Astral Rag
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The New DOOM Thread (2016)
- Thread starter Morgoth
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Excidium II
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Not trolls, just shills. It's well known big companies pay people to hype stuff in big communities. There's marketing agencies entirely dedicated to that.
vaultboy101
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These developers have really reached the core of fun gunplay in this game. The loadouts mean that everyone can start with a rocket launcher right away, rather than having to search for one like in one of those neckbeard retard games from the 90s. EVERYONE uses the rocket launcher, so there are explosions EVERYWHERE, just like in Call of Duty! If you want to impose a challenge on yourself, you can always choose another weapon with less power, but personally I'm going to wait for them to unfuck the mouse input before I go THAT far.
The only other strategic consideration I have when I play is the demon rune. If you know where it's going to be, you basically get to fly around with quad damage rocket launchers, because they kill everyone in one hit. It's so cool, just like dragons. There's also a railgun with wallhacks that spawns elsewhere as a counter when the Revenant's out, because the regular rocket launcher and railgun do jack shit to the demon. See, you gotta tackle a one-hit-kill machine with another one-hit-kill machine designed specifically to counter it every time. THAT's balance.
It's a relief that they've distilled the game down to these two main concerns. Given what I saw of it before the alpha began, I almost thought this might be a game where I would have to think to win, but it's fortunately all about brute force. I wonder if the full release will include leveling up, just like in my favorite Bethesda games.
The only other strategic consideration I have when I play is the demon rune. If you know where it's going to be, you basically get to fly around with quad damage rocket launchers, because they kill everyone in one hit. It's so cool, just like dragons. There's also a railgun with wallhacks that spawns elsewhere as a counter when the Revenant's out, because the regular rocket launcher and railgun do jack shit to the demon. See, you gotta tackle a one-hit-kill machine with another one-hit-kill machine designed specifically to counter it every time. THAT's balance.
It's a relief that they've distilled the game down to these two main concerns. Given what I saw of it before the alpha began, I almost thought this might be a game where I would have to think to win, but it's fortunately all about brute force. I wonder if the full release will include leveling up, just like in my favorite Bethesda games.
review may be better than the game.
How do you even get hired for that? Man, I could also shill a bit if it gets me extra money. EA's about to make you their bitch, buy their latest Sims[tm] bye!
Astral Rag
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vaultboy101
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Some menus, because they're easy to screenshot and edit out all the identifiers. It TRULY is a PC game:
A start screen. It will presumably contain an option for the singleplayer and SnapMap upon release.
Currently you can view loadouts, change settings, and go into a very simple matchmaking system.
Mouse/keyboard settings. There are no options for mouse smoothing or acceleration, but I expect one of those "features" might be responsible for jumpy mouse input, if they are in the game, since I use a high DPI setting.
Key bindings appear to be reset in this menu each time I start up the game, but bindings are actually saved and work fine, even though the menu is broken.
Video options. This is an early public iteration, so it is understandable that some functions are not optional yet, but it's very, very barebones. The game runs okay for me, but it is missing options for vertical sync, framerate limit, and field of view.
Only 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios are allowed.
Anti-aliasing methods are the blurry post-processing kind.
Audio is simple and does not distinguish between music volume and game volume.
Here are the class selections, which show all currently available weapons and gadgets:
This is the matchmaking. You open it, and it automatically searches for a game. There are no options and no indicators of how many people are playing, or how stable your connection will be with them.
The in-game roster tracks kills, deaths, and assists. There is no ping indicator, not even that console icon that looks like a the wi-fi signal indicator on my phone.
Here is the post-game screen. In every case, you have to wait 40 seconds between maps. Perhaps this will change if dedicated servers are allowed with regular old map orders and in-game votes, but I doubt it.
Currently you can view loadouts, change settings, and go into a very simple matchmaking system.
Mouse/keyboard settings. There are no options for mouse smoothing or acceleration, but I expect one of those "features" might be responsible for jumpy mouse input, if they are in the game, since I use a high DPI setting.
Key bindings appear to be reset in this menu each time I start up the game, but bindings are actually saved and work fine, even though the menu is broken.
Video options. This is an early public iteration, so it is understandable that some functions are not optional yet, but it's very, very barebones. The game runs okay for me, but it is missing options for vertical sync, framerate limit, and field of view.
Only 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios are allowed.
