I've been having fun with this every single time I have booted it up since launch day.
Can we have a general discussion without shitposts?
Doom thread #251673
Liam Rodriguez
William Jackson
I wasn't sure on it at first but once you get all the kit, fuck me is it fun. Nightmare isn't too hard overall, just punishing, gotta use everything effectively. I'm half way through so hopefully it keeps ramping up.
Colton Thompson
Who is this guy? what role did he have in the lore? I've been too lazy to read up on it.
Charles Wright
I’m addicted to Battlemode. Destroying demoncucks as slayer while they all scramble to run away and hide never gets old.
Also camping on a high perch with a Revenant and spamming missiles at the slayer while the other demon distracts him is super fun.
Mason Reed
tldr Sentinel that got tempted by demons and in a result got his party wiped, so he exiled himself
Jack Nguyen
He was a Sentinel who helped the priests betray the Sentinel Insurgency (the group of Sentinels loyal to the Wraiths and not the Maykrs) in order to try to save his son’s soul from hell but instead he doomed him into becoming the Icon of Sin, which is why he gives you the blade to strike at his son’s heart.
Jason Thomas
I think this is my least favorite cutscene in the game. Felt like I was suddenly playing Gears of War.
Jordan Anderson
I'm 99% sure that adding the cutscenes in was a Bethesda decision. The vast majority of them were utterly pointless "look at this stuff happening" scenes that we wouldn't have missed either way.
Ayden Williams
For what it's worth - they are completely skippable, so that's a good compromise IMO. Even 2016 stumbled a bit when they forced you into Half-Life-style exposition fest time and again that you had to go through every time.
Liam Powell
I like infinite ammo and party mode
Carter Stewart
Yeah, in infinite ammo mode microwave leash suddenly becomes useful.
Jack Watson
The only reason why I dislike infinite ammo is because I stop using every other weapon except turret chaingun and destroyer blade ballista
Cooper Gomez
I am just running around with a Crucible/Unmaykr murdering shit. It's cute.
Ian Myers
Skelly is the most fun
Jose Parker
i can't even find a battlemode match most hours of the day
Noah Torres
Just beat it. I found myself switching difficulties between Ultra-Violence and Nightmare. UV was sometimes too easy but some arenas on Nightmare would be frustrating. Kind of wish UV was a little bit harder or there was another level between the two.
Overall the game was amazing though. So intense and fast, the slayer gates especially were so much fun. A lot of the tone/story/visuals were not as good as 2016 but Doom Eternal has waaayyy better gameplay. I hope it inspires more games to go for this style of shooter.
It feels kind of unique amongst single player games to me. Its almost like a singleplayer version of Quake 3 (or Diabotical :)).
Jackson Davis
I decided to run Ultra-Violence for the first time to get a feel of the mechanics and avoid being frustrated with repeated deaths in a single battle, but after that I immediately started a Nightmare playthrough.
I made the right choice.
Benjamin Reyes
He is Max, Max Res Default
Dominic Smith
What’s the best Demon for Battlemode and why is it Marauder
Christian Brooks
>Slayer Gate 4
>Marauder spawns
>running about trying to clear the arena to take care of him, trying to stagger him if I get the chance
>decide to BFG everyone
>it hits him too because he was trying to axe me
Isaac Thomas
I feel like the latest localization update for matchmaking made it harder to find lobbies because now they’re based off your location. I’d much rather have the ability to play with anyone around the world with the downside of having some lag than having to play with only the people in my area. Hopefully they’ll find a nice balance for their matchmaking in the next update.
Chase Long
localization just means people in your area take priority but it doesn’t mean it’s not possible to play with someone across the globe
Adam Cox
Did they buff the Slayer? I only played a couple matches at release and when I tried battlemode today every round the demons lost.
Ryder Reed
No they haven’t changed any stats for any player side. There is a pretty good meta for the slayer right now which is SSG/Arblest combo and using your chainsaw a lot, and any competent Slayer can dominate any game. However I’ve played recently and have lost as Slayer and have won as Demons as well. It all depends on the players you play against.
Luis Rogers
>meta is SSG/Arblest combo and using your chainsaw a lot,
Well that explains why literally every single person I played against used that combo so that's useful to know.
What's the meta for demons then, assuming there is one? Is there an objective ranking system from best to worst?
