"Computing with Style" / "Beauty Is Pain" made easy in 2022

This guide shows you how you can easily level up in multiplayer without being dependent on actually finding (playable) online lobbies.

The Problem

The achievements "Computing with Style" and "Beauty is Pain" require you to play a multiplayer match with one piece of Robotic Armour and Cyber-Demonic Armour equipped respectively.

Simple, right? Unfortunately not. Unlocking just the challenge to unlock one piece of Robotic Armour requires you to reach Echelon Level 5 i.e. reaching level 50 five times. At the speed that you gain XP in multiplayer and the kind of players you'll face, this will take a long time. And that's just Robotic Armour, Cyberdemonic Armour starts unlocking at Echelon 8.
This will require quite a lot of grinding which can be frustrating when you are barely making any progress because:

• your FPS skills aren't good
  
• there are no servers
  
• other players are steamrolling you giving you little chance to gain XP

The Solution

If you don't mind modifying your game to make getting achievements easier, keep reading.

Normally, you gain XP in multiplayer lobbies (public or private) only. However, DOOM has a hidden setting that allows for completing challenges and gaining XP in Practice Mode, where it's just you versus bots. We will be using a mod to re-enable DOOM's developer console and change this setting. From there it's smooth sailing.

The Setup

Beware: Since the most recent update (2024-04-11) the Doom Legacy mod will no longer work, however we can still downgrade the game to the previous version to use the mod. To downgrade DOOM follow this guide[www.pcgamingwiki.com].
Once you've done that you will need the DoomLegacyMod (DLM) which you can download from PCGamingWiki.com's website. Right here.[community.pcgamingwiki.com]
Click [Download this file], agree, and download the file called "dinput8.dll".
Move this file to your DOOM folder. If you don't know where that is, go to your Steam Library, right-click on DOOM and click on "Browse Local Files..." .
Now right-click on DOOM, go into "Properties" and add

+metrics_allowStatsAndXPInPrivateMatch 1

to the game's launch options.

That's it for the setup.

The Execution

Now that you're all set up it's time to earn XP. Launch DOOM and go to the multiplayer menu. Make sure that you have the Bounty Rune, it will speed the whole process up quite a bit.
Go to Practice Mode > Match Settings and change the settings accordingly:

• Map : doesn't matter
  
• Game Mode: Deathmatch
  
• Score Limit: 50
  
• Time Limit: 20 minutes
  
• Minimum clients: 10
  
• Bot skill: Easy

Now start the game and start fragging. At 50 frags needed to win, the Bounty Rune will generate an additional 5000 XP, that's an entire level more every game.
If you want to get there even faster, press the [~] key (the one to the left of the [1] key) to bring up the console and type in " metrics_xpmultiplier 10 " .
You will unlock the Robotic Armour pieces naturally around the same time you unlock the challenge to unlock the first Cyberdemonic Armour piece: Get a 15 killstreak! This should be quite easy with the easy difficulty bots. Once you have unlocked one piece of each set, simply equip one of each and join a public match. As soon as the match starts the achievements will trigger.

The Conclusion

Multiplayer achievements are h o r s e s h i t if they depend on other players actions.

Rip and Tear!
Have a nice day!
Be excellent to each other!

[Karlo]

Quoting PCgamingwiki, that's the sectin called Crash on startup after activating the console (dinput8.dll - DoomLegacyMod):
Press ⊞ Win+R.
Type steam://nav/console and press ↵ Enter.
Type download_depot 379720 379721 2206249600939156631 in the console window and press ↵ Enter.
Wait for download to complete.
Go to <Steam-folder>\SteamApps\content\app_379720\depot_379721.
Copy the entire contents of the folder to <path-to-game>.
End of quote.

Your path-to-game is obviously the place on your drive where the game is installed. If that's not clear enough than point which part of this instructions you have trouble with, maybe someone be able to explain more.

[Хела]

Working version found in the comments
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1817-doomlegacymod-v201901/

[wesh]

I had trouble to make it work, but it work now.
I downgrade and took the dll from the PCGamingWiki.com after the small section about downgrade. It's an error, the game crash when you start multiplayer.
Downgrade from PCGamingWiki.com is fine, but take the dll from the OP's guide.

Maybe the new dll works and we don't have to downgrade anymore, i won't test it tho.

thanks

[The L3rNa3aN]

@Ivax You can only change match settings and bots in Practice Mode.

[𝕴𝖁]

i cant change match settings and its start with no bots, any solution?

[Ray]

Appreciate the answer ty

[HONOUR AMONGST THIEVES]

@Ray No there's no risk.
@patch Have you tried disconnecting your PC from the internet before launching DOOM?

[Ray]

Is there a risk of getting banned by doing this? i don't wanna risk my account just for achievements..

[patch]

I uninstalled and reinstalled DOOM when upgrading my storage and now I can't get into the game at all. I tried downgrading and getting the legacy mod again but it still won't open and keeps saying that there is a cloud sync issue. I tried turning off cloud sync and it still won't open the game. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[ArThorS]

I use Linux Mint and with this guide i couldn't make the Doom Legacy Mod work. The ingame console was still showing me only 32 available commands instead of 290. Just throwing in a dinput8.dll into the game folder doesn't make Wine/Proton pick it up.

After fiddling around and doing research i was able to make it work on Linux as well:

Solution:
1) You have to set this in the Launch Options to make Wine/Proton pick up the dinput8.dll
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=dinput8=n,b %command%

2) After starting Doom i was able change this variable in the ingame console
metrics_allowStatsAndXPInPrivateMatch 1