He warns the Slayer that humanity's time has come before giving him the power source and a special dagger. The Slayer teleports to a destroyed city in California and kills Deag Nilox, but the Khan Maykr teleports the two remaining priests to unknown locations, forcing the Slayer to continue searching.Īfter retrieving a celestial locator from the Sentinel world of Exultia, the Slayer travels to Hell to retrieve a power source from a fallen Sentinel known as the Betrayer. The priests serve an angelic being known as the Khan Maykr who seeks to sacrifice mankind. Samuel Hayden, returns with a satellite fortress controlled by the AI VEGA, a sort of castle in near-Earth orbit, to quell the demonic invasion by killing the Hell Priests: Deags Nilox, Ranak, and Grav.
The Doom Slayer, having previously been betrayed and teleported away by Dr. What remains of humanity has either fled Earth or have banded together as part of ARC, a resistance movement formed to stop the invasion but have gone into hiding after suffering heavy losses. Some time after the events of Doom (2016), Earth has been overrun by demonic forces, wiping out 60% of the planet's population, under the now-corrupted Union Aerospace Corporation. Unlike its predecessor, Doom Eternal's multiplayer component was developed in-house by id Software. Within Battlemode, demon players can take on the role of the Archvile, Mancubus, Marauder, Pain Elemental, Revenant, or Dread Knight and use various abilities to defeat the Slayer. The multiplayer side of Doom Eternal is called Battlemode and consists of an asymmetrical 2v1 deathmatch, where two players take on the role of a demon, and the third player takes on the role of the Slayer.
These demons are stronger than normal but if killed, give better drops.Įxtra Lives also return from DOOM '16's Arcade mode for use in the main campaign, though have been modified to respawn the player on the spot with no loss in arena progress as oppose to restarting from a checkpoint a limited number of times. There is a new feature called empowered demons, in which demons who have killed a player in another campaign will appear in the player's campaign. Other objects such as field drones and collectible toys make a reappearance. The Slayer still has his twice-jump boots that he picked up in Doom (2016), has further acquired the ability to scale certain roughly-textured walls like an Imp, and soon gains the ability to dash through the air, which combined with jumping, means Doomguy now can traverse large distances of empty air, contributing to the distinctness of the game from Doom '16. With an increased focus on mobility in the game, the DOOM Slayer gains a grappling hook (via the Super Shotgun), the ability to perform two rechargeable dashes anytime, and swing from monkeybars. The Slayer also has access to a new Blood Punch melee attack.ĭoom Eternal has more emphasis on making large jumps and climbs, a bit like a 3-D version of classic Super Mario games.
The flame belch stuns enemies and makes them drop armor. The Doom Slayer is now equipped with a cooldown-style shoulder cannon, which can be used to shoot grenades, ice bombs, or a burst of flame without interrupting attacks. Alternate fire modes returned from DOOM '16 as well and have been rebalanced to make them more viable to switch between. To compensate, the chainsaw, which works the same as in Doom (2016) by providing ammo drops from kills, always has at least one fuel. The weapon set is slightly different, with the notable change of the shotgun being the first weapon, and there is no pistol with infinite ammo. The Ultra-Nightmare difficulty level has been removed, with the game now having the same four difficulty level names as Classic Doom, but the other difficulty levels are somewhat tougher than those in Doom (2016). The single player mode is mostly similar to Doom (2016), but there are a few differences.