Adrian Lee
>buddy plays Mancubus
>I play Archvile
>Slayer comes zipping into our corner of the map
>my buddy deploys smoke
>I deploy flame wall and trap slayer into a corner while he’s surrounded in smoke
>use fire lake
>two hellknights swarm in on him
>can’t see anything past the smoke except SLAYER KILLED
Jackson Wilson
Did it kill him in one go or what?
Camden Anderson
They all have their pros and cons and it’s also dependent on what the other teammate chooses since you want to complement them. Right now I’m having luck with Revenant+Marauder combo. Also I think the rocket launcher is a lot stronger in Battlemode than in single player. That one is also good for clearing out the room and pushing demons back.
Nathan Flores
I had clipped him once or twice before with the SSG, but it seemed to just fucking delete him, I was dashing about trying to find him afterwards, not a sign.
Chase Long
Do we know anything about the dlc?
Chase Gray
I really hope they add a horde mode via the Slayer Chambers
The Slayer Chambers were the best part of the whole game.
Aaron Young
they should have had arcade mode on release
fuck
Oliver Hughes
Am I the only one who thought the last slayer gate was the easiest one? The second gate throws two Tyrants at you right off the bat and now you have one tyrant and an archvile, in different waves. The marauder gate gave me the most trouble
Also do I suck or is the Marauder just not fun to fight? I beat the game on ultraviolence and every time I had to deal with him I just groaned
Dylan Bennett
I want to fuck that coon
Jonathan Scott
That’s Valen.
Connor Kelly
All we know is it will involve “different perspectives of the hell invasion”
Nolan Williams
>dependent on what the other teammate chooses
I assume the best combinations aren't figured out yet? I'm playing in europe so there is the traditional complete and utter lack of communication between players and my IQ is too low to figure out a good strategy by myself.
Robert Russell
Played around 4 hours of it. I don't get why it's considered to be amazing. It's good, yes, but it's also repetitive as fuck and the story is just filler. The level design is linear, taking you from uninspired arena to another. Most of the time I don't know what the fuck is going on, as I keep shooting while being barraged with multi-colored visual FX. It doesn't help that the enemies literally blend with the background, or with other enemy models. It gives me epilepsy.
John Thompson
I think there’s lots of good combos and each demon has a lot of neat tricks up their sleeves. And honestly I don’t even use a mic and still get some good cohesion with teammates. It’s all about game sense. And maybe shaking your mouse up and down to signal the other player did good lol
Noah Flores
Unimportant character meant to take the player to a new location #3.
Jose Evans
Nah I'm the same.
By the end when I had to go into the ""duel"" with him yet a fucking gain I just stood still with the ballista charged up and waited for him to stop dancing and actually let me do some damage since I had so many extra lives to spare but couldn't be bothered to actually deal with him.
Xavier Turner
what is this?
William White
the best combination is pain elemental + pain elemental, every other demon is easy as shit for me to kill
Andrew Perry
in 2016 people were retards and thought Doom Slayer was the Betrayer mentioned in the lore so they forced in a cutscene of the two interacting early in the game to underline that they are not the same
Alexander Scott
Kublai Makyr
Chase Barnes
we know that it stars doomguy
Gavin Turner
Either the last Khan Maykr or the new one that was supposed to replace the current one (until Father disappeared).
The real question is: what’s with those human bodies floating in those blue tanks in the hallway before that area? Are those humans that are being engineered or what? It’s the only place you find them.
Xavier Mitchell
Underrated post.
Josiah Diaz
no you are the demons
William Foster
I'm grinding out the Altar of Glory, so here's my two cents on each demon:
Archvile - Slippery bastard, teleport behind the slayer in a chokepoint to lock him in and burn him, stall out with the flamewall until you see your chance to do this. I like to get Buff Minions and Broiling Heat since nothing you do can compensate for his poor direct damage.
Mancubus - save your haste buff for when you can actually chase and unload your flamethrowers, smoke bombs are good for masking your movement while you get into position. Quick Smoke gives you a nice mini-haste and Tactician will allow you to use your haste buff more often and heal more when necessary.
