Eternal is basically the first time uv has lived up to actually being a hard mode in a commercial doom game.
Doom eternal the ancient gods difficulty. Well its plutonia for doom eternal pretty much whole point was to push the difficulty even higher and while some places or fights could be considered dickish there is honestly nothing that would be impossible and they could definitely make it even tougher without being dickish. The ancient gods part one picks up where the doom eternal campaign left off so you ll start with all of your abilities and things won t take much time to get going. Artificial difficulty in the ancient gods doom eternal doom eternal is a skillful game where death is a punishment for making mistakes but in the dlc death is a punishment for playing the game. I fricking love it.
I played eternal day 1 in ultra violent and didn t touch it again after finishing the game i was sure i would get destroyed. Poor design choice by id imo. Sure i d die a couple of times per level during the base game but i m getting stuck way more often in ag. You ll probably need to turn down the difficulty for the doom eternal dlc.
The difficulty curve also begins where the main campaign left off so don t expect doom eternal to go easy on you even if you haven t played the game since launch. Each level has one support rune to be found which can be equipped to your fourth rune slot to give yourself an additional special ability. I m playing on console and getting recked on nightmare. There s a moment in the trailer for doom eternal s ancient gods dlc that probably offered up a minor freakout for.
Base game ramped up progressively and since ancient gods is post game it was obvious they would start where the base game ended up difficulty wise. I finished the ancient gods dlc this morning. Doom eternal s the ancient gods dlc brings three new missions to the game uac atlantica facility the blood swamps and the holt. The difficulty level was over the top ridiculous and just plain dumb.
The doom eternal main campaign was one of the best fps campaigns i have ever played. I platinumed the game on ps4 and this dlc difficulty made me feel like a noob.