the-dark-ages

[stray hemlock]

And a long as hell cooldown

Personally I use the flail mace thing

[round roost]

if ur gonna do pandemonium it’s best to switch to the dreadmace when fighting a champion or bosses

[stray hemlock]

Fair enough

But like you get it near the end of the game

So it's only good for a few bosses

[round roost]

you receive it in like chapter 15 so ye

but the super shotgun is gonna be your best friend so it doesn’t matter much

[stray hemlock]

Real

One of the best weapons

SHREADS enemy HP

And if paired with the Chainshot

[round roost]

i rarely use the chainshot

i liked going up close with the super shotgun and using the impaler for long range

[floral aspen]

Oh hello guys

Oops wrong chanel

[round roost]

hello anyways lol

[meager vortex]

https://youtu.be/WhfyOGuIA88

[buoyant laurel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/SMkhGSNl_D8?si=sjK87XVLS6efnpkQ

[stray hemlock]

Gang question

What are the 4 secret items in chapter 5

@round roost you've played through the game and gotten most of the stuff right?

[round roost]

100% completed it so ye

[stray hemlock]

I have the Serrat statue as far as that

What would I be missing?

[round roost]

tbh there is many secrets in that chapter 😭

i’d say use a guide or something on youtube

[stray hemlock]

I just wanna get a new skin for the SS that's all

[round roost]

i think the pulverizer nightmare skin is only in that chapter

[stray hemlock]

Got a rough idea where it is?

[round roost]

it’s in the landing zone below the ship in the middle of the map

[stray hemlock]

Ah

[round roost]

it’s all the way below but you’ll see it

[stray hemlock]

Wait

I don't think I can replay Pandemonium missions 😭

[round roost]

you never could 😭

[stray hemlock]

BRUH

[round roost]

neither in ultra nightmare

[stray hemlock]

So basically

I have to make sure I get everything before I continue

[round roost]

yes

[stray hemlock]

Welp at least I have an already completed save

[round roost]

were you actually gonna 100% complete the game on pandemonium?

[stray hemlock]

Nope

I was focused on getting the Slayer skin for beating Pande

[round roost]

i’d focus on getting 3-4 wraithstones for the weapons ur gonna choose

trying to collect every ruby and wraithstone got me killed a few times

[stray hemlock]

Mhm

[round roost]

you should probably collect every demonic essence you can get

kinda risky but worth it near the end

[stray hemlock]

It is

[stoic sleet]

Thats what im doing on pande and un

[round roost]

good luck lol

i wouldn’t try 100% completing chapter 14 or 19

hard asl for me

[stray hemlock]

Welp

Got the skin lmao

[round roost]

what skin

[stray hemlock]

Ravager

Going to the forest level to see what I had missed

Nothing there

Yep

Defo Ancestral Forge

None of the Collectibles

[round roost]

ah one of my least favorite levels

[stray hemlock]

Real

[stray hemlock]

Where's the Slayer key for this area?

[round roost]

oh mb

did you find it already?

[delicate isle]

the abyssal woods is a great level bro yall are on one

[split gate]

It’s pretty cool but one of the challenges which has you collect 100 ammo sucks ass

[round roost]

the revenants gave me a bad time so bad level

[delicate grotto]

Worst challenge in the game lmao. Have to purposefully waste ammo to complete it in one run.

[split gate]

It’s a waste of time, you could empty all your weapons onto the staggered mini boss demon in the arena where the turret is, but the process takes so long

Haven’t had a complaint about a challenge until that point

I’m up to Spire of Nerathul in UN let’s gooo

[round roost]

good luck bro

[delicate grotto]

Essentially it’s asking you to melee 100 times. I’ve noticed that no matter how much ammo you collect from a single melee, it only counts as 1 towards the challenge. Pretty annoying.

[delicate grotto]

Sick. Good luck!

[split gate]

It’s the farthest I’ve been so far, the nerves are real

Some of the arenas in this can be ass

[split gate]

Yeah it counts the pickup I’m pretty sure. Emptying a variety of your weapons helps

[delicate grotto]

The only one I’d really be concerned about is the Rev + Komodo. That one’s pretty tough. I still struggle with it from time to time.

[split gate]

I’m just gonna run away and spam the rocket launcher

[delicate grotto]

Fair lol

[round roost]

i failed on that part. so frustrating

the komodo is such a pain but the ravager helps out plenty

[split gate]

All my homies love Ravager

Tip is to spam cycler and then when it’s electrocuted, spam it with rockets for extra damage

Cycler my beloved 🗣️🗣️

[delicate grotto]

Gauntlets are pretty good for Komodos in my experience.

[round roost]

tbh i enjoy playing risky by going up close with the super shotgun

[delicate grotto]

If you’re aiming for 100%, good luck with the Aggadon and double Rev encounter too. Can be easy to fuck up.

[round roost]

i only used 3 weapons in total for my pandemonium run so i might just do the same with my un run

[split gate]

It is the way, but for UN, I want minimal risks

The level I’m concerned with is the last one, those arenas are nasty

[round roost]

are you aiming for 100% completion on ultra nightmare?

[delicate grotto]

You’ve also got the BFC by then lol

[split gate]

Yeah I have to use it wisely

[split gate]

Nope, it’s my first time trying to complete it, maybe when I finish it

The Vagary bossfight in the Barracks and some arenas of the Holy City have been painful to get through and they were where most of my deaths were

[round roost]

i’d probably avoid some of the secrets later on in the game

like in chapter 18 there’s one small arena filled with leader demons

they carry like blue eyes or wtvr like it

and the secret is a reverent skin for one of the weapons i think

[split gate]

Ah I get what you mean, that optional area

Yeah no way, fuck that one in particular

[round roost]

i was trying to 100% complete the game on my first playthrough and it was such a pain in the ass

i was considering modifying the game but it took me like 7 tries

[split gate]

I don’t modify the game anymore, once I got used to playing default, it felt just fine

[stoic forge]

Dragon nooooo

[zealous crag]

Every run of pandemonium and ultra nightmare I start , i fear this specific encounter as soon as level 1 😂

Because i remember how Even with base nightmare without sliders it was a pain

[harsh egret]

@frail bloom was anything new being said after he got done with the yellow key arena

I closed stream after and fell asleep instantly

[fleet spruce]

they're not gone

[harsh egret]

hugo actually mentioned adding more back, but they playtested it and it didnt get a positive response

well ur not a gamedev

just understand that its for the better

also why am i having this discourse with someone with that pfp

[wheat sigil]

glory kills generally disrupt the "flow" of the game by providing a forced, unskippablr animation which if you don't want to watch, you're actively impeding your own gameplay
there is a certain coolness factor to it for a lot of people, which i recognize, but isn't it better if that coolness and badassery comes from the gameplay itself? not you watching an animation, besides, there's cutscenes for that stuff
furthermore, the coolness factor often wears off after you've watched every glory kill multiple times

[remote thunder]

let's add more qtes but hold the qtes, surely that'll make for better games

[wheat sigil]

what's a qte

lol

[graceful lion]

it will make tda alot slower

[graceful lion]

quicktime event

[remote thunder]

there's a reason they fell off after 2010

[graceful lion]

thankfully

[warped swallow]

Wait up
Did Deag Loric just appear in one cut-scene for a few seconds and before that as a hologram and that's it? This character basically doesn't exist?
Like, even if they use him in DLC, it's still weird how I forgot that he was ever in the game

[graceful lion]

seems so, theres probably more than just 3 deag priests but only 3 are like the main 3 in hell ig

[warped swallow]

that I believe much-much later in the lore

maybe they are not even born

they probably are not

[split gate]

Watch out, if you mention that anywhere else, you’re going to get called a blind consumer and you’ll get shouted out that the consumer is always right

I saw a statue of the Hell Priest from the Doom Hunter Base level in Holy City in one of the secret landing spots, did anyone see him too

[stoic sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/fortnite-gif-4169442390448293969

[stoic sleet]

Lowk i love the combat shotgun now

[sweet knot]

chain shot😻😻

[stoic sleet]

Yeah its great aswell

Ssg feels so useless now

[sweet knot]

bs et

[stoic sleet]

Finally beat siege on pandemonium

I just wana get past the forest i lost my last run to such bs there

[hasty stone]

Patch today?

