What’s your opinion on the exploration upgrades in DOOM Eternal?

[MYBUTT]

Personally I find the section to be useless. The levels are already pretty linear, and most of these secrets are barely secret's.

[D.T.]

I thought some of them were quite clever, while majority of them as you mentioned are barely a secret. If you have any attention to detail at all, and know how to observe and notice the cracks in walls they show you in the first map (basically tutorial) then you should be able to easily find around 90% of the secrets. The rest of the secrets have entrances that are either tucked away where the map doesn't show, or requires something done before hand like a switch or whatever. In my opinion though, it doesn't hold up to the original DOOM 1 and 2's secrets. I still to this day can't do a playthrough of them and find all the secrets based on memory alone, despite me playing them countless times.

[UNBREAKABLE]

Most of the secrets are tied to game progression so I imagine they didn't want to make them too out of the way and missable.

There are some cool secrets though tucked away that have no effect on progression. The quintuple marauder fight in the World Spear is probably my favorite. There's also the party balloons you can pop in Super Gore Nest that spawns a cake and Tyrants.

The game definitely could of used more of those "actual secrets" that are just there for fun.

[Sar]

I prioritized them on my first playthrough lol, same with 2016. I’m not good at finding secrets!

[Zelmon64]

they are cool, but no one legit found every secret without a youtube video. Unless you have infinite IQ. Some of the secrets made me flabbergasted that someone even found that

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Originally posted by Zelmon64:

they are cool, but no one legit found every secret without a youtube video. Unless you have infinite IQ. Some of the secrets made me flabbergasted that someone even found that

I don't even know how people found the 5 marauder easter egg in world spear. Click on a sword behind a tree that I would never even notice without it being pointed out, but only after finishing the level and fast traveling to it? Who the hell found that?