My experience finishing the game for the first time

I finished it last year in December and oh boy did the music slapped! The combat was good, the collectables kinda useless. I missed a few upgrades but I will play the game again and get everything on that future playthrough. The only downside of it is the size of the game, it took me 16 hours (!) to download the game but otherwise it's a masterpiece and very welcome to the Hall of Doom!

Can't wait to play the sequel, Doom Eternal!

I have a question though, is SnapMap creation still active?

11 hours ago, TheSlipgateStudios said:

Can't wait to play the sequel, Doom Eternal!

 

At the Beginning, use the Chaingun after three Enemies.

Love Eternal, the DLCs not so much.

I see @FNSG posting Snapmap Stuff every here and there in the Forum.

Doom 2016 is a pretty badass Game from Start to Finish, i somehow think in the End i will come back more to it than Eternal, even if my Playtime right now say clearly that Eternal wins.

13 hours ago, TheSlipgateStudios said:

I have a question though, is SnapMap creation still active?

Still very active, the best and the most active creators are on a Discord server unfortunately.

This thread mentions some of the new stuff it has:

I started playing Doom 2016 in 2018 and haven't finished it yet... and most likely I never will. I've made some restarts over the years, and always ended midgame with the same conclusion. This is a too long, too hard and too complex game for my skills, taste and stamina.

Not a criticism on the game, it's just me.

On 4/9/2023 at 10:46 PM, ARMCoder said:

I started playing Doom 2016 in 2018 and haven't finished it yet... and most likely I never will. I've made some restarts over the years, and always ended midgame with the same conclusion. This is a too long, too hard and too complex game for my skills, taste and stamina.

 

Not a criticism on the game, it's just me.

Just to amend my own post...

I gave it a last try few weeks ago, and decided to make a more disciplined approach (HMP skill). That is, to look for and conquer every weapon upgrade, secret, challenge, rune, praetor token, argent cell (did I forget anything?) and make a slower level progression. I replayed all the past levels as needed to get all the rewards, what served as a good training too!

In the end I earned 8 of the 12 available runes, from which I stuck to three that I really liked. The last rune trials are REALLY hard to me!

There's no doubt that all the upgrades combined made a great change on gameplay, even the boss fights (Mama Spider included) got relatively easy to tackle! Finished at last!

I'm not yet sure whether I will try the game in UV, maybe some day...

Cheers!

I believe the size was inflated when they made the DLC a free part of the base game. I appreciate the gesture but it would be nice to be able to download only the singleplayer, as the snapmap and multiplayer dont interest me

On 6/23/2023 at 1:11 PM, ARMCoder said:

 

Just to amend my own post...

 

I gave it a last try few weeks ago, and decided to make a more disciplined approach (HMP skill). That is, to look for and conquer every weapon upgrade, secret, challenge, rune, praetor token, argent cell (did I forget anything?) and make a slower level progression. I replayed all the past levels as needed to get all the rewards, what served as a good training too!

 

In the end I earned 8 of the 12 available runes, from which I stuck to three that I really liked. The last rune trials are REALLY hard to me!

 

There's no doubt that all the upgrades combined made a great change on gameplay, even the boss fights (Mama Spider included) got relatively easy to tackle! Finished at last!

 

I'm not yet sure whether I will try the game in UV, maybe some day...

 

Cheers!

The day has come and I finally finished the game in UV!

Hell, I've learned a lot... but... what can I say about my experience playing in UV? The gameplay was mostly challenging but not oppressing, however the two final levels (Vega Central Processing and Argent D'Nur) were REALLY hard on me! I died a lot, and in the end, I think that sheer stubbornness was more decisive than actual skill.

And no, I'm not playing Doom in Nightmare anytime soon. UV made me sweat enough and I think I've found my limits. I will try Eternal next, and of course, I will still keep playing 2016 just to relax.

On 3/18/2023 at 10:10 AM, TheSlipgateStudios said:

I finished it last year in December and oh boy did the music slapped! The combat was good, the collectables kinda useless. I missed a few upgrades but I will play the game again and get everything on that future playthrough. The only downside of it is the size of the game, it took me 16 hours (!) to download the game but otherwise it's a masterpiece and very welcome to the Hall of Doom!

 

Can't wait to play the sequel, Doom Eternal!

 

I have a question though, is SnapMap creation still active?

Doom 2016 is great, the developpers have done a great job about exploration which is rewarding to boost the Praetor suit and abilities, i wish that you will like Eternal which is more better in my point of view, with more upgrades and the most important point : ennemies have weakness, so every weapons and their upgrades have their usefulness. Eternal is more speed, offer more challenge and most of levels are truly well done and excellent. It is a bit linear but the exploration is here. You will like it, good game and have fun !

Edit : you have probably finish the game :p