With Update 2, DOOM became bogged down, and gamers are gnashing their teeth over another Ripatorium mode, this time with new skins and a crock of chaotic goodness. The announcements were posted on the official DOOM Twitter account, and the answers were indeed carnage-a massive amount of hype, requests, and pleas of “fix this plz.”
Up first, the Ripatorium. This endless arena mode demon is basically a shooting test (or torture) shooting hellspawn waves into the arena: no breaks, no mercy-rip and tear until out of ammo or simply insane. However, players are begging for more custom options so they can save their preferences for difficulty and modifiers between sessions. Shaiuken simply asked, “Let us save our Ripatorium settings,” to which we agree.
Then skins. Those skins! Some players are beyond excited, like darkmaster2484, who commented, “Thank you! Doom developers continue to add more content to this amazing game.” And then there are those harder to satisfy. Joeonpcofficial wanted a Nightmare difficulty reward skin, which sparked a whole debate in the replies. IcePrincessMari chimed in, “We have a Gold one for Ultra Nightmare,” and MONDO clapped back, “There is and it’s called Nightmare, did you beat the game lol?”
Dramatics much? The QuakeCon skin issue is the wrong kind of fest. Several players, Florian2404hH and gogetathegreat9 included, say that the skin has not been appearing for them for days now, despite having linked their accounts: “It’s been 4 whole days,” one lamented. Meanwhile, PokiiChii just wants the classic DOOM armor skin, with DeschainGames, appearing as well with, “I have a cool idea for a skin can I send it 👁️👄👁️.” Bethesda, you need to hire this guy.
Bugs? Oh yes, those too. KalebHooper95 is stuck in the final battle because “the cutscene doesn’t load and I’m on foot.” Xbox players unite. Styles_cb called out the Berserk achievement bug, and rodrisanbaga wanted to know about HDR fixes for PS5 Pro. And then there’s ALeonOriginal with the coldest take: “Don’t care. Remove Denuvo.”
Switch 2 port requests? Immediately popping in. Bigstephen00, GamersReck, and Rai__YT all added their various “PLEASSSSE”s. Respaldo_albar0 joked, “Bethesda weird magic can make the dark ages run on the switch 2.” Meanwhile, davencheicodes pitched a DOOM 3 remake in the current engine because, “Y’all were on to something with a horror version of DOOM.”
Soundtrack slander? Drew Peacock (En_Senada69) said, “AI could have done a better job,” beginning a war in the replies. OnekGaming retaliated: “You must be deaf or something because that soundtrack was the best one yet.” Oof.
Yeah, so Update 2 has been birthed into the world, and chaos-lots of glorious demonic chaos. New mode, new looks, new bugs to squash, and a community that’s never pleased (in the best way). Now if you’ll excuse us, we have a Ripatorium to jump into… probably to die in… repeatedly.
