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Lokarin posted...

Currently doing a Priest run on the default difficulty (the middle one).

Hexen also did something smart with the difficulty settings; on higher difficulties weapons are placed in different places, and unlike doom - monster that respawn don't always respawn as themselves, they can respawn as a basic Ettin instead.

I missed a few secrets already 'cuz I forgot you can jump in Hexen.

I think Doom supports weapons appearing in different places based on difficulty but it might not be as obviously done in the maps.

The respawn thing is different though:
Raven (the developer) added scripting to the game. So the respawning enemies tend to be a script popping in enemies in specific locations. They usually, but not always, check how many are up before doing so. I'm not sure if the highest level difficulty in Hexen also does the respawn thing, but the scripting factor is a huge change.