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tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:31:01 +0000

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Steam Awards Finalist | DOOM: The Dark Ages

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:00:38 +0000

Thank you to everyone who's already voted in the early rounds to make DOOM: The Dark Ages a Steam Awards Finalist in the following category:

Outstanding Visual Style

We're honored and hope with one final vote from all of you we can win this thing!

Update 3

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:46:57 +0000

Update 3 for DOOM: The Dark Ages introduces Ripatorium 2.0, offering additional Encounter Presets, deeper customization options, additional jukebox tracks and the ability to share your custom encounters on a per-round basis via Passcode sharing.

This update also includes Campaign quality-of-life updates such as the Brink of Death feature now selectable between Normal and Hard settings via the Difficulty tab, plus player-requested updates including bindable inputs for your active Melee Weapon and Shield Rune.

💢Ripatorium 2.0

We’ve added even more ways to customize the Ripatorium arena mode, including the ability to share and load presets from each round via our Passcode sharing*.

The Ripatorium is now round-based, with players customizing a selection of enemies they will face for up to five rounds

Each Ripatorium round can have unique settings and up to 10 respawn waves

In the Settings menu, we've added new options for Time Limit

Each round also features a unique Passcode (highlighted in the image below) that allows you to share your custom Ripatorium round and all its settings with other players

*Please note Ripatorium Passcode sharing is in Beta

To play someone else's Ripatorium encounter, select the corresponding round and press the newly added "Enter New Passcode" input at the bottom of the screen

There are also new Encounter Presets to choose from: Medium, Challenging and Sadistic

Note: You can enable these Encounter Presets in conjunction with any Difficulty Level

What are the "Preset Incoming" Encounters? (Highlighted in the image below)

We're looking to collect the best custom encounters so that we can curate some community-made presets! Be sure to tag @doom on social with your unique round Passcodes for your best full encounter setups! In time, these will be added in-game via an Active Tunable update (without requiring a client update)

The Jukebox now includes five additional tracks:

“Theomachy”

“Bloodspill”

“Divine Retribution"

“From the Ashes”

“Wither and Writhe”

An icon now appears over the heads of the last few remaining enemies in a round

Additional line-of-sight blockers have been added to all arenas

End of Level Summary now shows two new tabs: Difficulty and Arena Setup

Difficulty: Includes settings used during the Ripatorium run

Arena Setup: Breaks down total demons killed with separate tabs counting each class of slain demon (Fodder, Heavy and Super Heavy)

🎯Gameplay & Quality of Life

Brink of Death is now an adjustable setting in the Difficulty tab

Normal provides the recommended support

Hard provides less support and makes surviving at low health more challenging

Input Bindings

Players can now swap their active Shield Rune and Melee Weapon during gameplay

Four new player-requested key bindings have been added to the Input tab:

Next Melee Weapon

Previous Melee Weapon

Next Shield Rune

Previous Shield Rune

Controller Vibration

Adjusting the vibration intensity slider now correctly adjusts external controllers on Xbox when plugged into a PC

Controller vibration now works correctly with the BFC equipped

👿Enemy AI Fixes

Fixed a crash on PlayStation 5 Pro when initiating a Glory Strike on Heavy and Super Heavy-classed enemies after they're Dazed from the player using the Shredder

The player no longer clips through the geometry of the wall when performing a Glory Strike against the Komodo

Floating VFX will no longer appear over the Cacodemon’s corpse if it is killed while performing a wall attack

The Vagary Champion’s summon VFX are now the correct size

Fixed an issue with the Cacodemon’s shield continuing to block attacks briefly after it visually expires

Added ambient audio to the Cacodemon’s idle animation

⚔️Combat Encounter Updates

Holy City of Aratum

After the Vagary spawns in the final encounter, additional Mancubus spawns are now replaced with a group of Imps

Removed Chaingunners from the final encounter

️Siege Part 1

The Hell Knight and Imp Stalker that spawn after breaking Morale in the Village Morale fight no longer respawn

The Stone Imps and one of the Nightmare Imp Stalkers in the Swamp Morale fight have been removed

️Siege Part 2

The Hell Knights in the Tank Hangar that spawn after the Leader Battle Knight no longer respawn

Forsaken Plains

Removed one of the Arachnotron spawns from both tower objectives

Hellbreaker

Removed the additional Revenant spawn in the final encounter

Sentinel Command Station

The Mancubus and Arachnotron that spawn after breaking the Pinky Rider Leader's armor in the tank hangar no longer respawn

The Mancubus and Arachnotron that spawn in the final encounter no longer respawn

From Beyond

The Mancubus that spawns after breaking Morale in the first arena fight no longer respawn

The Revenant that spawns after breaking Morale in the second arena fight no longer respawn

️Belly of the Beast

Removed Battle Knight maintain status in first arena encounter

Removed Mancubus and Arachnotron in Vagary fight

Harbor of Souls

Removed Arachnotron ambush in Blue Key Komodo fight

Removed additional Revenant spawn in the fight against the Vagary during the first visit to the temple

Removed Arachnotron on barge

Reckoning

Added Hell Knight and Imp Stalker ambush to secret Ruby room

Added Mancubus ambush in Prince Ahzrak toy collectible secret

Added surprise encounter to Wraithstone pickup

Changed the Nightmare Imp Stalker to a normal Imp Stalker in the first encounter

🔧Tweaks & Adjustments

Atlan

Adjusted Brink of Death feature for all difficulties so players have a greater chance to fight back from a near-death situation

Slightly increased the amount of health received from killing Titan enemies

Prince Ahzrak

Reduced acceleration of projectiles spawned from the boss’ Super Dive Bomb attack

Reduced base damage of boss’ Spear Throw so that it does not break the player’s Shield in a single shot when enemy damage slider value is 2.0x or lower.

