Today, I went through and took a close look at THZ1/2 and DSZ2 to see which crushers I could afford to replace with other thematic environmental hazards without making the levels be less PAINful.
All I could really find that I could do, however, is to possibly do put a wave of spiked rising floors that don't reach the ceiling at the start of DSZ2 with a flat row of spikes in front it to prevent the player from running headfirst into, it, which might create a delay long enough for the player to have to put up with 2 rows of glaregoyles with varied heights and delays bouncing on yellow springballs before the first waterslide in DSZ2, but I expect that it won't really end up being an effective environmental hazard, which I'll see about tomorrow. EDIT: I opted to do something else instead
Well, except I could replace some crushers in THZ1/2 with cheap electric floors with a pterabyte flying over them, but that's even cheaper than crushers, so I won't be adding anymore of those.
Speaking of which, Turrets have a disappointingly-short range and clash with bees, not just by killing them, but by serving the same purpose as bees do.
Also, tomorrow, since I could find so few things to do to replace crushers with new environmental hazards, I've decided to at least turn alot of THZ & DSZ's crushers into waves of crushers or other varied kinds of vertical crushers to at least make them more interesting. I would use polyobjects that move horizontally instead, but the ones I had in THZ1/2 were invisible in software mode, so I had to replace those with vertical crushers.
I've also thought about adding Rock Spawners to DSZ1/2 to replace some crushers(EDIT: I decided not to do that), and about replacing some of ACZ1/2's rock spawners with haphazard diagonal springs that lead to death pits; expect these things to be in v2.0.3.
And if you haven't done it, I encourage readers to read the spoilers in the overview about my usage of PAIN's environmental hazards.
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