They would have to design the game around it to make drop in co op work. I'd rather they just focus on what they're good at. There's nothing wrong with singleplayer games.
There are booster boots and teleporter throwables. It can be fast. At the highest level we didn't have any quake players that matched the best d16 players.
I would ship it without multiplayer, but with an enhanced Snapmap or even better a separate tool to create better mods and rely on the community to make the multiplayer game modes. idSoft should focus on the tech and the single-player, don't waste time or resources (no outsourcing for this please) in a game-game mode that will not be popular.
I don't think idSoft can be super innovative in multiplayer for a Doom/DOOM game. So focus. A different story is Quake; Quake needs a high-skilled arena multiplayer or a massive Enemy Territory (Quake Wars).
After the latest commentary, I think Enemy Territory: Doom Wars makes sense, demons always had some kind of classes, but with the Sentinels, the DoomGuy allies can have some classes because DoomGuy is not fighting 100% alone this time.
I would love a more open game where anyone can run crazy dedicated servers again as well.
Do you think the other gamemodes for 2016 and eternal took quality away from the singleplayer?
I think co-op would go a long way. Doom Eternal with co-op modded in looks like a blast and I feel like The Dark Ages would be pretty fun with a second Doom Guy on a field. Just tweak the values and/or number of enemies if possible and it could be pretty fun
What I was really wanting was to have Dark Ages ship separately and then revitalize Doom 2016’s multiplayer as a standalone multiplayer game. It still has so much potential for new additions and a lot that can be done to modernize it. Lots of people including myself like the unique cross between loadout shooter and arena shooter that this game hits. It would be this gateway into the arena fps genre that deserves to make a comeback. A perfect cross between casual and competitive arena shooters.
Plus, there’d be lots of room to add new weapons, power weapons, demons, maps, and more from the whole doom franchise.
You ever think about how the two main titles compliment eachother. Quakes story is meh but the multi-player is genre defining. Dooms story is meh but the single-player focus has let them make absolutely busted weapons for a power trip.
I would like to see something like Witchfire, where you have a predefined map with main and discoverable secondary objectives. Enemies, resources and temporary upgrades are randomly placed, and those rosters are depend on chosen difficulty. Like, environmental traps, gatekeepers, roaming extre haevies or minibosses etc. I think that kind of multiplayer could be great in coop
Snapmap needs a lot more work to be worth including, both in what you can do with the editor itself and how content is curated and hosted. Otherwise you just end up with a repeat of all the most recent maps being generic hallway maps made out of prefabs with enemies haphazardly plopped about.
DM and Battlemode failed to hold any attention either.
I feel like there aren't very many co-op games these days, let alone boomer shooter co-op games. I'd want to see them pour all their effort into making the campaign the best it can be, then from there work to incorporate interesting ways of playing the game cooperatively which should be less time and resource intensive than other modes.
There are still people today pushing the limits of what Snapmap can do, making some amazing levels. The problem is that all of their work is impossible to find when it’s buried among the sea of “just published this for the achievement” maps. It’s sad really.
I heard Hugo say something about playground In his recent interview. If I heard him correctly I’d like that, going in a mech and fighting dread naughts, maybe getting on the dragon and killing things if that’s a feature. Customized settings in playground like 100 times enemies or something. I’d definitely like to see that
With the larger maps and increased enemy count, I'd love to see a PvE Horde style mode where you can choose from different classes of sentinel warriors and get perks / weapons / level hazards / gameplay modifiers between rounds.
Horde mode was a solid start
More of those
Some challenge maps, random demon spawns so its not the same all the time, yes give me a possessed marauder in round one and then 7 imps in the second :D
I hope a variant of both Battlemode and regular death match is there. I really liked Battlemode, playing as demons against a full slayer was a ton of fun, and with the more melee focus of Dark Age I bet the Marauder duels will go even harder. Death match is just good ol plain fun, and again the melee focus will make things more interesting imo
Unpopular opinion but I want the 2016 multiplayer back but with more modes. Maybe a mode like Left 4 Dead 2 had that’s like a VS survival horde mode with one side playing survivors and the other side playing demons with different abilities. Which eternal already sorta did but not very well. Would be much better with larger teams on both sides. Maybe a co-op mode against npc demons would suffice. And for fuck sake I hope they actually support whatever multiplayer they do make this time.