[stoic sleet]

I hope not

What the fuck

My siege part 2 file didnt save

What the fuck

[hasty stone]

Lolllll

[stoic sleet]

I might cry i missed a secret

Guys hugo assassination next stream!!!

[graceful lion]

bro hugo is literally in the server 💔

[stoic sleet]

Then he can prepare

[hasty stone]

Lord Hugo

[hollow sandal]

Hugo pleewaaase 😭

[hollow sandal]

Yes.

[hollow sandal]

Which upgrades?

[stoic sleet]

More armour and triple shot

[hollow sandal]

Cool

[stoic sleet]

Are u tbe same or?

[hollow sandal]

I swith through them when I feel like it. I love blowing up demons into flames, and quick armor from fodder as well

[split gate]

Fellas, I’m up to the last level in UN

Watch me fail the first arena 🥀

[quiet plaza]

What could go wrong if u add a AI to this convo go to @sindessa_ai on x/twitter

Welp

[meager vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-pet-shookt-surprised-gif-14728324

GOD:sorry doom slayer you can't visit heaven you are killer you must go to the hell satan:

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-steve-carell-no-please-no-god-no-gif-5938426

[stoic sleet]

Bad luck 😈

[split gate]

I FUCKIN DID IT CHAT I BEAT UN 😭😭

[stoic sleet]

It was a typo i meant good luck

[split gate]

Don’t worry bro, I know 🙏

[stoic sleet]

Thanks bro

[frail bloom]

Damn no modified right?

[split gate]

Unmodified chief 🫡

There were some very close calls

Watch out for the arena with the Cosmic Baron and Acolyte combo in Resurrection and the last arena in the final level (the arena before Berserk frenzy)

Take note of where the BFC ammos are and don’t be afraid to use them if you know you can still have a full ammo set afterwards

Use the mace as much as you can once you get it, don’t be afraid to abuse it

[stoic sleet]

Did u 100% it?

And I love the gauntlet btw its actually great when u learn it more

[split gate]

I did not no, that’ll be my next attempt, it was too risky for me, I only studied how to do UN in the least riskiest way

[stoic sleet]

Mayo lowk made my playstyle

[split gate]

So going to arenas I have less confidence in would get me finished

[stoic sleet]

I like to 100% so I have good upgrades

[split gate]

I wanna try it out more too, I saw the vid of his of him just kicking

[stoic sleet]

I 100% siege before i did like 3 gore portals

[orchid helm]

can't wait for them to officially release the "no melee cooldown" option

[stoic sleet]

The shredder and ball and chain help

[split gate]

Ah about that, I did collect as much as I could and I think the Pulveriser was the only weapon that wasn’t upgraded fully

[split gate]

I did that too haha, it was actually easy once you know how to do it

[stoic sleet]

Imagine just beating the FUCK out of Ahzrak with the gauntlets while hes stunlocked

[split gate]

Even so, I had more than enough, I focused down on the weapons I only used

[stoic sleet]

Im using a surprisingly decent balance of al except plasma

[orchid helm]

(i've actually already experienced that thanks to the mod)

[split gate]

I have to try focusing more on the accelerator, but cycler was immense help

[stoic sleet]

Im console

[split gate]

I chewed through the first few demons you fight against in the first arena in the final level with it,

[stoic sleet]

I LOVE the accelerator once u wraithstone it

Lowk i hate that the dreadmace is too op now

Im realising now it took away some of the fun

[stoic sleet]

Anyway now u gotta 100% UN damageless

[split gate]

I’m so cooked chat

[stoic sleet]

Nah its not that hard

I beat some siege arenas damageless

Gl 😄

[split gate]

Looking forward to it, I wanna master this game, it’s too fun, I’m in my Eternal phase again

The Eternal days were peak gaming, and I’m feeling them again

[stoic sleet]

This game i might actually be able to master excluding glitch and complicated tech

Bro WHAT is samir typing holy shit

[frail bloom]

@harsh egret
Ok here's the notes:
• Dlc for tda will not cram all story beats from between tda to 2016, this is because "they wouldn't be able to tell anymore stories of the doomslayer with the night sentinels; expect another "chapter or two" in the slayers story
•new ai is confirmed for dlc! Whether plural, singular we're not sure. But they are confirmed to add to and enrich the combat loop
• Hugo has said to be "playtesting some crazy stuff" and then shortly afterwards seems to be talking abt master levels, in which he says will allow the players to "express themselves" in creative explorative freedom.
• The team has finished the slo mo slider and its testing, when it is implemented we don't know
• The pinky bite has been re-animated and given a sound cue to give the player ample time to react, it will also be taken off the brink of death list
• Hugo is considering looking into blocking while switching your gun, he also goes on to say that the team will refine the "rough edges" of the shield.
• The Impaler will get adjustements and tweaks, especially its empowerment after a shield throw
• Acts 2 and 3 of Tda will be getting new layers of combat on arenas to add engagement for the player
• Some arenas have removed some amounts of stone imps due to their ridiculous spam
• Hugo is constantly reading new ideas from content creators and even regular users, He has expressed that people will be pleasantly surprised and will be getting what they asked for, this could include a rogue like Horde mode(speculation)!

[wheat sigil]

holy shit blocking while weapon swapping would be so nice

[frail bloom]

Yup

[stoic sleet]

W i fucking hated stone imps

[frail bloom]

Ye they're annoying

[wheat sigil]

wonder what that'll look like

[harsh egret]

stone imps are so easy to deal with imo lol

[stoic sleet]

Theres like 20 and by the time ur shield bash is back they already do that really hard to parry dash

[wheat sigil]

and you probably won't really have to worry about getting good with tech

doesn't seem like there'll be a ton of it

unlike eternal lol

[frail bloom]

Anyways, whaddya think?

We're abt to eat good

[stoic sleet]

Lowk WORST update ever they need to buff stone imps to need 3 shield bashes to die each and make the shield cooldown while switching a whole 3 seconds longer 🤣✌️

[wheat sigil]

#MakeStimpsAsObnoxiousAsTheEternalOnes

[frail bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-lebron-point-meat-grinder-lebron-hammer-gif-880921890597836377

[stoic sleet]

Yo what if we add an enemy that can ONLY be killed by the Accelerator heat blast

[harsh egret]

they r cooking for sure

[frail bloom]

Too bad I can't see what

I just have to imagine

[stoic sleet]

Grass found in field ahh

[harsh egret]

its lining up perfectly with my vacation

3 days after im back at my home setup, quakecon is happening

[stoic sleet]

Whats next are they gonna make Ahzraka death 50x more satisying??

[harsh egret]

its just perfect really

[frail bloom]

Sweet

[harsh egret]

cuz atm on my laptop i can barely play the game with 720p dlss ultra performance

[frail bloom]

Ye I saw, like 40 fps or smt

[harsh egret]

its ass

[frail bloom]

You're gonna be washed like Hugo

[stoic sleet]

Yo guys should I still assassinate Hugo?

[frail bloom]

Yes his gameplay is atrocious

And he's stubborn

[stoic sleet]

Yeah and we will make m0no the new lead?

[harsh egret]

i went to try the first arena on the reckoning, i just get shit on when the buffed tyrant appears, or right after it

[stoic sleet]

Cyberdemons are fodder icl

Dreadmace and fists melt them

[frail bloom]

I literally always go for those uhh blue demons

I forget their name

Those living buff totems basically

I go for them first

[harsh egret]

yeah thats the cyberdemon in that fight

[frail bloom]

Oh

[harsh egret]

but theres hellknights as well

[frail bloom]

Well you're on like below 60 fps

[harsh egret]

its hard to deal with when i can barely see on this res and also fps drops like crazy

its also adjusted sliders

[stoic sleet]

They still arent too problematic even after the ssg’s entire family was killed right infront of it

[harsh egret]

mf they are not problematic for me either

[frail bloom]

I'm abt to go on 130% when I finish my 4th playthrough

[harsh egret]

did u miss the part where i said im not at my home setup

[frail bloom]

How many hours do y'all have on tda

[stoic sleet]

I think ive played too much to handle increasing the speed now

[harsh egret]

only 70

[stoic sleet]

70 or smth

[frail bloom]

Hmm I should check

[harsh egret]

had hella exams after the game came out, and then now on vacation

[stoic sleet]

Doom rhymes with grug

[frail bloom]

Nvm I'm not able too rn

[stoic sleet]

Ill bet 5000 on over 100 hours

[hasty stone]

Fuck stone imps

Any tuneable updates today?

