Be Excellent To Each Other

Just got the super shotgun.

BOOM SCHLICK SCHLOCK

daddy's back, baby. Daddy's back.

Me too!

How cool is it when you chainsaw a Hell Knight the grab a Beserk and punch everythibg to death?

I love it.

Those Summonwrs are real witches. EAT MICRO MISSILES YOU TELEPORTING TOSSERS!

I find them tricky to grab.

Summoners like to have locked on missiles smashed into their faces.

Wait! I forgot I had a Rocket Launcher!

Only in DOOM could THIS happen.

Can't wait to get HOME later so I can play IT some more.

Got Lazarus Labs and the Cyberdemon done last night.

The level itself was OK with the usual NIGHTMARE rules applied, i.e. death is never more than one decent hit away.

The Cyberdemon wasn't too bad, basically all his stuff is one-shot kill so the mechanics have to be diligently followed, but whilst I was playing around with tactics I realised there's a close-medium range you can keep him at whereby the super shotgun is still effective but he won't try and pull one of his devastating melee moves on you, and you're still at a reasonable enough distance to follow the ranged mechanics. Oh yes and lob frag grenades on cooldown. Think I may have chucked some precision shots with the gauss cannon in as well.

That was phase one of the fight done, phase two was follow mechanics for the 'rock tunnel' section, and then use the BFG for damage and a stun, run in with super shotgun BANG BANG BANG, back out to range when he recovers, and repeat. I augmented that with some rocket launcher, grenades, and maybe some more gauss cannon.

Oh yes, the upgraded Saving Throw rune is crazy good for this, as it basically gives you two chances to survive fucking up a mechanic.

DOOM DLC incoming and it is indeed multiplayer as someone said a few pages back.

Since I haven't even loaded up multiplayer (despite 72 hours of playtime and not (quite) done yet), I guess I'll be giving this a miss. (Yes I know there's a few easy cheevos in there, but they hold no interest.)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016- ... is-weekend

Doom the boardgame : https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/n ... mminent-1/

Those minis don't suit that board.

This helped itself to 12GB of space on my SSD last night, downloading DLC I have no interest in and will not be buying.

According to the main game screen there is some free multiplayer content as well, which will go in the same pile as all the other multiplayer content I haven't even clamped eyes on.

Underneath CAMPAIGN it says 'stay tuned for more details' (or something like that), which suggests there will hopefully be something singleplayer related at some point, but obviously not yet.

And that's the NIGHTMARE playthrough of DOOM complete.

A few final thoughts, comments, and observations from three back-to-back single player campaign playthroughs, starting from HURT ME PLENTY, to ULTRA VIOLENCE, and finally to NIGHTMARE. (Total playtime, 75 hours, and that's without so much as even looking at the multiplayer.)

Overall of course, it's a truly magnificent videogame and I would recommend it without hesitation to anyone who likes to enjoy themselves doing things that are fun - an absolutely solid 10/10 is my score for this.

Minor niggles that had shaken themselves out by the end of playthrough three are just that, fairly minor, but I'll list them anyway - these apply specifically to NIGHTMARE.

#1 The 'hell level' arena fights can be annoying because they're designed to be authentically 'hellish', which means little outcrops of rock and uneven surfaces and stuff like that all over the place. (We all know that's what hell will be like, right? Slightly sub-standard on grounds maintenace) What this means in reality is that in the middle of the world's most hectic demonic firefight, your unbelievably kick-ass marine who ten seconds ago had stuffed a terrifying demon's head up its own arsehole, suddenly stops moving because of a slightly uneven pavement, which is all the time it takes for a Hell Knight to stamp on your head (dead), or a Pinky to ram you to death (dead), or a ranged charged shot from a Mancubus to kill you (dead), and so on.

The lovely sleek mars station style levels suffer from this a lot less, although they still have their moments. This is the only one thing I would pick up on as where the level design gets in the way of the game.

#2 To compensate for how unbelievably awesome you are by the end of the game, the last two levels in particular (Vega Control Centre and Argent D'Nur), just chuck fucking EVERYTHING at you and LOTS OF EVERYTHING. There are five fights in particular, the one where you have to destroy the four cooling circuits for Vega, the one after that at the 'train station' before you go up to the top, and then on Argent D'Nur itself the three main wraith fights.

I tried to work through these methodically, but in the end just cheesed the fuck out of them with the BFG and/or Berserk/quad powerups. It turns out that the AMMO BOOST rune, when upgraded, which says that demons 'sometimes' drop BFG ammo, actually then drop it reasonably generously. I don't mean enough for you to chain fire the BFG at will, but more than you might imagine to be the case, so that you can pace the fight around a pretty consistent number of BFG shots (i.e. 3 that you (hopefully) have onboard as ammo, 1 or 2 in the arena, and most importantly an extra couple that you can almost certainly get demons to drop.)

Maybe that's how it's supposed to be on Nightmare, that your normal weapons aren't up to the job so you need to go MEGA CHAINSAW AND MEGA BFG and work through the fights on that basis, but it felt a bit cheesy to me. (Even on Ultra Violence I'd kind of been priding myself on using the chainsaw and BFG as little as possible, if at all.)

#3 Many of the weapons are flat-out underpowered and not much use. The fully upgraded super shotgun remains arguably the best weapon right through to the end of the game. This isn't a 'bad' thing as such, but it's just kind of super shotgun for close up, gauss cannon for at range.

