Barrels

**Barrels** are environment objects and part of various dangerous elements found in **Doom** franchise. The Barrels in Doom RLA have received upgrades in both variety and lethality, mostly corresponding to the new elemental effects introduces by the mod. But like the original, they can often be used to the player's advantage depending on their position.

Barrels feature in Doom RLA can be changed in Doom RLA options > Arsenal > Gameplay > Barrel options.

* DRLA Barrels : Default setting, allows all type of barrels to spawn.
* Vanilla Barrels : Explosive barrels only.
* Going Nuclear : Increase spawn chance of Nuclear Barrels.
* Fine no Nuclear Barrel : All DRLA barrels except Nuclear barrels.

## Barrel Types

### Explosive Barrels

   Identical to the classic barrels in terms of functions but with a new look.

### Napalm Barrels

   Barrels of liquid napalm can be easily identified by the red body with yellow warning sign. These barrels will explode when shot as usual, but will blanket the surrounding area with a long-lasting sea of flames. They deal damage at a faster rate than the toxic bile from the nukage barrels and are considered more dangerous. The flame carpet is obviously of fire element and can be resisted by the corresponding resistance. Few enemies can survive walking over these due to most of them has no fire resistance.

As always, the Demolitionist is immune to both the fire and the explosion.

### Nukage Barrels

   The classic look of the barrel with green glowing sludge spilling on top has been reworked into nukage barrels. Instead of simply explode when damaged, the nukage barrels will release a carpet of corrosive bile on the floor while sending multiple globs of damaging toxin flying away from the center of the explosion. This toxic bile will also constantly hurt any enemies that walk over them, even though they're immune to the damaging floor because the toxic bile is actually counted as AOE damage.

Due to this, The Demolitionist is immune to both the explosion and the toxin.

### Tech Barrels

    Obviously representing plasma element. These high-tech looking barrels might have been used by the UAC as a fuel cell container, but for players, they're nothing but a fragile and unstable plasma bomb waiting to be detonated. When exploded, the tech barrels will release a bright flash akin to the explosion of the BFG 9000, blowing everything nearby up. The potency is not nearly the same as some burly enemies such as Hell Barons can be left standing, partly due to many high-tier enemies have high resistance to plasma or some even immune to it.

### Nuclear Barrels

    The MOST dangerous of all barrels. One or more nuclear barrel can randomly replace any barrels in the map and should be treated as a puzzle of utmost importance that must be solved before moving on.

There are a few ways to safely disposed of the nuclear barrel if encountered indoor, such as using weapons with slow projectile then rush back out of the room as far as possible, or using a grenade launcher to bounce a bomb around the corner, so there are walls between the player and the barrel to detonate it. Leaving the barrel around is not recommended especially in high danger level as the game will constantly spawns Shadow Imps or the Hungry which will roams around and force the player to engage should they backtrack and runs the risk of unintentionally shot the barrel.

* According to Yholl, the creator of Doom RLA regarding its functions:

*"It does a blast of 2000 damage in a 2048 unit radius. If you're within 1024 of it, it'll kill you, even through walls. If you're Demolitionist, it'll kill you if you're within 320 units of it, but not through walls"*