Honestly I didn't use the chainsaw for bigger enemies until the final boss where it's replenished all the time.
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DOOM Eternal |OT| Hells Bells
- Thread starter AgentStrange
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As someone who played the original doom games for the first time ever last year, the way I see it is, doom 2016 is what people remember doom being like, and eternal is what doom was actually like.
There's value to both approaches, but I definitely prefer the insanity.
There's value to both approaches, but I definitely prefer the insanity.
For the first time in my life I submitted a bug report for a game.
My assault rifle is still permanently bugged. Can't use the scope mod anymore (instead of zooming, the green lights from the other mod appear and hover in thin air).
Doom Eternal is the buggiest piece of software I have experienced in years.
My assault rifle is still permanently bugged. Can't use the scope mod anymore (instead of zooming, the green lights from the other mod appear and hover in thin air).
Doom Eternal is the buggiest piece of software I have experienced in years.
I agree. There are a lot of them, and they get in the way of repeat playthroughs.
I'm watching a streamer play, and he's skipping those "pick up a battery" animations in the second level. The chat says that he's doing it by switching weapons right before he picks up a battery, but I don't know the details.
I got:
1 to 4 is standard. 5 BFG, double shotty on ctrl, q for ballista, x for chaingun, lshift for chainsaw
very comfortable and marauders are very easy
I almost quit the game there. An absolutely piss poor encounter. I am so disappointed in this game thus far.
This is it 100%. They exaggerated all of the wrong parts.
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Finished the game on UV difficulty, never used the chanisaw for anything else than the fodder enemies.. does it work on the bigger guys too?
I just cheap killed them. I put a grenade in one of their mouths and dropped down below to the platform with the lift flame. Turns out, this confuses their AI or they have really slow descent speed. Either way, I blasted both before they made it halfway down.
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No standard bindings beyond the default, but I think most people will agree that leaving anything on the numbers past 5 is a bad idea. I get along well enough with this setup:
1 - Combat Shotgun
2 - Super Shotgun
3 - Heavy Cannon
4 - Chaingun
5 - Plasma Rifle
Z - Ballista
X - Rocket Launcher
C - Crucible
Q - Last weapon
E - Glory Kill
F - Chainsaw
R - Swap mods
G - BFG9000/Unmakyr
Mwheel up/down - Flame Belch
Mouse4 - Grenade
Mouse5 - Swap grenades
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I was on board with it almost from the jump. It was in "Best FPS ever" territory around the time I got the rocket launcher in the Cultist Base and then it went on to spend 10 hours re-affirming that sentiment.
Oh, so on Ultra-Nightmare, there's no 1up available, it's really just one life for the whole campaign...
I'm definitely not doing this haha. I thought if you die, you would just redo the level you're on from the beginning, but no, you're restarting the whole campaign.
I'm not patience enough, and it's not fun enough to me, to endure this. I die at the third level on a small mistake, and that were I discovered how difficult it would be.
So, huge, HUGE respect for all the people I'll see with the Gold Slayer skin, you really deserve the respect from all the DOOM Community.
I'm definitely not doing this haha. I thought if you die, you would just redo the level you're on from the beginning, but no, you're restarting the whole campaign.
I'm not patience enough, and it's not fun enough to me, to endure this. I die at the third level on a small mistake, and that were I discovered how difficult it would be.
So, huge, HUGE respect for all the people I'll see with the Gold Slayer skin, you really deserve the respect from all the DOOM Community.
If the boss fights were removed I would attempt it
I have absolutely no faith I can pull gladiator, maykr and icon in one try.
1 - 5: Default inputs.
Z - Zuper Zhotgun
` (Tilde) - BFG/Unmakyr. Gotta use keyboard macro software to rebind the Tilde to literally anything else, but now I'm not pulling up the console anymore so yay.
X/Mouse 4 - Mod E(x)change
Q - Last weapon
Tab - Equipment Switch
LCTRL/ALT - Equipment Launcher
R - Chainsaw (R)eload
C -(C)haingun
Everything else is defaults.
Buying DMC2 first day burned me on the franchise forever, whats a Nero. 😆
3 levels in starting to get in the groove. But can't stop laughing my ass off thinking devs at ID thought story-wise this was some hot shit considering how serious the game takes itself. Like who in the fuck cares about any of the things I am doing so far.
Wouldn't be surprised if bethesda asked them to go heavier on the story.
Mouse Wheel Up - Shotgun
Mouse Wheel Down - Heavy Cannon
Q - Chainsaw
E - Super-Shotgun
F - Rocket Launcher
R - Plasma Rifle
2 - Chaingun
3 - BFG
C - Balista
V - Crucible
Mouse 3 - Grenade
Mouse 5 - Melee/Power Punch/Glory Kill
Mouse 6 - Swap Mod
Mouse 7 - Swap grenade type
LShift - Flame Belch
Or the devs took the wrong lessons from the previous games. No one cared about the story in Doom 2016 not because there wasn't much to go on but because no one cares about a Doom story at all.
Seems like a baseless assumption really, given that there isn't really much more here. Just seems like Hugo and co wanted to go full ridiculous and they did.
People cared about the story in 2016
For what lore was introduced in 2016 I was interested in learning more and Eternal gave me that. It's way more interesting than your typical kill demons nonstop kinda game.