[split gate]

Thing is, rougelike horde mode may flourish given how viable the weapons are

It’ll encourage players to try their least used weapons. Every gun has their perks

[frail bloom]

Oh ye for sure

[frail bloom]

No but did you see the notes

We're gonna get a lot of stuff soon

[split gate]

I just want an endless horde mode that’ll make me play it again and again man, I played Eternal’s once and never again 😔

It just felt too gimmicky

[lunar minnow]

Thanks for the list!

[split gate]

If they have an option for both rougelike and endless, shit’s gonna be lit

[lunar minnow]

Sounds like this game is going to be so much more fun. 😊

Can't wait for the new additions.

[frail bloom]

Hugo watched the allstin and horde vid where they talked abt that

[stoic sleet]

I still wonder what happened to the thomas dude

[frail bloom]

Guys what is a rogue like horde mode anyway

I keep hearing it but idk what it means

[frail bloom]

Gone. Banned.

[split gate]

I think you get one weapon per round, or one shield rune, or melee weapon, and as the rounds progress you get more and more until you have everything

[lunar minnow]

That's like Eternal's though-

Isn't it?

[split gate]

Yeah, I have a feeling it’ll be like it

But without the other gimmicks

[lunar minnow]

It'll still be fun! That's the for sure.

[frail bloom]

Oh I see, so what if you mix endless and that together?

[lunar minnow]

It'll be cool if it's like an arena where an audience cheers you on or something.

And you're a gladiator kind of.

[split gate]

You just keep going until you die, you have all your weapons though

[hasty stone]

@frail bloom notes where?

[stoic sleet]

Oof man

[lunar minnow]

We're going to have some insane people here who get to round 10000000. 😭

[split gate]

Get Novik and Thira to commentate 😭

[frail bloom]

#the-dark-ages message

[lunar minnow]

💀

Valen as refree.

[stoic sleet]

Was he being disrespectful or smth?

[split gate]

Zero Master would probably break the limit, as usual for the goat

[lunar minnow]

Game would crash like Pacman would when you get to level 256. 😭

[split gate]

Valen is the hype man fr

[lunar minnow]

Absolutely!

[split gate]

Surely we get a special boss fight in Level 666

[frail bloom]

I'm guessing horde mode would be implemented like maybe middle of 2026

Like around march or may

[lunar minnow]

Anyways, I got a lot on my plate right now, so I'm going to head off for now.
I'll see you guys later! Thanks for all the updates by the way Samir! Keep them coming!
I'll see you all later!

[lunar minnow]

Mother demon comes back.

Anyways, see you all!

[split gate]

Later bro

[wheat sigil]

hopefully when you die there's an option to start from a later wave, otherwise it'd get real boring real quick if you get even a decent bit into it

would be cool if we get some endless mode

[split gate]

I wouldn’t mind going back from the start tbh, but that’s also okay too

[wheat sigil]

with a leaderboarddd🤩

[split gate]

Endless would be so peak, it’s what this game needs

[wheat sigil]

you'd have the option to go back from the beginning of course

[wheat sigil]

so fricking annoying that eternal didn't get it
i would've loved to be pushing on dat leaderboard

i will forever love you tda if you add it

[shell gull]

im tryna use that Kabiz mod and i want there too be slow mo but not as much slow mo as base game

anyone got any good slow mo values?

[zinc bay]

I think we going to kill the presist in the dlc

[lunar condor]

I've been using
.16
.20
.16
.60
Felt pretty good for me

[shell gull]

thanks

[idle drum]

Hello, managed to get a clip of the accelerator bug, does anyone know which user is josh? He said during yesterday's stream to send it to him if I could

[half plaza]

i was gonna ask if someone could give a summary from the stream yesterday

[idle drum]

@prisma crystal sorry to ping, from what I read on the discord you don't accept friend requests haha

[prisma crystal]

Heyo - you can DM me w/out us being besties - they’re open!

[idle drum]

Mb, Ill do that right away, thank you

[shell gull]

is the kaibz mod locking up weapon switching for anyone else or just me?

[vivid flicker]

I wonder when the next doom game comes out

[obtuse pond]

2029

[vital rapids]

Still watching it, but so far:

• Schlomo removal slider is in game and working so we have that to look forward to
• Egg rolls in the tristate area are different
• The DLC will almost certainly not conclude this era of the Slayer's life
• Hugo is the perfect doom playing organism, his structural perfection is matched only by his hostility, but he's not himself when he's hungry
• The scene where the Slayer nods in acknowledgement to Thira originally had him speak a line, but they hated it
• Japan is cool
• You should not drink gasoline
• SSG may be focused more on warming up armour than stripping it
• Expedition 33 and nightreign warmly praised, along with the film Warfare
• Apologies for the berserker issue on ps5, they have a potential fix that may arrive early next week
• Impaler may be changed slightly so it doesn't charge every time your heart beats

[barren warren]

hope that point about the ssg remains true, that’s the way i’ve been using it anyways

i don’t even bother using guns to directly destroy armor anyways because of how convenient shield throw is

[vital rapids]

Shield and flail 👌

[barren warren]

wonder how badly they’ll nerf the impaler though

[graceful lion]

isnt the impaler nerf just some kind of ammo reduction

i mean u get less ammo from some thing

[barren warren]

did yugo say any specifics

because the current salvage is 1 ammo per action

[vital rapids]

Good point - I edited that in, they were talking about looking at how it charges instantly, constantly. Which... is true

[barren warren]

the only nerf i can see is to add rng or require multiple actions for 1 ammo

oh i got salvage and stalwart mixed up

so i assume more than 1 ammo pickups to charge a shot then

[vital rapids]

Even if they nerf it, I think it would be awesome if they let it charge on a perfect parry if we ever get a sekiro mode, where it would be hard to achieve

[barren warren]

i’ll probably still use it for bosses regardless of the nerf because the headshot damage + constant ammo is already good enough

[half plaza]

Thank you for this wonderful addition

[solid nacelle]

It's where if you throw the shield at a guy, like a super heavy, and it just bounces off instead of embedding it won't drop the ammo anymore, according to Hugo

[barren warren]

makes sense

[half plaza]

no more impaler spam

[frank turtle]

how's everyone doing

[rocky badger]

I saw a video where you can take infinite Berserk into the final boss. Is it as simple as just not picking it up during that final clear and saving it for the boss room? Or is there more nuanced timing to it?

[tranquil moss]

you just grab it and sprint to the boss room iirc

[icy wasp]

It's crazy that the Dark Ages took place before 2016. The technology from that time doesn't exist in 2016.

[rocky badger]

Seems a bit risky. Like the boss fight is actually easier to deal with normally than the room before

[tranquil moss]

you have infinite bfc during berserk anyway

[rocky badger]

Yeah. Seems like it would be more useful to have the unlimited BFC in the room before the boss because it feels harder to me than the actual boss fight

[calm bridge]

Happy 4th fellow Mentally Unstable people Doom Fans!

Genuinely curious, does anyones get the impression playing the Dark Ages that there's still a fair few landmines to clear on the path to the fun zone?

I've been getting the feeling that the combat loop is there and it's fuckin great, but it's still kinda encased in some granite, if that makes any sense

[frank turtle]

on my second playthrough, thats when I got into it. it's really fun once you learn everything

[calm bridge]

It's just all starting to click for me, but the parts click together a lot more loosely than they do in Eternal, so it's still an adjustment sort of learning that the Shield is your #2 solution to most things

[frank turtle]

playing with the hardest sliders rn besides game speed

it's like a whole different game

[calm bridge]

Standard Nightmare currently cus first runthrough

[frank turtle]

Yeah I started with Ultra violence

[calm bridge]

You always play on Nightmare

ALWAYS

Well, I do because I love getting stomped in the nuts EAT PAIN

[frank turtle]

yeah I didn't expect nightmare to be the main difficulty

cause i played alot of classic doom

[calm bridge]

I guess they figured when they got rid of "Hey, Not Too Rough", they'd just bump everything up a level so Nightmare became the new Ultra-Violence

[strange hearth]

any guess when dlc releases?

