Why? Because Hugo doesn't like people using the SSG apparently, that's the only reason it makes sense. For example, some buffed demons just mysteriously acquire more resistance to the SSG. It takes a multiple page spreadsheet to totally explain how the various weapons interact with the base monsters and their ever-increasing list of buffed variations, and absolutely none of the things going on in it are justified gameplay mechanics. To me, it seems like they are killing the widespread appeal of Doom, which anybody could get into and enjoy, in pursuit of a tiny audience of hardcore, 'hard game' macho-man streamers that will eventually decide the game has had its time in the sun and move on anyways. The response to people who don't like things such as the marauder having totally bullshit character-shield-level invulnerability (can't be damaged at all by the Unmaykr, are you fucking with us or what, Hugo?), or not liking having to pin-point-accurate shoot at weak points, has been doubling down repeatedly on all of it to the point where it's becoming purely obnoxious. There's way too much emphasis going on over the 'skill factor'. The weekly challenges are now including Nightmare and even ULTRA Nightmare only completion requirements, which is way the fuck overboard. First it was the marauder ice bomb trick, then you couldn't even use the crucible with the infinite ammo cheat, and now the Unmaykr, which was literally only useful while you had the Overdrive powerup, is no longer affected by it. This is, at some level, betraying a total lack of confidence in the game design. A big one of those is the continual micro-tweaking and nerfing going on in patches and updates. There are things about it that just irritate me. My opinion of Eternal in general, and TAG in particular, continues to cycle up and down. I initially hated the Marauder before I got gud, but this? This is my 'thou shalt not pass' moment. Seven lives I spent on this shit, not counting the two I was able to retrieve. Cue TWENTY MINUTES of constant backpedalling, trying desperately to inflict some kind of splash damage on this bastard because nothing else works, with barely any fodder around for me to chainsaw ammo from, resulting in this bizarre extended Benny Hill sketch where I'm just constantly running for my life with HP in the single digits and no way to restore any of my resources.Īnd THEN, the blue Marauder finally keels over without me noticing, and by the time I do notice I'm surrounded by a dozen force fields so I can't even deal with the Spirit, who promptly takes control of one of the Carcasses, leaving me to deal with the final regular Marauder with little to nothing of anything and constant blue walls blocking my every move because fuck if I'm releasing the Spirit again while the Marauder is still on the board.Īt last, finally, the second Marauder is down, and I'm able to take on the rest of the trash mobs and deal with the Carcass. Add to this the fact that it seems like every other fucker in the arena is jumping in front of them while I'm trying to line up a shot to take them out and all I can do is watch as I die over and over again.Īnd then, the finale, a possessed Marauder.

Given that EVERY SINGLE NEW ENEMY in the DLC has an attack which slows the player to a crawl (and the effect stacks meaning I can't move at all) this is just fucking unbearable. Three Archies? Fine, annoying but not a problem. I was learning to love the DLC with more practice, but then my single biggest complaint is quintupled-down on in this absolute three-lane motorway pile-up of a segment.

So, I finally played the 'nEw AnD iMpRoVeD' Holt Slayer Gate and FUCK ME if that wasn't the single most brutal, unbalanced, unfair, bullshit exercise in negative reinforcement I have ever had the misfortune to endure in all of my 30-odd years of gaming.

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