For most of Doom Eternal‘s demonic foes, the best they can expect is to make a nice corpse. A particularly pleasing splash of gore on the Doom Slayer’s boot. But for these fortunate few that handle to take down our man in inexperienced, a particular reward will quickly be in retailer. Doom Eternal’s first main replace will add Empowered Demons to the shooter, turning plucky imps and revenants right into a dimension-hopping menace.
Writing in a blog post this weekend, Bethesda outlined how these new trans-dimensional baddies work. If a demon does handle to land a killing blow on the Doom Slayer, they’ll turn out to be an Empowered Demon – a jacked-up model of their type that can begin showing in different gamers campaigns. Killing them will dump a ton of extra well being and ammo, with a pleasant little XP bonus for avenging your fellow Slayer.
What isn’t talked about is whether or not dying to an empowered demon bulks it up much more. I doubt it, actually, however there’s one thing pretty about an NPC mook hopping from game to game, feeding off participant corpses because it turns into an unstoppable pressure of nature. Good for you, I’d say, dwell your finest gore-soaked unlife.
Empowered Demons are notably not the identical as Invasions, a similarly-teased mechanic that allows you to invade one other participant’s world, Dark Souls model, as one of many denizens of hell. Still no phrase on when that’s coming at time of writing.
Beyond singleplayer, Update 1 is taking a wrench to asymmetrical deathmatch Battlemode – implementing Denuvo Anticheat, altering the tutorial, including a demise recap and poor connection notification, together with a brand new “Echelon” levelling system for gamers who’ve capped out their multiplayer ranges. Just a few quality-of-life enhancements are additionally being added throughout the board, together with changes to poisonous harm and a vertical sprint whereas swimming.
Finally, the Doom twitter account teased a couple of location pictures for Doom Eternal’s first little bit of marketing campaign DLC – exhibiting off each a correct knackered model of the game’s heavenly Makyr temples, and an industrial rig that wouldn’t look misplaced in Destiny 2‘s Titan seascape.
🚨sneak peak screenshots from our first upcoming marketing campaign DLC🚨 pic.twitter.com/9cOovcZ1Dt
— DOOM (@DOOM) May 8, 2020
While that first DLC drop doesn’t but have a launch date, Bethesda reckon Update 1 is “almost here”. Stay tuned for that, then.
