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Date:
5/11/2021 9:50:13 AM
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RE: I suppose I should finish DOOM Eternal
Maybe I missed it in all the ad hoc "lore" id keeps dumping around in Eternal, but where the Doom Fortress come from? Is it some kind of heretofore invisible Sentinel installation? Did Doom Guy watch some youtubes and build it himself? Is it a UAC/Samuel Hayden thing?
If the game begins with the Doom Guy living in the Fortress and seemingly aloof the entire time the big invasion is taking place, why doesn't it have sufficient power to do anything? Why does he have to run around collecting batteries to power it up? And if it's such a great fortress, how come the Kahn Makyr can waltz in, wreck it, and take all the batteries with her?
I have an excellent idea for a Doom Eternal DLC. The game really needs a real estate / interior decoration add-on, like Hearthfire for Skyrim. Right now, the Fortress is pretty dull. It's absolutely huge, but there's nothing in it apart from entire outbuildings that contain nothing except a "practice" keep with low-level monsters and overbuilt closet space for cosmetic Doom suits. If I were in charge, I would open the place up to other Doom knights or whatever they are, and I would add merchants so they could buy things. I wouldn't have to buy anything since I'm the owner. I would just collect the money. And then I would have a gambling room with cool prizes so I could spend the money on something -- possibly more Doom dolls or something.
My fortress would also have Sentinel guys to give me quests with cool rewards. When they're not doing this, they could fix the place up -- maybe improve the lighting and safety features. Possibly I could have a sort of Adepta Sororitas with Doom Sisters of Battle, and they could put on barn dances and box socials for the knights. Eventually we would have schools and churches and law and order. We would be a territory at first, but eventually we could apply for statehood and send delegates to Congress and stuff.
My fortress would be a happening place. I would no longer call it the Doom Fortress. It would become . . . Doomylvania.