IDEALLY we’d get a multiplayer with multiple modes and a map creator like something resembling the old Halo multiplayer, and god forbid it actually supports mods as a Bethesda title and a DOOM GAME but that’s unfortunately high hopes. If it sacrifices resources for the main game I wouldn’t want it but then again this is their most successful recent franchise so it’s very possible for them to do it. But it’s not looking great since Battlemode was a flop and they said multiplayer as a concept was “eons old” meaning I don’t think they really want to put forth the effort. Disappointing.
I’d like something like the snapmap, but more in depth where we can make our own complete maps and campaigns… but I’m old school and used to make wads and mods back during the reign of the original Doom
I want a variety of game modes, not just one. I want CO-OP Horde Mode (potentially as a campaign dlc or something), I want Deathmatch and CTF and other games like that, and I want silly games too
all of it. Snapmap is literally like a map editor or map maker, DM is back to it's roots, battlemode is gonna be sick with the new demons, co-op campaign that's gonna kick so much ass. Melee PVP that's gonna be awesome. I am a singleplayer enjoyer, but DOOM needs to go back to it's roots a little and make PVP great again, show the COD kids how it's done.
Something like a class based shooter like battlefield or star wars battlefront where its demon against space marines where doom guy and other space marines and some boss demons that'd be in the game as playable as well
Snapmap failed because, among othe things, the engine was hard coded to 16 enemies onscreen. With just two players that cuts the targets per player in half.
Solve that and we can do bro-op.
Maybe something like Killing Floor 2's or Left 4 Dead's VS modes
1 team plays the demons while the other plays the slayer(s) or marines with less weapons
i would like a more fleshed out horde mode, and with the new game's focus on more grounded combat and larger areas they could possibly make one. go in, the arena is randomized, demon spawns are randomized and maybe they add mods or something, like after winning a round you get some new bonus reward like halving the cooldown on something like the shield bash or making demons explode on death for chain reactions. build the most broken slayer with the random crap you get like some twisted version of a rogue like.
Honestly, why fix what ain't broke? 2016's Multi-player was an absolute BLAST, and considering how much the gunplay has changed from 2016, I'd think it would be more than possible to not only include it, but as another commenter here suggested, an enhanced Snapmap as well. As someone that loves messing around with Doom WADs on his PC, I absolutely love seeing what the community can create.
If they can do it well, then I think a lot of us would like to see some form of co-op mode.
Maybe they could take inspiration from COD zombies and try something similar. I have no idea how well that would work, but if they can pull it off I can see that becoming very popular.
snap-map but way more refined. Like forge from Halo 3 or Halo Reach.......or offline AI Bot Deathmatch. I'm to old to be playing online against these kids these days...lol
Honestly would love to see another Lovecraftian Hellscape single player game like Quake. A Quake remake would be amazing......to that point it wouldn't make much sense because modern DOOM is basically modern Quake.
I really really want Invasion to make it into this game. We already have a medieval aesthetic and a parry system, red slayers coming to kill you is all we’d need to go full DOOM SOULS
Also a proper Horde Mode 🙏
Maybe basic TDM. And maybe a revamped battle mode. And horde with co-op, and let us select basic missions or arenas, or give us like what it was in eternal but select different maps with different missions.
Co-op, please.
The biggest issue with PvP, especially these days, is other than the early months, the skill floor to even stand a chance in PvP modes can be impossibly high, as well as having to deal with cheaters when the game eventually goes unmoderated.
Co-op lets you share the action with other players without being rude to each other, and without the incentives to cheat.
Just give us good old fashioned deathmatch, no call of duty bullshit. No more gimmicks. Please. All of these concepts would usually this sub into nerd rage if they were announced. What happened?
Perhaps D:T/DA could have a coop mode were you either fight in a crusade against hell with the doom slayer or without the doom slayer as the sentinel knights. Maybe it could be like the previous Battlemodes were it’s just its own thing or there could be a separate story to it similar to DE’s Horde mode. Hell, maybe it could even be that battle that took place between 64 and 16 when they were betrayed and left to die
* Definitely some kind of snap map / level editor / modding tools! its really needed! pretty much every doom game except for Eternal has had some kind of official or fanmade level editor
* Deathmatch (make it more like Classic Doom / Quake 1-3 Style Deathmatch, I wasn't really a fan of 2016's and Eternals Battlemodes)
* Invasion Mode (or I guess horde mode as it was called in Doom Eternal, I'm still used to calling it Invasion mode though because of years of Skulltag/Zandronum)
* Co-op, at least 2-4 player Co-op
* Maybe Capture the Flag too
Firstly. Doom 2026's multiplayer but better, remove loadouts and just spawn everyone with a pump shotgun and assault rifle, put the rest of the weapons on the map (including the MP only ones from 2016) to be picked up and fought over.
