Doom Eternal Guide - The best tips & tricks

In our Doom Eternal Guide you will learn

  • What are the best tips for beginners
  • How to defeat heavy demons
  • Which special Doom Eternal tricks you need to know

Doom Eternal from developer Bethesda was released on March 20, 2020 for PC, Playstation 4 () and Xbox One (). The new Doom is fast, action-packed and brutal - but also brutally hard. To save you from one or two deaths in the first-person shooter, we'll tell you the best tips and tricks for beginners in this Doom Eternal guide.

Doom Eternal - Tips and tricks for combat and resources

While fighting against the army of hell in Doom Eternal, it's hard to keep track of everything. To avoid throwing in the towel in the first few missions, good resource management is especially important. Because in Bethesda's latest shooter everything revolves around health, armor and ammunition. Although you'll find all of them on your way through the campaign, the resources provided will never be enough to survive.

If you heed our tips and tricks, you won't run out of resources so quickly in battle. Once you've done enough damage to a demon, it will start to flicker and you can go for the glory kill. Glory kills leave behind health, and sometimes other materials. The lower your health is when you perform the kill, the greater the health bonus you receive.

Moreover, the Glory Kill works from a few meters away and you are invulnerable during the animation. Therefore, the special attacks are also excellent for overcoming dangerous obstacles without damage. You can earn extra armor by frying enemies with the flame spout. Demons set on fire will drop pieces of armor that you can pick up at your leisure.

We'll tell you how to further improve the Flame Spout in our Doom Eternal weapon guide. You can get additional ammunition by dismembering demons with the chainsaw. Attention: Heavy demons require three bars of fuel. Fortunately, the chainsaw's fuel refills automatically, so you can always farm ammo in Doom Eternal with this trick.

The most important Doom Eternal tip: always keep moving and combine the above attacks as often as possible. If you stay in one place too long or rely only on your weapons, you're as good as dead!

How to send Heavy Demons back to hell

In Doom Eternal, each enemy is unique and has well-balanced strengths, weaknesses and abilities. As a good slayer, you must have tactics ready for each type of demon. You can find important tips and tricks on weaknesses in your codex. Be sure to take the time to read the short entries to save yourself countless failed attempts.

Heavy demons are particularly strong opponents, but they always have a weak point. These are usually their strongest attacks, which you want to eliminate as quickly as possible. You can recognize weak points by the red marking. In the following, we will tell you the best tips and tricks for the Heavy Demons that you will encounter in the first sections of Doom Eternal.

  • The spider-like Arachnotron is a demon that specializes in ranged attacks. First destroy its gun to disable its ranged attacks. After that, it's best to hit it with the Shotgun.

First take out the Arachnotron's gun and then defeat it in close combat

  • They say the Cacodemon shows similarity with the Cyclopean Titans from the ancient lore of hell. We don't know if this is true. But we do know that he gets dazed and you can go for the glory kill after throwing a sticky bomb or fragmentation grenade into his mouth.
  • The Revenant is a heavy demon with a jetpack and powerful shoulder cannons. Once you've destroyed the latter, his ranged attacks are a thing of the past and you can easily defeat him in close combat.

A new feature in Doom Eternal are the strengthened demons . Watch out for the enemies outlined in yellow. Empowered demons have killed another player in their campaign and come after you in their faster, stronger, smarter, and more aggressive version. Once you've killed such a hunk, you'll be rewarded with plenty of resources.

The 6 best Doom Eternal tricks for beginners

  • Don't collect powerups immediately, but use them strategically. They are never placed for no reason and are essential for survival - also a good indicator that you will soon be surprised by Heavy Demons.
  • If things get really tight in the melee, use the Dash function to make a well-aimed sprint to safety.
  • The AutoMap is your best friend. It even shows you collectibles and secrets. If you do miss something, the quick travel function will help you to travel to given locations on the map. Alternatively, we'll tell you everything you need to know about the collectibles in our Doom Eternal Collectible Guide.

  • After each completed mission, you will end up in the Doom Fortress - the Slayer's command center. There you can take a closer look at all the collected collectibles. You'll also find locked rooms that contain valuable items. To open them, you usually need two guard batteries. To collect as many of the rare and extremely important batteries as possible, complete the three challenges that are available in each mission.
  • Be careful when choosing the difficulty level. Even experienced shooter players often reach their limits at the "Go, Give it to Me" difficulty and will die more often than you would like.
  • Bonus tip: Under Settings / UI you can customize the design of the interface as well as your HUD to your liking.

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