[calm bridge]

I hope soon, but all the fixes to the main game make me think they're still tinkering with refining the core combat loop

[frank turtle]

yeah uh I had to do 75% dmg to demons instead of 50% I'm nowhere near that good to be able to play that

and I have 240 hrs on the game

[calm bridge]

You'll get better

Suffer more

[stoic sleet]

Holy shit dude i have 70

[hard thistle]

I need a horde mode or master Levels before I put more hours in.

[frank turtle]

that's why I'm gonna ease my way up to 50% dmg to demons

it's cruel as fuck

[calm bridge]

No. You jump in and you SUFFER

[raw tundra]

i jumped in off the rip on nightmare max speed

[calm bridge]

Anywho, I'm very excited for the DLC, because the Monster Design and Kit means there's a LOT that you can build on, even more so than Eternal I think

It's definitely almost at parity with Classic Doom in terms of it's general flow, it just needs a bit of tightening

Maybe up the shield health some so they can afford to make the base projectile speed a little faster, and throw a lot more at the screen.

And so they can throw in more of the sheild mobs to add cover for beefier demons, and make the sheild soldiers more mobile

And also just increase the general enemy count. The game needs a lot more mobs in each encounter I think

[hard thistle]

True.
I absolutely love what they did, but I think we (as players) can handle more than they thought we could. I could see Master Levels being Bullet Storms (Which is what I thought base game would be )

[toxic pumice]

does anyone here have a 7900 XTX and dark ages? if so could you test path tracing for me at 1080p please

[frank turtle]

the damage to enemy slider paired with the resource slider is BRUTAL

ur constantly low on ammo

[cold patio]

gonna start ultra nightmare run

[cold patio]

my friend gonna get game at some point soon, he has 7700XT, if it's fine i can ask him then tell u how it went, game run generally fine, i think PT possible on amd gpus

[waxen dawn]

Hi, does anyone knows if Doom The Dark Ages would be for PS Plus or there is nothing confirmed still?

[toxic pumice]

alr bet

[idle sleet]

Go for it, you mad man.

[cold patio]

[idle sleet]

I'm going through nightmare right now. I'm definitely not ready for ultra nightmare

This game is tops though. Can't get enough of it.

[cold patio]

same

[cold patio]

only played hurt me plenty difficulty to get used to the game, so that's why i'm playing UN

[frank turtle]

good luck

[cold patio]

🫡

[cold patio]

my pc is kinda old, 2060s ryzen 7 3700x, doom makes my pc feels like oven, so which upscaler should i go for under ultra performance, or use fsr FG ?

[merry sapphire]

does the new nvidia driver fix anything with the game

[merry sapphire]

def not since its published by bethesda which is owned by microsoft. and competition is a thing

[waxen dawn]

Dann, ty

[hollow sandal]

I'm having screen tear and I have gsync on. Anyone know how to fix 😭

And I've tried all the in game v sync settings

[cold patio]

amd gpu ?

[hollow sandal]

Nah rtx 3080

[cold patio]

i'm on 2060s no screen tearing using 566.36 version

[cold patio]

you're not first person i hear having screen tearing, my best bet roll back to 566.36 version, using it for long now, even with doom runs fine

[hollow sandal]

thanks

[cold patio]

np, nvidia latest driver updates has been mess, stick to 566.36 runs fine on my end in many games, and don't use that ahh nvidia app or geforce experince for updates, always update manually and double check on reddit what people say about latest versions

[vestal estuary]

Ok, I might get hate for what I’m about to suggest but…
Hear me out…

I was listening to ‘Varcolac’ by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets and wondered…

“What if we had some classic mythological monsters that were created by the demons via argent energy? Like what if we had Argent Energy-born Werewolves or something? Maybe vampires of some sort.” Idk honestly. Thought it could be cool

[vagrant path]

Guys

is there any news for the game?

been taking a lil break to play other stuff

[frank turtle]

the sliders are so fun to play with

[frank turtle]

they're gonna add a slow-mo slider, dlc is coming at a reasonable time, they're gonna tune the 2nd and 3rd act of the game

[vagrant path]

Slow-mo

Lets fucking goooooooo

[tulip badger]

what arsenal changes/additions do you guys think will be in the dlc

[frank turtle]

has anyone beaten ultra nightmare with 500% player damage

[indigo jacinth]

Launch

[frank turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-doom-the-dark-ages-launch-launch-the-true-melon-gif-15484408642892935923

[pliant sonnet]

99% chance somebody in the world has done that

[frank turtle]

almost no room for error

[pliant sonnet]

i bet there are ppl who finished the game without taking any dmg

so the 500% player dmg would be irrelevant

[frank turtle]

eh any damage idk maybe

it's obviously possible but the game came out less than 2 months ago so irdk

[astral maple]

just finished doom the dark ages yippie.

[frank turtle]

gg!

[pliant sonnet]

gzgz

[devout musk]

Boot go bunk on demon

[shell gull]

nah im playing pandemonium tell me y i needed to restart the level cause the game bugged and my shield was just fucking gone

[vital rapids]

Grats!

[astral maple]

thx!

[astral maple]

ty

[astral maple]

ty

[silver flame]

The game of all time

[uneven dragon]

relistening to the soundtrack of this game man it fucking bangs
Blood Red and Into the Void are especially heavenly

yeah :P

it was to speed up development time massively by fast tracking stuff like lights and more stuff

it's annoying but a necessary """evil""" ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[uneven dragon]

definitely on the same level as 2016/Eternal's

this game has been in development for years they just didn't want to spend even more years on stuff they could do easily with tools we have today

yes it's annoying that you have to have raytracing specs but also the specs for raytracing have existed for half a decade and it's a high end game for current gen consoles that have it built in too

[harsh egret]

Whos fault is it that u dont read pc requirements

l m a o

cuz this isnt eternal?

[uneven dragon]

cause we're 5 years on and eternal has much smaller arenas that required much less lighting?

[harsh egret]

also u have zero clue how they even developed tda, stop assuming they arent putting effort just cuz they didnt bake in their lightning.
u have literally zero clue how long that takes, and looks worse.

The game works on midrange gpus from 4-5 years ago, cmoj man.

[graceful lion]

no ai was used bro what are you on about

[harsh egret]

Yeah ok ur actually stupid

[graceful lion]

it works on low end gpus from 6 fucking years ago

[harsh egret]

[graceful lion]

ignore him, just a guy trying to start shit

[harsh egret]

Joined today to write this shit lol

[graceful lion]

"nooo my 7 year old hardware is no longer relevant"

[uneven dragon]

moomin pfp :O

[graceful lion]

yes, it isnt, thats normal

technology improves, so keep up or get left behind

i would even dare to say tda is more optimized than eternal

[stoic sleet]

Guys omg my nintendo switch cant run doom the dark ages this optimisation sucks D:<

[graceful lion]

the raytracing for tda is better optimized than eternal's

[graceful lion]

wiat he has a switch

[harsh egret]

he is typing some bs, wait for it...

there it is

[graceful lion]

so hurtful..

[stoic sleet]

Idk but that was a joke

Anyway hes ragebaiting so

[graceful lion]

yeah the game sucks because u cant run it

this is literally like saying a race sucks because you cant join it with a family van, fuck me

@pine terrace

[harsh egret]

Rage bait successful i guess

Ban the fucker

[graceful lion]

bro said "im gonna come and go outta the server"

btw this doesnt hurt me, please try harder ❤️

[stoic sleet]

Oh my

[fleet spruce]

even Steam Deck is capable of running the game , that's already very low bar on hardware requirements

[lunar minnow]

Good morning guys!
I see there's uh- Some controversy going on.
Hopefully the mods deal with it soon.

[pine terrace]

Yeah?

You gonna talk like that?

[graceful lion]

u seem to be the angry one homie, ur the one thats insulting me and saying im a furry

[stoic sleet]

No dude thats just being a dickhead

[harsh egret]

Ragebaiter or straight up moron, u choose

[graceful lion]

i could not care less if you die in a ditch

[pine terrace]

Bye bye

[graceful lion]

damn u must be constipated

[harsh egret]

Bro what?