Not so much the content of the story but the way it's presented. Some of those cutscenes are just jarring.
first showing of the game they litteraly spend 5 minutes teasing story and lore bits on enemies, locations, and said ' we're building a doom universe, we're huge lore nerds "
I'm feeling rough due to colitis and have no energy. All I wanna do is play this game but every time I load it up I just cannot face the pressure, lol.
The rush you get when it clicks is addictive, stop letting me down body you're gonna get something good from this I promise!
The rush you get when it clicks is addictive, stop letting me down body you're gonna get something good from this I promise!
I actually enjoy reading codexes but actual story moments, especially the cutscenes feel way too serious.
Just hold the R button. Skips literally everything that takes your control away except doors opening and elevators...
I love Doom and I really like this game,but those last two levels are some other shit. The bosses OMG those bosses. I was begging the game to please just let me fight the boss and cut out all this environmental bullshit and heavy demon spawns. Cool near unlimited crucible! But constantly having to clean up before you can attack the boss or risk death got old fast. Also having the player look up ,but also making the ground dangerous is a bad combination. I don't remember the mastermind being frustrating in 2016. The bosses are the only weak points in this campaign.
100% agree. Finished the game last night and those last 2 levels were a real pain in the ass. Overall I enjoyed the game but there were a lot of times, I felt like the game was just throwing bullshit at me just do it. It was less "challenging" and more tedious to me.
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You can fast travel at the end of a mission to do that instead
Yep im gonna agree they were the weakpoint. Thankfully I had some extra lives. My biggest gripe with them was when they would use their AOD attacks and make the entire floor untouchable. That shit would take away all my armor and health before I could do anything. They also would hurt me when I was dashing through the air which I thought was unfair.
I did beat them both without running out of extra lives (ultra violence), so I never had to wipe And start over from a checkpoint. But they were really the worst part. But I didn't like the bosses in 2016 either. They just aren't adequate test of the game's designs and more of a story beat with gameplay elements (new and old).
Oh, thanks.. going to try it now that I finished the campaign, in some levels together with activated cheats :)
The story is silly but it's fun. Everybody's taking everything sooo seriously except for the doom slayer. Seems like a lot of people are missing that. It's very serious to these aliens because their lives are at stake and stuff, but the slayer ignores them because everything they're saying is dumb to him and he clearly only takes in information relevant to his mission. People are constantly telling him what he can and can't do and he refuses to listen. It's great b movie stuff. And if you hate it that much just skip it all.
Ugh that's what I thought, but there have been a couple times where I've accidentally ended a level before remembering to use the fast travel and go back to explore.
So far I've been making sure to 100% each level as I've gone through on UV including all the slayer gates but I've just got to the challenge shortly afterwards
with the Marauder and a 30 second time limit. How is that possible without BFG ammo, especially when I needed to use my last on the previous slayer gate.
Any advice on this one to stop me having to replay the level or do I need to return with BFG ammo?
Any advice on this one to stop me having to replay the level or do I need to return with BFG ammo?
stun him with the double shotty, swap to ballista and shoot, swap to double shotty and shoot
repeat
Almost finished the game on UV. Thoughts:
+ Gamefeel is *awesome*
+ Arena design is lovely - great verticality, all kinds of nooks and crannies
+ Varied locations - feels just as much as a 90s arena shooter as the gameplay
+ Lots of cool and interesting demons.
+ Sound design and music are *perfect*. That Metal Choir has paid off, and the weapon sounds are nice and cruncy.
- Writing is... not good. I admire
's voice actor. Even though the writers give him three of the exact same lines in the span of 5 minutes ("we have to hurry") he has so much gravitas. Too bad his lines are ugh.
- The tongue-in-cheek tone of Doom 2016 is completely gone. Eternal takes itself VERY seriously and feels much more like a drag in comparison. I've even started skipping cutscenes toward the end.
- Some sequences are just pretty looking hallways - all you can do is wander around and enjoy the scenery. (Like the
- barely anything happens before then end).
- Too many boss fights. I'm doing
now and I'm through with all these bosses that don't play to the game's strengths.
- Yes, the Marauder is annoying. There's hardly any improvisation room. Wish I could call up the console and just remove him xD .
All in all: a great improvement in the core gameplay and environments. Some questionable decisions outside of those fields.
+ Gamefeel is *awesome*
+ Arena design is lovely - great verticality, all kinds of nooks and crannies
+ Varied locations - feels just as much as a 90s arena shooter as the gameplay
+ Lots of cool and interesting demons.
+ Sound design and music are *perfect*. That Metal Choir has paid off, and the weapon sounds are nice and cruncy.
- Writing is... not good. I admire
Samuel Hayden
- The tongue-in-cheek tone of Doom 2016 is completely gone. Eternal takes itself VERY seriously and feels much more like a drag in comparison. I've even started skipping cutscenes toward the end.
- Some sequences are just pretty looking hallways - all you can do is wander around and enjoy the scenery. (Like the
Sentinel Homeworld
- Too many boss fights. I'm doing
Khan Mayker
- Yes, the Marauder is annoying. There's hardly any improvisation room. Wish I could call up the console and just remove him xD .
All in all: a great improvement in the core gameplay and environments. Some questionable decisions outside of those fields.
I tried this technique when you first encounter him and it seemed to take forever; does the initial encounter have more health or do I just need to get quicker and swapping weapons and hitting every time?
Not ideal on a controller but this is the only really enemy I've had an issue with.
So that default headshot popping sound effects hey...anyway to change it or even turn it off? It's...silly :(