DOOM Eternal – Basic Single player: movement and other tips.

 

Dashing and movement.

Remember, you have no movement restrictions, you can double jump at the end of a meat hook, you can double jump anywhere in a dash, there are no limits to your movement, don’t handicap yourself not dashing through the air.

Dashing:
Dashing is the most important survival tool in the game; the faster it recharges, the better. Also, it only recharges when you touch the ground. If you dash once, it recharges even faster. The game even lets out a blip noise, which might drive you insane, but this tells you that your dash is ready for use. Remember that it ONLY recharges when you touch the floor.

Another Tip: dashing is perfect for dodging hell knights, but if you’re 1v1’ing a hell knight, when he’s at a distance, he will always leap at you. If you keep moving backward, he’s going to leap where you’re going, so if you take a small step back and stop when he jumps, he’ll land where you were, and if you move back as soon as he jumps, you can dodge it by moving backward if there isn’t a wall in your way. But it’s better to dash out of the way.

Super Shotgun:
Once you get the super shotgun, the meat hook can be used for more momentum; it can also pull you out of close to death situations. Just remember, it can only Hook onto live demons, not walls, not objects, only demons. Its last master upgrade gives you a burning hook, making them drop armor great to latch onto an imp and get some armor back.

Mistakes that get you wiped.

Now we all make mistakes in combat, even I do.

Now a big mistake I’ve seen, I did as well NEVER try to chainsaw an enemy that’s above the amount of fuel you’ve got. This leaves you open, and you fall into a false sense of security, thinking that it’s going to put you into the breathing space you were going for. But if you are quick enough, you can dash out of it.

Always check your fuel down in the right corner but honestly, I never chainsaw bigger enemies cause fuel is always minimal to pick up, so just chainsaw a zombie or an Imp, No you can’t chainsaw Prowlers or Carcasses with one fuel. If you don’t know these two enemies yet, you’ll meet them soon enough.

Never back yourself into a corner; stay on the move. The game wants you to keep moving.

I repeat, DO NOT go near a Mancubus; even if you want to blood punch an armored one, they somehow activate a bloody AOE effect instantly even if you hit them with the blood punch so stun them in some way, then strike.

Also, never use the rocket launcher when a Carcass is around. You’re just signing a death warrant.
Those blue shields can Fluff you up.

Try not to use up the second dash. It can get you badly injured or killed; dashing once is faster and better than using both only if you are dashing to an empty spot for it to recharge when you land.

Red glowing Buffed enemies, If you try to fight them under this effect, you’re going to die. You can still kill them. It’s just 10X bloody harder.

What causes this is a totem or an Archvile; the Totem is a long red thing with a red energy aura spinning around it on the floor somewhere; I’ll get a screenshot of it another time. The Archvile can buff all the demons in the area, kill him on sight.

Another tip Don’t engage the Archvile up close. He blasts you away Unless you have the sword.

Do not Glory kill or chainsaw in the middle of a demons group, and don’t do it next to a Mancubus. As soon as you get out of the glory kill or chainsaw, they do an instant AOE that can almost one-shot you on nightmare. If you make these mistakes, you’ll end up like this.

Equipment, rules, and equipment.

I’m not going overboard with this guide; perks and runes can be a choice on how you want to play.

Grenades and Ice bomb:
I tend to do this sometimes I forget to use my Grenades and Ice bomb, but the holy VEGA himself crafted the Ice bomb; the Ice bomb freezes any enemy within its blast radius. The only one that it can’t is the marauder, and if my memory serves me right, the Doom hunter can only be frozen when his shield is down, or you got him off his sled. Launching the Grenade into a group of frozen demons can cause a lot of damage to them all, and if you’re overwhelmed or cornered, USE THAT ICE BOMB!

Now, this is one of the main important features of the game, Chainsaw, Ice Bomb, Flame belch, and Glory killing. These three are you’re Ammo, Health, Armor, and Health. I know the game already explains these for you, but it doesn’t tell you that you can combine them.

Just a reminder, the Ice bomb needs an upgrade, so they drop health when you shoot them or kill them when they’re frozen.

Now let’s do some combos with the shoulder cannon and chainsaw.

Chainsaw and flame belch:

These two together will give you a ♥♥♥♥ ton of ammo but will give you like 20% of your armor, but it doesn’t give much health if you’re hurt badly.

Ice Bomb, Flame Belch, grenade, Chainsaw. Now I would only use this if you’re being overwhelmed by a lot of enemies.

When you freeze everything, and if you’ve got the perk that makes them drop health when you shoot or kill them, then burn them, they will drop armor and health, then if you fire a grenade down and then chainsaw one, you’ll get ammo, health, and armor and when that grenade goes off its raining health.

But this can all end differently depending on if you’ve got the perks that leave them frozen longer or big enemies burn longer or if they unfreeze faster than normal, the bigger the enemy, the quicker they get out of it.

Just remember, you can mix up these equipment items in any way.

If you’re hurt and got no armor with plenty of ammo, shoot down an ice bomb, burn them, shoot them or use a grenade.

Runes:

I honestly prefer Air movement. It allows me to dodge balls in the air without dashing. Having a Longer glory kill distance increases the reach for my chainsaw and glory kills; the last one, I have my equipment recharge faster when enemies are under the damage effects or killed.

But the runes are up to you on what you want.

READ The codex after your first encounter with a new enemy.

I’m guilty to I was enjoying the combat so much that I didn’t look at this, and it could have made some fights much easier for me.

Other tips, more to come later.

-All equipment recharges after use, same for the chainsaw fuel, but it only charges back to one bar.

Go, Rip & Tear.

If anything else comes to mind, I might update it.

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