The Old One

Slightly increased health received by the player when performing a Glory Strike

Reduced the damage scaling on the Gravity Well explosion across all damage slider values 1.0x and above.

Cacodemon

Slightly reduced speed of Lightning Wall projectiles

Cosmic Baron

Reduced damage of Guillotine Projectile attack so that the player's Shield doesn't break instantly on block

Fixed a bug where additional damage was sometimes applied when hit by a Cosmic Baron's Guillotine Projectile

Combat Feedback

Adjusted various weapons and enemies to activate gore with greater frequency and consistency across the player’s arsenal

Adjusted enemy ragdoll behavior for various melee attacks and Shield Charge to further punctuate those actions in combat

🐞Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with the Atlan’s Brink of Death activating despite the player Perfect Dodging an AOE attack

The spark VFX for using the Shield block no longer appears when taking damage from environmental hazards or other damage that bypasses the Shield

Fixed a bug with the Lore Nerd Milestone not completing correctly after finishing a 100% playthrough

Fixed an issue with the Perfection Skin not unlocking if the player force quits during the third Ripatorium match

Fixed a rare issue where the campaign's Pause and Dossier menus were replaced with Ripatorium menus, leading to save corruption and inaccessible menus

Fixed a bug where debug text would appear after dying in the projectile parry tutorial area

Interrupting the Combat Shotgun burst fire with Shield block no longer causes the player camera to slightly tilt until mantling or restarting the map

Fixed an issue in the Ripatorium where both mods for the Shredder and Accelerator would be active at the same time if the player reloaded the encounter or died and restarted

Hitting a Chaingunner with a pinned fodder demon will no longer instantly kill the demon

Armored enemies will now falter correctly when their armor is destroyed by the Ravager and Pulverizer

Fixed a bug where the first instance of damage the player takes after a checkpoint would not mitigate damage properly if hit from behind

Killing a Vagary, Agaddon Hunter or Komodo in the Ripatorium no longer triggers their related Campaign milestones

The Ripatorium now saves the Melee weapon the player equipped from the previous attempt. In addition, , charges for that weapon are fully replenished if the player swaps Melee weapons before the first round of enemies spawn

Addressed a bug with the firing SFX getting stuck in a loop if the player swapped from the Auto Turret Rune to another Shield Rune after it has already begun to fire in the Ripatorium

🔍 Known Issues

Ripatorium Encounter Presets not resetting after selecting "Reset All Ripatorium Rounds to Default,” (e.g. the “Sadistic” preset remains at “Sadistic” rather than “Default)

Quick Swap Rune and Quick Swap Melee not displaying correctly in the Ripatorium with accounts that have not progressed beyond the Campaign opening

Default Time Limit displaying inconsistently when enabling Encounter Presets

If you're still experiencing issues, please holler at our amazing Customer Service team[help.bethesda.net].

Update 2.2

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:33:58 +0000

Update 2.2 includes general bug fixes and combat encounter adjustments for all platforms. It also introduces new handheld optimizations and quality of life updates including DOOM: The Dark Ages now being Steam Deck Verified.

👋New Handheld Optimizations

✨Handheld Setting Autodetection

On first launch, the game will autodetect the optimal settings for handheld devices. Handheld First Launch Auto Detection is specific to handhelds. Players may further customize the settings based on personal preferences
Settings are now stored per device so players may customize their play experience on a per device basis

👌Handheld Performance

General performance improvements specific to handhelds
Added advanced optimization settings specifically for handhelds
Optimized SFX and VFX specifically for handhelds (Changes do not affect Consoles or PC)
Handheld benchmark mode

👉Handheld Device Specifications

Performance depends on selected power mode and whether the device is attached to a dedicated power source. Values detailed here assume the device is using the highest power setting in the OS and is not running from battery

Steam Deck : 720p @ ~30FPS
Z1 Devices : 720p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally)
Z1E Devices : 1080p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go)
Z2A Devices : 720p @ ~30FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally)
Z2E Devices : 1080p @ ~60FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally X)

*Results are based on testing with pre-release drivers. Personal results may vary with newer drivers and user selected power settings on a per device basis

✌️Handheld General

Added QOL input improvements when handhelds are docked to a stand
Added controller detection on handhelds for wireless and wired external controllers

😌General Bug Fixes and Improvements (All Platforms)

👿Enemy AI

Fixed an issue with Sentinel civilians‘ heads being out of place in Hebeth, Siege – Part 1, and Sentinel Command Station
Resolved a rare crash if the player used the shield throw on the Plasma Shield Soldiers with the “Power Surge” shield upgrade

Final Battle

Visuals for area denial when Prince Ahzrak blood pillars expire now render correctly
Fixed a rare crash when using the BFC during the beginning of each phase of the enhanced Prince Ahzrak boss fight