[graceful lion]

what kinda comment is that lmao

im not a hasanabi watcher bro, i dont support isis

[lunar minnow]

I just wanna say... I don't think it is, as of yet.
For some reason the game is inconsistent for me in how it runs.
Sometimes it can run at 100+ frames on ultra, other times 40.

[tulip badger]

12 year old me could come up with better. what even is that

[lunar minnow]

I'm not sure why!

[lunar minnow]

Thank you for that!

[stoic sleet]

Kevan ur the goat

Js saying

[graceful lion]

"hehe im gonna call him a furfrag hes gona ge t angry!1"

[harsh egret]

Like what

[graceful lion]

that deadass does not affect me at all, as im not a furry nor am i gay

[pine terrace]

Appreciate you getting my attention, but be sure to ping the moderator role. At work currently, so I can’t promise I can respond

[lunar minnow]

Why do people always resort to insults to make a point?

[graceful lion]

aight, ill keep it in mind

[lunar minnow]

Oh, alright! Thanks again Kevan!

We appreciate it!

[graceful lion]

"ummm, ur a furfrag!, haha, gottem"

such a sad and pathetic life

[lunar minnow]

But yeah, do you know possibly why what I mentioned might be the case?

[harsh egret]

He got mad after i told him he didnt read the min specs for the game and then it turned into this

[graceful lion]

i hope he finds a purpose in life

[tulip badger]

he wasnt trying to make a point, he went in here trying to ragebait

[lunar minnow]

I am curious if you might know, you seem to know technology.

[graceful lion]

hmmm, probably due to the varying scenes in the game

some places just in general will consume less

[stoic sleet]

“Me loud me rude me swear me win argument”

[graceful lion]

some will consume more, due to the shit in those places

[lunar minnow]

He got upset at you for saying the truth. 💀

[graceful lion]

and if you have minimum or less than minimum hardware, that affects you ALOT

[uneven mortar]

Tbh i think it's weird how the cyberdemon is such a melee focused unit considering the wings

[graceful lion]

the closer you are to the limit, the more outside factors will easily affect you

[stoic sleet]

Yeah the cyberdemon should fly and spam its turret that melts ur hp like butter

[lunar minnow]

Ahhhhhh, bigger scene = more resources.
I should probably try to close youtube and some other stuff in the background too, that might help.
I'm already way over my VRAM limit.

But yeah! I could see other scenes using more than others which might be why definitely. Thanks Moomin!

Appreciate it!

[graceful lion]

yeah im literally consuming 700mb of vram doing fuckall

[stoic sleet]

Lowk i love that i dont have to worry abt stuff bcs of the ps5

[lunar minnow]

Ooo- That's a lot.

[pine terrace]

The whole game has melee focus, so all enemies need to reflect this

[tulip badger]

you are so nice ashen. i love fromsoft games but the fanbase is just awful

[kindred dune]

I hate this game it cannot run on my Android 😤😡

[graceful lion]

game cant run on my gtx 1660 ti, so fucked up 💔

[kindred dune]

Boutta crash out

[stoic sleet]

I HATE this game SO FUCKING MUCH it cant run on the gameboy

[harsh egret]

I cant believe the game doesnt run on my xiaomi airfrier

[lunar minnow]

Awww, thank you!
I find just stick to the game until you get it, you will eventually!
And try not to listen to the fanbase too much, it's just not worth them ruining the game for you.

[lunar minnow]

Why does this sound so accurate? 😭

[graceful lion]

ANY new game would struggle to stay running on a 1080, let alone a 1660 ti, and that is mainly due to the technology of those gpus being old, and my rx 580 ran at over 100+ fps in one unreal engine 5 game but it kept crashing because the 580 is just really really old

[stoic sleet]

I love the gauntlets

[graceful lion]

newer gen gpus arent just faster, they are able to understand more shit period

[lunar minnow]

I think the reason people are upset though is because the majority of people have GTX cards right? Not RTX cards?

[uneven mortar]

Yeah, I just think making the guy you specifically have to box with so tall and winged was a weird decision

[graceful lion]

yeah, and theres probably millions of people with a gtx

[stoic sleet]

I love fighting cyberdemons ngl

They just so easy to kill

[lunar minnow]

But then that's probably why people are upset, they fee alienated... RTX cards are expensive I think.

feel*

[harsh egret]

Couldve been cool if he used the wings to attack from further away

[uneven mortar]

It's very rewarding once you figure them out but the height is still weird

[kindred dune]

But seriously its kinda hard to run this game, on my GTX card, might have to do an upgrade

[harsh egret]

Gtx cards in 2025... Oh boy

[lunar minnow]

How- Are you even running it-

[graceful lion]

of the 20 most popular gpus on steam, there are 3 GTX gpus which make up around 6% of steam's entire playerbase

[kindred dune]

30-40fps

[graceful lion]

the 4th most popular card on steam survey is the 1650

[uneven mortar]

Cyberdemons having a flying attack to keep pressure on you would be cool. You'd need to fire at them to knock them down and THEN melee fight them

There could also be an armored variant thats too heavy to fly

[kindred dune]

I tried running it on my Steam Deck as well out of curiosity. Surprisingly it ran pretty well.

[graceful lion]

of the 30 most popular gpus on steam, 6 are gtx

[kindred dune]

But didn’t last too long

[pine terrace]

Game design is a bit more complicated than that, what seems like the obvious intuitive thing to do, can often end up making your game worse. I have an anecdotal video about doors, one sec

[lunar minnow]

💀 Majority have RTX?
My first gaming PC I had a 1650 GTX card, (I think it was a better version of that same card that was also 1650.)
My next PC I upgraded into RTX 4050.
I feel like... You should when gaming look into the next generation generally well so that you can play the games you want properly.

So, what you're saying makes sense.

People are upgrading naturally.

[stoic sleet]

What seems to be a minor change can completely change a game

[pine terrace]

https://youtu.be/9kzu2Y33yKM?si=5YV5Ae6wf312OJqb

[kindred dune]

Is it even possible to optimize this game for the Stem Deck?

I doubt it

[graceful lion]

more than 11% of people on steam use gtx gpus

[lunar minnow]

The rest are RTX?

[uneven mortar]

The idea of playing a modern doom game in handheld seems fundamentally miserable to me

[graceful lion]

or raytracing capable in general

[lunar minnow]

Oh, wow!

I did not know that.
That changes things then.

[graceful lion]

that 11%+ is really vocal

[lunar minnow]

They probably considered this when making their game.

That the majority can run it.

[graceful lion]

well, they mostly have to depend on consoles and shit

[kindred dune]

Oh it is!

[graceful lion]

u gotta consider consoles also

ps5, xbox series s and x

[lunar minnow]

Really?!
They depend more on the console sales then PC sales of this game?

[graceful lion]

not what i meant

[stoic sleet]

I wish the agaddon hunter was harder

[graceful lion]

they have to take console hardware into account aswell

[lunar minnow]

Oh, my bad. 😭
Sorry.

[graceful lion]

so they have to optimize games to run well on consoles

[lunar minnow]

Ahhh, I see what you're saying now.
They have to consider all platforms.
And, consoles have raytracing, so it makes sense to use it.

So that they can also speed up their own development process.

[graceful lion]

yes

[lunar minnow]

That's fair honestly.

My Steam deck can run it at about 40ish frams.

frames*

[graceful lion]

but because this is THE most popular game with forced raytracing, theres no doubt about it, alot of people are fussing about it

[kindred dune]

If there was an option to disable Ray Tracing, how would the performance be?

[graceful lion]

the steam deck has around a 1660 ti, which is why i think even with RT somehow off, it wouldnt ber much better

[graceful lion]

the engine was built with raytracing, and the game would look really dark or have reallyfucked up lighting

there are no baked in lights

[kindred dune]

Basically a flashbang to the face

[lunar minnow]

I'm honestly really happy that it was DOOM that decided to push raytracing technology wise before other games did, it's the flagship you could say.

[graceful lion]

or the opposite

[kindred dune]

dang

[graceful lion]

they also did it incredibly well

[kindred dune]

That sounds horrible

[graceful lion]

yeah, because the devs did not make baked in lighting, only raytracing

[lunar minnow]

Definitely. :)
DLSS actually helps for once. 😭

[graceful lion]

raytracing can also be optimized btw, people forget that

[lunar minnow]

Raytracing gets a bad reputation because when it's put in games, it extremely unoptimized and crashes and bugs the game.

