(Peter) The Difficulty Menu of Doom Explained
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Doom's difficulty settings aren't always understood. Watch and learn how each difficulty distinguishes itself in Doom.
Songs used in chronological order:
Doom II - Into Sandy's City
Rise of the Triad - Goin' Down the Fast Way
MegaSphere - E1MAP01 (E1M1 and MAP01 mashup)
Doom - I Sawed the Demons
Doom II - Message for the Archvile
![[Doom Eternal] Bad Weapon Academy: Unmakyr](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/s6IjSYLTX94/mqdefault.jpg)
Enemies in Nightmare difficulty also have their minimum time before the first attack removed, and this change isn't a part of UV-fast ruleset in vanilla Doom or compatible ports. You can test it in HR18 if curious.
Once again I learn something new in Doom.
How big a difference does that make? Just the first attack it seems?
It doesn't seem like too big a difference, effectively cutting out their reaction time to seeing the player, but hitscan enemies first attack each time being instantaneous, rather than having a couple steps grace to take a shot? Certainly might add up on some levels.
Lvl 4 is a good example of it. I had no idea it had a code. Tnx
System Shock 1 has enemies like this, the enemies can attack you with hitscan attacks as soon as you get in their sightline. Especially bad is the Cyborg Assassin that is a small, dark enemy who has an attack that makes no sound at all. This leads to you entering a room and getting completely pummeled in seconds; especially in ambush-rooms like the one on the Reactor level where you enter a room, 4 doors open and enemies pound you.
You have to play it very differently, slowly entering rooms with your shields up.
"Can I play daddy" is probably exactly what prompted my dad to let me play a level of wolfenstein as a kid.
lmao
Learning to kill nazis at a young age might be beneficial.
@@l.pietrobon3925 Can't disagree with you there. If Mecha Hitler comes back to life, we'd all be prepared.
@kevin willems It's not about getting someone like Hitler, it's more about reviving Hitler and putting him in a giant mecha with incorporated machine guns.
@kevin willems No, but I'm certain the fascist are quite focused on getting one for their plans of the Mega Robotic Austrian Dictator Hitler
just now noticed the red skull at the exclamation mark of nightmare difficulty
It's never too late to learn something new, well done. I never noticed either!
Probably an accidental fortune of the running blood effect… unless that's what they WANTED us to think.
I've been playing this game for 20 years and I just now noticed that. Wow...
@@franktidepod8724 Same!
I've played this damn game for a couple thousand houra and never noticed that. Goddamn, I've been schwacked.
I think the ultimate challenge is playing on Im Too Young To Die and not being bored shitless
That's something that many game journalists have mastered, as they die in E1M1 on I'm Too Young To Die and then go to write their articles about how Doom is the Dark Souls of shooters. 😋
Fast Monsters, Monsters Respawn. It's like Nightmare Lite with less enemies.
@@mjc0961 They can't hire any actual good gamers 'cause publishers demand butt kissing. Then again, just getting the hang of FPS controls isn't the easiest thing in the world, and reviews are on a time crunch.
@@mjc0961 IGN and platformers like
Moralltach
I’m so shit at DOOM I could probably make too young to die look harder than it is. The farthest I’ve gotten in D2016 on ultra-violence is the first time you enter hell.
Also, quick question. Do mancubi take damage when I shoot them and a weird block barrier effect pops up where I shot them? Or is there a sweet spot I need to aim at?
For what it's worth, the easiest two difficulties also slow down the Icon of Sin's enemy spawning.
The longer the icon of sin is on earth, the stronger it becomes.
@@obviouslykaleb7998 the icon of thicc
@@nonymouswisp8176 the longer the icon of thicc is on earth the thiccer it becomes
@@ashuwa The longer the icon of sin is on earth, the sinner it becomes.
From the Ultimate Doom manual:
I'm too young to die.
An easy romp through the playground. Not many monsters here. This is good when you're learning the controls.
Hey, not too rough.
This is good when you know how it works, but you still panic too much. Panic is a bad thing when you're surrounded by evil.
