The difficulty levels are fine the bigger problem seems to be that people just default to ultra violence because that s been the goto doom standard since the 90s.
Doom eternal the ancient gods difficulty. Poor design choice by id imo. Hey y all ancient gods does not fuck around. Eternal is basically the first time uv has lived up to actually being a hard mode in a commercial doom game. 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.
The doom eternal main campaign was one of the best fps campaigns i have ever played. 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. Doom eternal s the ancient gods dlc brings three new missions to the game uac atlantica facility the blood swamps and the holt. I finished the ancient gods dlc this morning.
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. The difficulty level was over the top ridiculous and just plain dumb. There s a moment in the trailer for doom eternal s ancient gods dlc that probably offered up a minor freakout for. 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.
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. You ll probably need to turn down the difficulty for the doom eternal dlc. I fricking love it. Sure i d die a couple of times per level during the base game but i m getting stuck way more often in ag.
I m playing on console and getting recked on nightmare. 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.