DOOM - New Stunning Screenshots Show The Power Of The id Tech 6 Engine

Bethesda has released a new set of screenshots for DOOM. DOOM is powered by the id Tech 6 Engine, and these latest screenshots actually show better visuals than those showcased a while back.

[DLConspiracy]

Wow... That looks amazing. Really looking forward to this game. Probably going to buy it for 2 platforms.

[Ashunderfire86]

I will get this for PC and PS4 day one! For PC I got to see those awesome graphics like how it was when Doom 3 was release with graphics compared to Xbox and PS2. It literally blow any of those system out of the water.

[Jag-T1000]

You gonna buy the two versions of the game? Sure you are. In that case I'm gonna buy three versions. There I win.

[DLConspiracy]

@Jag

It's not that uncommon. I have bought games on console first then PC and vice versa.

[Bahamut]

@DLConspiracy

I bought GTA5 for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and PS4. But, I mean, that might be because I'm retarded... but, it happened... !!!

[tee_bag242]

Why on earth would you buy 2 copies of this game on different systems. I can understand if it was a good multi-player game and wanting to play with friends... But this is Doom. Seriously wtf?

[DLConspiracy]

@tee

Just because you don't like Doom or its multiplayer doesn't mean everyone doesnt.

[Ashunderfire86]

Jag-T1000

So what if I buy this game on both platforms have friends on both to play with and one you could use even more mods. Its not like I will do that for every game lol! The guy above DLConspiracy said the same thing, yet he doesnt get a backlash with 9 disagrees? Not trying to start a scene, where people like you are critical of bullcrap smhs!

[IamTylerDurden1]

DOOM looked stunning (visually) even at e3, the game looks beyond awesome. The combat is what i was expecting from Gears 4 but didn't get (in the e3 demo). I'm excited for the sp and the snap map looks terrific, old school DOOM with stunning new grfx.

[badz149]

these look eerily similar to Unreal Engine gfx. any chance this new engine is just a tweaked UE3?

[VJGenova]

Day 1, PC, 4k.

[showtimefolks]

when i originally played rage i was like wow now we will get fallout games looking this good.

i had no interest in doom but since e3 it's been on my radar and i am very excited to play it.

i know it's not a narrative driven game but will it atleast try to have a decent story or should i just look forward to awesome gameplay

[IamTylerDurden1]

It'll be a kick azz ride but do not expect any sort of deep meaningful narrative. Gameplay is king in DOOM.

I played Rage on 360 and it still looks better than Fallout 4, imagine if Fallout looked that good? If Rage used the iD Tech engine maybe Fallout could? Fallout 4 is awesome but the framerate and textures are putrid.

[showtimefolks]

i agree about fallout 4. it should have used the updated rage engine

and i can't wait for doom. finally a game that is going for pure fun

[tee_bag242]

@DLConspiracy

Believe me, I love Doom. I'm just trying to understand why you'd buy 2 copies..?
Really... Why?

[DLConspiracy]

Because I want to play with both of my friends on both platforms. PC is where my biggest collection is . I usually get them on both if I love them.

[tee_bag242]

Fair enough. As I mentioned above, I get that. I have done that myself with a few titles.

[madworld]

it's freaking amazing I wish the used in other games such as The Evil Within and Fallout 4

[DarkOcelet]

Considering The Evil Within sold over 3 million copies, its almost a certainty that we will get a sequel.

Seriously, the Engine is what hampered the game. The Evil Within 2 should use this one.

[Vitaguy75]

Evil within was a great game hampered by bad graphics imo.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Evil Within is getting a sequel, and it deserves it, it sold at least 4m with digital. The grfx were not bad for a year old cross-gen game, The Evil Within was pretty good imo. It was atmospheric, challenging, and had solid combat and survival gameplay.

Tbh though, i felt like the game would've been better had the gameplay been a little more like the opening level with the tention of running/hiding from the butcher.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed. One of the best survival horror titles created in the last 10 years, an amazing title!

