The Official ZDF New Doom Thread

[agaures]

Works perfectly fine for me.
GTX 960 G1 Gaming 2GB
i5 4570 quad core 3.2GHz
Performance wise I've been getting around 50-60 fps. Better than what i got in the alpha which was around 30-50 fps.
I do have AA set to TAA, there's no 'off' option in the beta which is strange.They added a motion blur option which was on high by default. Annnnnd there's an advanced video options menu which we don't have access to...


Well... i might have been lying when i said it works perfectly fine. I've noticed a bit more random lag stuff happening although i didn't get any in the alpha.
Stuff like floating projectiles or corpses occurs quite often:

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But i made my lightning gun look pretty! (yes there's a lightning gun and yes it's awesome)

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Edit:

So steam updated the beta with a 0 byte update. Turns out when i went into the steam folders there's now config files!

[SamVision]

I don't think Doom's weapons were meant to be used with loadout system. Equip the rocket launcher, plasmagun and/or the SSG and you pretty much dominate everyone.

[Jeimuzu73]

I envy you guys with GTX's and quad-cores. If only I asked for a proper gaming laptop with that stuff a couple years back...

Now I'm a dirty Intel HD Graphics peasant stuck with playing the Emulation mod.

[agaures]

I actually think the load-out system works. Because even if these weapons were scattered around the maps, i would only go for about 2. Yeah it does mean there are less complex situations and the mad rush from spawn trying to find a weapon and all that but i feel the weapons are so specific for everyone else. I don't use the plasma gun because for me the damage output isn't good enough. I don't use the rocket launcher because the delay on it throws me off so much that i can't hit anyone with it besides myself (although everyone else seems to use it just fine). The best combination for me is the lightning gun and super shot gun. Now this may just come down to me being an odd player like the fact i use the rail gun close to mid range in quake 3. The range on the lightning gun is a lot larger than i thought it would be too, i can get people from surprising distances it almost seems a bit unfair but then again these maps are relatively close quarters. I still haven't managed to find what the alt fire for the lightning gun does though. It just seems to be the same but less damage.

Edit:

If you were referring to the original doom weapons though, they are nothing like the originals. I find the SSG is incredibly useless unless you're standing really close to your opponent.

[TheMightyHeracross]

NEW CINEMATIC TRAILER!!! WOOO!!!

I couldn't stand that music at first, but I mind it less and less every time I watch that trailer. Anyway, this is looking good! I'd be surprised if it did flop like people said, since Bethesda is doing so much to advertise it. Even my friends at school are starting to hear about it.

[Xaser]

super luau gun all right



Been trying to play the Beta as much as possible, but the Infernal map has a tendency to fark up and either crash or lag horribly for me. It's kinda gumming up the works, so to speak.

[Devianteist]

I am absolutely in love with the beta! I cannot wait for this game to release, cause it is AWESOME.

Opinions may vary.

[SamVision]

I still haven't managed to find what the alt fire for the lightning gun does though. It just seems to be the same but less damage.

I think it's lower range, less damage but with some splash damage.

[Shotgunyx]

Everyone aboard the hype bus! next stop: Hypeland!

[SamVision]

So anyway: you can't climb an angled surface and you can't text chat unless you are alive and mid-game. Either shitty design choice or just shitty oversight.

[agaures]

You can climb angled surfaces. The text chatting has been fucked since alpha.
Also i found out what the Lightning gun alt fire does. Shooting it at the ground damages several people at the same time but less damage than the primary fire.

[The Zombie Killer]

So the closed alpha (not beta, the alpha is far superior when it comes to data mining) contains a shit-ton of stuff not found in the beta files, including stuff for most of the playable demons. Some guys over at a forum that I shouldn't mention have released tools for modding as well, along with mods to make these demons playable. Here's some footage of the Baron:



And the mancubus too:

[SamVision]

You can climb angled surfaces.

Sorry I meant angled edges, you can't climb them. Also you can't melee as the revenant.

[agaures]

If that's the alpha why isn't the build code flashing around the screen. Or did you remove that with leet hacking skills?

Disappointing the baron doesn't have a distance attack. This is also making me question how hard it will be able to balance these demons in the final release. I mean the baron has more health than the revenant but the revenant can die very fast as is. Also the fact that the baron does a forced glory kill animation with each melee kill is concerning. You'd probably take most of your damage from standing there waiting for the animation to finish.

Sorry I meant angled edges, you can't climb them. Also you can't melee as the revenant.

Yeah that is one thing i noticed was a bit annoying with the revenant especially when players were close to me. Although the rate of fire for the revenant's shot is already so short it makes spamming very easy.

I didn't manage to telefrag the revenant in the beta but i did get a lot of glory kills on it which were so satisfying.

[Jeimuzu73]

Doom beta's now closed.

Bloody shame I couldn't get to try it. I hope they optimize the final game for older machines.