Hurt me plenty.
The demons are out in force and they'll take great pleasure in hurting you as much as you let them.
Ultra-Violence
So you think you're tough? Prove it!
Nightmare!
This is for those times when killing a guy once just isn't enough. If you're lucky, you'll wake up...
And if I recall correctly, when you start on Nightmare the game warns you that the mode isn't even remotely fair.
@@trucid2 They should do the same today with Pay2Win games.
It’s kinda funny they mention panic cuz playing FPSs make me panic easy. I dunno, I guess it’s the perspective.
@@trucid2
It does!
I really like that the descriptions are so neutral/passive instead of some dick-measuring contest that insults you for playing on easy or something
3:58 cacodemon be like
"just please kill me already, it's humiliating"
I legitimately thought because of the title that this was going to be a joke video where Peter Griffin would shortly explain what each difficulty is supposed to represent.
"Aw man, this is worse than the time Stewie got Louise and I stuck on E1M1 to suffer eternally"
same
I was thinking the same
Hey lois, remember that time i beat doom 2 on hurt me plenty?
“This is even worse then the time the icon of sin summoned an archvile”
I never knew about that BFG on Bloodfalls. Always just thought that room was a mistake that was never finished.
I first played Doom 2 on Hurt Me Plenty, so knew about the BFG. Imagine my surprise when it's not there on Ultraviolence. Nice prank, though.
I liked that empty room back then, because I thought back then that there was not much QA player testing, so some rooms felt quite empty like it was made by a bunch of geeks and not very refined modern AAA game where everything is too safe though. It also adds a sense of real mystery in the place, like not every secret and room has a gameplay sense, but some of them exist on their own without a useful point, like this is a real hellish place with mysterious rooms nobody knows what they were all about.
Proof that HMP is the canon difficulty.
@St. Haborym But it's a great troll!
Would have been better if they'd put a cyber demon in it xD
I did a Nightmare pistol start of every level Ultimate Doom, including Thy Flesh Consumed. Never again. So many deaths.
Thanks for the heart!
Cool !
The best thing I've done in doom was complete plutonia on ultra violence max, pistol start.
Another thing to note is that the original release of Doom only went up to Ultra-Violence. About a year later the 1.2 version added Nightmare - but this was back when few people had internet access so a lot of copies of Doom in circulation continued to run the original release version. I originally thought it was a feature added in Doom 2 (or Ultimate/Final/etc), and only found out the truth years later.
3:58 so Doomguy finally achieved Ultra Instinct
thats for pussies. Doomguy has far greater power.
dodging fireballs at the speed of sound
He IS the ultra instinct. DBS copied it.
Slayer instinct
This is off topic but I thought Ultra Instinct was a huge letdown as a "transformation".
I heard even the devs couldn’t beat it on nightmare lol
well from what I understand it was more of a joke difficulty meant to be actually impossible. Imagine their faces when people not only beat it but speedrun it.
@@mwperk02 I would be very proud.
It is not uncommon for devs to be bad at their own games. They put those higher difficulties for the players, not themselves. Hell there are some games where the devs themselves don't ever even play the games they make.
just cause u know most of the features, how ai works doesnt mean u good at the game lol. look at jsat, he invested all of his lifetime into vermintide, knows nearly every single gimmick but is still to shit to play hardest diff on consistent lvl.
@Sisyphean Taskmaster I believe that's a way to make sure the player doesn't get locked into the level if they die once
So Ultra Violence only increases the amount of enemies from Hurt Me Plenty, without ramping up their damage? Huh, no wonder Ultra Violence doesn't feel that much harder.
I found the lower enemy count annoying sometimes. Less shotgunners to take ammo from.
@@mwperk02 Playing UV because you're skilled: small brain
Playing UV because you don't know what it's like: medium brain
Playing UV for more ammo pickups from hitscanners: galaxy brain
@@doomcat4465 peeps in e1m9 openning yellow key door just only to take some ammo in UV because you know you'll get run out of ammo while going the rocket launcher trap
I swear there was a "Pray to God" level of difficulty that was beyond Nightmare difficulty.
