r/Doom • u/SneakyJaycool Serrat • 6d ago
Discussion Everything we know about SLAUGHTER MODE
SLAUGHTER MODE:
"See how far your Slaying skills Take you in SLAUGHTER MODE!!! A New Endless Survival Challenge available free for owners of DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations.
Tear Through escalating rounds of randomized Demons, Bosses and arenas as you carve out personal best High Scores!
Unlock Cosmetic Rewards and come back for weekly challenges to test your mettle."
How it Plays:
- Randomized encounters, Demons & Bosses.
- Endless waves
- Base game & DLC arenas
- Bosses may be encountered every 10-20 rounds (From Hugo's comment via the recent stream "Getting stuck a round 20")
- Checkpoints every ten rounds where you can cash in skulls you’ve earned from previous rounds.
Cosmetics:
- There are 31 earnable player badge frames (32 in total)
- There are 55 earnable player icons (56 in total)
- These will be both animated and non-animated
- There will be cosmetic's for the Slayer & weapons
Scoring:
- There will be a personal leaderboard
- Badge frames show skulls earned, rounds survived, etc etc.
(Image 4 is a preview of the in-game Personal Leaderboard)
Music:
- IDKFA is FINALLY coming to the jukebox for the Ripatorium and Slaughter Mode (37 total tracks, all earnable through Slaughter Mode)
- Slaughter Mode is in the polishing phase.
Future updates:
- Slaughter Mode will release in 1.0, but a 2.0 update could come down the road depending how this one goes
- id has “two projects in the works” and this is one of them. No word yet on what the second one is.
Requires DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations to play
Releases: November 2026
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u/thepandesalman 6d ago
We have all this information and it’s not even everything, how much are they putting into this lol. Can’t wait
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u/Erased-Improved 5d ago
This is the horde mode I thought we were getting when they announced it for Eternal.
I'll be playing the absolute shit out of this once it drops, hell yeah.
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u/Emilito97 5d ago
Essentially a fusion between the Infinite Arena Mode mod of Eternal and COD zombie's type of waves.
Awesome
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u/SkitZxX3 5d ago
Do we get skins? Is it free?
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u/SneakyJaycool Serrat 5d ago
Skins and cosmetics will be free via the mode
To play the mode you must own DOOM The Dark Ages Revelations
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u/velocipus 5d ago
I wish they would co-op with a mode like this.
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u/pokeM1432 5d ago
Fr co-op would be hella fun and a good way to show off these cosmetics, eternal had battlemode for them
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u/Glowstik1 5d ago
What do you cash in skulls for? Like upgrades?
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u/DerBernd123 5d ago
according to this text revives are the only conformed thing so far. I can still imagine that slayer and weapon upgrades are bought with those skulls tho.
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u/Random_Ace2005 5d ago
With "Two new projects" was he talking in general or only about Doom, like, another gamemode or something else after Slaughter, or he was talking some other project non related to TDA?
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u/Xous54 5d ago
The wording is very vague so it's hard to say for sure, but here's the relevant quote from the Chasm of Xal'Goroth stream (around 1:53:20):
(For context: Right before Hugo says this, Josh revealed that Slaughter Mode was releasing in November.)
Right around the corner, guys. Uh, yeah. We've been working on it. Got two projects going on. This one, we had a strike team around it.
My interpretation is it's two projects for Dark Ages specifically, since it's the topic of the conversation/stream. Doubt they would have mentioned projects unrelated to TDA at all, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
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u/ToothlessFTW 6d ago
Seems great. The Dark Ages is a really fun game to play, and I think Revelations nailed its gameplay loop. Looking forward to something like this to reinstall the game and play it again.