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If you're expecting something like GZDoom with this new official port, then you're only setting yourself up for disappointment and at worse making this version of Doom up to be something it's not.

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These ports are using the id Tech 1 engine!Īlthough these new ports are using the Unity engine, it's purpose serves as a shell/wrapper for the underlying code of the original id Tech 1 engine of these games, so you are getting is essentially something alone the lines of the original MS-DOS version of these games with some modern quality-of-life improvements, slightly more legroom for vanilla-compatible and DeHackEd mods, and some new features.

Update: Now that these ports are on GOG.com, people have no reason to complain about requirements since these are DRM-free re-releases. If you are playing the Xbox Game Pass version, however, it does require a Microsoft account to launch them unless you enable offline mode on the Microsoft Store app, but you can make these changes only twice every 365 days. You also do NOT need a account to actually play these games the account creation prompt can be skipped like in the official KEX Engine remasters Doom 64 and Quake, however, it is needed to download the official add-ons unless you get them elsewhere. The always-online DRM was already removed from the console versions and has been DRM-free on PC since they appeared on.

These new Unity ports are DRM-free on PC!.

To clear the air of misconceptions and lies being spread about the new Unity ports ever since they arrived onto Steam with the new update. Thanks to the new update, it's possible to tweak things further ourselves.

DOOM II HELL ON EARTH WONT PLAY UPDATE

Fast-forward to September 3, all Steam owners of The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth finally received the new Unity port as a free update with even further improvements, all while retaining the original MS-DOS versions of these games. Around early 2020, the new ports made their way onto PC as DOOM Classic and DOOM II Classic respectively, but only for at the time. It didn't end there, however, as the team has continued to work on updating the new official port and giving it quality-of-life improvements, making them almost comparable to playing Doom on a source port, especially for console players.

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After the backlash and widespread ridicule of these ports, Nerve Software and Bethesda to the criticism to heart and has since removed the reviled online DRM and eventually went on to addressed the issues plaguing these ports.

This new official port received massive backlash for not only the poor quality of the ports themselves, but also the implementation of an always-online DRM on a game that had its engine released as open-source and has been DRM-free since its original MS-DOS iteration from 1993. The classic Doom games has seen a myriad of ports over the years, each of them had their strengths and (mostly) weaknesses from one version from another compared to the original MS-DOS release, however, none was as controversial as the new 2019 Unity ports of Doom and Doom II by Nerve Software for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and mobile devices. This guide will remain for posterity and update on other potential add-ons with missing or altered content. Update: I have made patches that takes the busy work out of manually editing the WADs myself and they can be downloaded from my new guide below.