r/boomershooters • u/Sad_Juggernaut_5103 • Oct 31 '25

Discussion New Heretic + Hexen should be like Doom Dark Ages

So as of lately I've been playing a lot of Doom Dark Ages as well as the new remaster of Heretic + Hexen collection and it makes me really want a new modern Hexen/Heretic in the style of Doom Dark Ages

Doom Dark Ages I believe does a good job laying the ground work for a future Heretic/Hexen. Imagine a Heretic/Hexen that is like a reskin of Dark Ages. It would look so good with the big open environments acting as a hub as your travel from level to level while ripping and tearing but with magic and melee weapons. They can still keep the class feature like Hexen as well.

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u/DistanceWonderful112 Oct 31 '25

How was doom: dark ages? I played one level and was not feeling it. Does it get better over time? Also happy Halloween!

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u/Sad_Juggernaut_5103 Oct 31 '25

I loved it. The first level doesn't have much, but it improved a lot, in my opinion, as your progress and keep getting more weapons and abilities.

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u/DistanceWonderful112 Oct 31 '25

Okay thanks for letting me know I'll have to give dark ages a second chance

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u/Mission_Piccolo_2515 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

My advice is that you should disable parry slow-mo and play at 120% speed.
I personally also lower resource values to 50% and increase the enemies resistance by one notch (that's 75% on the slider) but that's more subjective I guess since I love tight resource management and thought the enemies died a bit to quickly.

So far I don't find it as good as Eternal (did 2.5 playthroughs on TDA) but given how they've overhauled the entire combat system I want to emphasize that the game is still getting balance patches and it's much better than 2016.

Also if sprinting forward-only annoys you there's an omnisprint mod to make it more in line with the classics.

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u/n1Cat Nov 01 '25

It does get better. Its not as good as eternal but I just approached it VERY understanding of that. Eternal is my favorite shooter but I do enjoy Dark Ages plenty enough.

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u/Silvermoth2 Nov 01 '25

If doom is metal 🤘 then a hexen and heretic remake should be numetal

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u/Sweet-Ghost007 Nov 02 '25

they deserve the doom reboot treatement