The bottom three have worked best for me. Chrono time, equipment cooldown, and bloodpunch health. Equipment cooldown coupled with some perks mean you can use grenades pretty frequently. Slow time works best with certain weapon/mod combos. It's really useful with lock-on rockets.

For perks I usually go: dash refills more quickly, dash refill on glory kill, and faster weapon swap first. They help you move faster. Then health from frozen enemies, cooldown on ice grenade, fire grenades twice, and grenade cooldown after that. Pick what you want after that. You can freeze a bunch of enemies, light them on fire right after, then either blood punch or pop a grenade off. Will give you a ton of health and armor.

For crystals, I alternate between ammo and health until both are at three blips each then armor. More ammo and health after that.

Max out the super shotgun as fast as you can. Complete the mastery challenge in the ripatorium and against fodder demons. After that the hook will set enemies on fire. You can get a good 20-30 armor from each fodder demon you kill with it. It also helps you move around arenas more quickly.

LOL, I end up punching those guys every single time...

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I haven't played this in about three days for fear of a nervous breakdown, lol. One of my co-workers is a Doom nut as well. He told me he just ran into an Arch-Vile, and even with the BFG it didn't go well. CAN'T WAIT!!

So Fish and Shifty, how far along are you guys into this madness?

Ok, I'm going to play. So much for getting to sleep easily tonight. Haha

Yeah, the Archviles are pretty nasty. I normally reserve the crucible for them. If you don't knock them out quickly enough, shit gets really crazy and it's just a non stop wave of demons on crack. Took me a while to figure out they're resistant to damage when they're surrounded in flame. They don't take damage from a BFG either, unless you directly hit them with the green BFG projectile. Takes a lot of regular ammo to kill them.

I'm on the final level. Might actually finish it tonight.

Yeah, you're best bet against them is to use the crucible or freeze them and then use a couple of lock-on rocket bursts.

I'm on about my tenth play-through lol. Have you given them another shot yet? Maybe watch some videos of what other players are doing to beat them.

Finally finished it. Wow. Icon of Sin battle kicked my ass for two days before I finally beat it. Epic game. Visuals and graphics were amazing. Another killer soundtrack by Mick Gordon, even though it sounds like he got royally screwed over on some of the mixes... Maybe one of the most stressful and mentally demanding games I've played. Some of the gameplay was so crazy intense!
I would seriously play in spurts where I'd get stuck and stressed and super frustrated and not play the game for 4-5 days, then jump back in and blast through another 2-3 levels.

Gonna do another playthrough on Nightmare this time. Get through it without ever turning the difficulty down. I can already think of quite a few spots I'm going to seriously regret.

Played a few rounds of Battlemode now too. Not sure what to think after just a few plays. Got my ass completely kicked in several games, then experienced the opposite in a few more. Hope they expand on the multiplayer and we eventually see something similar to the 2016 version multiplayer. Cause that was ****ing kick ass even though the official map offerings weren't huge.

Congrats, Fish.

Good luck on Nightmare. The first few levels are ROUGH. Gets a bit easier after that. You have to keep moving even more.

I'm loving Battlemode. Balancing is a little off, though. Match quality varies pretty wildly based off of Slayer skill level, demon skill level, demon pairing, and map. You'll have some great matches and then some shitty ones.

Thanks. What's the best demon pairing? Cause I've actually been wondering about that.

It depends a little on the map. Marauder and Archville are pretty good on most. I have a ton of fun playing as a Pain Elemental or Revenant on more open maps paired with either a marauder or archville. Mancubus can be fun with a marauder. Use that little speed burst to get close and then use flamethrowers.

Some slayers are damn good, though. Not much you can do when they key in on you and bring the heat. Check out the tutorials and loadouts if you haven't already, too.

What are you playing on?

I'm on PC. I hate playing FPS games on consoles.

Currently 25% off on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/782330/DOOM_Eternal/

It's also cracked already, if anybody wants to try before they buy.

LMAO

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I got this game. It is good.

Was this you, Fish?

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Yeah, that's ****ing nuts. Ultra Nightmare mode is just stupid hard. Incredibly frustrating. That guy knows exactly where the enemies will spawn. Crazy. And the way he uses the ballista to throw himself around?

Also... the fist DLC will drop pretty soon:

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^ Niiiiicee


And yes, propelling himself with the ballista was just.....pure whaaatt?? I would love to know exactly how many times he played it to have it down to a "T" like that. A few times I was almost convinced it was an AI playing, lol.

Also, I was really stressing watching him waste ammo in down moments, haha.

And just because you shoved me down the rabbit hole

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Awesome! Might be my GOTY.

So this has basically been my experience on Nightmare mode, LOL. I've been working on clearing Nightmare for months. You wouldn't believe how many times I've rage quit. Then I see a cool Doom video, and get sucked right back in.

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I have to give the ultimate kudos to you guys...I was playing DOOM, DOOM II and the others before the reboot. This game and its predecessor is INSANE! I could never play this game on ANY level - congrats to young fellows! :thumb:

Its an absolute blast. Whenever my mom left the house my dad would let me watch him play DOOM and DOOM II. I lived for it. Brings back memories playing this now.

Doom 64 might be thr best old school. I'm playing it for the first time and its fantastic.

Doom 64: $4.99 for Nintendo Switch

Thats what I am playing it on. I actually got it for 2.49 last week I believe. Even better was using my gold coins for it!

Free next gen upgrade to PS5 and SXS. I think I might wait and have this be a launch title game on the ps5 for me. I really hope they can add some ray tracing, but I won't get my hopes up.

https://www.engadget.com/doom-eterna...161353603.html

Look fun, other than the ****ing pair of Marauders...

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fIvE lololol

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5??

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I get really sick playing the game. I guess from the fast pace.

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Look, it's going to be cold af this weekend with maybe snow, so hunker down to rip 'n tear

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LOL... as long as I've played this ****ing game, I still forget to look for when I've built up a Bloodpunch. Every ****ing time, I end up Bloodpunching the super **** out of a lowly imp....

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This DLC is nuts.

The base game is $29.99 on sale at the Playstation store and the game + season pass is $54, almost double the cost. Is the DLC really worth it?

I'm thinking I'm going to pick up the base game for $30 and have it be a launch title for the PS5, unless the DLC really blows people away.

So did anyone finish this game and the DLC's? Fish? Beauford? SEW?

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I finished the game, but didn't get the DLCs yet. They're even more difficult than the base game.

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But yes, those DLC's look to be stroke inducing. And it looks like you step off and right into it. I'm morbidly intrigued to see if your psyche can stand up to the challenge. :evil:

Coincidentally... Ancient Gods 1&2 went on sale for the weekend. Both are currently 50% off in the Steam store.

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1098292/

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1098293/