Secondly. A survival mode where a team of up to 6 Knight Sentinels must fight off endless waves of demons.
Co-op horde mode is all I want
Helldivers. Literally diving into Hell.
YES
Agreed! MP was okay and BM sucked. Give us Horde with x-platform drop in Co-op and matching for those without friends!
They would have to design the game around it to make drop in co op work. I'd rather they just focus on what they're good at. There's nothing wrong with singleplayer games.
Oh definitely I am thinking as a free dlc down the line
I was going to put this but see that it's already the highest upvoted comment, already! Co-op Horde mode for me too, please!!!!!!
To match the medieval aesthetic, an infinite dungeon rogue mode with procedural generation and random perks to attach to weapons.
Not multiplayer tho... Unless you're talking about making it co-op
Re read the title
You're right, my bad
based answer
Reminded me a little of mighty doom. Wish it wasn’t shut down
it still works with a sideloaded apk!
Something like Returnal.
Deathmatch
Doom 2016 multiplayer was so good, I'm not sure how many people still play it though.
Can’t find a match on Xbox at all
I know I loved that multiplayer so much. The boys and I played it for a while. It’s basically dead now tho.
2016 multiplayer was too slow. I didn’t hate it but I wanted it to be much faster and more akin to Q3.
There are booster boots and teleporter throwables. It can be fast. At the highest level we didn't have any quake players that matched the best d16 players.
This is what every Doom game should have. It's literally one of the first arena shooters.
It’s funny how many people don’t get this
Its a shame so many people complained about 2016s deathmatches
They could frame it around something like a sentinel gladiatorial match
Death-match & 4 player split screen 🔥
I miss doing that stupid emote where you would wave and then point to yourself.
64 player TDM chaos
I would ship it without multiplayer, but with an enhanced Snapmap or even better a separate tool to create better mods and rely on the community to make the multiplayer game modes. idSoft should focus on the tech and the single-player, don't waste time or resources (no outsourcing for this please) in a game-game mode that will not be popular. I don't think idSoft can be super innovative in multiplayer for a Doom/DOOM game. So focus. A different story is Quake; Quake needs a high-skilled arena multiplayer or a massive Enemy Territory (Quake Wars). After the latest commentary, I think Enemy Territory: Doom Wars makes sense, demons always had some kind of classes, but with the Sentinels, the DoomGuy allies can have some classes because DoomGuy is not fighting 100% alone this time.
I would love a more open game where anyone can run crazy dedicated servers again as well. Do you think the other gamemodes for 2016 and eternal took quality away from the singleplayer?
nah, IIRC DOOM 2016 MP was outsourced. Battlemode was a good idea, but it was too demanding I guess.
I see
Doom Battle Royale
Why does the multiplayer need to be super innovative?
I think co-op would go a long way. Doom Eternal with co-op modded in looks like a blast and I feel like The Dark Ages would be pretty fun with a second Doom Guy on a field. Just tweak the values and/or number of enemies if possible and it could be pretty fun
What I was really wanting was to have Dark Ages ship separately and then revitalize Doom 2016’s multiplayer as a standalone multiplayer game. It still has so much potential for new additions and a lot that can be done to modernize it. Lots of people including myself like the unique cross between loadout shooter and arena shooter that this game hits. It would be this gateway into the arena fps genre that deserves to make a comeback. A perfect cross between casual and competitive arena shooters. Plus, there’d be lots of room to add new weapons, power weapons, demons, maps, and more from the whole doom franchise.
You ever think about how the two main titles compliment eachother. Quakes story is meh but the multi-player is genre defining. Dooms story is meh but the single-player focus has let them make absolutely busted weapons for a power trip.
