DOOM Open Beta Dated; DLC & Post-Launch Updates Detailed

Bethesda announced today in a press release that there will exist a DOOM Open Beta afterwards this month. More specifically, information technology will run from April xv to April 18; during this period, "players will but be able to logon to the platform of their choice and download to access Squad Deathmatch and Warpath on the Heatwave and Infernal maps."

This is just a small fraction of what you lot'll be able to play once the game launches, on May thirteen, for PC/PlayStation 4/Xbox One. The full game will have six modes (Soul Harvest, Freeze Tag, Warpath, Domination, Team Deathmatch, Association Arena) and nine maps (Excavation, Infernal, Chasm, Disposal, Helix, Perdition, Sacrilegious, Heatwave, Beneath).

In that location's more, though - in DOOM, players can really become a demon in multiplayer and wreak havoc as the Businesswoman of Hell, the Revenant, the Prowler or the Mancubus. Multiplayer modes volition likewise feature power weapons such as the Gauss Cannon, the Chainsaw and the BFG 9000, alongside power-ups like Invisibility, Haste, Regeneration and Quad Damage. That's non counting the SnapMap tool to create and share user generated content and, of course, the single player entrada.

Bethesda also detailed id Software's plans for post-launch back up of DOOM, including DLC.

id plans to offer content updates for SnapMap, including map modules; props and objects; additional features and functionality; AI enhancements; editing tool enhancements and more. Multiplayer will also receive content updates in the form of new game modes. Both of these SnapMap and multiplayer updates volition be free to utilize and play.

In addition to the planned costless support and content updates, we will also be releasing 3 premium multiplayer DLC packs after launch, which will get you a number of new maps, hack modules, playable demons, weapons and more. The first DLC will be available this summertime and give you access to:

· Three new maps

· I new weapon

· One new playable demon

· One new armour set

· One new piece of equipment

· New hack modules and taunts

· New customization colours and patterns

Each DLC pack will cost $fourteen.99 / £eleven.99 / €14.99, or yous can go them all at a discount with the Season Laissez passer for $39.99 / £29.99 / €39.99.

Stay tuned for more on DOOM as its release date approaches.