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‘Doom’ Player Customization is Heavenly
When the Doom multiplayer beta opens to the public tomorrow, it’ll give us a small taste of the marine customization features that’ll come with the game when it arrives on May 13.
Player progression will have a much grander role in the new Doom, with “nearly 300 pieces of armor falling into five distinct themes, over 90 primary and secondary paint colors and over 50 paint patterns to choose from,” in addition to five character “templates” — UAC, Demonic, Bounty Hunter, Templar and Utilitarian — effectively guaranteeing no two marines will ever look the same.
This extends to the weapons, the appearance of which can be tweaked using the 96 color options and 60 patterns you’ll have to choose from. Wear and tear (dirt, scratches, etc.) can also be used to further personalize your marine.
When you complete a multiplayer match, you’ll be rewarded with two Hack Modules. These items are consumable power-ups that temporarily augment your marine, and how long they last depends on which of the three tiers they belong to. Some examples:
Supply Timer – Display the remaining time until nearby pickups and power-ups respawn.
Alarm – An audio cue plays when an enemy is nearby, warning the player.
Blood Trail – Reveals the location of enemies the player recently wounded.
Infinite Ammo – Temporarily grants infinite ammo for both of your weapons.
Power Seeker – Displays spawned/dropped power-ups and power weapons through walls.
Check out the BethBlog for more details on what id Software is doing with the Doom multiplayer.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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