In the new Doom, you can customize your gameplay completely. A streamer has taken this to the extreme and raced through the demons at astonishing speed.
Who is the streamer? MOONMOON is an American streamer named Jesse Rathburn (35), who showcases a variety of different games on Twitch and regularly has over 11,000 viewers.
- In 2024, MOONMOON became embroiled in controversy over GTA roleplay: former esports player John Paul Lopez, also known as “KingCaffeine” publicly stated that his wife cheated on him with MOONMOON after they supposedly ran the NoPixel ERP server together.
- In the past 90 days, MOONMOON has streamed games like Terraria, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and most recently Doom: The Dark Ages.
During a stream, MOONMOON tested the settings of the latest Doom and experienced how the game plays at a significantly increased speed.
The Raging Doom Slayer
What did he test? The streamer adjusted several sliders in the settings of Doom: The Dark Ages to create a very special gaming experience. After selecting the “Nightmare” difficulty, he set:
- the time window for parries to be as low as possible
- increased the damage the player receives to 500%
- maximized the projectile speed of enemy shots
- reduced the value of resources like ammunition and healing – meaning, picked-up ammunition refills the ammo reserves less
- increased the game speed to 150%
How did the test go? The first attempt ended in a “speedrun” of a special kind: Just about 40 seconds after the streamer started a new game save with the settings, his Doom Slayer died for the first time in battle with the demons even during the tutorial (via Twitch).
After that, things were supposed to go better for the streamer, and he progressed well in the game’s narrative without dying every few seconds.
Streamer had to change settings after failed run
Why did he set the settings this way? MOONMOON started his first game on the “Pandemonium” difficulty, which is supposed to be as difficult as “Nightmare,” but includes the possibility of permanent death. If you run out of the so-called “Life Sigils,” the campaign run is lost. The developers therefore advise against playing the first run on this difficulty.
Thus, after several hours in the stream, MOONMOON started a new run after dying for the eighth time in The Dark Ages and reduced the difficulty to Nightmare. To still have a slightly harder challenge, he adjusted some sliders.
He maximized the speed of the game to get back to the point where he failed in his last run faster. During the stream, he also said that he would probably reduce the speed again once he reaches that point.
How do the sliders for setting the difficulty work? To allow you to experience the game in the way that is most enjoyable for you, Doom: The Dark Ages offers new difficulty settings.
The new difficulty settings appear in the form of the aforementioned sliders, which allow you to adjust the difficulty individually – for example, to extend or shorten the time window for parries or to lower or increase the aggression of the enemies. Overall, now you should feel more like a tank than a fighter jet: In Doom Eternal, your Slayer was fast and nimble like a fighter jet – In the new Doom, you are hefty like a tank
