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Fresh off the presses: Multiplayer modes revealed

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Apart from that soul thingy (which is nothing new), the Freeze Tag and the Warpath Mode sound cool. Something new and refreshing! At least I haven't seen anything quite like Warpath in any other game yet.

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tuo said:

Apart from that soul thingy (which is nothing new), the Freeze Tag and the Warpath Mode sound cool. Something new and refreshing! At least I haven't seen anything quite like Warpath in any other game yet.



Freeze Tag is a mode already available in Quake Live. Nonetheless, I'm digging this. :D

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So... they forgot regular ol' deathmatch? If that's there too it would be seven modes, and it says six modes.

And if soul harvest is a team mode, that would mean there aren't any non-team modes.

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Could be they mean six non-standard and noteworthy modes. Considering they flat-out mentioned deathmatch and SnapMap co-op before, it could be that they don't feel like they need to bring them up along with TDM and such.

Though I'm still doubting in-built CTF. They flat-out made a version of King of the Hill that could work on any map, and considering we've only seen maps fitting for deathmatch-styled spawn anywhere type modes ...

Edit: Actually, these might be the ladder modes. FFA isn't really ladder-worthy in a FPS, especially compared to team modes. So the spotlight they're putting on these could hint at having built-in ranked play, with these being the modes that'll be available for ranked on launch.

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So what are the remaining two modes not shown in the video? TDM was tested in the alpha so that's one. What about the last one?

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Patrol1985 said:

So what are the remaining two modes not shown in the video? TDM was tested in the alpha so that's one. What about the last one?

Domination and Clan Arena - they're in the video, they just go by really quickly.

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tuo said:

Apart from that soul thingy (which is nothing new), the Freeze Tag and the Warpath Mode sound cool. Something new and refreshing! At least I haven't seen anything quite like Warpath in any other game yet.


Soul Harvest is literally Kill Confirmed. Warpath is Headquarters/Hardpoint from CoD, only the capture point moves fluidly instead of switching between several fixed locations. A good change, should be fun.

Freeze Tag is the one I haven't seen anything similar to.

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AirRaid said:

Soul Harvest is literally Kill Confirmed. Warpath is Headquarters/Hardpoint from CoD, only the capture point moves fluidly instead of switching between several fixed locations. A good change, should be fun.

Freeze Tag is the one I haven't seen anything similar to.


Freeze Tag is in Quake 3.

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Freezetag was my favorite mode in Quake 3, awesome to see it return as an official mode. The only gripe I have, and I'm basing this off the few seconds shown, is I wish there was a bit more visual feedback when they are frozen; the ice is a bit too translucent and it was slightly hard to tell who was frozen. Probably will take a match to get used to though, so whatever.
Warpath looks pretty great. I've never been one to play the domination modes too much, but that looks like enough of a spin to make it fresh.
I'm also glad so much multiplayer stuff is being shown, keep the singleplayer fresh.

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AirRaid said:

Soul Harvest is literally Kill Confirmed. Warpath is Headquarters/Hardpoint from CoD, only the capture point moves fluidly instead of switching between several fixed locations. A good change, should be fun.

Freeze Tag is the one I haven't seen anything similar to.


hardpoint = domination. freezetag = from quakelive (previous id title)

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So is Soul Harvest more like Kill Confirmed and the second you grab a soul it counts as a point, or is it like Harvester from Quake 3 Team Arena where you had a collection of skulls and had to drop them off at the enemy base to collect points?
I always liked the Team Arena version; it made it hectic when you chased/you were the guy with a long tail of skulls dragging behind.

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Warpath looks really fun and refreshing. Kind of sad there's no mention of a dedicated CTF mode given how popular it is within the current Doom community.

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sleepii said:

hardpoint = domination. freezetag = from quakelive (previous id title)


Hardpoint is seperate from Domination. In Dom, you have several (usually three) capture points, teams accrue score for holding each point, up to a score limit or a time limit. Hardpoint has one single capture area which teams fight for control of. This area is on a time limit and when the timer runs out another capture point will spawn elsewhere, and the teams must relocate and fight for the new area.

I haven't played too much Q3 so it makes sense I hadn't played freeze tag, my mistake.

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AirRaid said:

Soul Harvest is literally Kill Confirmed.


It has a bit of a twist to it, because of the Demon Rune. I recommend reading this official blog post:
https://bethesda.net/?utm_source=DOOM_modes&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=03142016-AutomatronTrailer2#en/events/game/doom-multiplayer-modes-revealed/2016/03/21/92

"But there’s more to Soul Harvest than kill-and-collect. A demon rune will appear where the first player is killed, and this demon power-up has no time limit. In addition to the increased threat demons always bring, any enemy players killed by a demon drop two souls to claim instead of the usual one. And if you manage to slay a demon? You have the opportunity to pick up the five souls it leaves behind – and perhaps become the demon yourself."


EDIT: Sorry, someone already posted that URL...
EDIT 2: Also, thank you Bathesda/ID for not showing another video with just glory kills. Finally, some action that is actually how a player would play.

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i seriously doubt the game launches without a standard FFA Deathmatch mode, but it would be one of the worst things to show off since every game does it. I'd hold on a bit longer before those of you who are worried assume there is no FFA DM.

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The Civ said:

No CTF, Free For All, or Instagib?
Damn. That kind of sucks.

My thoughts exactly. These are classic MP modes.

MrDeAD1313 said:

I bet they add more game modes later on.

I wouldn't. I assume the game is in polish mode by now.

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Technician said:

I wouldn't. I assume the game is in polish mode by now.

They literally say that these are the game modes "on launch." I highly doubt there won't be extras patched in.

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