🎯Gameplay

🛡Weapon Balance

Fixed an issue where death and damage stats were not being registered properly in the case of multiple damage instances on the same frame as an entity death
- This change also addressed a bug where the Accelerator mastery challenge wasn’t being incremented properly
Cycler Plasma Gun will no longer glow white on firing with Berserker Power in Harbor of Souls and Resurrection
Shield now accounts for melee stagger and correctly recovers from being staggered out of a melee strike while attempting to block/parry. Prevents a shield lockout and prevents a case where the shield would pop up into the block state briefly well after the input was released

🗺 Levels

⚔Combat Encounter Updates

Hebeth

Fixed an issue where reloading checkpoints after the gold and sentinel shrine tutorial could cause objectives to vanish until level restart or transition

Sentinel Barracks

Mancubus no longer respawns during the Vagary Champion boss fight
Removed Hell Knight and Stalker Imp reinforcements from Mancubus Leader spawn wave in the burning tree fight

Siege – Part 1

Hell Knights, Stalker Imps, and Imps no longer respawn during the Vagary fights throughout the battlefield
The wolf statue ruby will no longer get stuck behind a red energy gate if it is not collected after breaking the wolf statues and reloading the south gore portal checkpoint

Siege – Part 2

Fixed an issue where an errant Titan could appear in the courtyard when reloading the checkpoint

Ancestral Forge

Arachnotron no longer respawns during Agaddon Hunter fight at the end of heart sandbox section
Fixed a potential crash when loading a checkpoint after dying in the Agaddon Hunter fight in the Ancestral Courtyard

Spire of Nerathul

Chaingun Arachnotron no longer respawns during final encounter of the cathedral stasis emitter section

Temple of Lomarith

Arachnotron and Cacodemon no longer respawn during the shipwreck morale fight
The melee pickups now appear correctly on the secret boat “Hell Knight rush” encounter

Resurrection

The armored Arachnotron that spawns after the Acolyte dies no longer respawns during first morale fight

Reckoning

Arachnotron no longer respawns during buffed Agaddon Hunter encounter

💢The Ripatorium

Vagaries should now only spawn in open areas where they can move around

🔊Audio

Fixed an issue where the Shield Saw grinding SFX could stop playing if the player opened the Dossier while the shield is in a power node and then returns to gameplay

🎰UI

Fixed an issue where second codex does not register progress if mission select was entered before completion or collected via mission select
Resolved an issue with the tutorial in the Ripatorium menu always appearing when entering the menu regardless of whether or not the Player had already played the mode
Fixed a bug where opening the Dossier the frame after breaking a metal lock or using any switch could cause the trigger to fail and block progression
Addressed a potential crash when Alt-Tabbing away and returning to the game when the game is at a load screen

🪄VFX

Corrected an issue where picking up a toy could cause the shield or equipped weapon visual effects to appear during the animation
Stray purple lines will no longer appear when overloading a Cacodemon using the Cycler
Addresses a bug where the first-person gore overlay flickered around screen edges during AI execute actions when resolution scaling was active

🔧Newly Added Active Tunables

Active Tunable gameplay refinements are denoted below as: (*AT) for "Active Tunable"

(*AT) Reduced damage of certain attacks from the Agaddon Hunter, Cosmic Baron, Hell Knight, and Komodo to reduce the number of attacks that break the shield in one hit on Nightmare Difficulty
(*AT) Adjusted the Brink of Death system on all difficulties to be more in line with launch day values

Developer Note: The Dark Ages (and Eternal) was designed from the start to allow players the chance to fight their way back from a near death experience - this system is known as the Brink of Death. When your health is low, by design, you are at your most alert and engaged. We’ve re-tuned this system’s values to settings closer to launch, enhancing this aspect of the combat.

If you're still experiencing issues, please holler at our amazing Customer Service team here[help.bethesda.net]

Check out the details of what went live in Update 2.1[slayersclub.bethesda.net] and Update 2.1 Hotfix[slayersclub.bethesda.net]

Update 2.1 Hotfix 1

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:55:53 +0000

💢The Ripatorium

😌Quality of Life Improvements

Player’s selection of equipped guns, upgrades, melee weapon, and shield rune will now persist once adjusted
Added ammo and health pickups to Ripatorium arenas

🐞Bug Fixes

Fixed the crash issue during combat with too many enemy AI present in the Ripatorium as well as in the campaign
Fixed the issue with the base Vagary not dying when executed while dazed
Fixed the issue where Champion Vagary had a chance to spawn when the base Vagary was selected
Fixed an issue where swapping any Shield Rune after starting the arena would cause some of the upgrades to no longer work, including Steadfast, Harvester, Blade Master, and Retaliation
The Steadfast Shield upgrade now functions when an unbroken shield is restoring health
Fixed an issue where multiple upgrades where being applied at the same time for Accelerator and Shredder

👿Enemy AI

General gameplay balance refinements (some of these were previously Active Tunables that have been removed from that article and committed to the game in Update 2.1 Hotfix 1). These are denoted below as: (*PT) for "Previous Tunable"

Fixed the issue where Imp, Soldier, Zombie, and Arachnotron’s swipe melee attacks dealt no damage if passing through other demons first
Armored enemies will now falter when their armor is destroyed with Shotguns
Fixed an issue where the Vagary did not falter after taking damage from the Dreadmace direct damage or AOE damage once certain upgrades had been purchased
Fixed the issue where Pinky Rider Armor prevented falters from the Slayer’s landing impact
Fixed the issue where Whiplash did not perform a falter from the Slayer’s landing impact
Reverted the Cacodemon health buff applied in Update 2
Reverted the Mancubus health and armor buffs applied in Update 2
Reverted changes to Mancubus Flamethrower damage applied in Update 2
Reverted changes to Mancubus Fireball speed and size applied in Update 2
(*PT) Chaingunner increased cooldown between burst fire attacks & shortened duration of burst fire attacks

