Each Doom Eternal and Doom: The Dark Ages are getting some love as a part of QuakeCon 2025, with developer Id Software program asserting a free replace for each video games that add new options and provides gamers extra management over their expertise.
For 2020’s Doom Eternal, mod help, which has been in beta, is now obtainable for all homeowners of the sport on Steam. The characteristic might be launched on different PC platforms within the coming weeks, Id mentioned.
With the addition of official mod help, the sport’s major menu has modified, permitting for gamers the choice to start out a brand new save recreation with or with out mods, in addition to an in-game mod interface that enables customers to browse, obtain, and prepare the load order of chosen mods. Greater than 700 mods are already obtainable, Id mentioned.
To not be disregarded, Doom: The Dark Ages, the newest installment within the franchise launched in Could, can be receiving some love within the type of a wave-based area mode referred to as the Ripatorium, the place gamers may have granular management over the mode’s time restrict, music, enemy varieties, numbers of waves, and extra. Gamers can earn a brand new Doom Slayer pores and skin for finishing Ripatorium arenas.
In Doom: The Dark Age’s marketing campaign, Id has made changes to weapon-swap speeds, enhancements to blocking, and the flexibility to regulate the quantity of slow-mo displayed when performing melee assaults and parries, permitting gamers to hurry up or decelerate the move of fight. Further modifications embrace weapon stability modifications, tweaks to the marketing campaign’s music to raised align with fight encounters, and changes to the sport’s dragon and Atlan mech segments to enhance their move. You’ll find the total listing of modifications as a part of Doom: The Dark Ages’ newest replace here.
Id beforehand elevated the problem of Doom: The Dark Ages’ Nightmare problem, whereas a earlier replace added path tracing to additional up the sport’s visible constancy.
GameSpot’s Doom: The Dark Ages overview mentioned the newest entry within the storied FPS franchise takes “the sequence in an entirely new path that redefines the foundations of engagement” and is a finely-tuned journey that delivers the ability fantasy of ripping and tearing by hundreds of demons,” even when its dragon and mech ranges lack depth.