Anti-aliasing methods are the blurry post-processing kind.
Audio is simple and does not distinguish between music volume and game volume.
Here are the class selections, which show all currently available weapons and gadgets:
This is the matchmaking. You open it, and it automatically searches for a game. There are no options and no indicators of how many people are playing, or how stable your connection will be with them.
The in-game roster tracks kills, deaths, and assists. There is no ping indicator, not even that console icon that looks like a the wi-fi signal indicator on my phone.
Here is the post-game screen. In every case, you have to wait 40 seconds between maps. Perhaps this will change if dedicated servers are allowed with regular old map orders and in-game votes, but I doubt it.
Astral Rag
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Honoring the Legacy of DOOM
Excidium II
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3avy7a_doom-4-closed-alpha_videogames
Looks fun as hell. UT4 is DOA, 4OOM is the new multiplayer FPS we need.
Looks fun as hell. UT4 is DOA, 4OOM is the new multiplayer FPS we need.
Lyric Suite
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And those that were there didn't even work. The only way to actually set the textures of the game on ultra was to manually change the config file, otherwise you'd always get high.
This garbage looks like Halo meets Crysis 2.
vaultboy101
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I took some measurements to determine the field of view. The game uses vertical field of view, and it appears to be around 62.
At a 16:9 resolution, I get possibly 93 degrees horizontally. I am able to turn my camera just over 90 degrees before I lose any point of reference. At a 16:10 resolution, I get possibly 87 degrees horizontally. I have to turn my camera just under 90 degrees to lose any point of reference. 62 is the vertical FOV that matches up with both of these numbers, so it seems like the most likely bet, or perhaps is something a little higher.
I tried looking for settings to change, but they all appear to be locked in archive files. The base folder contains the files gameresources.index, gameresources.resources, master.index, and tss.bin. None of these seem like they can be opened and altered by a program like 7zip, though they're pretty clearly archive files. There are no freely accessible configuration files. I am not sure if this is simply because they are in closed alpha and don't want people to mess around with the franchise DNA, or if they are truly developing a tamper-proof Doom game (at least until/unless people make their own mod tools).
So far, I think the two or three songs I've heard from this game (one was in a trailer) have all been contemporary electro trailer horns renditions of the theme from E1M1. Tr4e D44m 4 the m4dern 4ge!!!
At a 16:9 resolution, I get possibly 93 degrees horizontally. I am able to turn my camera just over 90 degrees before I lose any point of reference. At a 16:10 resolution, I get possibly 87 degrees horizontally. I have to turn my camera just under 90 degrees to lose any point of reference. 62 is the vertical FOV that matches up with both of these numbers, so it seems like the most likely bet, or perhaps is something a little higher.
I tried looking for settings to change, but they all appear to be locked in archive files. The base folder contains the files gameresources.index, gameresources.resources, master.index, and tss.bin. None of these seem like they can be opened and altered by a program like 7zip, though they're pretty clearly archive files. There are no freely accessible configuration files. I am not sure if this is simply because they are in closed alpha and don't want people to mess around with the franchise DNA, or if they are truly developing a tamper-proof Doom game (at least until/unless people make their own mod tools).
So far, I think the two or three songs I've heard from this game (one was in a trailer) have all been contemporary electro trailer horns renditions of the theme from E1M1. Tr4e D44m 4 the m4dern 4ge!!!
Metro
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So... right up your alley?
Says the Bethestard.
oddech_wymarlych_swiatow
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Despite all this shit D4 still looks better than D3.
Baron Dupek
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ID embraced gamepads since Rage so no surprise that next game is pure console shooter, similarity to Halo (people after their MP gameplays) doesn't help either.
For me game sux visually because overdesign. "Enriching" textures with every dirt, damage or scratch...
No artists work in game development, only intern cannon fodder, who do random shit.
That's why I loathe sci-fi, too much garbage for my eyes even Fallout feels clean.
For me game sux visually because overdesign. "Enriching" textures with every dirt, damage or scratch...
No artists work in game development, only intern cannon fodder, who do random shit.
That's why I loathe sci-fi, too much garbage for my eyes even Fallout feels clean.
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Sup Matt?
Excidium II
Self-Ejected
ITT innocent souls who never saw sexbad youtube channel.
Sigh..now I have to look for sexbad on jootoob....thanks.
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