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For those of you who liked DOOM, Update 6.66 is out... (Gaming)

by Korny @, Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 12:53 (2688 days ago)

What changes does the update bring? Well, it makes all of the game's DLC free, for one.

It also adds support for a free weekend, in case anyone else is curious about the game. You can play the first two Campaign levels, and all of DOOM Multiplayer and SnapMap (though I warn you that if you choose to play Snapmap, you'll spend hours staring at loading screens):

Xbox/Steam Free Weekend:
11am CT on Thursday 07/20 -11pm CT on Sunday 07/23.

PS4 Free Weekend:
11am CT on Thursday 07/27 -11pm CT on Sunday 07/30.

Also, the game will be on sale for $14.99 during those free weekends...

Full patch notes here.

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Wow, that is excellent

by stabbim @, Des Moines, IA, USA, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 15:46 (2688 days ago) @ Korny

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For those of you who liked DOOM, Update 6.66 is out...

by Revenant1988 ⌂ @, How do I forum?, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 18:25 (2688 days ago) @ Korny

It's a shame the MP never really took off.... it felt quite a lot like classic Halo.

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Relevant: Romero reveals the identity of Doomguy.

by Funkmon @, Thursday, July 20, 2017, 08:03 (2688 days ago) @ Korny

http://rome.ro/doomguy

Article for lazy:

IT ALL STARTED WHEN...

Don Punchatz, the illustrator who created the DOOM logo and the famous front box cover art came over to id in mid-1993 with a male body model. Don brought a nice camera to take pictures. The model's job was to strike various poses for the marine who would be on the cover of the box.

This scene took place in the art room where Adrian and Kevin spent their days creating the STARTAN tech base texture set, clay modeling characters, digitizing them with the NeXTCube workstation, scanning hospital slides for bloody walls, and listening to the screams from the dentist's office next door.

The body model took his shirt off and started posing with our plasma gun toy. Don asked us for suggestions so I started telling him that the Marine was going to be attacked by an infinite amount of demons. It would be cool if he was on a hill and firing down into them. The model was holding the gun in various positions and none of them were interesting to me.

He did this for about 10 minutes and we just didn't see anything that we thought would look cool on the cover. I kept telling the model what to do but he couldn't see the scene in his mind.

Frustrated, I threw my shirt off and told him to give me the gun and get on the floor – grab my arm as one of the demons! Defeated, he deferred. I aimed the gun in a slightly different direction and told Don, "This is what I'm talking about!" Don took several pictures. I moved the gun some, the demon grabbed my leg, other arm, etc. At the end of it we all decided the arm-grabbing pose was going to be the best.

And that's the story of how the cover composition was created.

I AM THE DOOMGUY.

(at least on the cover)

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Doomguy wears a shirt. Why is everyone taking off shirts?

by Vortech @, A Fourth Wheel, Thursday, July 20, 2017, 09:44 (2688 days ago) @ Funkmon

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Just Romero things.

by Funkmon @, Thursday, July 20, 2017, 10:39 (2688 days ago) @ Vortech

Expected by the end of it that he would have a talent agent and take the model's job.

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