[graceful lion]

which is why tda's raytracing is more optimized than eternal's, and i believe that

[lunar minnow]

Well, it has to be.

[graceful lion]

if your hardware is shit, then yes

[lunar minnow]

The whole game is built with it.

[lunar minnow]

I mean even on high end hardware, look at Cyberpunk, the raytracing is a little jank from what I've heard.

Usually the addition of raytracing into baked lighting games can be a little... Weird.

[graceful lion]

but also, as you said, you have a steam deck, which is comparable to an rx 570 or 1050 ti in terms of hardware, which is the minimum to run fucking eternal

[graceful lion]

and the fact that THAT runs tda at 40 fps says alot

[lunar minnow]

Ohhhh, I see what you're saying now.

[graceful lion]

yeah

and your steam deck is rt capable

[lunar minnow]

I don't play this game on my Steam deck often though if at all, I perfer my PC just because of the resolution.

[graceful lion]

so even if you removed it, its like at best 5-10 fps extra, because raytracing has its own cores and shit, and steamos leads to better results than windows for games

[lunar minnow]

Can't see much on the small screen with bad resolution on my steam deck.

[graceful lion]

youd still need a high end old gpu, like the 1080, or something like a 2060 to run tda, even if they removed RT

which tells you how much about how much they optimized the game

[lunar minnow]

It's a bigger game, there are more enemies on screen too I've noticed then Eternal.
Waaay, more demons.

[graceful lion]

and raytracing^^

[graceful lion]

it has far more graphical detail for the same amount of gpu power

[lunar minnow]

That's crazy that they managed that.

Props to id!

[graceful lion]

power of idtech 8 baby

[lunar minnow]

I think it's cool that they have their own game engine though!

You'd think they'd use something like Unreal or Unity, but no! They made their own.

[graceful lion]

and on that note, IJ and the great circle was on idtech 7, and we know how well that runs (really badly)

[graceful lion]

it gives them the largest amount of control for optimization

[lunar minnow]

Wait, how'd they get the rights to use id's engine???

Is it because parent company is the same?

[graceful lion]

i guess so yeah

[lunar minnow]

So this was the fault of the developers then, not the raytracing.

[harsh egret]

afaik IJ wasnt exactly the same id tech 7 that eternal used

[graceful lion]

well, it shows you how much idtech 8 is improved over 7

[graceful lion]

yeah, was probably some sort of inbetween, idtech 7.5

[lunar minnow]

They might have been making tech 8 just for the dark ages though.

Which is why it's so well optimized in terms of ray tracing.

[graceful lion]

and idtech 9 will be even better

at that point though, 1440p might be the norm

[chilly wagon]

I just wish we could turn off ray tracing lmao

[lunar minnow]

My question is, where are they finding the time to make the engine so fast? Don't those things take ages to get improved tested and running?
If the engine is broken in any way, the game will suffer.

[graceful lion]

the lead engine developer at id said it would have taken years more if they baked in lighting

[lunar minnow]

Oh my gosh... You got to be kidding-

[harsh egret]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[lunar minnow]

This entire conversation has been about why Raytracing is good.

[graceful lion]

and as i said above if you scroll up, it would still need good hardware

[chilly wagon]

They could have made the lighting worse I guess

[harsh egret]

wut

[graceful lion]

??

[lunar minnow]

... I have no words.

[graceful lion]

baking in lighting is the method of how majority of games make light

[harsh egret]

here we go again 😎

[lunar minnow]

Noooo. 😭

[graceful lion]

doom the dark ages' engine was built with raytracing in mind, from the ground up

[harsh egret]

"round 2... FIGHT"

[lunar minnow]

I don't wanna fight!

[chilly wagon]

I guess the fps difference wouldn't be that much different anyway

[harsh egret]

i just hear the battlemode announcer from the trailer saying that

[graceful lion]

yes, which is what i said

[lunar minnow]

You have an amazing imagination!

[graceful lion]

its at most like 5-10 extra fps

[graceful lion]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-gacy-getting-out-of-the-ring-gif-24353447

[chilly wagon]

Hopefully whenever this new DLC comes out it comes with a horde mode

[lunar minnow]

Yes, get me out of there!

[graceful lion]

i heard theyre thinking of a horde mode in general

[harsh egret]

might be as early as next month

[chilly wagon]

The DLC or horde mode lol

[graceful lion]

the dlc is most definitely next year, but horde mode is probably this year

[harsh egret]

quakecon is gonna be big, they will announce a big update

[lunar minnow]

Honestly, that's going to be awesome.

[chilly wagon]

Ah nice

[lunar minnow]

Going to add a lot of replay-ability.

[graceful lion]

PLEASE

i have been fucking yearning for replayability

[harsh egret]

i heard some horde mode or smth, and master levels are coming too

[graceful lion]

i have 30 hours on a game thats like 260 for me

[harsh egret]

hugo has been playtesting lots recently

[lunar minnow]

I have too, I finished the game, got bored, went back to Eternal.

I just couldn't keep playing, it feels so bare.

[graceful lion]

i AM doing another playthrough, currently in the spire of nerathul, but ughhh

[harsh egret]

depends what kind of player u are i guess

if u wanna do UN and then after UN with harder sliders and so on then u can get a decent amount of play time

[lunar minnow]

I think I would happily replay the campaign, if I didn't feel mentally forced into only doing that.
I like when I have multiple choices as to what modes I can do and stuff, even if I don't use them.

Gives the sense that I am playing the way I want to play, if that makes sense.

I believe I have like, 40 hours in the game as of now.

Yeah, 42 hours.
So I've played a good bit!

I am upset about one major thing however.

No fast travel. 😭

I wish you could fast travel back to points you might have missed because sometimes you get too invested and accidentally cross points of no return.

[stoic sleet]

In the dark ages when i realised there was no fast travel i was sweating over 100%ing first try

[lunar minnow]

Right. 😭

I don't know why they removed it.

[stoic sleet]

And tbh i didn’t know there was fast travel in eternal until my 4th playthrough

[lunar minnow]

It outright tells you in a tutorial. 😭

In mission 1.

[stoic sleet]

I know

[lunar minnow]

Honestly fair enough if you forgot.

[calm bridge]

It's a single player game. If you pick the game to play it, you fuckin play it lol

A horde mode would be cool, but sometimes the game is what the game is

[lunar minnow]

????

[lunar minnow]

They've already said they're adding more so.

That's partially why I'm just waiting.

Compared to 2016 and Eternal, it's bare.

[graceful lion]

here, notes from the stream

[calm bridge]

I know. My point is not every game needs a million modes

[lunar minnow]

We're not even saying that though.

[lunar minnow]

Thank God for people taking notes.

[calm bridge]

That's what you implied by saing the game is forcing you into.... the only mode it has, which is the single player

[lunar minnow]

Because that is literally what it is when it's the only single mode to play in the game.

Compared to Eternal and 2016 which had multiple play modes and stuff to do.

[calm bridge]

Well, yeah, because that's the entire game

[lunar minnow]

For now.

[calm bridge]

We shall see. Still, nothing wrong with it just being a single player experience if that's what they wanted to put effort into

There are other games for that, yeah?

[lunar minnow]

It's just a question of replayability, you know?

[calm bridge]

I mean... it's fun, so I wanna play it again

What else is there?

[lunar minnow]

Eternal was replayable because you had secret encounters, slayer gates, cheat codes to play with, all that kind of stuff.
Along with the fact you had an entirely different horde mode.

You could also replay the campaign if you want, but there was other stuff.

[lunar minnow]

But that's very true too. ^

[stoic sleet]

The dark ages is replayable because i find it fun in general and also you have so many loadouts you can experiment with

[calm bridge]

Horde came wayyyyyyyy later tho

I just want Master Levels

[lunar minnow]

You had the other stuff though.

[stoic sleet]

Like you can go for flail, combat shotgun and earthquake setup in one run

[lunar minnow]

That's what I mean too, just, extra content.

I don't know, I'm just greedy, I want more Dark Ages.