Can't wait til they announce a sequel! I need some Evil Within 2 in my life lol

[IamTylerDurden1]

Imagine Fallout 4 in unreal 4, Frostbite 3, id tech 6 (if they could do it), even CryEngine? That was the only thing Fallout 4 was missing, hence why the grfx sucked and it was buggy.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Disagree? How could anyone argue against the fact that the engine in Fallout 4 is a dinosaur and responsible for much of the poor visuals and how it runs? Basically it's the Gamebryo engine that they're still using and it's pathetic. Look how much better DAI looked in Frostbite.

[bamillington]

i tried the beta and it looked real good and fast, it felt like i'd been and done it all before..i think it was very similar to quake arena but i guess there are alot of new gamers out there

[DLConspiracy]

The MP was very much like Quake, but it's certainly welcome in my book. The SP game is going to be much more different.

[sadsatan]

ps4 is ready :)

[DrumBeat]

Watch out. PC gamers kinda feel like this is THEIR game, because, you know, it began on PC. Playing on another platform is sacrilege.

I'll probably get it on PS4 as well. I don't have a nice enough rig, and even if I did, I'd probably get it on PS4 to play with my PS4 friends.

[VJGenova]

As a PC enthusiast, I can tell you I don't give the slightest f*ck about what system someone else enjoys a game on. Let me name some more recent examples of games that started on pc and are now on consoles:

1. Witcher
2. Diablo
3. Wolfenstein

Also, Doom 3 was on console, as was Doom 64.

I am however looking forward to enjoying Gears of War And Killer Instinct on my PC.

[ScaReCrow90]

Definitely getting on pc.
I wonder. Are they using dx12?

[UltraNova]

I'd say no DX 11 is my bet, considering they've been working on this for years now.

OT: Those screenshots look amazing, I wonder what kind of a PC did they use to take them though.

[sorceror171]

Wikipedia says they're using Open GL and Vulkan (the new, low-overhead OpenGL successor that isn't technically released yet).

Vulkan and DX12 are supposed to be similar in terms of overhead and "closeness to the metal".

[TheCommentator]

Wikipedia doesn't say anything about it, I just checked. A general search also turns up nothing but speculation in forums about what they're actually using for it, so who knows?

[sorceror171]

Sorry, I'll be more specifc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

"id Tech 6 is an upcoming OpenGL/Vulkan based game engine under preliminary development by id Software"

"Games using id Tech 6 - Doom (Spring 2016)"

[TheCommentator]

Oh, got it. I looked at Doom on Wiki, which said nothing about the engine itself. Strange that a general search turns up nothing but speculation though, since you'd figure someone would have picked up on this an reported it as news. At any rate, good find and thanks for the correction!

[Relientk77]

Damn this looks nice

[Voids]

DSO needs to make a mobile-friendly version of their site - badly :(

[Tsar4ever01]

Id software's idtech 6 engine is the bomb.

But I'm not really digging the SOME of the new monsters designs though, the Revenat is about perfect, the Cacodemon looks OK, but I'd prefer the two tone colors of the original. The lost Soul looks alright. Don't like the Baron, looks just like Doom3 design. I wanted the classic Baron design on the engine. The Marines is disappointing, I'm all for a Maine makeover, but does he have to look like a 3rd generation halo spartan? The former humans look more like Quake strogg than doom fh. And the imps don't impress me either. and last the cyberdemon, doesn't impress me at all. I believe the sprite based original looked more intimidating.

I'll wait for this in the bargain bin and play it for the single player campaign.

[ScaReCrow90]

So you're not gonna support a possibly great game that you may like a lot simply based on looks?

[Tsar4ever01]

It's more than just looks, Graphically, the game looks Great! Which is why I opened my comment with saying Id tech 6 engine is the bomb.

I'm just not feeling the original id's designed magic on this game. It looks like it's not a true id software game, like it's been OUTSOURCED. Maybe I'm just spoiled rotten by Sergent mark's Brutal Doom mod. There no Ads for Christ sake, so generic by today's standards.