🎯Gameplay

Equipped Guns, upgrades, Melee weapon, and Shield Rune are now retained when reloading checkpoints during the campaign and when transitioning between missions
Shield Charge AOE (Area of Effect) will now cause health to drop from killed enemies
Fixed an issue where the Shield Saw could not be raised to perform a Block/Parry during the reload animation of the Super Shotgun
Added the ability to interrupt the Super Shotgun reload animation to melee at the same frame we allow a Block/Parry
Shortened the delay for the player to interrupt Rocket Launcher and Grenade Launcher firing animations to Shield Block/Parry or Melee
Fixed an issue introduced in Update 2 that allowed players to potentially switch weapons earlier than intended after firing certain guns including Super Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Grenade Launcher
Fixed the brief slowdown experienced after Parrying or using a Melee combo when 'Parry & Melee Slow Down' is set to 0
Players will now be restored to a minimum of 75 health upon checkpoint reload if they hit the checkpoint with less health than that amount (this excludes Pandemonium and Ultra Nightmare which don't have checkpoint reloading)
Corrected an issue where the low ammo notice appears well before the Cycler Plasma Rifle should be notifying for a low ammo state
Fixed the issue where the player could briefly become locked out of swapping to the BFC while using the Chainshot
Fixed an issue where upgrading all melee weapons could prevent the Melee Expert and Berserker achievements from completing

🛡Weapon Balance

Rail Spike Impaler

Developer Clarification: Impaler headshot damage was not universally increased in Update 2. The approach we took generally favored decreasing Impaler body shot damage in instances where scoring all headshots did not result in a meaningful difference in the total number of shots required to daze or kill a demon. We did increase headshot scaling in a few instances (E.G. Cyberdemon and Whiplash) where reducing body shot damage would have resulted in a longer-than-desired time-to-kill

Balance adjustments including:

Reduced Impaler damage vs. Cyberdemon
Reduced headshot scaling of empowered Impaler projectiles (via Salvage and Chronospike upgrades) vs. Whiplash
Reduced headshot scaling of non-empowered Impaler projectiles vs. Revenant

Super Shotgun

Balance adjustments including:
- Increased Super Shotgun damage vs. Hell Knight and Battle Knight
- Increased Super Shotgun damage vs. Cosmic Baron
- Reverted the damage adjustments against Mancubus and its armor applied in Update 2
- Increased Super Shotgun damage vs. Pinky Rider and Armored Pinky Rider
- Increased base Super Shotgun (without upgrades) damage vs. Vagary armor

🗺 Levels

Active Tunable gameplay refinements are denoted below as: (*AT) for "Active Tunable"

⚔Combat Encounter Updates

Holy City of Aratum

🗡Final Encounter

Adjusted the Hell Knight respawn

Siege - Part 1 & Siege - Part 2

Increased time between maintain spawns in several encounters

Siege - Part 2

🗡Courtyard Section

(*AT) Fixed an issue where Titan gore collision would disrupt projectiles

Ancestral Forge

Resolved issues where additional combat encounters could be triggered erroneously

🗡Final fight

Removed the Imp and Mancubus maintain support in the Agaddon Hunter intro
Expanded the Arachnotron maintain window

Spire of Nerathul

🗡Komodo Boss Fight

Removed the maintain support from the Komodo intro

🗡Hanging Ship Path

Fixed the Arachnotron maintain respawning with inconsistent timing at the end of the encounter

🗡Overlook Secret

Fixes the Battle Knight maintain occasionally spawning as another enemy AI

The Kar’Thul Marshes

🗡Morale fight

Set Nightmare Imp Stalker maintain to begin after both Imp Stalkers are dead, rather than just one

Resurrection

Resolved issues where additional combat encounters could be triggered erroneously
Added plasma ammo in front of both plasma gates on the Maykr ship
The “Energy Shield” tutorial pop up does bypass the “Tutorials Off” setting

Final Battle

Changed the enemy AI composition in the final Atlan encounter so there are fewer armored enemies

🎰UI

Resolved the issue where viewing Newsfeed body content for live tiles displayed a blank pop-up and caused multiple log errors
Added the 'Energy Shield' popup tutorial to the Pause Menu's tutorial list
The Energy Shield tutorial in Resurrection will now bypass the "Tutorials Off" setting

🏭Engine

Fixed a crash that occurred during Ripatorium Endless mode on Xbox Series X|S & PlayStation 5 when playing for longer than 8 hours continuously

If you're still experiencing issues, please holler at our amazing Customer Service team here[help.bethesda.net]

Read all the above in additional languages on Slayers Club here[slayersclub.bethesda.net].