[stoic sleet]

Or you could go for a cycler, heaven splitter and gaunlet run

[lunar minnow]

[copper beacon]

I like the game, but honestly, I’m annoyed by the fact that at launch, it has almost zero replayability. I have to replay the campaign over and over just to enjoy the combat system, seeing the same in-game events every time. I don’t just want master levels—I want a separate horde mode or a roguelike mode, something similar to Doom Infinite (mode for doom 2). There should also be expanded modding support, like what was added in Eternal. In my opinion, all of this should have been in the game at launch, especially considering how the previous installment was structured.

Now, it’s a gamble. The company is going through layoffs, likely because the game didn’t meet the financial expectations of the bigwigs, and at best, we might get a low-budget DLC before support is dropped. It’s frustrating if things go that way because, gameplay-wise, the game is really awesome. I genuinely enjoy tearing through the AI in this game.

[stoic sleet]

Or an online mode like eternal multiplayer

[lunar minnow]

id isn't going through layoffs- They were completely safe from that.

[stoic sleet]

NO achievements or trophies tho

[lunar minnow]

They removed multiplayer to add more to the campaign.

[stoic sleet]

I still miss eternal multiplayer

[lunar minnow]

I think.

[stoic sleet]

And yes its true

[lunar minnow]

It's kinda dead though...

Isn't it...

[stoic sleet]

It is

[lunar minnow]

I think I might go back and replay all of Dark Ages in one go.

I just- Can't... Get into the combat system...

Honestly...

I don't get it, to be quite honest.
I'm really used to Eternal's combat loop, so when I play Dark ages I feel so- Clunky-

[stoic sleet]

Either u just genuinely dislike it or arent using weapons u genuinely like

[lunar minnow]

I don't understand where the fun zone is, I think.

Because I'm just kinda- Shooting, and blocking, and melee.

Without really knowing like, why.

Or being able to string together combo's that build off each other.

[stoic sleet]

Idgaf what the fun zone means to others the fun zone tome is where u are having the most fun possible

As i said u might genuinely dislike the gameplay

I love the dark ages leagues more than eternal but its fine to dislike it

[lunar minnow]

No, I know that, I mean the fun zone that the developers are trying to intentionally throw you in.
I don't think I dislike the gameplay because I have had a lot of fun with it, I just wish I understood the combat a bit more.

[stoic sleet]

Oh

[lunar minnow]

It takes time for me to warm up to new games typically in the same franchise too, because I'm so used to the old one.

That's another part of it for sure.

[stoic sleet]

The combat i find tricky to define

[copper beacon]

I really want to believe this, but I'm haunted by nagging doubts—especially with recent insider reports about layoffs happening at Bethesda. And to make matters worse, the game hasn't gained much traction on Steam, which is a damn shame. Still, I don’t want to obsess over numbers. Let’s just hope for the best while preparing for the worst.

[stoic sleet]

I just like naturally knew the combat or smth

[lunar minnow]

It has made them insane profit.
So, no, they didn't get any layoffs, we would have known 100%.

[stoic sleet]

But in eternal i had to learn the combat

[lunar minnow]

It would have affected the DLC and future stuff, and they'd announce that.

[lunar minnow]

I think I should turn tutorials on and really focus on what they're trying to teach me then.

[stoic sleet]

UnderTheMayo has said countless times you should beat the game twice on high difficulty to really get into the combat

[lunar minnow]

Oh I did hurt me plenty. 😭

That also might be why. 😭

[stoic sleet]

Well i wont judge

[lunar minnow]

I didn't really feel- Forced- Honestly...

I felt like things were pretty easy so I should probably try to play on a harder difficulty.

[stoic sleet]

I found the game really easy at launch

The ssg just destroyed everything

Same with the dreadmace

[lunar minnow]

But super slow recharge. :(

[stoic sleet]

But wipes out most enemies around you and sets the superheavies hp to 1

I hate the dreadmace because its really op

[lunar minnow]

Oh damn. 💀

[stoic sleet]

And give it 2 charges aswell why the fuck not

[wheat sigil]

balanced

[lunar minnow]

As all things should be! Hi M1!

Hope you're well!

[stoic sleet]

Wsg M1

[wheat sigil]

hello gamers
i'm great

[lunar minnow]

Yeah, I think I need to replay Dark Ages and try to warm up to it more then, I'm so used to the combat from Eternal lately that the slow methodical approach might have been a little jarring.
But, I can't deny, I couldn't stop smiling when it came out and I played it, cause awesome.

[lunar minnow]

Good to hear! :)

[stoic sleet]

I cant wait for them to buff the dreadmace for being weak cus it cant 1 hit the old one

[fleet spruce]

lore accurate Dreadmace

[copper beacon]

Since then, the devs have nerfed the Super Shotgun and rebalanced things. It's slightly harder now compared to launch day before the first patches.

The real tension kicks in when you realize death sends you back to the very beginning of the game/level instead of the last checkpoint. So if you're breezing through, try speeding the game up to 130% first, then attempt the two highest difficulties.

Personally, I also found playing with the constant slowdown disabled works better for me. There's a mod on Nexus Mods that lets you customize this aspect.

[stoic sleet]

Im working on pandemonium rn

[lunar minnow]

😭

[stoic sleet]

On the forsaken plains

[lunar minnow]

I- Never had that issue- It always respawned me at checkpoints-

That sounds like a bug.

[copper beacon]

me too. Haven't managed to beat it yet 🙂

[stoic sleet]

Pandemonium has life sigils, whenever you die, it consumes a life sigi and sends you back to level start, if you lose all sigils then you have to restart game

[lunar minnow]

Ohhhhhhhh, pandemonium...

[stoic sleet]

And pandemonium has Nightmare difficulty applied

[lunar minnow]

That's fair, though.
That's the difficulty.

[lunar minnow]

Oh, you can't pandemonium on Ultra violence?

Or anything?

[stoic sleet]

Its pretty demotivating sometimes

[lunar minnow]

That's insane...

[stoic sleet]

Well with sliders u probably can

But sliders arent for me because idk

[lunar minnow]

See, here's my question, how do you know someone who beat Ultra nightmare didn't just cheese it.

[stoic sleet]

I just dont like sliders

[stoic sleet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lunar minnow]

😭

[stoic sleet]

Shit i forgot to do smth

[lunar minnow]

We're going to have some fake ultra nightmare players.

[stoic sleet]

sucker punches anne

[stoic sleet]

Well dont judge

[lunar minnow]

Have you even seen Anne lately?

[stoic sleet]

Maybe they just want the skin and seek validation from smug tryhards

[stoic sleet]

No tbh

[lunar minnow]

:(

[copper beacon]

For now, this is all we've got — until they introduce some alternative modes

[lunar minnow]

Hopefully she's alright, seems like she might have left or just got busy with something.

[stoic sleet]

Siege took alot of shit outta me during pandemonium

[lunar minnow]

A lot of people want validation.

[stoic sleet]

No annes still in the server

[lunar minnow]

That's a big reason people try to beat Ultra Nightmare.

Some*

[stoic sleet]

Im confident i will beat UN this time

[lunar minnow]

Busy then probably.

[stoic sleet]

But i die in so many bullshit ways its actually funny

[wheat sigil]

i'm confident i won't again

[lunar minnow]

Be confident you will!

[stoic sleet]

Dw dude i have faith

[lunar minnow]

Practice on nightmare.

Run it multiple times.

Get a feel of every level.

[graceful lion]

remember that eternal had 5 years worth of updates, and tda was just a month ago

tda is gonna be so much better 5 years from now

[lunar minnow]

5 years. 😭

[wheat sigil]

i won't

if i do, i will have disappointed myself

[lunar minnow]

:( Be nice to yourself!

[stoic sleet]

Does anyone prefer the eternal menu to the dark ages

It feels so bland bcs i lost all my cosmetics

[lunar minnow]

Being mean to yourself is a different kind of mean. 😭

I wish they would add cosmetics into Dark Ages..

That added INSANE replayability!!

Anyways, I think I'm going to take up Dark Ages from start to finish again.

I'll see you guys later!

[stoic sleet]

Bye Ashen

[lunar minnow]

Bye bye! Take care everyone!