#4 The checkpointing can be occasionally intrusive and irritating, it mostly gets it right and is generous in the main, but there are a few outrider situations where it drops the ball and has you repeating the same section/actions too many times.

#5 I'm not entirely sure the boss fights really fit, they don't stick out like a sore thumb as they did in Deus Ex Human Revolution, but they didn't add much to the mix either IMO. (None of them caused a huge amount of trouble either, even on Nightmare.)

These are very small blotches on an otherwise impeccable landscape - awesome game, loved it to pieces. Roll on single player DLC or a sequel, I'll be all over either like a cheap suit.

Everything about it is so well crafted, like the way the end credits are synced in with the music and the graphics tie in with the roles of the peoples' names onscreen.

The only sad thing now is that there is no more DOOM to play.

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Strangest thing that happened - Doing the RICH GET RICHER rune trial on my first attempt on NIGHTMARE. I really can't explain this as it was hard enough on Hurt Me Plenty, let alone Ultra Violence. I can only think that on Nightmare I went in with no expectations whatsoever other than dying horribly, so was almost just riffing, trying to get a feel for how it'd pan out so playing it kind of not caring how well I did or not, and then all of a sudden I realised I was close to doing it, and then did it. Very odd. And then for afters the Saving Throw rune trial only took me two attempts on Nightmare.

Well, I think that a Doom without a Cyberdemon would've had a few complaints about the lack of a cyberdemon. Perhaps less so a Spider.

You still have a difficulty level to go.

I am still chipping away at Ultra Violence as and when I get time and still enjoying it massively. I don't think I will get round to Nightmare as Doom has made the backlog of games to play somewhat higher than normal.

I totally forgot until quite some way past it that I had got and upgraded the triple lock mod for the Rocket Launcher until I saw Zardoz' post on here - there really is quite the embarrasment of riches considering I abused that on my first playthrough.

Easily my favourite game for quite some time.

To be honest, I did it on Hurt Me Plenty, enjoyed the hell out of it, had a couple of games of multi, had a go at a few maps in the snappy map thing, did a few levels to get all the collectibles in them, and was sated and moved on. I have little desire to go back.

Played this on Saturday... i so need a PS4 now

Half price on Steam!

For £20 DOOM is absolutely the steal of the century. (I bought Wolfenstein The New Order in the same sale.)

Runs really nicely on less capable PCs too, my brother is playing it on a laptop with a 960M in it, which is basically a rebranded desktop 750Ti part - and he's getting a pretty solid 60FPS at 1080p with a mixture of medium and high settings.

I've only watched part of this so far but its great - Danny O'Dwyer (https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer) is doing a documentary on Doom (2016) as part of his noclip series - three parts in total only the first 2 are up

Trailer



Part 1



Part 2



Part 3

Those are really good.

This seems like a good deal for DOOOOOOOM

http://www.game.co.uk/en/doom-with-only-at-game-uac-pack-1035143

Well worth it!

Me gots this for chrimbo.

First impressions: it's bloody reet enjoyable right off the bat. Nice movement, nice pew pew such that blasting the cannon fodder is groovy. I reckon that's a sign of a good game by the way. If blasting the basic enemy type is fun and remains fun throughout then you're onto a winner. Just like Doom OG in fact.

Second impression: man alive, it has some aggressive screen tearing. They might have patched this but since I'm waiting on a 29 fucking gig "update" I'll have to find out later.

Have you tried turning off screen tearing?

Adaptive v-sync is the way to go in my experience if your PC can't handle full v-sync (which mine couldn't).

EDIT - These are just options in the normal graphics options menu, you don't need to faff about with stuff trough the Nvidia control panel or any shenanigans like that.

Forgot to mention I've been playing it on the PS4.

Might have a gander to see whether there's any graphics options in the menu anyway.

Got to say I didn't notice any tearing, so maybe it is fixed with an update.

The update fixed the screen tearing.

Yay for 29 gigabyte updates!

is ciurrently 13.19 on steam. be mad not to at that price.

Indeed. It's just a shame they never added any new single player content to the game. I kept it installed for quite some time after I finished my third playthrough of the campaign, but with no sign of any fresh single player stuff to do, and with the game getting bigger and bigger on my SSD with successive large multiplayer updates (a mode which I'd never even loaded up) - I eventually uninstalled it earlier this month.

It was a fantastic single player campaign experience though, as my eulogising earlier in this thread will bear testament to.

They have arcade mode, which is pretty fun.

Got this for ps4 and it's well fun. Apart from every time I try to load a campaign save and it crashes. That's not so fun

And every time it loads a new mission my doom is borked

Uninstall / reinstall?

I take it you've let it do the updates?

Yeah updated system and software, full power down reboot, uninstall/reinstall. I've just deleted one of the bigger games I had sitting in the library so hopefully it was a hard disc space thing. But c'Mon, it's a console, shit shouldn't crash!

Nope still crashy.

Is it disk or download?

Download, how the shit so you get a refund from Sony?

How odd.

I have no idea.

Ooh, ta

Just a little bit.

A little bit more.


TOTAL TRIVIALISATION OF A SERIOUS GAMES THREAD.

It's no wonder Trump got elected. And Brexit and other things.

Logic leap.

And you got the fucking words wrong.

I'm old. Gina G was a long time ago, I went on instinct. Using Google is cheating.

Google, you know what I'm looking for!

Anyone want my copy for PS4 (£10 delivered) before I pop it on't 'Bay?

I've been playing a bit more of this. I just bloody love the audio cues when you do a death move. They're absolutely perfect how they kinda distort the music.