DOOM Eternal (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.14 Update + All DLCs

DOOM Eternal, which has won numerous awards and has been praised as “one of the best first-person shooters ever” by GameRevolution, will be available on the Nintendo Switch. Developed by id Software and Panic Button, this game is the direct sequel to DOOM, which won the Best Action Game award at The Game Awards in 2016. Set some time after the events of the 2016 game, the story follows the Doom Slayer once again, on a mission to end Hell’s consumption of Earth and foil the alien Maykrs’ plans to exterminate humanity.

GAMEPLAY

Players will once again assume the role of the Doom Slayer, battling the demonic forces of Hell in a first-person perspective. The game focuses on the “forward” combat of its predecessor, encouraging players to be proactive against enemies to gain health, ammunition, and armor. Players have access to a variety of firearms including the Combat Shotgun, Super Shotgun, Heavy His Cannon, Rocket Launcher, Plasma Rifle, Chaingun, BFG 9000, Ballista, and Unmaykr. He can also use melee weapons such as the chainsaw, the Crucible Blade energy sword, the Sentinel Argent Hammer (Hellbreaker), and the retractable arm of his blade called the Doom Blade. Armblades offer the opportunity to perform a wider range of quick and violent “glorious kills” that provide additional health. The Super Shotgun is now equipped with the Meat Hook, a ranged attack accessory that grabs enemies and throws the player towards them. This acts as a grappling hook and is useful in both combat scenarios and environment movement.

The Doom Slayer’s armor includes shoulder-mounted gear launchers with the ability to drop grenades and ice bombs. There’s also the Flame Belch, a flamethrower that sets enemies on fire and drops armor pickups. Finally, killing enemies with a chainsaw will drop ammo. New movement mechanics such as wall climbing, dash movements, and horizontal bar swings were also introduced. Like its predecessor, Doom Eternal challenges players to develop simple tactics. As the game becomes more difficult, the player must utilize the Battle His Arena and its bonuses more strategically.  You will also have to decide which enemy you need to defeat first and how to move around the battlefield. Creative director Hugo Martin has stated that his 2016 reboot will feature twice the demon type. He faces new enemy types such as the Marauder and Doom Hunter, as well as his Elemental, Arachnotron, and Arch-vile, reintroduced from past Doom entries. There’s a new system called Destructible Demons, where enemies’ bodies gradually decay as they take damage. Through this system, certain parts of the demon’s anatomy can be destroyed, depriving it of its ability to perform more powerful attacks.

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In 2163, fourteen years after the events on Mars, Earth was overrun by demons, wiping out 60% of the planet’s population, under the corrupt Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC). What remains of humanity has either fled Earth or joined the Armored Response Coalition (ARC) resistance movement. The Doom Slayer, having previously been betrayed by Dr. Samuel Hayden, returns with a satellite fortress controlled by the AI VEGA to quell the demonic invasion by killing the Hell Priests: Deags Nilox, Ranak, and Grav. The priests serve an angelic being known as the Khan Maykr who seeks to sacrifice mankind for her own race’s survival. The Slayer teleports to Earth and kills Deag Nilox, but the Khan Maykr transports the two remaining priests to unknown locations.

The Slayer retrieves a celestial locator from the Sentinel world of Exultia then a power source in Hell from the exiled Sentinel the Betrayer, who also gives him a dagger that he asks Slayer to stab the heart of his son with, whose body was turned into the apocalyptic demon, the Icon of Sin. The Slayer finds and kills Deag Ranak at his citadel in the Arctic. In response, the Khan Maykr moves Deag Grav again and accelerates the invasion of Earth. With no leads on the last Hell Priest, VEGA suggests finding Dr. Hayden, who knows his location. At an ARC compound, the Slayer retrieves Hayden’s damaged robot chassis and the demonic Crucible.

Upon uploading Hayden’s mind into the fortress, he reveals Deag Grav is hiding on Sentinel Prime; the only way to get there is a portal located in the lost city of Hebeth in Mars’ core. The Slayer travels to the Martian moon Phobos, where he uses the BFG 10000 to shoot a hole in the surface of Mars to reach Hebeth. After reaching Sentinel Prime, flashbacks reveal the Slayer to be Doomguy. Found badly wounded by Sentinels sometime after Doom 64, Doomguy was brought before the Deags and forced to fight in a gladiatorial arena. Impressed by Doomguy’s ruthlessness in battle, the Deags inducted him into the Sentinels.