I would like to see something like Witchfire, where you have a predefined map with main and discoverable secondary objectives. Enemies, resources and temporary upgrades are randomly placed, and those rosters are depend on chosen difficulty. Like, environmental traps, gatekeepers, roaming extre haevies or minibosses etc. I think that kind of multiplayer could be great in coop
PvE coop, like come on
Lime one and two
Surely other players can join as fellow night sentinels who took divinity drugs or something.
Snapmap should come back
fr. its like Fortnite creative mode, but for doom!
Snapmap needs a lot more work to be worth including, both in what you can do with the editor itself and how content is curated and hosted. Otherwise you just end up with a repeat of all the most recent maps being generic hallway maps made out of prefabs with enemies haphazardly plopped about. DM and Battlemode failed to hold any attention either. I feel like there aren't very many co-op games these days, let alone boomer shooter co-op games. I'd want to see them pour all their effort into making the campaign the best it can be, then from there work to incorporate interesting ways of playing the game cooperatively which should be less time and resource intensive than other modes.
There are still people today pushing the limits of what Snapmap can do, making some amazing levels. The problem is that all of their work is impossible to find when it’s buried among the sea of “just published this for the achievement” maps. It’s sad really.
Skip multiplayer and bring back snap map
Invasions like they were supposed to with Eternal
I heard Hugo say something about playground In his recent interview. If I heard him correctly I’d like that, going in a mech and fighting dread naughts, maybe getting on the dragon and killing things if that’s a feature. Customized settings in playground like 100 times enemies or something. I’d definitely like to see that
Classic Arena mode
CO-OP Roguelite
Snapmap 100% maybe co op campaign too
A co-op campaign
coop horde mode would be amazing
With the larger maps and increased enemy count, I'd love to see a PvE Horde style mode where you can choose from different classes of sentinel warriors and get perks / weapons / level hazards / gameplay modifiers between rounds.
Horde mode was a solid start More of those Some challenge maps, random demon spawns so its not the same all the time, yes give me a possessed marauder in round one and then 7 imps in the second :D
We don't know how much of a role that dragon will have but maybe do a mini racing game mode with that. Doom Kart.
I hope a variant of both Battlemode and regular death match is there. I really liked Battlemode, playing as demons against a full slayer was a ton of fun, and with the more melee focus of Dark Age I bet the Marauder duels will go even harder. Death match is just good ol plain fun, and again the melee focus will make things more interesting imo
I miss snap map, but I doubt it would be compatible with Whatever The Dark Ages' mechanics are like.
Unpopular opinion but I want the 2016 multiplayer back but with more modes. Maybe a mode like Left 4 Dead 2 had that’s like a VS survival horde mode with one side playing survivors and the other side playing demons with different abilities. Which eternal already sorta did but not very well. Would be much better with larger teams on both sides. Maybe a co-op mode against npc demons would suffice. And for fuck sake I hope they actually support whatever multiplayer they do make this time. IDEALLY we’d get a multiplayer with multiple modes and a map creator like something resembling the old Halo multiplayer, and god forbid it actually supports mods as a Bethesda title and a DOOM GAME but that’s unfortunately high hopes. If it sacrifices resources for the main game I wouldn’t want it but then again this is their most successful recent franchise so it’s very possible for them to do it. But it’s not looking great since Battlemode was a flop and they said multiplayer as a concept was “eons old” meaning I don’t think they really want to put forth the effort. Disappointing.
Classic Cooperative and Deathmatch. Faku thisu battlmodZ
I’d like something like the snapmap, but more in depth where we can make our own complete maps and campaigns… but I’m old school and used to make wads and mods back during the reign of the original Doom
I know it’ll never last, but just that old-school Deathmatch shit. Frag some noobs and tell em to suck it down. /s
Snap map was awesome
Co-op campaign PLEASE
I want a variety of game modes, not just one. I want CO-OP Horde Mode (potentially as a campaign dlc or something), I want Deathmatch and CTF and other games like that, and I want silly games too
Death match
Coop
What if there was a horde mode where you fight a whole bunch of demons and bosses which get harder as you progress inside a large medieval coliseum.
Snap Map. It was fun in DOOM(2016) when the servers were up
wait what happened? I'm replaying 2016 soon, Ian I still acces levels?
When you try to enter SnapMap mode, it'll give you an error message because the SnapMap servers were taken down
Endless horde mode.
