This week your intrepid heroes travel to hell, punch demons, and crash Proton. DOOM faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
Game: DOOM 2016
Webzone: DOOM
Devel: id Software
Engine: id Tech 6 + Proton
Price: £14.99 / US$19.99 / CA$24.99
Wazzat: DOOM returns as a brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter experience. Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid movement provide the foundation for intense, first-person combat – whether you’re obliterating demon hordes through the depths of Hell in the single-player campaign, or competing against your friends in numerous multiplayer modes.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Pass|Fail
Venn:
Does It Launch
- Alt+Tab, I dare ya.
- I double dare ya.
- I’ve had two spite crashes in six hours of play and they were, abrupt.
Performance @ 1080
- If you told me the target for 1080 High was 130 I would believe it.
- Out of morbid curiosity is does a whopping 45 @ 2160 on High.
Graphics
- Not a single glitch wich is impressive considering the DXVK moon magic taking place under the hood.
Control
- Tight and responsive WASD.
- Gets extra praise since WINE games always feel a bit… off.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- The alt tab thing is real
- Also after about an hour the game just ate shit and froze. Hasn’t happened since
Performance @ 1080
- I switched it to Vulkan right away and I maintained a solid 105@UHD for the entire ttime.
- That vulkan performance
- I don’t want to play this at not UHD
Graphics
- It’s doom
Control
- I wasd. Doomguy moves
- I mouse, doomguy looks
- I click, doomguy shoots
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- On first launch it said it couldn’t find default.cfg
- After reading the forums, you need to use the Steam Runtime for it to work.
- Enabled the Runtime, FATAL ERROR: Loading unverified resource
- Verify the game files, another 7.9GB download on top of the 59.5GB it took originally.
- Then Steam kept failing to apply the changes, so I had to uninstall the game and let it redownload overnight.
- For a supposedly whitelisted game, this is a shitshow.
Performance @ 1080
- With everything on Ultra, minus motion blur because fuck motion blur, it holds 120-200 FerPS
- At 4k with the same settings it seems to hover between 90 and 130.
Graphics
- I’ve seen some god awful motion blur but never one which has two different levels for Low, Medium and High in two separate parts of the menu.
- It’s also so bad it was making my eyes hurt.
- Off is where it is and where it should be.
Control
- Yeah, no. This was fine
QA Score
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- FSM damn this game is addictive.
- Six hours of squeeeeee for $9.
- Press F to pay respects.
- I even like the minigames.
- It’s DOOM, not some flashlight booga booga jump-scare bullsh*t but DOOM.
- Only turned to 14.
- It’s got enough story to keep me interested and the glory kills are a nice touch.
- It does take a moment to recalibrate when you are getting swarmed.
- I had to switch my brain meats into Q3 Arena mode for that business.
- It has a basic skill-tree and weapons upgrade system and speaking of weapons.
- Yeah, all your old favourites are back and the game does a nice job of doling them out.
- Getting the BFG took a minute because I am not a clever man.
- The chainsaw has been reduced to a FK IT button that turns baddies into a weapon and ammo pinata.
- Music is a modern take on the classic riffs and kicks in at the appropriate time.
- At the end of the day (take that shot) DOOM 2016 is one thing, a FKN blast.
- P.S. Shield guys can eat a bag of dicks, twice.
- Jordan
- I always joke about needing more shooters on linux. But if we can get some like this natively, please bring them on
- Let’s be real here, everyone already sucked this game’s dick last year, and it’s well deserved
- Proton aside, the performance using Vulkan is terrific
- The game is just fun. It’s an exceptionally well done and polished shooter
- Murdering stuff is fun, beating shit to death with your bare mits is fun and even doing a fred durst impression with the chain saw is fun
- Pedro
- After the shitshow which was getting it to run and the absolutely horrendous shitstain that was motion blur, I was about ready to give this game several new assholes for me to proceed to have sex with.
- But after 30 minutes of uninterrupted shooting and maiming, I found myself sitting on the edge of my chair, face glued to the screen and grinning like a lunatic.
- Wasn’t a big fan of the downtime between the high paced shooty bits, but then again pacing is important.
- Those bits of downtime are there to help you enjoy the shooty bits even more.
- Though, the shooting itself feels kinda pointless when your mighty fist of spine bendiness seems to be the most effective weapon at your disposal.
- It reminded me a little of how effective the kick was in the original release of Dead Island and in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
- But goddamn it’s fun!
Fun:
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