Marauder - Similar to the Mancubus, but naturally fast with an armor buff to save for direct combat instead, but without a smoke bomb you need to pay more attention to the silhouette to avoid being seen while approaching. Stack Best Friend's armor buff with the one on your summon wheel and you'll drop a Ballista shot's damage to 150.
Pain Elemental - Always have your shield up and facing the slayer as long as you are visible, make sure to fire it at him just before it expires and then get back behind cover quick for a few seconds while it recharges, aim your lost souls well for consistent chip damage. Fit Meatball will give you more frequent dashes to buy time for your shield to recharge.
Revenant - Maximum Glass Cannon, his damage is insane if you manage to hit your rockets directly, and the barrage will melt the slayer very quickly if you manage to get close after he's exhausted his dashes or is otherwise locked in. Get the acrobat upgrade for two dashes and a little vertical flight with no penalty.
Overall, solo queuing as a demon isn't recommended, since the only balanced games I've had have been good slayers versus a stack of voice-chatting demons, but this should help you if you still find yourself getting overrun by slayers who just mindlessly rush you with SSG-Ballista.
David Cruz
The Marauder just feels very limiting, if he had more options to stagger or harm him, and had more ways to attack and interact with you, I think he'd be a lot more fun.
Joshua Gray
The Plasma Rifle is underrated in Battlemode. It’s great because of its DPS and also because it adds a shitload of particle effects on the demon player when it hits them and when you keep unloading on them it can totally disorient them.
William Cox
You can have a general discussion on /vg/, mr marketer
Nicholas Nelson
It makes sense, but I'm sad they took out the abilities where you had infinite ammo above 75 armor and could get armor from glory kills. Those upgrades along with bottomless clip micro missiles shredded through everything
Thomas Walker
I try to avoid projectile weapons with how shit the netcode is. Marauder players specifically are just constantly jittering around.
Lucas Thompson
imo every weapon that isn't the rocket launcher is overrated, two lockon bursts deletes a demon
Kevin Evans
hey bro
Evan Rodriguez
Sounds like you had some bad experience, I don’t have any problems with it.
I have seen people tell “LAG” in the game when there was barely any as well. I think most of the time it’s just an excuse for sucking.
Aiden Bennett
Same, this was my thought exactly after completing the first few gates: why can't I do this in survival mode?
Also, does anyone else feel like those maps could have much more playtime squeezed out of them? There was clearly a huge amount of work put into the environments, and most of them just fly by so fast.
I have hundreds of hours of playtime in horde shooters like Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead 2 or Payday 2, and those games have designs nowhere near as awesome as Eternal. I could spend literally thousands of hours in similar modes in this game, especially in co-op.
Also this
Daniel Kelly
You can now get infinite ammo through the cheat and also you get free armour through flame belcher/flaming grapple hook.
Jose Flores
I can load up a game and capture some footage if you want. I don't know what it is about the Marauder, but they're just constantly teleporting small distances instead of smoothly walking. It makes hitting them obnoxious.
Leo Lee
No.
As I explained in a previous thread, in the OG Doom there is an imagination factor, and you behave on your own accord. You go where you want, do what you want and this results in some “I’m so badass look at me” moments and genuine enjoyment.
In Eternal, it’s all on rails. Fucking Singilarity had less linear map design than that game. You simply die and die and die until you memorize the enemy layout and attacks, and then you proceed to wipe the floor with them, which grants some fleeting and artificial satisfaction that is quickly forgotten when you realize your brain basically did the same calculations as if you were playing a shmup. None of that was you, it was just muscle memory. NuDoom has no way to express yourself through combat, and no imagination factor due to everything being portrayed in hyper-precise, gory detail.
To explain the imagination factor I am referring to, in Old Doom, when I shoot a zombie, I can see in my head the things the bullets are doing to his innards. I can imagine him being laid out against a wall by a shotgun blast, his jaw dangling down. I can visualize when I punch something their jaw breaking, their nose bleeding. In Eternal, there is no room for this due to all of your mental cinema being replaced with cutscenes.
Nu-fun is real.
Nolan Clark
Adam Adams
Go whine elsewhere you dumb loser
Landon Powell
It is very good
Playing on nightmare, just fought the first marauder. I'm getting better at using the full kit, still choking some but it's scaling well with the difficulty
Landon Hall
It's funny how it took DOOM, the ultimate boomer game, to weed out all th faggots and casual zoomers that swarm this Mongolian Basket-weaving forum. The amount of seething it has generated in the mere week that's been out has been as glorious to watch, as it has been pathetic looking in.
