Apr
15th
2016
Doom's Multiplayer Is Absolute Garbage · 6:17am Apr 15th, 2016
There, now that the title has caught your eye...
...Actually, no. That's the gist of it.
Played one game of the beta. Brady watched. Our consensus was the same: Absolute fucking shit.
Doom is not a "loadout" game.
I'll be waiting for campaign reviews before I purchase, because I got burned with Battlefront and Destiny when I ignored my first gut feelings during those betas.
Id, Bethesda, you'd better hope campaign is another beast entirely, because I won't be buying for this pathetic sack of shit that you DARE call an Arena shooter, because it's the farthest thing from.
............................... KEYWORD BEING F***ING BETA MILES.
3871684 Yeah.
That's what I thought for Destiny. "It's just a beta, final will be better."
Nope.
That's what I thought for Star Wars Battlefront. "It's just a beta. Things will be fixed by launch.
Nope.
In short, I'm DONE saying that. I'm done wasting $60 because I want to believe a game will improve.
These aren't beta issues. These are foundation, KEY GAME DESIGN issues.
Try it yourself, it's free all weekend.
3871695 Except the Destiny final game, The Taken King, is better. I've never really cared for Star Wars Battlefront so I got nothing there. In short you're being pessimistic and antagonistic towards something that's still unfinished. You know Bethesda has good shit under their belt and you think they'd crap out at this moment? Destiny was the fault of Activision forcing Bungie to bend to their will but they got what they wanted eventually and it's a FUN game now. Again with Battlefront.... I don't see what the big disappointment is with that game. You wanted a game that had people shooting at each other in a Star Wars setting and you got it. Not much more to say there. That's on you buddy.
3871699 Oh believe me, I'm still hoping they have an ace in the hole in the campaign, because what they've shown is awesome.
But multiplayer? Spawning with rocket launchers? Proximity hits do laughable damage? Being in someone's face with a Super Shotgun not a one hit kill?
No power weapons on the map, and they want to call this an arena shooter?
Yes, the fact that I didn't learn my lesson after the Destiny and Battlefront betas IS on me.
But I've learned that lesson. If the multiplayer fucking sucks because it's unfinished FOUR WEEKS before launch, it's not going to magically finish in four weeks.
3871704 Yes I would also be nervous..... but this is ID Software. Doom's DADDY. They'll have it fixed by the time it comes out. No way they'd screw their baby kid over that badly.
3871705 Sorry, I can't consider developers infallible anymore.
After Bungie, DICE, and Sonic Team... Yeah. Dev teams can easily go to shit.
Like I said, I'm not unsold yet. I never intended to buy Doom for the multiplayer. I just need a solid, replayable campaign experience to make my $60 worthwhile. Otherwise, I'll stick with Halo 5 and Witcher 3 until No Man's Sky.
3871710 Bungie was, once again, screwed over by Activision. It wasn't their fault. I reiterate my stance on Battlefront and personally.... NEVER cared for Sonic that much so Sonic Team falling apart is..... barely hurting my feelings.
3871711 Well, each to their own, because I've been a Star Wars gamer and Sonic gamer for most of my life. If none of your franchises have suffered, consider yourself lucky.
3871719 REMEMBERS THE NIGHTMARE THAT WAS OTHER M'S STORY AND VOICE ACTING.
Y-yeah..... I-I'm okay.
3871719
Honestly, DOOM doesn't need an epic story. If they can pull one, then that's awesome. If not... let's hope there's utter badassitude waiting for us.
3871899 Oh yeah, screw story when it comes to Doom. Don't think they could do it better than Doom 3 any way. Just give me demons and grotesque ways to eviscerate them.
BTW, anything that looks like the Halo:4 and Five multiplayer is going to fucking suck. I'm surprised you even tested it when it obviously looks like that.
Really? You only played one game and you're judging it just like that. I'm sorry, but if that's the case, you are in no place to judge it.
3872781 Usually I don't.
But in this case, what I played was so far off from my expectations that I didn't bother playing further.
I even checked to make sure it wasn't just me; I've watched other players' footage on YouTube, and it's all the same complaints. So I do believe I am in a place to judge it. I don't need to play 5 hours of crap to judge it as crap if I reach that same conclusion in 12 minutes.
3871964 Yep. If I want to play Halo, I'll play fucking Halo.
Not that I expect many people to buy Doom for the multiplayer.
My issue is that it's not the unpolished beta problems that are the issue, it the fact that it just doesn't feel like a doom game to me personally and it doesn't even feel like a quake game either. It feels like it's trying to be a halo game instead
3873806 That's the main impression I got. A bad Halo knockoff.
3871927 Yeah, I mean, there is the whole theory that Wolfenstain´s Protag BJ is the ancestor of Doomguy, but at the end of the day, like Halo and Dead Space, you´re just a badass Space Marine in armor mowing down aliens and demons
3871705 After Konami, I don't think I can believe in any game dev anymore when people utter the phrase 'They cant/wont destroy their best series!' Nothing is sacred in the gaming world anymore when it comes to that, except MAYBE Mario, and even HE will have a breaking point eventually.
3879919 He already did and moved on from it.
I would disagree. I had fun with the multiplayer and am disappointed that people have completely stopped playing it, but the only problem i really had with it were there weren't many class options but the gameplay of 2016's mp was way more fun than doom eternals in my opinion because with eternal it's almost never a close fight it either the demons obliterate the doom slayer or the slayer obliterates the demons. Doom 2016 just had more potential with snapmap (the map creator) and multiplayer (which i'll admit is nothing like doom) and going back to snapmap, i don't see why its so hated and i really hope they do some form of snapmap upgrade in the future!