A little DOOM III update

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1) The invasion begins not because the UAC accidentally create a gateway into hell as in the original Doom, but because their top secret teleportation experiments accidentally destroy an existing gateway (presumably between Hell and another dimension). So they gave the Hellspawn an excuse to invade, rather than actually allow them to.
2) The UAC Mars complex Doom 3 takes place in is called the Delta Labs, which logically suggests that there are Alpha, Beta and Gamma Labs too. Whether these will be part of the story or not is another matter, but even if they don't we're bound to see fan-made levels set in them.
3) It seems the UAC have been experimenting on dead Hellspawn, because in one level you come across a room full of glowing tanks filled with dead Demons. You have to make your way through them, with only the light provide by the tanks to guide you.
4) You'll definitely go to Hell at one point but it sounds like you return back to the Mars base afterwards, because you deliberately travel there to retrieve a certain item. Or perhaps you end up going to Hell more than once?
5) Willits "when you get to hell, you'll find your stamina is hugely affected. The environemt will be totally different and a ffects your movement around this world. We're leaning more towards crazy interactive puzzles, which will turn you in all sorts of different directions in order to make hell a really unsettling place - you never know what's going to happen next. The world is very dynamic and fluid, unlike the man-made areas on the base". Oh dear. This all sounds extremely worringly like Xen Lets just hope ID know better than Valve...
6) Hollenshead: "We don't have level music per se, like in Return to Castle Wolfenstein where you had independent audio tracks. We're going for more ambient sounds. There will be elements of music, but there's no soundtrack."
7) Trent Reznor's departure has FINALLY been officially confirmed. Hollenshead: "At one point, we thought we'd have a collaboration with him, but it ended up not working out for us."
Enemy AI won't be as basic as we've previously been lead to believe, with creatures acting dynamically according to both the environemt and your actions. Willits: "The Archvile can now call in monsters. If you walk into a room and there's a lot of overhead room, the Archvile may call in some flying creatures. But if you try and hide in the ducts, he'll try to call in some smaller maggot-like creatures to get you. Basically, he'll summon the type of creatures he needs to find or kill you."
9) All Hellspawn can see in the dark, "because they're from the depths of Hell. They can smell your fear."
10) As with switches, your gun disappears when you walk up to computer terminals. In this case though, a mouse cursor appears; the UAC computer GUI basically looks and acts like a webpage.
11) One new (i.e. not a remake of an original Doom (2) creature) enemy is the Vagary, a spider queen. She has the body of a spider and the torso of a female, and is equipped with a web and claw attack.
12) Judging by a screenshot included in the preview, not only can Trites crawl down walls, but they can also dangle from spider-like threads that emerge from their mouths.
13) Willits: "The UAC has always been very paranoid about their security. They were very concerned about their employees stealing technology, so they've hidden things within the base's infrastructure." In other words, original Doom style secret areas!
14) The BFG will far more closely resemble the one in the original Doom than the one in Quake 3.
15) You can knock down rockets with the plasma gun.
16) The Berserk pack is a cross between the one in the original Doom and Quake 3's Haste power-up.
17) Willits: "The Soul Cube is an ancient weapon, one created millions of years ago to stop the forces of hell. It was used in an epic battle of good versus evil long before earth was anything like we know it today."
 
wtf...4 person multiplayer, destroyable rockets...and now no trent reznor? die.

nice to see that the BFG will be more like the original...that was always way cooler. Too bad doom3 will be lame...it'll look nice, but it'll be lame :\
 
Doom3 will roxs,

Quake4 will use D3 engine so expect the best Multiplayer in 2005.
 
thenerdguy said:
17) Willits: "The Soul Cube is an ancient weapon, one created millions of years ago to stop the forces of hell. It was used in an epic battle of good versus evil long before earth was anything like we know it today."

Oh my god, that is corny as shit. Silly me for ever thinking id could ever come up with a decent story.
 
Actually if you read the comments some guy said he made up some of the stuff. /shrug
 
sum of its tru tho woadie its basically like this.......

back in tha day like 1million years ago there was a alien civilazation on mars. now these aliens created portals to hell and basically hell invaded. in tha fight with hell the aliens created the soul cube which is a super weapon of mass destruction, but the hell armies wiped them out before they got a chance to us eit. the demons took the weapon back into hell so that it couldnt be used against them. i guess it cannot be destroyed. but the invasion affected the whole planet and basically corrupting it and all life died on it.

so 1 million yearz later humans come and discover the alien ruins. they begine excevating and studying them but while they r doing that hell invaded. exactly why they invade or exactly whut happens is still kept secret. but they invade and bascially u no that u have to fight ur way into hell to retrieve the weapon so u can use it on them

thats pretty much what d3 is bout, so if u dont want spoilers dont read all that $hit woadie.
 
GhettoFab said:
sum of its tru tho woadie its basically like this.......

back in tha day like 1million years ago there was a alien civilazation on mars. now these aliens created portals to hell and basically hell invaded. in tha fight with hell the aliens created the soul cube which is a super weapon of mass destruction, but the hell armies wiped them out before they got a chance to us eit. the demons took the weapon back into hell so that it couldnt be used against them. i guess it cannot be destroyed. but the invasion affected the whole planet and basically corrupting it and all life died on it.

so 1 million yearz later humans come and discover the alien ruins. they begine excevating and studying them but while they r doing that hell invaded. exactly why they invade or exactly whut happens is still kept secret. but they invade and bascially u no that u have to fight ur way into hell to retrieve the weapon so u can use it on them

thats pretty much what d3 is bout, so if u dont want spoilers dont read all that $hit woadie.
Thanks for the latest update from the ghetto.