Genuinely, unironically, legitimately, you're a fucking scrub if you got filtered by Doom Eternal of all games.
Angel Collins
>Doom Eternal
>Boomer game
Let me list for you the reasons why this is untrue:
>Flashy fortnigger color palate
>Levels so linear it’s like they copy-pasted a CoD game
>Weapons lack any sort of punch
>Pigeonholed into a single play style with no room for improvisation
>Enemies are either not a threat at all, or two-shot you with no in between
>Cartoony cheesy over-the-top story obviously directed at tweens
>Hub world
>Levels have god awful piss ugly backgrounds
>Levels are just hallway-arena hallway-arena with zero variation throughout
>Levels have a bunch of useless shit like platforming sections and platforming sections and monkey bars and a bunch of other playground shit that would be fresh in the mind of any faggot zoomer
>Did I mention the level design?
Cooper James
BEGIN!
Carson Rodriguez
ROUND 2: FIGHT!
Jonathan Clark
You haven’t even played the game you retard you’re just spewing shit you heard on Yas Forums.
Austin Gonzalez
ROUND 3: FIGHT!
Andrew Campbell
Looks like the seething autists are here to spam the thread again.
Alexander Garcia
ROUND 4: FIGHT!
Sebastian Morris
Oh come on, OP specifically asked for no shitposts, can't we have any nice threads?
If you hate the game so much, at least say it in your own words instead of just shitposting with a pasta.
Carson Lee
ROUND 5: FIGHT!
I am one person.
Tyler Carter
ROUND 6: FIGHT!
Thomas Phillips
ROUND 7: FIGHT!
Noah Rogers
ROUND 8: FIGHT!
Angel Hernandez
>People are already extracting Whiplash and Khan Maykr models
>They come with a pre-rigged tongue
Oh boy, SFM soon
Isaac Scott
Metacritic autist has been doing this for almost a week.
Noah Harris
ROUND 9: FIGHT!
Brayden Rivera
Logan Cooper
ROUND 10: FIGHT!
Charles Ward
>Arachnotron skull is INSIDE the brain
Andrew Sullivan
Those are ribs.
Connor Jones
>Doom was about story
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ethan Jones
ROUND 11: FIGHT!
Brandon Cooper
think of the porn that can be created
Owen Peterson
he seen some shit
Ian Walker
Luis Baker
Mods should hurry up and rangeban this retard
Ryan Stewart
The survival mode would be basic but:
You can conjure a "training" area on the Fortress of Doom post-game. Samuel Hayden thinks you still need to stay in your prime and opens up a new section of the ship.
You have all of the Slayer Gates as map choices but the demons change on each playthrough. Consistently however, every 5 minutes they get progressively stronger. BFG ammo spawns in a predetermined spot every 5 minutes as well OR can only be achieved by killing a certain demon within a time limit. Keep it endless because thats the fun part and if you want to make it lore safe, have Samuel "pull you out" when you take a killing blow.
Josiah Phillips
ROUND 12: FIGHT!
Grayson Johnson
The eyes and hair are weird, but this is good.
Asher Roberts
ROUND 13: FIGHT!
Caleb Rogers
I couldn't get battlemode matches to start and I figured it was because I was using the denuvoless .exe so I switched it out with the denuvo one then opened the Bethesda launcher to see if anything needed updating. But something went wrong with an update it tried to install and now neither the denuvo or denuvoless .exe will start, I can't just reinstall the game to fix it because I am staying with my parents who have a shitty data cap. I was up to the final level and was really looking forward to discussing the ending with Yas Forums but now by the time I get to finish it discussion will have dried up. And on top of that that data cap also means I will be starting bannerlord a few days later than everybody else.
Maybe if I try letting that update download fully again since I sort of closed the program halfway through it trying to download a second time, I'm sure with enough trial and error I could figure it out but I would probably have to mess around with downloading that update a bunch of times and the data use would add up
Carter Mitchell
ROUND 14: FIGHT!
Jacob Edwards
Serves you right for being a piratefag
Jayden Flores
>Ribs are inside the arachnotron's brain