Play directly on nightmare?

[rogermorse]

I would like to get all achievements but I am lazy to play everything twice. I just played the normal DOOM3 on recruit and got all collectibles etc. Is there a way to play the other storylines directly on nightmare, so that I don't have to play them twice? Would a savegame work (so that I can unlock the nightmare difficulty) ?

[Jon.pettet.]

go to vet first then to nm

[MASTAN]

AFAIK You can unlock Nightmare by changing something in config. See https://steamcommunity.com/app/208200/discussions/0/864949659135213495/

I played D3 on veteran, then on Nightmare. Then Resurrection of Evil & Lost Mission directly on Nightmare and got all corresponding singleplayer achievements.

[rogermorse]

oh thanks, i will check that. i'll do the expansion on nightmare and play doom3 again on nightmare, i hope a speedrun on nightmare will not take too long

[Firewalk]

Originally posted by rogermorse:

oh thanks, i will check that. i'll do the expansion on nightmare and play doom3 again on nightmare, i hope a speedrun on nightmare will not take too long

Not sure how savvy you are with Doom 3's nightmare mode, but I'm gonna share this just in case. When you get to the Sabaoth boss (aka Demon Sarge Tank), make sure to bring a fully powered Soulcube for the fight. It is pretty much impossible to beat otherwise and it screwed up my nightmare playthrough since I was too dumb to save my game when the level started.

Reason I say this, is because the tracking damage from the BFG alone will kill you, he never has to land a hit directly on you.

Just wanna make sure you don't make that same mistake lol

[rogermorse]

yes that is a good idea, actually already with the first boss (the spider demon or whatever its name is), without soul cube was impossible....he throws telepathically those thorn balls at you, which are impossible to avoid. When I saw how difficult the fight was, I reloaded an autosave (previous) and was lucky enough to go into the secret area where you get the plasma gun. You get lots of enemies there so I charged the soul cube and went into the fight with the spider boss.

It is true, better to keep some savegames just in case!