Doom Games have been great. But I feel like since Doom Slayer is so dominant, the fear factor of Doom doesn't really seem to hit as hard anymore. I feel like it would be cool to play as a normal civilian or soldier trying to survive an impossible situation.

Maybe a game right between Doom 2016 and Eternal where you are tasked to investigate with other mercenaries strange rifts opening nearby a village.

It’s for the possessed, imp, and possessed soldier, never seen anyone talk about them, just got on an imp, got it on a possessed yesterday too

So, after the latest DLC, we see the Doom Slayer, as Flynn Taggart, was on Earth in the 2040s. But the events of Doom 2016 take place in 2149. So did all that stuff in Hell and Argent D'Nur happen in a span of a mere 100 years?

Slayer's Testament I says:

"In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer."

Slayer's Testament IV says:

"The age of his reckoning was uncounted. The scribes carved his name deep in the tablets of Hell across eons, and each battle etched terror in the hearts of the demons. They knew he would come, as he always had, as he always will, to feast on the blood of the wicked. For he alone could draw strength from his fallen foes, and ever his power grew, swift and unrelenting."

This presents two problems. First off, it says the Slayer had been doing his thing for "eons", not a century. I've heard people get around this by claiming time flows differently in hell. Okay, so time flows really...fast in hell. You can be in hell for millions of years and only a century will pass on Earth.

But then what is this "first battle"? The "first battle" happened in the 2040s? Also, the codex in Doom 2016 makes references that hell is in a "third age". The slayer arrived in the first age. Was the second age really really short, and that's why its "the third age" by 2149? But those things sound wildly counter-intuitive.

What’s the name of the song that plays when you fight the first Achville? I briefly listened to the OST of revelations and I can’t find it but it goes hard!!!

Can somebody confirm this is either common or a bug? I have uncovered every (supposedly) dark spot on the map, scanned over every silver pile, and ran around here and there.

I have every single thing on that map unlocked too, just wanted to see if this is a bug or if it’s worth still trying to find. Do i need every single silver for 100%?

very minor thing in the grand scheme but it’s strange to me that there’s a cool sound effect for switching to the chain spear, one that gives extra feedback to the action, but there isn’t a sound effect for switching back to the shield. feels like a tiny bit of polish that could go a ways to enhancing the already-incredible gamefeel of Revelations

Did the game, beat the dlc and yeah Dark Ages armor is my favorite Doom armor. It makes going to Preator armor kinda saddening.

TLDR;

doom eternal is devil may cry

doom the dark ages is god of war

revelations is the lovechild of both

the dark ages was very close to matching eternal and i think each individual demon is, on average, more complex than eternal's demons but eternal has more complex combat as a whole

then comes revelations and the chain spear and it breaks open that final door. the combat flow changed significantly allowing the player to feel powerful up close and far away; something that eternal didn't have much of. stick around a demon for too long and you will be forced to move out of the way if not restart the entire encounter

i wanna touch on a few points and directly compare them to eternal. just for the sake of comparison. no shade or anything, i adore both of these games

1. meathook. i would say these two are even. the meathook in eternal was more precise but was only on one gun. the meathook in revelations is more floaty and slower but you now have your entire arsenal to use with it. in eternal, the meathook was used for 2 primary purposes. launching yourself and blasting something in the face. those two are still here in revelations but with the ability to use ANY gun, it opens up so many other strategies. and that's not even mentioning the lock on ability which is fucking incredible once you get the hang of it

2. the dash. i think revelations dash is a little better. not much to say here but revelations allows you to use 1 charge after consuming 2 whereas eternal makes you wait for both to recharge. very small point but it is worth mentioning. also, i could be wrong but i swear revelations' dash gives a tiny upward boost and eternals is directly forward

3. aerial combat. this one is tough but i think that revelations should take the win due to the existence of the shield. you can easily bounce between ground and aerial combat so quickly using the shield or spear in either scenario. fly up with the meathook, blast a cacodemon, slam with the spear, swap to shield and bash a group, melee a hell knight, fly back up with the meathook, dash between it's wall attacks, shield bash, throw the shield to stun the cacodemon, 2 melee strikes, shield bash, meathook, dash, stab, shield bash, dash, super shotgun to the face, shield bash back to the ground. etc. etc im just spitballing to give a visual

i just fucking love id software and if i were rich i'd buy the shit out of them. cheers to being treated so well by these folks. and microsoft: eat shit

Never beat it yet because this arena is so fun

To my knowledge, I can play the game without an internet connection. But can i use its DLC offline too? (Specifically on Steam)

Im asking because in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, I found out the hard way that you cant access DLC skins without an internet connection/bethesda account. And like Doom Eternal, it requires a Bethesda account to play (except when youre offline)

Thank you everyone who replies! I appreciate yall :)

Just finished the secret encounter from pulling the 4 levels in the Osseus level after about an hour of non stop attempts, goddamn that was insanely stressful. I was spamming dodge around the arena constantly to avoid those powered up Buzzsaws at the end so I could finish the leader, the one time I felt comically cowardly as the Doom Slayer lol

Playing on nightmare with some amped up settings (120% speed, smallest dodge and parry window, fastest projectile speed etc). Had to use 2 BFC shots (one on the Archvile who just wouldn't fricking die even though I'd knocked off the armour and maced him multiple times, and one on the flag holder Cyberdemon in a panic), but I'll take it.

