Doom Eternal is a tough game and significantly longer than the 2016 reboot, so you might be exhausted by the time you roll credits on the story. If you’re hankering for more demon slaying action though, here are some suggestions of things to do after beating Doom Eternal.
Slayer Gates & Secret Encounters
Things to Do After Beating Doom Eternal
While Doom Eternal is full to the brim with combat encounters, there are some more scattered throughout levels that are optional. Slayer Gates and Secret Encounters can be tough and will test your skills, but they also help you unlock new things.
Secret Encounters are activated by interacting with those strange purple orbs that you’ll find around the map and they ask you to complete an encounter in a specific period of time. By completing them, you’ll unlock more Weapon Points to upgrade your weapon mods.
Slayer Gates are particularly tough arena set encounters away from the level you’re on that grant Empyrean Keys if you beat them. You need to find purple keys that are hidden in the map and you then need to find the entrance to the gate.
Once you’ve got all the Empyrean Keys, you’ll unlock the Unmakyr, which is the second of the super weapons in Doom Eternal.
If you didn’t complete all of these during your first playthrough, you can go back to every mission from the main menu to do so.
Collectibles
Things to Do After Beating Doom Eternal
As I’m sure you’ll know as you’ve completed the story already, exploration is vital in Doom Eternal. Taking the time to look around will help you upgrade the Doom Slayer’s abilities and find the secrets that can be pretty well hidden.
There are Codex Pages, Toys, and Vinyls scattered throughout the game’s 13 levels and I’d wager most people reading this didn’t take the time to find them all during their first playthrough.
To clear up those you missed, you can use mission select from the main menu to go back and take a look around. Also, it allows you to keep using the weapons and mods you unlocked, providing you use the same save file, which helps you blast through any tough encounters you struggled with before.
Doom Eternal’s Battlemode
Things to Do After Beating Doom Eternal
While it isn’t the selling point of Doom Eternal, it’s cool that there’s another mode entirely for you to jump into after you’ve beaten the campaign.
Battlemode isn’t a straightforward multiplayer mode with Doom Slayers facing each other in team deathmatch. Instead, it’s a 2v1 scenario with two players taking control of the demons.
It’s not the deepest of multiplayer modes, and it’s not as fun as smashing through the demons skulls in the story, but it’s fun nonetheless and playing as a demon is something that the campaign only offers once, in a roundabout kind of way.
Play on Other Difficulties or With Cheat Codes
Things to Do After Beating Doom Eternal
Since Doom Eternal is pretty tough, it takes a while to get used to taking on the hordes of enemies. Therefore, there’s no need to be ashamed if you need to lower the difficulty for a tough boss fight or overwhelming arena section.
There are some truly insane difficulty levels you can try a second run through on if you’re feeling up to the task. Nightmare difficulty ramps up the power and aggressiveness of the demons, but it’s Ultra-Nightmare that’s the hardest.
It is the same as Nightmare, which is very hard on its own, but you only get one life, for the whole game. Die and it’s over for you.
Alternatively, you can make another playthrough easier by using cheat codes. Using things like unlimited lives or unlimited ammo allows you to focus on the breakneck speed of the action, without having to think about your supplies.
You can even play with a cheat enabled that activates all cheats, making Doom Eternal ridiculous in other ways than you’d be used to.
Master Levels
Things to Do After Beating Doom Eternal
Master Levels are Doom Eternal’s end-game offering. They are versions of main missions (or at least parts of them) that are more difficult that the standard versions.
There is currently only one in the game, based on the first missions, but more will be added over the coming weeks and months as and when id Software decides.
Therefore, it gives you a reason to keep checking back in with Doom Eternal to see what’s on offer and what you can try your hand at if you’re after a unique challenge.
However, if you stay away from the action for too long you might find it too tough to compete when you come back.
For more on the game, be sure to check out our review, and for tips and tricks, check out our wiki guide.
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