[stoic sleet]

Ill miss my maykr slayer skins 😦

[dusk robin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypdj3EWt5kk another certified banger

[copper beacon]

You're right. I'm willing to wait if that's truly the case, but my concerns aren't unfounded. Plus, they removed multiplayer to focus on single-player – which they could've perfected at launch, given all their experience supporting the previous game

[copper beacon]

bye bye!

[lunar minnow]

[stoic sleet]

Also some survived off of eternal for 5 years

[fleet spruce]

Not really, i prefer Dark Ages more old school menu feel, no clutter and stuff

[copper beacon]

By the way, I think they should expand their Discord server by adding game rooms with voice chat where any member could livestream gameplay. I bet some community members would form small groups to discuss everything in real-time. (Just thinking out loud)

[stoic sleet]

I miss my cosmetics tho

Thats the main reason

And the background

[delicate bane]

sup

[wheat sigil]

voice chats would be dopee, but apparently hard to moderate properly

[graceful lion]

MP takes a ton of time, literally like making the game again

[stoic sleet]

Fair

But I would never join

Im insecure abt my voice

[pine terrace]

The main issue with moderating a vc is any problem that happens there is really quick to cover up

There’s no way to tell the difference between an individual being a problem, and the rest of the VC deciding to bully an individual

And believe me, the latter happened more often than it should. Some of our staff would make alts to keep people’s guards down, and it happened too often

[stoic sleet]

And theres always the chance a side of the story could be lying because theres no chat history

You dont know what to trust

[copper beacon]

Dude, these things take work. I truly believe it's temporary—if you can't overcome this insecurity yourself, you can always get professional help from a specialist.

Your voice and appearance are things we can't control, so the healthiest approach is to make peace with them and live without letting them hold you back.

But anyway, this is going off-topic. The thread’s about DTDA 🙂

[stoic sleet]

Thank you

[frail bloom]

I'm usually not a fan of Andy but this goes hard

Makes me wish FM just went to incorporate this stuf a little more

[dusk robin]

ngl he is hit or miss

[frail bloom]

Bro just needs a bigger budget

He has good ideas

[stoic sleet]

Never tried andy but this is actually good

[supple oracle]

Doom The Peak Ages*

[vital rapids]

Actually, I disagree. The game is excellent.

[supple oracle]

The game is good, fun, there alot of depth to it if you learn the game

[delicate grotto]

Lame bait.

[neat rune]

Some people like when games just release with the same tired content from like 5 years ago I guess

People play COD every year

[delicate grotto]

COD is quite literally a carbon copy of itself with updated graphics. It’s insane how successful it still is.

[supple oracle]

Game is different from other modern doom game which is good

[shell gull]

had to reset the old one level on pandemonium cause the game glitched and i coulnt bring out my shield

[remote thunder]

holy live service brainrot

[harsh egret]

ragebait final boss

[frail bloom]

Weren't you almost banned earlier fellow blox

[harsh egret]

he should be

says u

[frail bloom]

Grug

[supple oracle]

I do agree the forced raytracing kinda ruin the game for alot players, but otherwise Gameplay, Story it good(not perfect), Levels design it top tier

[shell gull]

brother got packed by an aggadon fs

[delicate grotto]

Don’t you have anything better to do man. How bored do you gotta be to ragebait a discord channel about a game franchise you’re obviously a fan of.

[stoic sleet]

yooooo this guy again

[harsh egret]

it runs pretty alright on not too crazy hardware

[frail bloom]

Yeee it's blox dude

[stoic sleet]

The one saying like “fuck you” to me and others

[neat rune]

Yeah that sucks

[vivid flicker]

0/10 ragebait

[shell gull]

so the next update is gonna be quakecon?

[frail bloom]

Ye lemme try smt

[vital rapids]

It's fine if you don't like the game.
But if you want to take it further into silliness and think you are among doom haters you are sorely mistaken

[supple oracle]

It ok to have an opinion dude respect that, but in same time you can't be rude saying is trash

[harsh egret]

i think the biggest stuff will be in that update yh, some smaller things could come before prob

[vivid flicker]

Why does raytracing ruin it??

[stoic sleet]

Yeah u were begging Kevans for mercy

[harsh egret]

?

[shell gull]

so small balences like towards the impaler then big changes to stuff liek the 2nd and 3rd acts at quakecon/

[frail bloom]

I remember it like it was yesterday

[delicate grotto]

I think it was a mistake personally. I understand it helps streamline game development, which is great, but the state of newer technology is not nearly accessible enough yet to push it onto a casual audience. People love to bring up the Steam numbers with this game, but I’ve got a couple friends who wanted to play it and couldn’t due to spec requirements.

[remote thunder]

you say "it's just an opinion bro you can't ban me for that" and then insist "it's true tho" which is the opposite of an opinion

[harsh egret]

probably, its up to them what they wanna save for the qc update

[shell gull]

either way they r cooking

did hugo say that there is gonna be another game or 2 in prequels

[stoic sleet]

So im not gay, but if i was gay what would the issue be?

[supple oracle]

Totally agree

[vivid flicker]

I bought a new graphics card to get this game 😭

Play*

[vital rapids]

Sliders minmaxed is ridiculous. Nice and punsihing

[harsh egret]

idk, he makes it sound like there should be atleast another one but he cant announce anything

[frail bloom]

Looks like Blox brought a larger audience

[delicate grotto]

Might come as a surprise to you… not everyone is willing to drop $400+ USD on a console to play a game, lol.

[shell gull]

its ragebait

[graceful lion]

and a gpu is like less than 200

you can probably find 100 usd gpus that run tda

[frail bloom]

Very rage bait

[shell gull]

i had to upgrade my whole computer but then again it was on me for expecting the new doom game to run on a 1650

[vivid flicker]

Oh thats..

[delicate grotto]

Hugo hasn’t confirmed any future projects but it’s safe to say there will be more content focused on the Slayer Testaments continuing forward.

[graceful lion]

if ur hardware is 5 years old or younger, it will probably run next gen shit

[shell gull]

very nice

[vital rapids]

I upgraded for this and the Oblivion remaster. It's worked out ok

[stoic sleet]

Same

[vivid flicker]

Still more expensive

[fleet spruce]

so called doom fans when game isn't all the same looking tech bases and red/orange hell

[stoic sleet]

Dumbass?

[shell gull]

except i was running ddr4 8 gb and an i3-9100

[delicate grotto]

Putting the dollar sign after the number is all I needed to see.

[harsh egret]

can u just shut up

[graceful lion]

stop being rude pls

[delicate grotto]

Lmao. Bro’s mad.

[stoic sleet]

Jesus fucking christ stop name calling

[graceful lion]

ur hurting my feelings

[vivid flicker]

LOL

[stoic sleet]

U arent fucking tough dude

[harsh egret]

<@&162901871168585728> ban the fker

[graceful lion]

<@&162901871168585728>

[shell gull]

this guy aint real😭

[vivid flicker]

Okay calm down

[graceful lion]

fuck 😭

[frail bloom]

Bye bye Blox

[remote thunder]

sure, but your entire message history sounds like a chatbot trained on the average server member. that is to say you're just like everyone else on the ban list

[hollow sandal]

You fucking dip dong

[vital rapids]

Chill my dude. We're all friendly here

[graceful lion]

i shouldve waited 2 seconds lmao

[delicate grotto]

This guy’s gotta be a parody of every 12 year old ever. Holy shit.

[shell gull]

better than eternal

[harsh egret]

and fuck u enjoy the ban bye bye

[graceful lion]

yeah eternal suck frfr

[supple oracle]

Brother chill

[vivid flicker]

Woah

[shell gull]

yeah god awful game

[vivid flicker]

How is that guy not banned yet

[vital rapids]

I think you are on exactly the wrong discord channel tbh dude

[hollow sandal]

Hello sir, I hope you are well

[stoic sleet]

Kevan?

[supple oracle]

Hey o/

[stoic sleet]

Its THE kevans

[hollow sandal]

Bye fucker

[shell gull]

xx

[delicate grotto]

Someone’s a little cranky.

[remote thunder]

🫡 you will not be missed

[pine terrace]

Go on. Please give me more material to screenshot for your ban

[vital rapids]

Obviously

[vivid flicker]

This is what packgod does to a normal person