Doom on Ultra-Nightmare difficulty without any upgrades!
The graphic settings are different for this run compared to my previous ultra-nightmare run. I changed to ultra settings and 105 FOV (120 FOV is max, my other video was 90). I also reduced the bitrate\quality of the recording a bit to reduce the size\upload time. I also removed glory kill highlight, compass and changed crosshair.
No upgrades are:
- No weapon upgrades
- No armor upgrades
- No runes
- No argent cells (first cell is forced)
And no use of glitches\sequence skips, as that would make it trivial.
- No weapon upgrades does a lot less damage.
- The armor upgrades are very useful for preventing massive damage from barrels and self-rockets, and also missing faster weapon switch as well as more effective powerups\grenades. A single barrel or a face rocket can end your run very quickly.
- No runes will not allow me to grab runes like for example saving throw which gives me a second chance, rich get richer which gives me infinite ammo, or equipment powerup which allows me to get armor from the siphon grenades.
- No argent cells gives me a lot less health, armor and ammo. I can't afford to lose my health from the mega health powerups later on, as I can't go over 100\50 from pickups. The lack of ammo makes it very important to be aware of where the ammo pickups are and not to waste the chainsaw ammo.
This Ultra-Nightmare run is over an hour faster than my previous one, the main reasons are because I play a lot better, I know where to go and without upgrades I don't have to spend any time doing rune challenges, grabbing secrets etc.
Why did I decide to do it without upgrades? Apparently a lot of people have beaten it now on ultra-nightmare, so I figured I'd take it a step further. But the main reason is because it's a very fun way to play the game! I play a lot more aggressive this time and I don't end up just using gauss cannon with rich get richer rune to clear everything late game.
0:00:34 - 1 lvl The UAC (Rip & Tear)
0:05:25 - 2 lvl Resource Operations (Know Your Enemy)
0:22:25 - 3 lvl Foundry (Meltdown)
0:37:45 - 4 lvl Argent Facility (Beginning of the End)
0:49:47 - 5 lvl Argent Energy Tower (Argent Tower)
1:04:58 - 6 lvl Kadingir Sanctum(Into the Fire)
1:26:17 - 7 lvl Argent Facility (Destroyed) (Hell on Mars)
1:37:13 - 8 lvl Advanced Research Complex (A Brighter Tomorrow)
1:55:15 - 9 lvl Lazarus Labs (Lazarus)
2:13:55 - First Boss
2:17:39 - 10 lvl Titan's Realm (Titan's Realm)
2:36:25 - 11 lvl The Necropolis (The Crucible)
2:51:10 - Second Boss
2:55:22 - 12 lvl VEGA Central Processing (I AM VEGA)
3:10:10 - 13 lvl Argent D'Nur (The Well)
3:29:40 - Final Boss
3:34:45 - Credits
Misc:
Previously I've died at the cyberdemon to a very strange attack combo that I don't think should be possible, I also died at the hell guardians, I didn't practice the fight properly and without upgrades it was more difficult than last time.
I had a crash at the start of the 4th level, never happened there before. I didn't have any other crashes besides that and fortunately it happened at the start of the level.