Does Doom Eternal’s Battlemode Mean There’s No Deathmatch?
In addition to a release date and a sizable chunk of gameplay, we also learned during Bethesda’s presser that Doom Eternal will feature an all-new multiplayer mode entitled “Battlemode.”
In Battlemode, you’ll fight against friends with one player controlling the Doom Slayer and two players respectively controlling demon characters. The mode was described as a “fighter” in the press conference, and fittingly, there look to be three rounds, a variety of strategic tactics to utilize, and possibly cooldowns.
In other words, Battlemode looks as if it could be a robust multiplayer experience with room for frequent updates and potentially all the trappings that come with service-type games– something much more than just an arcade-y jaunt to pass the time.
Also, will Battlemode be the only multiplayer component in Doom Eternal? It seems like a missed opportunity (especially for such a pillar in the genre) to leave out a quintessential first-person-shooter game mode like deathmatch.