Update 2.1

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:33:39 +0000

Today's minor update for DOOM: The Dark Ages addresses the following:

Fix for 1-frame jitter that can be caused by resolution scaling
Fix for VRS (Variable Rate Shading) setting not changing when applying defaults

If you're still experiencing issues, please holler at our amazing Customer Service team here[help.bethesda.net]

Update 2

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:14:56 +0000

This update adds the Ripatorium, an endless arena mode that lets players set up their own combat encounters within 3 unique arenas using a simple menu interface. Also included are two new DOOM Slayer skins (see below for unlock criteria), a loopable demo for Benchmark Mode on PC and a slew of other improvements and bug fixes

✨New Content

💢The Ripatorium

Includes a new Encounter Manager:

Select type and quantity of demons to spawn
Set a time limit to challenge yourself or turn on Endless mode
Use the enemy respawn counter to craft your experience

Includes 3 arenas:

Arena 1 - City of Ry'uul
Arena 2 - Village of Khalim
Arena 3 - Harbor of Souls
Lastly, a jukebox where you can select a DOOM: The Dark Ages music track for your custom encounter

👁‍🗨Benchmark Mode

Added Demo Mode that lets you create a looping playlist sequence of benchmark mode flythroughs

👘New Cosmetic Customization

Limited-Time Free QuakeCon 2025 DOOM Slayer skin*

Earnable Perfection DOOM Slayer skin**

*Requires linking the platform you play DOOM: The Dark Ages on to your Bethesda.net account and launching the game between August 7 and September 1, 2025. Please allow up to 48 hours for skin to appear in-game

** Complete an encounter in each Ripatorium arena (3 total)

🛠Game Updates and Improvements

🎭Difficulty Settings

Added a new difficulty slider for Max Life Sigils that allows players to set a Life Sigil capacity for their campaign run
Added a new difficulty slider for Atlan Perfect Dodge Window
- Allows players to adjust how long the Perfect Dodge window is active when Dashing as the Atlan

💊Life Sigil

Updated the timing of the Life Sigil activation flow to smooth out the experience
Added a line to the Life Sigil activation screen that tells the player which enemy type delivered the killing blow
Added new sounds for when the player receives a killing blow to activate a Life Sigil, as well as a new sound when a Life Sigil is activated

🎛Additional Game Settings

Added new gameplay slider for Parry & Melee Slow Motion

Allows player to adjust the duration of the slow-motion feedback that occurs on a successful Shield parry or Melee strike when playing as the Slayer

Added a new Game Setting for “Weapon Class Switch Style”

Standard \[maintains current weapon swap behavior]

Pressing a Weapon Class input in rapid succession will now always switch to the currently equipped weapon within a given Class

Double Tap \[NEW]

Pressing a Weapon Class input twice in quick succession at the beginning of a weapon switch will now automatically equip the other weapon in that class if available

🔊Audio

Global pass on combat music to ensure system is being triggered correctly for each encounter

🎯Gameplay

Added ability to interrupt weapon bring-up and Shield Charge recovery animations sooner to perform a block or parry
Loading tip for melee being used to refill ammo will now appear more frequently

🛡Weapons

Increased speed of Weapon Swap animations

Rail Spike Impaler

Balance adjustments including:

Reduced Impaler damage vs. Hellknight and Vagary demons
Reduced Impaler damage vs. armored demons
Put further emphasis on Impaler headshots by increasing headshot damage, and reducing non-headshot damage vs. various demons
Shield Throws that deflect off of larger demons no longer drop Impaler ammo when the Stalwart upgrade is equipped
Reduced the amount of Mace charge received from headshots with the Lobotomy upgrade

Plasma Rifle Class

Lowered base ammo on Plasma Rifle Cycler
Adjusted value of ammo capacity increase earned through Demonic Essence upgrades
Lowered maximum ammo capacity of Plasma Rifle Cycler

Super Shotgun

Reduced Super Shotgun damage vs. Hellknight, Mancubus, Pinky Rider, Cosmic Baron
Reduced Super Shotgun damage vs. armored demons
Player can now interrupt the Super Shotgun reload to perform executions

Chainshot

Lowered starting ammo capacity

Dreadmace

Executions performed with the Dreadmace equipped now drop the same amount of ammo as executions performed with other melee weapons. The amount of ammo dropped as a result of other Mace attacks has not changed
Reduced Dreadmace AOE damage, increased Dreadmace direct-hit damage to compensate for AOE damage reduction
Parrying a Hell Surge attack drops less Dreadmace charge
Drops triggered as a result of Impaler headshots with the Lobotomy upgrade equipped drop less Dreadmace charge

Gauntlet

Lowered the amount of charge received via Duelist upgrade

Shield Saw

Removed the slight cooldown on Shield Throw after catching it from a previous throw action
Refined Shield Saw parry detection

🦾Atlan

Stomp

Adjusted Stomp behavior to apply an electrical stun and shock state to enemies

VFX and audio adjustments to accompany this change

When attacking shocked enemies, the Atlan will punch faster
Updated the tutorials to cover the new behavior

Encounters

Updated Atlan encounters to account for new Stomp behavior

🐲Dragon

Extended empowered shot time
Updated Anti-Dragon AI's projectile attacks in the tutorial section to include line attacks and remove the hourglass projectile
Improved tutorial messaging for assault mode dash directions
Added new HUD elements to indicate when the player should initiate assault mode and dodge actions
Shortened the delay time for AI firing projectiles after lock-on
Players will now skip straight to the Holy City of Aratum if tutorials are turned off