[PlayTheGameBro]

Played it at Quakecon with my friends. It was a BLAST! Being that it was my first time playing a Doom game, I have to say I love the mechanics and fast-paced arena action. Screenshots look amazing and can't wait to play this game. Hopefully we'll see this game out before E3.

[Kingdomcome247]

Very excited after the E3 campaign reveal, and after having played the Alpha. I had never waited for an Alpha so long before in my life. I was registered for the Alpha for about a year and a half before it released. Nobody can deny that the game is beautiful, that's for sure.

[Rooted_Dust]

Hopefully it won't be another ID game where if you turn around too fast you'll get to see all the textures loading in.

[IamTylerDurden1]

It was worth it for how beautiful Rage looked. I think Rage might've been the best looking 3rd party game on console last gen especially considering the framerate. Shame we never got the sequel that was originally planned.

[mafiahajeri]

All I can say is I played the alpha on ps4 and I can't wait for the full release, damn that was some old school fun!

[icerob]

Can someone please tell me what is so amazing in these photos compared to Destiny for instance..?

[Khaotic]

Those photos already tell more of a story than destiny did with a full game and 3 dlc releases. Haha JK. For us that played the og doom its cool to see how far its come after all these years.

[jonivtec]

Ouchhh...my pc is already bleeding.....

[Khaotic]

Thts has to be 4k pc screenshots. I played the beta and it was great but not thst great.

[sullynathan]

Game looks great but there's too much brown for a DOOM game.
I'd like more color like Doom & Doom 2.

I hope the mod tools are really flexible and easy to use this time so that the DOOM modding community will be even more alive.

[tee_bag242]

Umm... Too much brown? Did you honestly ever play Doom 1 & 2?
If they weren't heavily themed in brown I don't know what is.

[sullynathan]

I'm playing DOOM 1 now.

http://www.unigamesity.com/...

That's doom 1, it has a greater color pallete than DOOM.

http://36646d87786feafc0611...
That's doom 4, lots of brown.

[BattleAxe]

I've never played a Doom game, and have never been all that interested. However, these screen shots look amazing. I might look into this one further.

[sullynathan]

Play DOOM 1 & 2. They're pretty great, the good parts of these games has been their level design, the great feeling and variety of weapons and the gruesomeness of them.

[maelstromb]

I must be the only one, but the graphics don't look all that special in those screenshots... The texture maps are blurry and pixelated in some of the shots. Lighting and DOF are nice. I wasn't very impressed by what was shown at E3 though. It kind of looks like just... another generic shooter.

Besides, the id we know is a shell of its former self after the company's relevance seemingly crumbled beneath the shattered expectations of the multi-million dollar, commercial failure, RAGE. I personally found RAGE entertaining! The character animations were incredible and the many moments of heart-pounding, energetic gun-play are still aspects I remember fondly, but in the end, the id Tech 5 engine was a far cry from all that it promised. Not to mention that the game felt extremely linear (despite it being marketed as an open-world experience), and let's not even speak about the horrendous ending. In any case, my point is that I just can't get excited for another id let down. If Machine Games were handling the Doom IP, I would be all over it!

[Kleptic]

you have some well grounded opinions, i can't argue with a lot of what you said...

but...what was shown at E3...especially the single player campaign...could not have been more in tune with what fans of the originals (i.e. not doom 3) were begging for...the fact that brutal doom, a free mod...being worked on over 2 decades later...for the original games...so heavily influenced it...is truly saying something in regards to iD's approach to this new one...

so no offense, but if it appeared 'generic', you weren't in the target audience for what was shown.

i mean on paper so far its:

appears to be classic doom single player (lots of enemies, lots of space, lots of mess)
Quake III Arena multiplayer
built in simple modding that still has 'console command' depth

imo at least...

graphics wise, whatever...they look great to me but also aren't blowing me away (but granted, i haven't been close to blown away with anything this entire generation)...and yeah i've long said the franchise will remain lost until romero gets involved again...but i'm still pretty pumped to see how this turns out...

the originals have a thriving mod community that are seemingly all on board for this snapmap stuff...I don't expect this reboot to be a break out success like the shareware was 22 years ago...but its going to have a ridiculous amount of talent pouring through its mod capabilities that most games never come close to...that in itself is very promising...