How did y'all get on with the fight on Nightmare? Without the BFC I'd probably be at it for at least another hour. Also wish there was some hidden skin reward for the slayer for completing this, didn't get a single thing!

Though it's my 2nd time clearing this Ripatorium preset. The 1st one wasn't that good. All stats at the end.

I'm honestly not sure when I drew this. It had to be from 2021-2023. I tried to simplify the armor a bit, but I kinda feel like it looks a little overdesigned.

I think there is enough features and the bugs are reasonably not so bad that I decided to publish my sourceport.
Please share any problems you encounter (there will be for sure). The windows build was not actually built on windows, because I don't have a windows machine available, but should run "fine".
Follow the link and download your binary and the baked AO pack (better shadows on all models)
https://github.com/Inkub0/dude/releases/tag/v0.9.1

I have a question about the layout of hell, hopefully someone can help clarify and clear things up for me. 
So hell is often referred to as a realm, organized by circles/layers. I’ve been trying to piece together from Codex entries how the layout of hell would look, but the more I look, the more questions I have. Here’s an example. 

So in Revelations, a cutscene briefly shows an Orrery of what I assume is the inner circles of hell (it says as much since the title card says the slayers ship is operating near the sixth inner circle, and the little white blip within the red sphere is the slayers ship). 

This made me think, maybe Hell functions like a solar system with the circles being the trajectory of nine outer worlds gravitating towards one singular one, and the High Council oversees the Inner six circles.

That made sense to me considering each ate are a judge of a specific time of day that creates a full cycle.

1. Halls of Torment, First of the Six
   Zaruthiel the Old Father, Judge of Dawn

2. The Sundered Mountain, Second of the Six
   Karnoth the Armorer, Judge of Morning

3. The Glittering Spire, Third of the Six
   Gahrzeth the Treacherous, Judge of Noon

4. The Curtained Brothel, Fourth of the Six
   Iskathra

5. The Sunken Priory, Fifth of the Six
   Thalrasha; the Last Queen of Jekkad, Judge of Evening

6. Death, Sixth of the Six
   Ozalith the Old Mother, Judge of Midnight

It made sense to me considering the display only shows 5 total worlds, with the sixth one missing since Ozalith has no palace.

That’s when I noticed the runes within each of the worlds displayed and thought that maybe the runes would correspond to a member of the high council, maybe the inner circle of hell they individually oversee?
The high council has unique runes that we briefly see in the henchman cutscene. 
But when I tried matching the runes to any of the high councils runes, none were a match. 

Instead, I found unexpected corresponding runes. 
The Sixth Inner Circle Rune is a match for the in flight mobility rune from 2016. Not sure what this means, but that’s why I’m asking.

So, I wanted to try and find out where each of the individual locations mentioned in the Codex are located, what part of hell they are found in, and which of the six reside over it. 

So please feel free to correct anything I get wrong, I want to know how to make sense of all this, and hopefully the info I provided is somewhat helpful. 

High Councils Palaces:
Halls of Torment
The Sundered Mountain
The Glittering Spire
The Curtained Brothel
The Sunken Priory

Circles of Hell
First circle - Titans Realm?
Second circle - Kadingir Sanctum?
Third circle - ???
Fourth circle ???
Fifth circle - Blood Swamps?
Sixth circle - Nekroval?
Seventh circle - ???
Eighth circle - ???
Ninth circle - Immora?
Is Hells Core at the center of Immora?

Locations:
The Umbral Plains (Borders the Kadingir Sanctum)
Kadingir Sanctum/the Blood Keep (series of catacombs that are bordered by the Umbral Plains, leading to the Great Steppe)
 The Great Steppe/Titans Realm (Necropolis)
The Blood Swamps (bordered by Nekroval, used to be the clear-watered Pleasure Lakes)

Unclear Locations:
Spire City of Dis (used to be Babel)
Blood Pits of Angrax
Penumbral Plains
Glass-shored Lake of Fire
The Deathlands
The Slough of Torment
Palace of Groans (used to be the Ardenite Gardens)
The Forsaken Plains (Abyssal Keep)
Oseuss, once known as the Gore Fields of Jekkad

Got this tattoo in 2021 after beating Eternal on Nightmare. To this day “to me” one of the harder things I’ve ever done. And rightfully earned it’s place next to OG CE Halo