👿Enemy AI

Made the Kreed Maykr fight more challenging
Extended the range on Prince Ahzrak's spear
The Old One’s Aerial Slam damage radius now covers the entire arena
- FX and SFX have been added
Increased the AOE of the waveblast from the Komodo’s Graviton arm attack
Completed a pass on AI logic events to ensure they are stopping correctly when AI pain reactions are triggered
The Pinky bite attack has been updated with new animations, FX and audio to help the attack read better
HP buffs have been added to the Cacodemon, Mancubus, and Armored Mancubus.
Addressed the Chaingunner Soldier’s target acquisition, fire rate, and overall player responsiveness
Pinky Rider leader now fires shield projectiles at the start of the flame wall attack instead of basic fire projectiles
Increased Mancubus Flamethrower damage
Increased Mancubus Fireball speed and size

🗺 Levels

Hebeth

A checkpoint now appears after reaching where the Accelerator would be picked up when playing the level through Mission Select

Sentinel Barracks

A checkpoint now appears after reaching where the Pulverizer would be picked up

Reckoning

Added a checkpoint after the intro sync animation for the Prince Ahzrak and Witch fight

⚔Combat Encounter Updates

Sentinel Barracks

🗡Tomb Arena

Reduced number of spawns in the Stone Imp wave

🗡Vagary Champion Encounter

Reduced the Mancubus maintain from 2 to 1

Holy City of Aratum

🗡Secret Gore Nest Encounter

Replaced a Nightmare Imp Stalker with a Chaingunner
Added Mancubus maintain for Pinky Rider Leader support
Added Imp maintain for Pinky Rider Leader support

Siege - Part 1

🗡Southside Gore Nest

Full encounter rework

Abyssal Forest

🗡Overgrowth Mid Encounter

Added 2 mortar Mancubus

🗡Overgrowth Tree

Added Hellknight

🗡Ruins arena

Added 2 Hellknights

🗡Canyon Fight

Added additional fodder along path
Added armored Mancubus with phalanx

🗡Agaddon Boss Fight

Added 2 Mancubus
Added Imps

Ancestral Forge

🗡Mines switch encounter

Added Chaingunner reinforcement
Added 2 Mancubus

🗡Ancestral Final: all 3 switches to activate

Added Nightmare Imp Stalkers
Added Arachnotron
Added Imps

🗡Final fight

Added Arachnotron on morale shield break
Added Hellknight on morale shield break

The Forsaken Plains

🗡Left Tower Combat

Added Arachnotron maintain after morale shield break

🗡Right Tower Combat

Added Arachnotron and Battleknight after morale shield break

Hellbreaker

🗡Castle Interior Ambush

Added Nightmare Imp Stalker spawn and Revenant maintain

Sentinel Command Station

🗡Maintenance Hallway Encounter

Added Imp Stalker maintain

🗡Tank Hangar

Added Arachnotron maintain for leader support
Added Mancubus maintain for leader support

🗡Final Atrium Encounter

Added Mancubus maintain for Cyberdemon support
Added Arachnotron maintain for Cyberdemon support

From Beyond

🗡Machine Space Encounter

Added mortar Mancubus maintain
Reduced soldiers

🗡Summit Encounter

Added Revenant maintain

Spire of Nerathul

🗡Komodo Boss Fight

Added Arachnotrons

🗡Cliffside Extra Life

Added Cacodemon and Battleknights

🗡Gore Nest

Removed Whiplash and added Pinky Rider, Nightmare Imp Stalker, and Revenant before morale break, and Whiplashes after morale break

🗡Hanging Ship Path, Stasis Emitter

Added Arachnotrons

🗡Cathedral Path Stasis Emitter

Added Arachnotrons

🗡Mountaintop Wraith Steel

Added Battleknights

🗡Pre-BFC Gauntlet

Added Whiplash

City of Ry’uul

🗡Undercity Tunnel Arena

Added Imp Stalker support for Vagary
Added Arachnotron support for Agaddon leader

🗡Floating Island Gore Nest

Added barriers around floating arena while in combat
Adjusted timing of some enemy spawns

The Kar’thul Marshes

🗡Northside Monolith Arena

Added Mancubus maintain after morale shield break

🗡Southside Monolith Arena

Increased area in which enemies can engage the player

Temple of Lomarith

🗡Shipyard Arena

Added Arachnotron on maintain around Vagary
Added a change roll command if you ignore the first Arachnotron and Revenant
Added force charge once the morale shield is broken

Belly of the Beast

🗡Belly Formation Encounter

Removed Revenant

Added a maintain group with Mancubus and Armored Arachnotron around Vagary

🗡Temple Return Encounter

Added Armored Arachnotron around Agaddon Hunter

Harbor of Souls

🗡Courtyard Encounter

Added Revenant maintain to Vagary wave

🗡Leader Komodo Encounter

Added Arachnotron maintain to Leader Komodo wave

🗡Barge Deck Encounter

Added Mancubus to the Komodo wave
Added two Mancubus and two Lost Souls on morale shield break
Added Arachnotron maintain for Pinky Rider Leader support

Resurrection

🗡Farm Leader Encounter

Added Whiplash to enforcer group

Added an Armored Arachnotron maintain around Cyberdemon

Change morale break spawns from 2 Whiplashes to Acolyte and Arachnotron

Maintain an Armored Arachnotron after shield break

🗡Graveyard Leader Encounter

Added Cyberdemon to the front portion of the encounter
Changed the Pinky Rider to an enforcer and enforced heavies in that pod
Added Battleknight near the Pinky Rider Enforcer
Added Chaingunner near Arachnotron
Spawn Mancubus once the leader spawns in
Spawn Arachnotron around half leader health