In the present, the Slayer finds and kills Deag Grav in the arena. The Khan Maykr reveals to the Slayer her plan to resurrect the Icon of Sin to consume mankind. The Slayer travels to the Sentinel homeworld of Argent D’Nur for his own Crucible. Further flashbacks reveal that during the battle of Argent D’Nur, a rogue Maykr called the Seraphim imbued Doomguy with superhuman abilities by putting him in the Divinity Machine, transforming him into the Doom Slayer. It is revealed that the Khan Maykr had made a pact with Hell to produce Argent energy, which is created through the mass sacrifice of human souls. In return for providing worlds for Hell to invade, the Maykrs receive a share of the Argent energy produced by Hell, which allows their dimension, Urdak, to survive.

THE ANCIENT GOD – PART ONE

Despite having defeated the Icon of Sin and halting Hell’s invasion of Earth, the Doom Slayer’s victory did not come without cost. The death of the Khan Maykr and Hell’s conquest of Urdak have given the demons a chance to dominate all dimensions and reinitiate their invasion of Earth. To prevent this, the Slayer, along with Samuel Hayden and ARC scientists, set out to liberate the Seraphim. The Slayer travels to the UAC Atlantica Facility, where the Seraphim’s containment pod is. He uploads Hayden’s consciousness into the pod, and it is revealed that he and the Seraphim are the same. The Seraphim, suffering from a transfiguration terminal illness, tasks the Slayer with retrieving the Father’s Life Sphere from the Blood Swamps of Hell, located within the Ingmore’s Sanctum, to combine it with VEGA and return the Father to physical form.

The Slayer finds the sphere but chooses to destroy it rather than hand it to the Seraphim, and instead retrieves the Dark Lord’s Life Sphere with the intent of resurrecting and then destroying him, which in turn will destroy all demons outside of Hell. The Slayer returns to Urdak, which has been corrupted by the demons’ occupation, and reaches the Luminarium where anyone who has a Life Sphere may activate it. However, the Slayer is confronted by the Seraphim, consumed by the degenerative transfiguration, and defeats him before he is teleported away by the Father. Despite being warned that bringing the Dark Lord into physical form is irreversible, the Slayer proceeds to summon him, only to be confronted with a being who is a mirror image of him.

THE ANCIENT GOD – PART TWO

Having summoned the Dark Lord into existence, the Doom Slayer attempts to kill him but fails as blood cannot be shed in the Luminarium. The Dark Lord tells the Slayer he will be waiting for him in Hell’s capital city of Immora. To reach Immora, the Father informs the Slayer that he must activate the Gate of Divum, the only portal capable of reaching the city. The Slayer goes to Argent D’nur for a Wraith Crystal to power the portal, located inside the World Spear, a massive crystalline alien ship that had landed on the planet long ago. On the way, the Slayer encounters the Betrayer, who has reassumed his original name, Valen, after the defeat of the Icon of Sin. The Slayer lights the Torch of Kings to rally the remaining uncorrupted Sentinel forces, then recovers the Wraith Crystal. The Slayer activates the Gate of Divum on Earth. Traveling to Immora, the Slayer is greeted by the city’s formidable defenses consisting of a massive wall and an army of demons.

He is assisted by an army of Sentinels led by Valen, as well as many of the remaining human forces, who also teleport in and assault the city. While Hell’s main forces are occupied with them, the Slayer follows the Dark Lord. Teleported to an arena, the Dark Lord and the Slayer fight. The Dark Lord reveals that he is the true creator of the multiverse and that Jekkad (later known as Hell) is the first dimension. The Maykrs, including the Father, betrayed him and rewrote history to depict the Father as the first being, which, in turn, led to the enraged Dark Lord influencing Samur Maykr to turn Doomguy into the Doom Slayer, whose original purpose was to (unintentionally) contribute to the destruction of the Maykrs and the Father, fulfilling the Dark Lord’s revenge. The Slayer kills the Dark Lord, and all demons outside of Hell are instantly destroyed with his death, stopping the invasion for good. Being also one of the Dark Lord’s creations, the Slayer falls unconscious before being sealed inside a stone sarcophagus at the Ingmore’s Sanctum by the Seraphs.