@@czarnakoza9697 I saw it on the back of a levels expansion pack box, way back in the 90s. But I remember seeing it clearly.
:thinking:
I have done a quick search on google, and all I could find was a fan made difficulty by the same name, which was nightmare but with only a pistol
@@jmjw740 not even fists?
That's not a legitimate dififculty provided by id; it was put in with one of the user-made additions to Doom.
Good to see Peter did a guest episode of DooM Mechanics
“Can I play, Daddy?” Wow B.J. Didn’t know you were in to that.
Well his name is B.J......
@@piglinwithnetheriteboots7439 It took me more than 5 seconds to get what you meant.
I dont get it
Blowjob@@piglinwithnetheriteboots7439
UV-fast is legit, but I really wish we could get the faster projectile speeds as a separate CVAR from the relentless attack-attack-attack behavior. It makes UV delightfully harder already.
1. save a game in your preferred level setting
2. start new game in nightmare
3. load the game you saved earlier
enemies will now have fast projectiles but low attack rates.
@@plasmaastronaut
Doesn't wok with GZDoom ):
3:58
"I can dance all day! I can dance all day! Try and hit me! Try and hit me! Come on!" - FPS Doug
Ultra-Violence can be easy for even newcomers now. Thanks to the mouse and keyboard as, it turns out, making playing FPS games a hell of a lot easier - something that ID recognized even all the way back then. If you want to up the challenge but not jump to -fast or NM, I recommend trying out keyboard controls - it makes ambushes much harder when you can't instantly do a 180 flip.
To an extent yes.but I don't seem to have that much of a difficultly spike with keyboard (I use a and d to strafe while having both w and s as well as the arrow keys for moving forward and back,left and right arrows for turning).keyboard slows you down a little when pulling of tougher maneuvers through enemies.there is also a key that allows quick turns (I have seen this in the zdoom-engine based source ports).
@@necrosteel5013 Until about 6 years ago I never strafed. It was like operating a plane, it made the game hell. But that's just how I always played it since I was a kid.
I suspect the ultimate challenge is just to reduce movement to 3 keys: forward, turnleft, and turnright.
I still don't use mouse at all when playing though and I don't think it's harder if you're used to it.
Vašík and horse I tried that.I agree it is an absolute pain
\\\when you can't instantly do a 180 flip\\\\
bind h turn180
Dos Doom had the option to use WASD and Mouse. I download the Dos version and it had a Setup.exe where you could set it.
I thought it would go like
"Hi, Peter Griffin here to explain the difficultly levels in Doom. You see, 'I'm to young to die' means easy. This is because it implies that you are too young to die', thus lowering the chances of that happening."
What have you done to me Reddit?
REDDIT DansGame
I WANT TO SEE THIS
I’ve enjoyed playing on UV for years, it’s the best all-around challenge for the game. Certain parts of NM are fun and I actually like how aggressive the enemies are, but the respawn is what turns me off. If they had tweaked it some to where enemies can only respawn once or if there was a chance they don’t respawn after death, it would have been a lot more reasonable to play. In the big rooms, though, you have so many respawns going sometimes that it ruins the fun of even playing, you’re so busy killing there’s no time to collect items and explore.
late reply, but ultra violence with fast monsters is what you're looking for
"it would have been a lot more reasonable to play"
Well, see, that's the problem right there. Nightmare in classic Doom was deliberately made to NOT be reasonable to play - it was made by John Romero as a response to tryhards on Usenet whinging that Ultra-Violence wasn't sufficiently challenging.
@@ZeldaTheSwordsman that's fair, I agree with that. I actually have used the UV with fast monsters from the last commenter since posting this and it's my favorite way to play now 😁
So in summary:
I'm to young to die: Home
Hey not to rough: Grade school
Hurt me plenty: Middle school
Ultra violence: High school
Nightmare: Being incorrect on the internet
Ultra Nightmare: Thanking for likes
Ultra-nightmare: Having an opinion with an anime pfp
@@Pgpxd wait, you have an anime profile pic.
