About to start this. What exactly do difficulties change?

What do you think, dumb ass?

>>383126303
How many penises you'll see along the journey, it doesn't change the combat, just the number of penises.

Just makes enemies do more damage, nothing else

>>383126303
Enemies are more aggressive and the amount of ammo you can find changes depending on the difficulty.

The higher the difficulty the more scarce ammo is. Also you take more damage per attack as the difficulty raises.

>>383126394
With their penises only.

depends how old are you? If you're like 30 you shouldn't be playing video games.

>>383126423
>Enemies are more aggressive (with their penies) and the amount of 'ammo' you can find changes depending on the hardness.
>The lower the hardness the more scarce 'ammo' is. Also you take more 'damage' per attack as the difficulty raises.
True, true.

>>383126303
Just play it on the hardest difficulty available, it's not hard.

>>383126459
You should only be playing Penis correct?

>>383126519
This

>>383126303
The hardest difficulty available right away is very different than any difficulty below it. Most of the people who call this game shit believe so because they played below that difficulty. The rest are just shitposters.

The game has it's flaws, but they are nearly non existent in Nightmare. It is a true Doom game, and if you can't cut it in Nightmare, you wasted your money.

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>>383126519
Why the fuck would I waste my time on hardest difficulty if all it changes is HP values and damage you take? Artificial difficulty is not challenge, it's just tedious. Unless difficulty changes enemy numbers or AI, there's no reason to play on anything but normal.

>>383126732
Yes because playing on a higher difficulty makes the sound design better.

>>383126303
Enemies are more aggressive and they can kill you in 2-3 hits.
I believe you also get less stuff on glory kills overall, making them not that worthy unless you're really low on health and you're not surrounded by other enemies.
I can't tell exact numbers, just shallowly compared what I experienced with a few videos I watched of people paying lower difficulties.
Just remember: the hardest difficulty, Nightmare, is able to be selected even though it's red, it's Ultra-Nightmare the one that is unlocked after you beat the game, which is exactly the same but you can't die.

>>383126303
terrible game only changes enemy damage on nightmare they'll kill you in 1 or 2 hits every time even with this its not hard at all.
the balance and design is fucked across the board
id is dead

>>383126756
Did you not read the thread? There is no "artificial difficulty" in the game, the higher the difficulty, the less damage you can tank and the more aggressive and skillful the enemies are. If I recall correctly, you'll also get less ammo and health from pickups.

Nightmare is really weird. The beginning of the game is actually the hardest because your guns suck and you only having 100hp means you get 1-2 shotted by the basic enemies. Then as soon as you get upgrades it goes back to feeling like you're playing on normal. They did a pretty bad job with the difficulty in this game.

>>383126756
badly tweaked numbers can make a game boring though...
why would I play normal when it is not a challenge at all?

>>383127262
they did a really bad job in general with the actual gameplay it looks and sounds great though

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>>383126369
>>383126424
>>383126568
The fuck is your problem anon

>>383126756
>A game being less and less forgiving to players mistakes is artificial difficulty

What the fuck are you expecting? That they lock entire AI behavior branches off for higher difficulties? The most fleshed example of that is Halo 1-R, which simply disabled roll cooldown and grenade mercy time on legendary.

>>383127623
Pingas.

>>383127678
>That they lock entire AI behavior branches off for higher difficulties
That's exactly what I would like. Save the most challenging enemy patterns and behaviors for higher difficulties as well as having more enemies to make it more hectic. Just trying to get hit less isn't anymore challenging and as >>383127262 said enemies doing more damage starts not mattering as soon as you upgrade health and shields.

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>>383126303

there is only one difficulty at first. Nightmare.

>>383126303
Ultra-Violence if you want to die in three hits, Nightmare if you want to die in two hits. Never ever go for glory kills on Nightmare, the enemies will just shoot at you so that your invincibility frames will end right as their projectile is on top of you for unavoidable damage that will kill you 90% of the time.

>>383127859
>Save the most challenging enemy patterns and behaviors for higher difficulties as well as having more enemies to make it more hectic.

DOOM does exactly this bro. Ennemies get way more aggressive.

I was watching some stream playing on normal and easy and when I compare it to my game at Nightmare it does not compare

>>383128135

I glory kill all the time

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>>383126303
>people who didnt play the game
>people who only did one or two playthroughs on the same difficulty settings
HEH NICE TRY I have 500 fucking hours in this game, ive replayed it at least 7 times, and I have meticulously memorized the AI behavior through work in snapmap. Changing difficulties obviously changes the health and damage taken, but like a proper FPS that isn't just an arbitrary or meaningless challenge. It highlights how the game carefully manages the relavtively small demon count by making each one of them a challenge in of themselves instead of disposable shotgun fodder. Your shotgun spread only landing half of the total amount of bullets shot on a lower difficulty will take care of an imp, play on nightmare and you actually need to aim. It also raises the rate of fire and reaction times (a mancubus will instantly hit the floor if you try to come next to it on nightmare, but will give you a delayed reaction on hurt me plenty) supporting what I said earlier. So the pace at which enemies spawn in becomes an actual challenge instead of you finishing a wave, then literally waiting for the next one. Another example is the Pinky whos a pushover on anything other than nightmare. Not because his health is increased, but his AI is smarter and tries harder to target the player with the charge, and not let you get behind him with a turn attack that punishes you for standing behind him too long. And a Supershotgun blast to his ass wont blow him apart unless most of the bullet spread connects, which isn't something to consider on lower settings.

Of course, all of this balance is thrown off if you use the OP upgrades, but theres a great FPS in there somewhere. I dont know where the meme of difficulty not changing anything in DOOM started but its a lie from shitposters or people who are ignorant.

