I noticed the beam zombie has a low rating of ~2 stars. Is there anything I can do to improve it? What issues is anyoe having with it, as far as I can tell it is fine? Perhaps it causes too much damage?

Huh, I thought it deserved a lot higher than that. The specific reason is probably because the beam trail doesn't appear in Skulltag (Skulltag problem, not the monster's). I'll add a note in the description for that. (Edit: Just wrote the description and added that note)

If you want more detailed feedback, I'd make it do less damage, and add a power-up sound to the gun, as more of a warning. I like your attitude, by the way. "What's wrong with this so I can improve it" isn't something I hear often.

Uh, people look at the star ratings?

This isn't /idgames so I don't see why not.

I do think the beam does a bit too much damage, especially considering how good his aim is once he's "locked in" (though if you get out of his line-of-sight before that, you don't tend to take much damage). Perhaps you could have it fire non-damaging "dummy" beam projectiles every couple tics to give the appearance of a continuous beam, but with lower damage. (Sorta like the Cacolich's gas attack, if I remember correctly.) I'm not sure if he needs a "charge" sound pre-attack or not, but perhaps extending the duration of his "aiming" frame about 20 tics or so before he shoots could give the player fair warning.

I do like the "sweeping" effect of the beam, though, and the way the beam projectile is scripted is quite clever...I could learn a couple useful tricks from it.

Also, is there a good way to introduce a little bit of aiming variation or "lag" into his "locked on" stream? As it is, once he locks on, it's real hard to shake the beam. I originally thought that maybe he was calling A_FaceTarget too often, but reducing the frequency of this doesn't seem to consistently help too much.

Don't double-post like that. Edit your previous post.

Whoops, sorry. I condensed my thoughts into the original first post, but I don't seem to have the option to delete the double-post anymore--sorry about that.