Haha big funnies
@@poggersfish9180
And? I dont see that as a big problem that much...
Also i am not a weeb at all, i just have my own preferences....
Nightmare is very true. I refrain from correcting comments that are saying things that I believe are false though may be true.
@@poggersfish9180 touhou isn't an anime checkmate
2:39 That moment when you finally see the mystery solved about that hidden area because you've been conditioned for years to play every Doom game on UV ._.
yeah lol. I think they should have put at least one item there, maybe on UV it is a single health bonus
It could be worse. Imagine if it was like Serious Sam - walk into an empty room and pick up an inconspicuous item, and next thing you know 20 Chaingunners immediately teleport in and paint you all over the wall with red.
I like when the changes are insteresting like changing a type of monster, moving keycards or these lamp posts. I never knew about the last one!
Romero revealed it in his stream with IGN a few years ago. I had never noticed myself.
Bro, Shut up.
You are not supposed to say anything else besides "oh yeah yeah" and you know that. Change your damn profile pic if you're not about that kind of responsibility.
@@raulsalcedo8332 Ok, boomer
Is this overused phrase ok instead?
Doom Maker
"oh yeah yeah" is the only acceptable comment to come out of users having that _overused_ profile pic. You've abused your privilege to own that profile pic by regressing from that ONE principle so now you've angered the internet meme godz. May Harambe have mercy on your online presence....
@@raulsalcedo8332 You're failing hard at being funny
"rush past Cacodemon and Pain Elemental orgy" Was in the that guide at 0:22. :D
"+10 SECRET Hope that stupid ass pain elemental behaves himself."
don’t forget it told you to “BFG the Cacodemon and Pain Elemental orgy”
@@melodica_man0216 Ah yes, can't forget the Big Fucking Gun.
Bit of trivia - version 1.1 and 1.0 of Doom didn't have the nightmare difficulty. Doom originally only had 4 like Wolf 3D.
Yup. Some 1337 g4m3r found UV too easy and mailed id about it, so nightmare was added in response.
epic gamers only
Doom difficulties in a nut shell:
I'm Too Young To Die=you've never played a shooter ever in your life, baby steps here
Hey, Not Too Rough: you've picked up a shooter once or twice and understand the basics of the mechanics, easy mode awaits
Hurt Me Plenty: you play shooters but it's not your standard game genre, normal/stock standard difficulty
Ultra-Violence: you love shooters and they are your bread and butter for game genres, a challenge awaits but you wanted that
Nightmare: you think you're hot shit with something to prove, welcome to the masochists club.
Except some map packs. Sigil, for instance, calibrates it so HMP is roughly equivalent to base game UV, and UV is pain.
I only play the first level on nightmare, after that I rage quit and play back on ultra violence lol
I just cant get past FUCKING E1M3 LMFAAOOOOOOOO
doom 2 map 2 nightmare. Plz end my suffering.
HEXEN, very underrated IMHO.
Loved the game.
It's a game that I enjoyed but I can easily see how it would be unpopular. Lot of time spent going back and forth between levels trying to find switches and keys. Earlier on it has the grace to tell you which level a missing piece of a switch might be in, but not later.
Completely agree. The graphics was kinda ugly and you had to backtrack a lot, but what got me was the amazing music, ambience and atmosphere.
I preferred Heretic. Kinda wish they had actually finished that game, but instead, you just kill 1 of the serpent riders and the game goes "ok, it's the end of the game. More coming soon!" and we got Hexen and its sequel instead. I liked the more simplistic nature of Heretic and wish they had just continued that.
"I'm too young to die" 2019 version:
Journalist mode
still too hard for them ironically
Hirame Sensei
Saw a post on Reddit before Doom Eternal came out by a guy showing off his completed Doom 2016 save file. On I’m Too Young To Die. Shameful.
No no no.. its Toggle God Mode which is "journalism" mode
@@chrism1518 Nothing shameful of playing a game on easy, as long you have fun it should count.
Though you did say it was Reddit so I imagine the dude was perhaps needlessly showing off about it.
