Doom beta dates revealed, new multiplayer footage unleashed

09.03.2016

Gore and beastly new demons—everything we have any right to expect from new Doom footage. But wait! It’s accompanied by the dates for the closed beta, so clear your calendar: March 31, 10pm ET – April 3, 11:59pm ET is going to get messy.

The bad news is that this beta will only be available to those who pre-ordered Wolfenstein: The New Order. At the present there doesn’t seem to be any way to register or otherwise get your name on a waiting list, and the existence of an open beta is still unhelpfully “to be determined by Bethesda in its discretion”. Full instructions on how to redeem a code or activate the beta (if you bought Wolfenstein through Steam) can be found here.

Doom will trundle out to the rest of us May 13.

Edit: I’ve swapped out the old link to the beta info that came with the press release for a new, shinier one that has the specifics on what you’ll be playing, namely:

Maps: Heatwave and Infernal
Game Modes: 6v6 Team Deathmatch and Warpath
Demon: Revenant
Weapons: Rocket Launcher, Plasma Rifle, Super Shotgun, Vortex Rifle, Static Rifle, Heavy Assault Rifle, and Lightning Gun
Power Weapons: Gauss Cannon
Equipment: Frag Grenade, Personal Teleporter, Siphon Grenade

There are system requirements too, though Bethesda stresses that these aren’t final and that the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and mobile GPUs are not supported for the beta.

Minimum Spec (720p)