In Doom, the marks of a good player are situational awareness, positioning, and knowing which weapon to use. Scoring in first-person shooters isn't always that great, so if you were to implement a scoring system which isn't just an endurance test, you could either score the player on the time it took to complete a level or just add a bunch of new mechanics to add some new challenge to regular play. SHMUPs do this by having score systems based around grazing, point-blanking, chaining etc. while shooting and dodging bullets, and Demonsteele has a meter which fills depending on how quickly you kill shit, which fits with the flow since Demonsteele is all about GOING FAST. So what nuDoom apparently tries to do for scoring, is to grade the player for walking up to monsters while they are almost dead, and then execute them with a gory takedown. From what I've seen, Glory Kills are not a flow-breaker as I originally thought. But having a scoring system which revolves AROUND Glory Kills is a huge mistake. Being able to Glory Kill is nice every now and then, but having to constantly watch out to not kill an enemy before you can Glory Kill it, especially once the size of enemy groups increases, might become a huge pain. The game would become less about crowd control, but more about flow-breaking meta bullshit instead. If anything, you should be ranked for how well you remain in the flow (e.g. chaining) instead of how many Glory Kills you can execute. Chaining would fit nuDoom than the original more considering the arena level design of enemies randomly spawning around you in an enclosed area, and there being no 'dead time' thanks to arena level design, unlike old-school level design where you aren't always hardlocked into an encounter.