The difficulties as peppers.
I'm too young to die: Bell Pepper
Hey, not too rough: Jalapeno
Hurt me plenty: Habenero
Ultra Violence: Ghost Pepper
Nightmare!: Carolina Reaper
Sounds about right.
I think I’m dirty minded, I thought of something else when I read “Heh, not too rough”
Protogen!
@@NT-sx2bd yes
(Inhales and exhales sharply)
Hdoom?
@@chriswentz5197 What are the difficulty setting names on HDoom? did they change them?
A mashup of E1M1 and MAP01, heh. Anyways, that was curious to watch as I didn't knew what the most easiest difficulty does.
I've been playing on Hurt me Plenty and Ultra violence for so long I actually had the same question
I'll be honest, I always overlooked the face made for the "Can I Play Daddy?" difficulty for Wolf3d. I didn't look close enough to notice the binky (pacifier) in the guy's mouth and assumed it was bread stuffed in the guy's face, lol.
Also, I assumed it was a guy with white hair and facial hair, the design is so weird with the old graphics, lol.
Why does Hexen stop at Pope? They could have pushed the naming further than that.
What about Saint? Apostle? Messiah?
I thought the difficulty levels in Doom were.
Very easy.
Easy.
Normal
Hard.
Very hard.
Very easy = I'm too young to die
Easy = Hey, not too rough
Normal = Hurt me plenty
Hard = Ultra-violence
Very Hard = Nightmare!
They are, but when it comes to number of enemies and items there are only 3 difficulties... did you not watch the video?? 😂
@@edthegoomba this was his hypothesis before he watched the video.
Nah nightmare mode is the Doom equivalent of impossible mode.
Here's how I see it:
ITYTD = Easy
HNTR = Normal
HMP = Hard
UV = Very Hard (like legendary from Halo but honestly Doom the way it was meant to be played)
Nightmare! = Impossible (come on the mode was not even meant to be fair)
Ultra-Violence is normal for me.
This was really interesting, I thought i'd seen it all but Doom always surprises me.
Running from evil and At Doom's gate sound really good together
Once my younger brother immediately picked nightmare and read the message and still played on nightmare. The balls on that guy.
thank you for the near infinite fun im having binge watching your channel.
your jaws my balls do the math
I miss when difficulties actually changed a lot. Ninja gaiden black likely has the best difficulty adjustments in any game imo.
To be fair it's just a bit less than back then, Nightmare in Doom Eternal increases the accuracy, damage, and aggressiveness of each attack, enemies can even predict you going on a boostpad and hitting you the moment you're suspended, it's insane AI-Wise
If you guys keep up this 2 man channel it will even greater. Already the best doom channel. Keep it up guys, you rock
This is extremely informative, but the real cherry on the top is music. Excellent!
I'm so tired after work, i will not watch YouTu-
Peter L.: Let me stop you right there
And totally worth it, i wasn't expecting that you uploaded a Doom analysis video =D
"Finally! I finished Doom II on Ultra-violence, now i can finally play on Nightmare"
Cyberdemon, Spider Mastermind, Arch-vile, John Romero, John Carmack:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Random scientist: ...this guy is funny
when I was a kid I always chose the easiest difficulties cuz I was a sore loser. Now I play on hard difficulties, mostly lol.
Ultra Violence ftw.
Did you have fun losing in the air? Because your a soar loser? Soar?
@@shrekonion8307 Thanks for pointing out the typo I guess lol
same... I started on itytd and was terrified to leave the curvy hallway of e1m1...
hello and goodbye, do you feel alright? do you remember *the days gone* *_by?_*
Cool, I haven't ever noticed that difficulty affects lighting. Also one thing bothers me a bit. Has fast parameter on nightmare has always been there? Maybe it's just time, but I have strong feeling that first times I played Doom I just thought nightmare is same as ultraviolence, but with respawning enemies which made it unfair to me and lost interest quickly because of that. Just that fast parameter seen these days seem so damn obvious. Especially that missile speed. It's something that can't be unseen now. Then again with that 486/33 Cyrix chipped pc it looked fairly different than these ports with much greater frame speeds. Iirc vanilla was capped to 30fps anyway.