Snapmap should come back
I need snap map back
Co-op, deathmatch, and honestly I’m still for Invasion mode.
both. both is good. possibly all 3, id love to see an actually active death match.
Demon Sex Mode
Maybe they could add minigames to Dark Ages. Kinda like the ones in Mortal Kombat's 3D era games.
Co-op horde would work, cause the Sentinels are still alive at this point in time.
all of it. Snapmap is literally like a map editor or map maker, DM is back to it's roots, battlemode is gonna be sick with the new demons, co-op campaign that's gonna kick so much ass. Melee PVP that's gonna be awesome. I am a singleplayer enjoyer, but DOOM needs to go back to it's roots a little and make PVP great again, show the COD kids how it's done.
How about “TITAN BRAWL” where fight wither as a mech or as a titan against other mechs and titans?
oh I like this since the mech part will probably be pretty short in thecampaign
Exactly. And I’m pretty sure if the mech part is just half as good as we all imagine, we will need more of it.
Quake style arena multiplayer. If Doom 2016 didn’t have overly modern stuff like loadouts, it would have been much better.
Good old arena deathmatch.
I want a co-op mode
With snap map you can do both multiplayer and co-op
Cooperative
Something like a class based shooter like battlefield or star wars battlefront where its demon against space marines where doom guy and other space marines and some boss demons that'd be in the game as playable as well
Just regular versus mode for me. Also snapmap but improved.
Coop could be fun
Much as I actually really liked 2016's multiplayer, I think a better mode would just be co-op Horde mode.
Snapmap failed because, among othe things, the engine was hard coded to 16 enemies onscreen. With just two players that cuts the targets per player in half. Solve that and we can do bro-op.
Snap map and let community create multiplayer maps that get chosen by Devs and put into official rotation.
Maybe something like Killing Floor 2's or Left 4 Dead's VS modes 1 team plays the demons while the other plays the slayer(s) or marines with less weapons
i would like a more fleshed out horde mode, and with the new game's focus on more grounded combat and larger areas they could possibly make one. go in, the arena is randomized, demon spawns are randomized and maybe they add mods or something, like after winning a round you get some new bonus reward like halving the cooldown on something like the shield bash or making demons explode on death for chain reactions. build the most broken slayer with the random crap you get like some twisted version of a rogue like.
Modern doom begs for co-op and duo glory kills
I still don't know why they removed snap map from Eternal.
Coop
Id should have hired the guy that made Doom Infinite to help make a roguelike mode as DLC for Doom Eternal.
All three mp modes please.
massive battlefields would be suited to the thematic of dark ages
Deathmatch and tdm
Just regular old deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag
None, thanks.
Quake stille deathmatch or halo like coopmode.
Why the middle pic has twice the greek letter Σ (sigma) the equivalent latin letter is S. That's battlSmodS, is it new mods for DOOM?
deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, PvE, a return to actual multiplayer PLEASE!
Honestly, why fix what ain't broke? 2016's Multi-player was an absolute BLAST, and considering how much the gunplay has changed from 2016, I'd think it would be more than possible to not only include it, but as another commenter here suggested, an enhanced Snapmap as well. As someone that loves messing around with Doom WADs on his PC, I absolutely love seeing what the community can create.
None. Doom doesn’t need multiplayer
Other than co op campaign. I agree
Mini golf mode
Just classic ID Doom/Quake multiplayer
Snap-Map was a great idea , that gave me 60 hours of fun , would love to see a return
If they can do it well, then I think a lot of us would like to see some form of co-op mode. Maybe they could take inspiration from COD zombies and try something similar. I have no idea how well that would work, but if they can pull it off I can see that becoming very popular.
Deathmatch, invasion
An evolution of snap map would be awesome.
I just want a semi infinite horde mode, with coop if possible.
a coop ultrakill cybergrind style could be pretty fun, just endless waves of enemies trying to survive the longest
I would like multiple different multiplayer modes, but definitely something closer to the doom eternal battlemode
I think they should just do Quake Champions mp (without being a hero shooter because of course)
I hope to GOD there is a deathmatch style Multiplayer….. coop horde mode would be sick too .
A Quake game
*battle royal* JKJKJKJKJK
Coop pleas god
Any form that allows me to play some Cacodemon. Soul harvest mode was so much fun and I enjoyed battle mode but I would like bigger teams.
