Speaking with Doom Executive Producer Marty Stratton and Creative Director Hugo Martin, IGN has learned that no one at developer id Software has yet managed to complete Doom’s hardest difficulty mode.
The new Ultra-Nightmare setting is Doom’s punishing Nightmare mode with a permadeath twist. Screw up once, and you’re dead and back at the beginning of the game, leaving only your helmet as a marker of your progress.
Stratton and Martin told IGN that the mode has sparked something of a competition in the development offices, where coworkers compete to progress further than their friends. To date, however, no one has come close to beating the game at the highest difficulty.
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The new Ultra-Nightmare setting is Doom’s punishing Nightmare mode with a permadeath twist. Screw up once, and you’re dead and back at the beginning of the game, leaving only your helmet as a marker of your progress.
Stratton and Martin told IGN that the mode has sparked something of a competition in the development offices, where coworkers compete to progress further than their friends. To date, however, no one has come close to beating the game at the highest difficulty.
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