Bfg edition does not have fast
I was expecting peter griffin to explain these.
He only explains the jokes
As civvie always says "Real gentleman play on Ultra Violence"
All 4 explanation vids currently existing on this channel are great. The most awesome and informative for me is doom RNG explanation, my comprehension of doom game mechanics grew up exponentially, especially useful for comprehending what do people do in TAS runs. I hope to see more of skillful walkthroughs from both of you guys. And if you are interested in explanation video idea: it might be doom movement bible or something like that
A cool thing I have noticed in terms of Ultimate Doom's episodes is that each episode seems to relate to each difficulty setting. Episode 1 being at the top and being the easiest. Episode 2 ramping up in difficulty. Continues on to the episode 3 being harder and relating to "Hurt Me Plenty". Episode 4, "Thy Flesh Consumed" was the hardest and is in the same number down the list as Ultra-Violence. Sigil is the hardest of the 5 episodes and relates with Nightmare setting and even has the same font. I wonder if this was intentional but still is a neat coincidence in itself.
It's probably an accident of New Game submenu coding. And Sigil's a PWAD episode.
I always like playing on higher difficulties, the highest difficulty is a matter of fact, but I really hate that last one whereas you put it the enemies just become turrets.
Give me faster demons, demons doing twice the damage, faster fireballs/missiles, but when you turn them into turrets (which is accurately describing your enemies at that difficulty level) then it completely changes the gameplay.
Before you could be engaged in battle with four enemies and a fifth enemy will quietly flank you or will go to cover behind a wall so you don't know where he's at then later surprise you and catch you off-guard. But in that last difficulty where they become turrets the majority of battles devolve into running around and killing them and maybe popping out of cover every 1/2 second or so but knowing exactly where an enemy will be relative to the room you're in because you know they're going to be firing at you, you have a clear line trajectory of where an enemy will be without even seeing him there in the room.
I just don't really care for it and I think it changes the gameplay too much to be easier in fact.
I've played Doom for years and honestly even Ultra Violence feels like easy mode. The NIGHTMARE! difficulty is where the real challenge is at.
Yep. Ultra violence with keyboard and mouse feels like playing with kids outside. With keyboard only, it's a few times hard. Actually, my childish fear for revenants and Archviles was because of "only keyboard" reasons.
1:17 I like how they combined the E1M1 and Map01 musics together hehe, its really sounds good :)
"If you're up for the ultimate challenge, try Nightmare!"
*Laughs in Brutal DooM Black Metal*
Yeah, it's stupidly brutal depending on the map and the area. Me and a friend used to play coop on Black Metal until we both figured it's way too hard way too often, even borderline impossible, so 1 step down we went.
Thanks for the Video Peter, you are a wonderful Substitute on the channel, and I hope to see some more stuff from you on here when Decino makes a return from his vacation.
I'm too young to die: Insulting a kindergartener
Hey not to rough: insulting a first grader
Hurt me plenty: Insulting a fifth grader
Ultra Violence: insulting a high schooler
NIGHTMARE: MW2 chat lobby
0:20 - "Lost Soul ORGY" lol :D
The highest difficulty in that new Wolfenstein game is missing a capital L.
Ha, I remember when I was about 7 years old playing the psx version. I would always select ultra violence because I thought it meant that there would be more blood and gore when I killed something, never thought that it corresponded to the difficulty. It took me ages to beat doom 1 and 2 back then, thought it was the most difficult game ever.
In hindsight it's the reason why I always play doom on uv since that intense difficulty is what has made doom doom for me!
You learn something new everyday, man! Still, I'm not sure how practical it is though.