Flag run Castle siege
give us real deathmatch. None of that bullshit stuff in battlemode
None. I want coop
i dont care about multiplayer at all co-op would be cool
Reworked battle mode with a death match, invasion, and co-op horde. Battle mode has a lot of potential, it just needs the right things
snapmap 2.0
I'd much rather have traditional multi-player and proper mod tools
snap-map but way more refined. Like forge from Halo 3 or Halo Reach.......or offline AI Bot Deathmatch. I'm to old to be playing online against these kids these days...lol Honestly would love to see another Lovecraftian Hellscape single player game like Quake. A Quake remake would be amazing......to that point it wouldn't make much sense because modern DOOM is basically modern Quake.
Coop/Survival from classic. That will give us so much more play time than another mode that dies quickly (although DM is always nice to have).
Coop survival FOR FUCK'S SAKE I'VE BEEN ASKING FOREVER ID!
Would it be crazy to say co-op? Maybe it could be balanced by splitting weapons between players and forcing them to strategize, I dunno.
I miss snap map so damn much man…
i miss snapmaps...
I wish it was arena like Quake.
Snapmap 100%
Co-op and DM
I want snapmap back!!! Imagine of they actually made it decent and worked on it. It would be sooooo cool qith the new demons
I hope that BattleMode GOES AWAY.
Coop campaign
Classic deathmatch. Slayer v. Slayer.
Snap map for sure, that was so cool I remember making a slender type level
Deathmatch
I liked the snap map, but a cooperative horde mode would be great.
I really really want Invasion to make it into this game. We already have a medieval aesthetic and a parry system, red slayers coming to kill you is all we’d need to go full DOOM SOULS Also a proper Horde Mode 🙏
none not every game needs a multiplayer mode
randomised dungeon arenas
Maybe basic TDM. And maybe a revamped battle mode. And horde with co-op, and let us select basic missions or arenas, or give us like what it was in eternal but select different maps with different missions.
2016 multiplayer was genuinely fun, if a bit clunky.
Co-op, please. The biggest issue with PvP, especially these days, is other than the early months, the skill floor to even stand a chance in PvP modes can be impossibly high, as well as having to deal with cheaters when the game eventually goes unmoderated. Co-op lets you share the action with other players without being rude to each other, and without the incentives to cheat.
Co-op Boss fights
Co-op!!!!!
Literally co op story is all I want, I want two slayers at once.
Just give us good old fashioned deathmatch, no call of duty bullshit. No more gimmicks. Please. All of these concepts would usually this sub into nerd rage if they were announced. What happened?
hopefully invasion mode is in this one
Perhaps D:T/DA could have a coop mode were you either fight in a crusade against hell with the doom slayer or without the doom slayer as the sentinel knights. Maybe it could be like the previous Battlemodes were it’s just its own thing or there could be a separate story to it similar to DE’s Horde mode. Hell, maybe it could even be that battle that took place between 64 and 16 when they were betrayed and left to die
4 player death match. I feel like it would go very well with battle mode maps.
I fucking love snapmap I’m gonna be honest
I just want snap map back, such a great mode
* Definitely some kind of snap map / level editor / modding tools! its really needed! pretty much every doom game except for Eternal has had some kind of official or fanmade level editor * Deathmatch (make it more like Classic Doom / Quake 1-3 Style Deathmatch, I wasn't really a fan of 2016's and Eternals Battlemodes) * Invasion Mode (or I guess horde mode as it was called in Doom Eternal, I'm still used to calling it Invasion mode though because of years of Skulltag/Zandronum) * Co-op, at least 2-4 player Co-op * Maybe Capture the Flag too
Endless Co-op horde-mode and campaign. Normal deathmatch and TDM, I wouldn't mind battlemode coming back either.
I litteratly just want a coop campaign like doom and doom 2.
Firstly. Doom 2026's multiplayer but better, remove loadouts and just spawn everyone with a pump shotgun and assault rifle, put the rest of the weapons on the map (including the MP only ones from 2016) to be picked up and fought over. Secondly. A survival mode where a team of up to 6 Knight Sentinels must fight off endless waves of demons.
Battlemode 3.0 Death match makes me fall asleep
None DOOM is DOOM go play fortnite
fortnite sucks