*Letters makes a ghetto handsign

Woadie.
 
GhettoFab said:
sum of its tru tho woadie its basically like this.......

back in tha day like 1million years ago there was a alien civilazation on mars. now these aliens created portals to hell and basically hell invaded. in tha fight with hell the aliens created the soul cube which is a super weapon of mass destruction, but the hell armies wiped them out before they got a chance to us eit. the demons took the weapon back into hell so that it couldnt be used against them. i guess it cannot be destroyed. but the invasion affected the whole planet and basically corrupting it and all life died on it.

so 1 million yearz later humans come and discover the alien ruins. they begine excevating and studying them but while they r doing that hell invaded. exactly why they invade or exactly whut happens is still kept secret. but they invade and bascially u no that u have to fight ur way into hell to retrieve the weapon so u can use it on them

thats pretty much what d3 is bout, so if u dont want spoilers dont read all that $hit woadie.

The only thing proper in the quoted post is the pragraphs.

By the way, what in the hell is woadie?
 
Maskirovka said:
wtf...4 person multiplayer, destroyable rockets...and now no trent reznor? die.

so MP does not sound appealing.. and yah i heard about Trent leaving.. and im sad.. all u gotta do is look at my sig to know im a huge Trent/NiN fan.. it would have been so neat to see his work in Doom3 but.. i guess Doom3 is taking longer than some pple, including Trent want.

Letters said:
Thanks for the latest update from the ghetto.

*Letters makes a ghetto handsign

Woadie.

LOL Pressure as much as u might have posted that out of neccessitiy.. it was teh funnay :LOL:
 
Hmmm... whenever I read one of GhettoFab's posts, I get a strange, Deja-Vu-ish Mr Pink/Siddartha feeling...
 
9) All Hellspawn can see in the dark, "because they're from the depths of Hell. They can smell your fear."

I've read this before, and I notices the above, what kind of pathetic excuse is that to not code the AI to not see you in the dark?
They shouldn't see you, or are all those nice shadows for nothing and complete bullshit?
You should be able to hide in the dark while some huge monster from hell walks by you.
 
PvtRyan said:
I've read this before, and I notices the above, what kind of pathetic excuse is that to not code the AI to not see you in the dark?
They shouldn't see you, or are all those nice shadows for nothing and complete bullshit?
You should be able to hide in the dark while some huge monster from hell walks by you.

yeah...it's not like hell is dark...there are fires everywhere!!!!111 :eek:
 
Maskirovka said:
yeah...it's not like hell is dark...there are fires everywhere!!!!111 :eek:
And on top of that: He can smell fear? Well if someone pisses their pants I can smell that too.. Does that make me see in the dark? No...
 
i think we can all agree that hellspawn can smell your fear though, right?
 
well, what does fear smell like? Old ladies and cabbages? Wornout shoes? That fresh scent of clean pavement slabs after the rain? Only the hellspawn shall know.. amen.

:D
 
Shadows aren't in D³ for stealth purposes, they are there for shit to jump out at you from them. id doesn't have to make excuses not to do this or that, they have the best coders in the business.
 
PvtRyan said:
I've read this before, and I notices the above, what kind of pathetic excuse is that to not code the AI to not see you in the dark?
They shouldn't see you, or are all those nice shadows for nothing and complete bullshit?
You should be able to hide in the dark while some huge monster from hell walks by you.

Actully is sounds like an impressive set piece. I mean a dark area, a single (Most likely crappy) flashlight and a large amount of creatures that know where you are? Thats more like it!

Anyway if they can't smell your fear they'd see your soul or something. I don't really care but now DOOM 3 is looking quite like a must buy alongside HL2 and Stalker.
 
Doom III better be good or I'll... I'll... be very displeased and probably sell it. I swear I'll do it don't try me!



In Soviet Russia game plays YOU!



.....woadie.
 
jimbones said:
well, what does fear smell like? Old ladies and cabbages? Wornout shoes? That fresh scent of clean pavement slabs after the rain? Only the hellspawn shall know.. amen.

:D

It smells kinda like mint leaves, actually...
 
PvtRyan said:
I've read this before, and I notices the above, what kind of pathetic excuse is that to not code the AI to not see you in the dark?
They shouldn't see you, or are all those nice shadows for nothing and complete bullshit?
You should be able to hide in the dark while some huge monster from hell walks by you.

Don't be rediculess it's a horror game, they suprise you not the other way round.
 
I'm ather excited bout doom3. it looks like it will be lots of fun. and as for 4 person multiplayer, I'm pretty sure they'll have an sdk for modmakers who want bigger numbers.

edit: and as for all you people ensaddened by the enemies see in the dark stuff, its perfectly logical. Doom was never, EVER about stealth, and cats can see in the dark, why can't frikken HELLSPAWN? It would ruin an element of doom for there to be stealth. this isn't rtcw.
 
I don't see why people are saying "omg wtf 4 person muliplayer doom3 is teh noobie". DoomIII isnt supposed to be a game that focouses on multiplayer. It's going to be the scariest single player game ever made, hands down. I pity those that have surround sound.
 
|CC|Hudson said:
I don't see why people are saying "omg wtf 4 person muliplayer doom3 is teh noobie". DoomIII isnt supposed to be a game that focouses on multiplayer. It's going to be the scariest single player game ever made, hands down. I pity those that have surround sound.

Looks like you pity me. :LOL:
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.
Creative Inspire T7700.

Though I think they said it'll be only 6 channels, it'll still be friggin' great.
Unless they do make it EAX supported, which would be even better! :)
 
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