I always labled the difficulties as
EASY "i'm too young to die/hey! Not too rough"
Medium "hurt me plenty"
Hard "Ultra Violence"
SCREW THIS! THIS IS A NIGHTMARE FUCK ! "ahem nightmare ofc"
I have been tinkering with my own difficulty categories in ZDoom-compatible source ports. It applies the Total Infighting, Slow Monster, No Pain State, Respawn, Increased Ammo Drop, and many other flags, plus altering the amount of Health creatures have or their Damage outputs, all across eight unique settings. One of them is "Night Train" and as the name implies, it's an Ultra-Violent variation where creatures respawn, but without the hyperactive aggression and with a time buffer so that it doesn't begin immediately--it is designed for really big custom maps where you are expected to backtrack.
That sounds cool. So far I've only tried the Ruthless and Savage custom difficulties on Glaice's RD&D mod. All they do is make enemies respectively 25% and 50% more likely to attack than move when Doomguy is in sight.
There's achievements on the 360 version of DooM/DooM2 where you need to beat the either a level, beat the game or a episode on Ultra Violence or higher.
That Doom 2: No Rest for the Living on ultra violence definitely feels like an endurance challenge when going for 100% everything
I hope all future videos have my name in brackets at the start so I know what to watch.
I really like these Doom mechanics videos.
Excellent haven’t before thought about the difficulty levels in this level of detail. Nice presentation.
Nice video, but you should really reconsider that yellow background. It's a bit of an eyesore, and every time you cleared the screen, it felt like the screen was flashing at me.
Agreed
I just subscribed to your channel, love Doom, keep up the good work!
I always assumed the final secret in Map25 of Doom II was empty regardless of the difficulty, but now I know it has a BFG9000 in it on a difficulty easier than Ultra-Violence.
Ultra Violence -fast has been my favorite way to play Retro DooM Trilogy for the past number of years. Sometimes I gift myself slightly faster running speed when playing some custom wads (-turbo) but it's a great alternative to increase difficulty without having to deal with respawns.
The -fast switch doesn't just make enemies more aggressive and attack faster, it also gives them extremely increased pain recovery time and increased projectile speed (they attack faster and the fireball/rocket flies faster as well), so with certain enemies like shotgunner & chaingunner, you _really_ need to try to OHK (One Hit Kill) them or else they will have a "twitch" pain recovery and unload 3-4 more shots (shotgunner) in you before your reload animation is even finished from the shot that injured it in the first place.
I love this game (trilogy), been playing DooM since the shareware released in summer '93 and is the only game I have never stopped playing (I'd say I've played close to or slightly over 2000 video & pinball games since 1984).
An interesting video.
But if I'm allowed couple suggestions.. You could really use a better quality microphone. And that urine-colored background is very unpleasant for the eyes.
I really liked the video too, but I had to rewind several times to understand you. Other than that, no complaints here.
i like the yellow
It's a fresh, tasty lemon yellow, mate. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah the yellow is harsh on the eyes. The microphone seems fairly ok, I think the problem is that he records in an office or somewhere with no sound absorption. A common thing to do that has worked for me is to bring your duvet from your bed and put it over you and the microphone and you essentially make a mini recording studio.
I had to turn on the comments. It would also help if you articulated better and spoke up a bit. That said, your channel is one of my favourites, so please don't be discouraged.
Always thought it was cool to see the character portraits during the difficulty selection screen too, like in Wolfenstein and older CoD games. I remember back when I played Call of Duty Black Ops for the first time as a kid, I was so stupid that I thought choosing Veteran difficulty meant my in-game character would look like a skeleton. Safe to say that I didn't get past the first mission and had no idea why. But nowadays I think it adds character and some of the hardest difficulties are the most fun ones.
My Son: Can I Play, Daddy?
Me: NO
I love that you still heart and/or respond to every comment, even on videos that are this old lol
As for me the difference between nightmare! And UV is 300% (25% UV and 100% NM). I find the classic serious sam difficulty system the best for the classic shooters i've played (i mean "serious" difficulty IMO is the most balanced "hard" difficulty in classic shooter games). There is also an interesting "quest" for Duke 3d to finally kill all the monsters with the explosions and etc. the game gives you on "damn, i'm good" so they could't respawn.