🗡Village Leader Encounter

Maintain Mancubus around leader Acolyte

🗡Cave Gore Nest Encounter

Full encounter rework

🗡Outside Gore Nest Encounter

Added Cacodemon maintain after first superheavy death

🗡Blue Key artillery Berserk Encounter

Added Armored Pinky Rider, Armored Arachnotron, Mancubus, and 2 Whiplashes

Final Battle

🗡All Encounters

Added 1 – 2 additional Titans per area

Reckoning

🗡Final morale fight

Added Battleknight maintain after morale shield break

🗡Boss Vagary rematch

Added Mancubus spawns
Added Armored Arachnotron maintain

💡Lighting

Hebeth: optimized some shadows for potential issue with wide FOV
Minor lighting adjustments to Ancestral Forge and Reckoning to improve readability in combat spaces

🐞Bug Fixes

🆘Crashes

Fixed a rare crash in Harbor of Souls when approaching the Fortress Gate near the Armored Mancubus on PC
Fixed a crash when attempting to load Pandemonium save data from Update 1
Fixed a crash during the Spire of Nerathul water drain cinematic
Resolved a rare crash on the map loading screen when transitioning to Spire of Nerathul

🎯Gameplay

✅Checkpoints

Players who die or reload a checkpoint after receiving a Demonic Essence upgrade no longer need to kill the leader again to receive the upgrade. This change also fixes the map completion being stuck at 99% for some players
Addressed an issue with reloading the checkpoint or dying during the Armored Titan arena that caused new demons to spawn and progression to be blocked

🐾Traversal

Jump Pads: Several jump pads now correctly trigger the launching SFX and launch the player

👁Visual

Fixed a bug where small variations of the camera’s FOV (e.g. 90 to 91 or 92) could cause some grass instances to be culled incorrectly and disappear. This made the ground look like it was flickering when firing weapons in certain locations

🎮PlayStation 5

Fixed a rare crash on PlayStation 5 while in combat in the final demonic portal Slayer arena

🏆Milestones

Fixed an issue that could cause the Berserker Milestone to complete early

👿Enemy AI

Made an adjustment to AI melee attacks to prevent damage from going around the player's shield
Lowered the idle time for the Battleknight between spawning and attacking
Battle Knight: Fixed a bug where axe swings wouldn’t consistently collide with the player when other AI were nearby
Agaddon Hunter now plays death animations and does not go straight into ragdoll
Cacodemon shield now visually appears without any invulnerability window
Fixed an issue with the Komodo, where it could still take damage from a parry AOE when surrounded by the leader shield
Mancubus: The Mancubus and Armored Mancubus now correctly stop firing projectiles from a severed right arm
Armored Mancubus: Parried projectile no longer hovers in air if the AI dies mid-flight
The Old One: The Mace no longer disappears during attacks after using Atlan Siege Breaker
Fixed an issue where Hell Carrier projectiles hitting the Dragon might not cause pain reaction SFX if the target lock was delayed
Addressed a bug where the Whiplash was not immediately stunned by the embedded Shield Saw attack after slithering
Enforcer Buff VFX now correctly display on Cosmic Barons and Imps

🛡Weapons

Resolved a rare issue where the player could get control locked after fully upgrading a weapon

Shield Saw

Shield Charge impact no longer triggers a Glory Kill on nearby dazed enemies
Shield Throw is no longer briefly inhibited after swapping to certain weapons and immediately firing that weapon
Fixed a bug that allowed for multiple parries in instances where it was unintended

Super Shotgun

Fixed a bug where the Super Shotgun reload would prevent Shield Throw

Accelerator

Overload impact VFX of the projectiles is now red instead of blue
Pulse firing the weapon no longer allows the player to charge the weapon for half the ammo cost

Gauntlet

Addressed an issue where Encore upgrade was affecting standard charges of the Gauntlet, increasing its refill rate beyond what is intended

Mace

Fixed an issue where the Mace would no longer cause Heavy Falters after purchasing certain upgrades

🦾Atlan

Fixed an issue where the Atlan was invincible when dodging left
Fixed an issue where the Atlan’s Perfect Dodge window was extending beyond the Dodge action

🗺 Levels

Hebeth

The Zombie fodder AI is no longer placed inside the wall behind the plasma accelerator weapon pickup

The Holy City of Aratum

Fixed a rare bug where the tanks on the assault mode tutorial tower would split in half and fire at the player
The Slayer can no longer become stuck in scaffold wreckage collision near the Cycler pickup arena on the undercity landing zone

Siege – Part 2

The Titan no longer disappears after restarting the checkpoint
The player can no longer respawn behind the demonic barrier by jumping into fade volume near the beginning of the bridge to the elevator room
The Revenant near the turret courtyard no longer becomes idle when pathing through the doorway

Abyssal Forest

The user can no longer become trapped between rocks and fall out of the world

Hellbreaker

Fixed a bug where the Crushinator Mission Challenge was counting Hell Tanks towards its completion

From Beyond

The checkpoint in the machine space now functions correctly and no longer places the player at the pre-summit checkpoint

Spire of Nerathul

The Slayer can now traverse on water in multiple places in sunken path secret area
The wall scrambles in the BFC temple area are now reflected on the Automap
The Imp no longer spawns stuck against the wall in the sunken path secret area

The Kar’Thul Marshes

The minor arena north of the Sentinel shrine will now correctly complete on the Automap

Temple of Lomarith

The Automap now includes the leader encounter Icon in shipwreck arena
The player can no longer hit the metal target node from the ground floor to bypass the Cosmic Eye water tunnel in shipwreck arena

