use a flame attack but is capable of directly seeking out enemy corpses instead of finding them by accident, making it dangerous because it's really good at resurrecting.

I was almost afraid in Ultimate Doom when i saw the archvile door before i knew what it was

TL;DW: "See an archvile? Kill it" There, saved you 6 minutes... unless you want decino's soothing voice

With the Archvile being one of my favorite enemies in Doom. When I saw this in my notifications, I smiled to my ears. Thanks decino! Edit: “At least these suckers are rare.” *Laughs in Plutonia*

I so do not regret subscribing to your channel. I've been playing DooM for over twenty years now and I still learn something with every video you put out. I thought I knew it all and every time I learn something new, it's pleasantly mind blowing and simultaneously humbling. Keep 'em coming, man! You continue to expand our knowledge and knowledge is the best weapon you can lend to your fellow marines! :P

Dude I loved the speed comparison and health comparison chart and just everything keep this coming my guy

This is mesmerizing, I've been mapping and playing doom since I can remember but you make me realise that there are still things to be learnt.

It's amazing how little I know about Doom sometimes despite having played the games over and over since I was 4 years old, playing the game for over two decades at this point. Arch-Viles are assholes but I wouldn't have them any other way.

"a ghostly meatball noclipping around" lollll

"...At least these suckers are rare." Plutonia: Allow me to introduce myself.

Ah, Joel’s favorite enemy.

You should mention this to Joel from vinesauce, his “favorite” monster

0:16 Plutonia map designers "And I took that personally"

You make chill videos bro, I love watching them.

4:20 HOLY MACKERAL i see you are a fan of PRO DOOM STRATS too, Decino

*[Sweet Little Dead Bunny intensifies]*

Your videos are so interesting, because you analyse all the possibilities of the topic, for example the case of the pain elemental

I still like to think that Doomguy managed to trick one of these guys into resurrecting Daisy. Archviles have their uses.

Huh, i always figured those faces on the walls were chaingunner/heavy weapon dude faces

I felt my heart rate double when I heard the music from Sunder map05 and Plutonia 2 map11...two maps I'd rather forget.

What would happen if an arch-vile infought with another demon then resurrected its corpse? Would it fight again or stop?

"Let's see how Archie resurrects dead stuff" sounds like it would be a Riverdale quote.