1:11 there is a similar difficulty menu in wolfenstein new order
That MIDI in the background, what kind of mashup is it? Can I have it?
I'm glad someone noticed haha soundcloud.com/megaspheres-junkyard/e1map01-e1m1map01-mashup
@@PeterLawrenceYT It's slightly painful yet hypnotic haha
@@PeterLawrenceYT Okay this is absolutely amazing and I can't believe I never thought to mash these together, they fit too perfectly.
Bro you sound way diffy now adays plus all your videos are amazing
Yeah, I got rid of my British accent.
>cripsy-doom
Man of quality.
That At Doom's Gate and Running From Evil mashup is cursed
Did you imagine a Nightmare difficulty without double ammo? I want to see that...
Amazing how I can still learn something new about a game I've played troughout my youth and is almost 30 years old
Something tells me I wouldn't have the patience to attempt Master Levels for Doom 2 on Nightmare. Ultraviolence can be hard enough, especially on TEETH.
Thanks for the info! Been playing it, but never even thought of looking up the differences until now :)
I wish more games changed layouts and enemies with difficulty instead of just adding more health and damage
Videos about Doom, even something as basic as chosing the dificulty, i find them fascinating! i really wish you can continue making videos like this, because i literally want to know _all_ about Doom 1, 2 and Final Doom.
I play it since i was like 7, but i first saw Doom when i was like 5 - 6 years old, and i'm almost 25 years old now. I think childhood memories makes the biggest impact on us, maybe that's why i find Doom, Duke Nukem and Heretic so fascinating even till the day of today.
How did you get to know Doom, Decino?
I knew all of this, but favourited anyway.
Did this man just take e1m1 and map01 music and combine them? Brilliant!
Its doomsday my dudes
i appreciate the way theyre named. they give you a basic idea, without shaming you for picking something lower on the scale.
Yo yo yo hold up... Blood, why is there "Made to Order" difficulty. Is that Blood: Fresh supply or something?
Indeed it is. It's the custom difficulty level where you can tweak pretty much every aspect of the challenge individually.
@@MosoKaiser Bloodyeye 007
'At Doom's Gate' mixed with 'Running from Evil' is the accurate definition of blursed.
Huh. So, there's a reason why I never noticed a difference between Too Young and Not Too Rough...
I still think there should be a difficulty named 'Tommy's Toys', in reference to an absolutely bonkerballs mega-series of DOS games that offer little to no sensibility other than you know that you're in for some wacky shit.
Is there another game you love as much as Doom? Your content is exhausting and much appreciated.
Not really. Doom spoiled me.
I know this comment was made 2 years ago but what else is there other than doom man at this point the name sells itself
@@witcherjohn3440For single player: Quake 1. For multiplayer: Quake 3/Live. 🥲
Doom has so many intricacies. I recently looked over and analyzed the audio logs in Doom 2016.
Did you know that Doom 2016 and Doom 1993 have basically the same story?
The Doom Slayer is also centuries old.
Lastly, his soul is stuck in a loop.
For a more detailed explanation I have a vid up on my channel covering the subject. 🤙
There is only two difficulty settings in Doom- Ultraviolence and Nightmare. Those other settings must be screen resolutions...actually, I find this video very interesting. I am a what you would call a Doom veteran that has been playing since 1994. I have played so many variants, wads, mega wads, unofficial map packs, official map packs that I couldn't tell you how much time I have put into the series. I have even played every single console iteration of Doom through to the end minus Doom for the Snes...I just can't do it. In all of that time I have never played Doom on anything lower than Hurt Me Plenty which used to be my preferred difficulty. I can't even tell you when I started considering Ultraviolence normal. I honestly never gave the difficulty much thought and I have learned quite a bit from this video.
The lowercase l in "Mein leben" really bothers me.
That's how it's written tho.
When people who've completed Doom on Nightmare enter class late, the teacher apologises for being too early.
I'm indeed too young to die. I'm 13
Go play fortnite bitch
On the playstation, it was:
I am a wimp
Hey, not too rough
Hurt me plenty
Ultra-violence
(Nightmare not available)