>>383128135
Wow you must be really bad at the game

>>383126756
please dont tell me you're OP and just made the thread to post this webm as a response to someone

>>383127961
A man of quality, I see.

>>383128307
Correct

>>383126369
>>383126424
>>383126506
>>383126568
Are you related to the Pusy Poster on /tv/?

>>383128519
Thank you

>>383126303
damage, health, the amount you heal from pick ups, and the amount that is dropped from glory kills.

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>>383128307
>Pinky whos a pushover on anything other than nightmare
>starts charging
>"heh, I'm sure to win because my speed is superior"
>locks onto you and homes as you try to dodge

>>383128521
No.
I don't go on /tv/.

>>383128694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TPmcIf9KWs

>>383126756
i only use organic difficulty in my video games

>>383128307
this is just fucking sad every single point is wrong

>>383129089
wtf i hate doom now

>>383126303
when a game is vapid, it draws me out of the world; i'm brain dead and fully aware i'm playing a video game. when something is difficult, i concentrate harder, and as a result i'm focused on the game and its world. you can also use difficulty as a narrative element, such as in dark souls. this all result in a more enriching experience, more fun.

>>383128935
that's after the first or second time when you stop being an idiot and realize you can actually do that
>double jump
>mancubus 10km away already firing shots at you to hit you as you go above pinky
you got me again, game might have been a coincidence, but it looked kinda cool when it happened

>>383126303
They change you into a man, anon, or keep you forever as a boy.

>>383129286
There's too many "not a coincidence" parts for all the cool ai to just be coincidence. In the level the Necropolis when you have the two keys and theres a fight with two Barons, I noticed every time I play it they split up in opposite directions so when I forget about the other one he'll pop out around a corner or behind me with one of those flying ground slams. I notice they try to do this other times but the other arenas theyre in arent mazey enough so it doesnt work the same. Usually Barons are in large open areas.

>>383126303
As with all modern FPS games, nothing but numbers. Enemies get buffed damage and health. How exciting. I don't know why they even bother. Normal is the only one worth playing because that's what the game was balanced for. A real Doom game would make the game more fun and fast paced on higher skill levels, this game just gets slower.

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>>383128387

are you hitting on me?

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Even on max difficulty it's not as hard as some parts of the original at all, not anywhere near.
The game's biggest flaw desu

When will someone mod bigger enemy numbers?

>>383129730
no the game gets slower when you can glory kill everything and youre not even forced to aim because bullet spread is so leniant. And the enemies do get smarter and faster on nightmare, dipshit.

>>383130239
hard levels in vanilla Doom are just based on spamming hitscaners everywhere, people confuse their experience with mods and wads with the base game.

>>383129480
I noticed a bunch of different behaviors in imp while in groups that were really cool, like coordinating their shots so they will lead you in opposite directions, one loading a charging shot while other shoots a quick leading shot as you dodge the bigger one, one making you chase him so others will flank you, and a few others that left me "damn that was neat"
still don't know if intentional or half-intentional though, but it forced me to dispose of them as soon as possible because they could become a serious threat if left alone for some time

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>>383130357
thats why this room is my favorite fight in the game, theres a making of documentary on youtube from noclip and one of the guys talks about the insane amount of animations that went into the game just for the imps. They can traverse fucking everything. This one time a Hell Knight was chasing me then I looked back and notice him naturally volt a chest high wall, just how fluid they all look is impressive to me. And then the mancubus will do a hilarious rocket jump to get his fat ass to higher surfaces, these are the kinds of things I dont see in many fps games.

>>383130783
There's definitely hidden or easy to miss details that shows the people at iD put more effort into this than they had the need to. There are some designs I don't agree with, but the quality of what it has is definitely there.

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>>383130956
Probably because they had the time and resources to rebuild the game various times and improve on it slowly. Thats why im worried we wont see a Doom 2 for a while, I literally just want more of the same but harder and expanded upon a bit. They dont even need the graphics to be better. Or like Doom: the Old Blood, just focus on the combat more and make it really challenging. But its been a year and I think TOB was announced a year after TNO so probably nuthins cumin....

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>>383126303
Why does this shit stutter on my PC I have a 1080ti. But when I turn on vertical sync its fine?

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>>383132103
It runs too fast for your monitor so of course the framepacing is going to be all wrong without effectively limiting the framerate with vsync.

>>383132340
Really???? That's fucking crazy! I have 144hz.

>>383132757
Well even my 1060 render 120 FPS when unlocked. Your 1080 is definitely rendering over 144 FPS which will lead to your monitor skipping frames entirely = meaning stuttering.
Use the adaptative vsync and you should be fine. There's an option to show performance metrics, it should show a constant 144fps.

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>mfw Vulkan smooth 144fps

>>383126303
They make it harder

Had a couple games online the otherday and it was pretty fun might do it again

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>>383135432
>mfw Vulkan start to have wierd graphic bugs once you go to hell

>>383126303
It changes enemy damage but to be honest the games easy as fuck especially once you add in armor and weapon upgrades. Just remember:
>plasma stun is your best friend
>shotguns have the fastest weapon switch and switching between gaus and ss will reload it instantly.
>save bfgs for bosses whoch you can use the slowdown menu ro abuse and kill them in one shot.
Most of the enemies have shit ai and are super exploitable like hell knights. If you simply jump from one platform to the next their jump animation will be so fucking slow you can just keep changing levels without having to worry about anything.

>>383136724
>save bfgs for bosses whoch you can use the slowdown menu ro abuse and kill them in one shot.
What

>>383136724
While I agree the game is easy overall, any games will be easy as fuck if you exploit the shit out of it

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>>383135432
>vulkan actually runs worse