Ethereal arrows
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In Heretic, ethereal arrows are the arrows fired by the ethereal crossbow. Normal shots fire one main bolt in the middle of two peripheral bolts; only the main bolt is capable of hitting ghost monsters. When powered up with the Tome of Power, two more main bolts are added. When picked up from an undead warrior or found lying on the floor, they provide 5 arrows (7 on skill levels 1 and 5). When picked up from a dead weredragon, they provide 10 arrows (15 on skill levels 1 and 5).
Data[edit]
| Ethereal arrows data | |
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| Thing type | 18 (decimal), 12 (hex) |
| Enum | MT_AMCBOWWIMPY (150) |
| Appears in | Shareware Heretic Heretic/SSR expansion |
| Radius | 20 |
| Height | 16 |
| Sprite | AMC1 |
| Frames | 1 [A] |
| Class | Ammo Pickup |
| Flags | 1 (decimal) 00000001 (hex) |
| Flags list | 0: Can be picked up |
| Flags2 | 0 (decimal) 00000000 (hex) |
Heretic + Hexen changes[edit]
In Heretic + Hexen re-release when using the "Enhanced Weapons" modifier the following changes (defined in the EX_IAMMO lump) are applied to the ethereal arrows:
- when picked up from a fixed spawn point they grant 3 charges instead of 5 (4 instead of 7 on skill levels 1 and 5);
- arrows dropped by an undead warrior grant 2 charges instead of 5 (3 instead of 7 on skill levels 1 and 5);
- arrows dropped by a weredragon grant 3 charges instead of 10 (4 instead of 15 on skill levels 1 and 5).
Appearance statistics[edit]
In the IWADs the set of ethereal arrows is first encountered on these maps per skill level:
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The IWADs contain the following numbers of sets of ethereal arrows per skill level:
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