[sullynathan]

Brutal DOOM is not DOOM 1 or 2. It takes what those games did and cranks everything up to 11 and sort of loses its way.

This new DOOM is being more influenced by Brutal doom and not the original DOOM 1 & 2 and it kind of shows.

This new one is nowhere near as fast as the original dooms or brutal doom. It also has a more serious look and less colors than the original dooms while having less enemies on screen, with far more linearity that shown so far than the originals too.

It has a lot of executions and lots more blood and ridiculous kills, like brutal doom.

[Kleptic]

^well, neither of us have played any of the single player...so saying this new one is more brutal doom than original is sort of jumping to conclusions...

as far as enemies on screen, etc...again, we haven't played it...they've shown just 2 5'ish minute clips of single player footage, the first being entirely dedicated to fan service like the chainsaw reveal...the 2nd, was far from linear, with a nice open pit and plenty of enemies attacking...while, yes, it wasn't exactly the icon of sin after 2 minutes...but it was far more in line with the originals than say doom 3...not a single instance of doom 3 had anything close to that...

lastly...brutal doom is a mod, and its not just an all or nothing kind of thing...its customizable to a nearly infinite degree (as gzdoom is in general)...it very much can be Doom 1 or 2, with only some added gore effects, or 3d free-look, etc...it doesn't have to be full nutter...it very much can be used to only add a few modern tweaks to a 22 year old game...

[maelstromb]

Hmm... if I'm not their target audience, I don't know who would be. I've played practically every Doom game since my childhood and still I don't feel the excitement... perhaps I've just grown up and my tastes/expectations have evolved. So I do admit that but, frankly, I'm surprised more people haven't felt the same considering more people like myself are calling for substance in their games nowadays, as opposed to the generic, gun-toting, shoot-everything approach found in games like CoD.

Classics can still be reinvented and crafted with care and substance -- as stated in my previous comment, look no further than MachineGame's Wolfenstein! It was brilliant in nearly every aspect. Instead, id truly believes that it can rest on its laurels and latch onto to the same aspects which made it successful 24 years ago, and that's great because I believe there's something to be celebrated there, but this also points to a deeper issue, which is why I brought up RAGE. Rather than admit fault on its own part, Id has so absolutely convinced themselves that the indescribable commercial failure of RAGE was an undeniable sign that gamers were either too close-minded/not ready to accept any new ideas or that gamers didn't fully understand the direction of the RAGE series. In turn, instead of trying to improve on their missteps and follow through with their vision, id silently abandoned the series all-together. That, to me, indicated a resounding sign of weakness which I have been unable to forgive, and ultimately shattered my vision of a legendary company. Not only that, I believe id also destroyed its own ability to command respect within the industry following those events. And these are the reasons why I'm probably being so critical of them now...I may have lost a lot of respect for them, but I'm still waiting and hoping they exceed my (and millions of other fan's) expectations.

Instead, the Doom demo vids provided no indication of any depth, just a mindless frenzy of shooting, blowing up and chainsawing creatures to death. All well and good, and I'm all for blowing sh*t up, but let's be real here... it's 2016, and I'm convinced that if a developer can come out of nowhere and reinvent the Wolfenstein series for a new generation AND has something important to say while doing it, there's no excuse why id can't do the same. Again, we haven't seen much, so I'm not trying to jump the gun. I'm just hoping id also has something important to say when the gun smoke and gibs go flyin' on the day of release, and that they don't let their fans down again.

[Shuckylad]

Looks amazing, anyone know if it supports 21:9 resolutions?

[mysteryraz11]

call of duty is better

[tee_bag242]

What's that even got to do with anything?

[maelstromb]

Annnnd... point proven from my earlier comment.

[IamTylerDurden1]

The best part is that it's running at 60. I personally feel like it looks better live. Can't wait for DOOM and i can't wait to see what Wolfenstein TNO 2 looks like in id Tech 6.

[GrmpyolGamer]

Excited for this game