my steam preload just changed before my eyes too
nothing’s confirmed for steam but it sure would be nice to have a day of doom and then let animal crossing take over
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In a few hours on Ultra-Violence and yeah, those Arachnotron turrets are no joke. The beginning is (thankfully) less exposition heavy than trailers implied it might be. Health potions lined about goes a long way for the nu-retro feel.
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Just put my preorder in, on PS4. Thing is downloading. Looking forward to starting it this evening. Kind of bullshit that Doom 64 downloads instantly but I still have to wait 5 hours to play it.
I like the theme it comes with.
Spoiler alert.
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and yet… you know how it sometimes feels like From is deliberately unlearning lessons between releases almost just because they were bored?
I’m almost positive this came out of the shelved Doom 4 concept. it’s good but the first level might be worse in every way?
the use of space in the arenas feels sloppier than I remember 2016 being, the tone is way closer to 90s doom and not better for it, the music for the encounter design is barely there
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the platforming is fine but I remember the levels lending themselves a bit more to secret-hunting the last time around, here they almost have a bit of a half life 2 thing going on where you trust that they’re funnelling you in one direction so peeling off is unintuitive
shooting is good though, I always love breaking enemies down bit by bit in brawlers
resource management may be slightly overtuned in terms of how often you’re obliged to get out your chainsaw versus breaking it out as a bonus to yourself but the difficulty level on ultraviolence is good
I’ll play more tomorrow, idk
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ah shit this is the other thread
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Based on how the story is already going I am completely mentally prepared for this game to have literally the entire intended plot of The Fight for Justice.
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was going to moan about how badly my 1060 was doing but disabling the steam overlay fixed that
Ahh thank you! You actually can get very detailed performance stats out of this game (turning “Performance Stats” to ultra nightmare) and I was seeing I was very CPU bound, which briefly made sense in my mind given mine’s maybe 7 years old at this point.
After turning off the Steam Overlay that problem went away. wtf is this overlay doing?
false alarm, level 2 is good
still feels like they got one of the Barnes and Noble paperback guys writing it but not the worse for it mechanically
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Still can’t decide if there’s too much going on here mechanically & upgrade-wise but I’m having fun with it.
It’s very videogamey!
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Started on Nightmare in the limited lives mode where if you run out of one ups it’s game over. Ran out of lives, got a game over. It’s fun. I’ll restart it on regular Nightmare or Ultraviolence though.
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I don’t really mind the ridiculous number of upgrade trees tbh, I like when action games give you Too Many Numbers to play with when they’re fully separate from the core loop / not loot-minded and just give you more options to think about
I think that first level was really bad tbh! but very happy with it now
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What’s the best difficulty level? What I’m looking for is the one that pushes me to use all of the mechanics effectively (i.e. I can’t get away with not learning some things because it’s too easy, and I’m not forced into a degenerate cheese because it’s too hard).
so far I’m very happy with ultraviolence (which I think roughly corresponds to hard rather than very hard), I’m dying a good amount
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I’ve read that Ultraviolence is the sweet spot but some reviewers mentioned having to turn it down in the end game thanks to the Marauder enemy type.
But they might just not be True Doom Murderheads.
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