Earlier today at QuakeCon 2024, id Software announced a bunch of Doom-related news, including a brand new way to play the first two classic shooters, mod tools for Eternal, and more. Id Software’s annual fan-focused convention, QuakeCon , kicked off today in Texas. The four-day event sees people come from around the world to hang out, play games, and see what news id Software has to share on Quake and Doom.
To kick off the massive event, id Software dropped a Mancubus-sized amount of news about Doom. Here’s the biggest and best Doom-related news to come out of QuakeCon day one: Arguably the biggest and coolest news to come out of QuakeCon 2024 was the reveal of a new “enhanced” port of Doom and Doom 2 . This new port combines the two popular and classic shooters into a single package.
DOOM + DOOM II is now available as a definitive combined release featuring: 🆓free upgrade for existing owners of either title 🤝online deathmatch/co-op up to 16 players with cross-play 👉community-published single-player mod support (with in-game mod browser) 1/3 pic.twitter.com/1GTsXu85aW — DOOM (@DOOM) August 8, 2024 This new port, which is available now on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Switch, is different than the previously released port from 2019.
This time, Doom is running in Nightdive’s fantastic Kex Engine, the same retro-focused engine that powered the recent Dark Forces remaster . As a result, the game now supports 120 FPS on Series X/S, PS5, and PC. This new port is a.