One of many coolest new Doom weapons in years—the Shieldsaw—simply revealed over the weekend throughout Summer time Recreation Fest 2024, is already out there within the authentic PC model of Doom.
Introduced formally over the weekend with a trailer on the large Xbox showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is a prequel to the latest Doom video games from id Software program and appears rad as heck. It incorporates a extra medieval-looking world and introduces new weapons, together with a gun that crushes up skulls and shoots the bits again at enemies. However one of many coolest elements of that trailer—a chainsaw defend wielded by the Doom Slayer—is already a playable mod within the OG Doom and Doom 2.
On June 11, Doom modder Craneo uploaded a video to Twitter showcasing the Doom Shieldsaw mod in motion. The mod swaps out the unique chainsaw from the basic FPS video games and replaces it with the newly revealed Shieldsaw. Within the video demonstrating the brand new weapon, Craneo performs via the opening stage of Doom 2, which conveniently hides a chainsaw (now a Shieldsaw) on the very begin. You possibly can obtain the mod and mess around with it proper now.
As you possibly can see within the video above, the Shieldsaw in Doom and Doom 2 can be utilized to tear and shred demons up shut and block harm, too. It seems to place the participant in God Mode if you increase the defend, which is a great method to incorporate “blocking.” You may as well, when you change some settings, toss the defend at enemies and do harm to them similar to within the large Doom: The Darkish Ages trailer.
I examined out the mod actual quick and had a blast ripping via the opening ranges of Doom 2 with the badass Shieldsaw. It feels prefer it’s all the time been part of the sport. I’m unsure I can return to the chainsaw.
Whereas that is very cool, it shouldn’t be shocking that Doom modders are doing cool shit once more. They’ve been doing that for many years now. Oh, and Craneo is already engaged on a Cranium Crusher mod for OG Doom, too.
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