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Hey from id Software program! That is Hugo Martin, sport director on Doom: The Dark Ages, releasing May 15 on PlayStation 5—it’s proper across the nook, I can’t imagine it.
For those who’ve been following alongside, you already know that Doom: The Dark Ages is a premium single-player marketing campaign that includes three core pillars of engagement: story, fight, and exploration. I’m guessing you’re studying this since you wish to hear one thing new, one thing in regards to the sport nobody else has heard about. Nicely, I’ve bought a very good one for you.
We expect Doom: The Dark Ages is one of the best Doom sport we’ve ever made (however that’ll be so that you can resolve). We gave this all the pieces we had, left no characteristic unpolished: we have now 22 ranges of unimaginable FPS single-player fight; tons of gameplay improvements just like the Defend Noticed, flail, and new loopy weapons; and an superior curler coaster journey of an motion story to hold you thru to the end.
AND—we have now enormous worlds so that you can discover.
Considered one of them is completely distinctive for a Doom sport, an area we’ve by no means been to however a world we’ve needed to include into the Doom universe for some time: the Cosmic Realm. You’ll bear witness to the cyclopean structure of this Lovecraftian dimension as you discover its darkest secrets and techniques and battle its most insane enemies.
An unholy union between Hell and the Cosmic Realm has been shaped. You’re going to must expertise the story to seek out out why—however this partnership has given start to a brand new host of adversaries for the Slayer to confront.
Enemies just like the Cosmic Baron. A twin-bladed brute, he assaults with relentless stress, and at vary he releases a flurry of psionic assaults that may block your projectiles and rip via your treasured well being. However worry not, as a result of embedded in his assaults are parry home windows {that a} expert Doom Slayer ought to have the ability to exploit, ought to she or he be courageous sufficient to face and combat him.
All of the strongest foes in Doom: The Dark Ages require this sort of aggression. You’ll weave your method via a maze of projectiles, identical to in traditional Doom, to then go toe-to-toe with the most important demons we’ve ever created.
After you’ve dispatched the Cosmic Baron, watch out, as a result of rising above the darkish horizon you’ll discover the highly effective Cacodemon, a hybrid between the 2 dimensions and newly designed for this sport. This floating mass of telepathic terror will immobilize you together with his superior defend assaults and cripple you together with his tentacle strikes, do you have to enable him to get shut.
However—you’ll be able to counter these enemies’ assaults with a brand new weapon, an historic instrument from dimensions past our personal: the Reaver Chainshot, a brutal ballistic iron mace of demise.
Fireplace it shortly to unleash a lightweight assault to a single foe, or maintain down the set off to cost its Chaos Sphere and unleash vicious long-range melee strikes, turning your enemies’ insides into demonic pulp. This weapon is not like something we’ve ever had in an id sport; it brings the Doom: The Dark Ages’ unbelievable melee fight to an entire new cruel degree of bone-breaking destruction. The sound, the design, the visuals, this weapon is superb and also you’re gonna love utilizing it in battle.
There are such a lot of extra secrets and techniques to disclose and legends to forge right here on this new world we’ve crafted for you. I feel you’ll discover your time within the Cosmic Realm to be filled with intrigue and bloody, bone-crunching mayhem. And it’ll look superb in your PlayStation 5, that includes cutting-edge, ludicrous mode graphics powered by the all-new idTech 8.
The improvements on this newest model of idTech enable us to have extra content material seen on-screen than ever earlier than—greater areas with longer views; extra enemies to combat; extra destruction; higher suggestions; a greater total gaming expertise. We’ve got totally dynamic lighting powered via raytracing, which has allowed us to iterate sooner throughout growth and empowered our staff to make higher artwork extra effectively. idTech 8 is a purpose-built engine with efficiency that’s buttery-smooth at 60 fps on PlayStation—this sport will play each bit pretty much as good because it appears.
And there’s lots extra to speak about, however we needed to present Sony followers one thing particular as we head into launch. We can not wait to share this expertise with you. It’s the greatest and most full, epic sport we have now ever made at id and it performs unbelievable on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional. There can be extra to discover, weapons and talents to unlock, and demons to crush in Doom: The Dark Ages when it releases on May 15. (You may also begin slaying as early as May 13 if you are going to buy the Premium Version!*)
From all of us at id—thanks a lot to your time and continued help.
*Precise playtime relies on buy date and relevant time zone variations, topic to potential outages.