Resurrection

The cave hazards on the path to the Kreed Maykr ship now move correctly after checkpoint reload
Added a delay before the Kreed Maykr can use a laser attack after being interrupted by a falter or daze

Reckoning

The Cosmic Baron in the berserk pickup room encounter before Prince Ahzrak fight can now fit through arched doorways
The Witch now has the daze ring after being dazed

🏭Engine

VRS/VRCS has been implemented for PC, matching the functionality already present on consoles
Corrected an issue in which there was visible banding on water surfaces in some cases

🎥Cinematics

Village of Khalim: The intro text no longer appears in gameplay briefly if the Player skips the cinematic
Barrier Core: Skipping the power core interactive no longer results in vessel door and light/smoke VFX remaining in the game
The Holy City of Aratum: The explosion SFX during the transition between cinematics is no longer cut off with tutorials turned off
Fixed an issue where press hold to skip cinematic is happening before you see the prompt to press hold to skip
Siege - Part 1: Holding down the space bar on the wall climb at the end of the level will no longer cause the player to accidentally skip the cinematic

🎰UI

http://bethesda.net/: The 20-character password limit no longer blocks players from linking their https://Bethesda.net account
The Holy City of Aratum: The active Dragon dodge tutorial window no longer overlaps the passive Dragon assault mode tutorial window
Adjusting the "Empowered Attacks" modifier now correctly applies the \[*M] tag to a save file
Benchmark Mode: updated The Abyssal Forest screenshot
Accelerator: Overload: Both charge bars no longer rubber band and drop to lower charge amounts before returning to normal
Settings - Parry & Melee Slow Motion: Removed the extra impulse being applied to a corpse's ragdoll after executing a demon when this setting is turned off

🔊Audio

Grenade Launcher: The Grenade Launcher explosion SFX no longer sounds distorted when firing multiple times in succession
Atlan low health audio no longer plays while around 350 health
Updated Stone Imp immolation sound effects
If you're still experiencing issues, please holler at our amazing Customer Service team here[help.bethesda.net]

June 2025 PC Update Hotfix

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:31:37 +0000

June 2025 PC Update Hotfix is now available. We've updated the required driver messaging in the launcher to match Nvidia + AMD's latest recommended driver.

Nvidia example below:

ICYMI check out the full June 2025 PC Update Release Notes here

June 2025 PC Update | Path Tracing (select NVIDIA GPUs) + Benchmark Mode

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:50:28 +0000

This June 2025 PC Update is exclusive to the PC versions of the game. It adds Path Tracing support with Ray Reconstruction for select NVIDIA GPUs. Also included in this update is a brand-new Benchmark Mode that lets PC gamers measure their system’s performance on a variety of settings. Additionally, this update resolves some known issues present in the previous version of the game.

Path Tracing Support with DLSS Ray Reconstruction

Path Tracing is officially supported on the range of NVIDIA GPUs, video settings and system requirements noted in the table below. Path Tracing, when combined with DLSS Ray Reconstruction adds accurate light bounce modeling, bringing new detail into view on material surfaces and reflections at a level previously not possible in a DOOM game.

Required drivers: NVIDIA 576.75 or higher[www.nvidia.com]

To enable Path Tracing, go to the Video Settings menu, and scroll down to the Path Tracing section and set Path Tracing to On. To enable Ray Reconstruction, select it as the Denoiser in the Path Tracing section of the Video Settings menu. Make sure to apply your settings changes before returning to gameplay.

While users on other supported GPU models are free to attempt to run the game with Path Tracing enabled at lower settings, 60 FPS, correct visuals and game stability are not assured when doing so.

Click here[www.nvidia.com] for more information from NVIDIA regarding Path Tracing and the Ray Reconstruction in DOOM: The Dark Ages

Benchmark Mode

Benchmark mode creates a consistent, nearly deterministic path through a section of select DOOM: The Dark Ages levels to that players can see how their systems perform under a variety of video settings. Using this mode players can see how far they can push their system performance.

To access Benchmark Mode, go to the Extras section of the Main Menu and select Benchmark Mode. From here, you can select and run any of the following Benchmark Levels:
While running a Benchmark Level, graphs show FPS, total frame time, GPU and CPU frame time. Use the controls listed at the bottom of the screen to toggle graph metrics between FPS and milliseconds, and to toggle graph visibility on/off

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue in which Alt + Tabbing the game during cutscenes while using FSR Frame Generation on certain NVIDIA GPUS would cause the game to freeze

Known Issues

Issue: Some elements may not appear correctly in the Harbor of Souls “barge crash” cutscene when running the game in Path Tracing mode in certain hardware and settings configurations

Resolution: We are investigating potential fixes for a future update

Issue: Users with Path Tracing enabled can observe graphical artifacts on tentacle enemies attached to walls

Resolution: We are investigating potential fixes for a future update

Update 1 Hotfix Release Notes

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:17:06 +0000

Update 1 Hotfix is now available on all platforms and resolves degraded visuals appearing as increased graininess and/or blurriness in some video settings configurations. Shoutout to our community for helping identify the issue so we could quickly address it!

Note: Thanks for your patience while we continue to investigate why some PlayStation 5 users have been unable to unlock the Berserker Achievement/Trophy upon obtaining the necessary upgrades

ICYMI check out the full Update 1 Release Notes here[slayersclub.bethesda.net]