Keep running, jumping, dashing, and swinging.

Try not to move backwards (keep your view towards where you’re moving).

Get comfortable swapping weapons a lot.

Don’t get discouraged. The first 3-5 levels are rough. You’ll feel like there’s too much to focus on and it’ll feel too hard for you to do. Stick with it. It will soon click and you’ll be addicted to the action.

Oh and a quick tip for the marauder because the game frankly gives the wrong info. Don’t stand in some middle ground like they say. Run away from him and dodge is projectiles with a dash. He will run to you and when he gets to that mid range point, he will open himself up. Also, once you falter him, shoot him again. He will take damage as long as he is faltered. The “super weapons“ will work on him in that state as well.

In order to best the combat, try to reduce enemy health to zero while keeping your own health above zero.

Move in fucking circles. And DONT play battlemode until you beat the game at least once. Also prepare to either brake sum or lose your voice

Your chainsaw, blood punches or grenades recharge very fast so don't be shy about using them. Hell, outside of the BFG don't worry about saving ammo/charges for a special occasion in general. If you've got it, use it.

Rip and tear.

Devo on youtube has a 6hr guide on how to beat the game on UN. But he plays on UN and goes through the game explaining the META of all upgrades, and secondary good choices. Obviously that goal is UN, but its just a great explainer on just overall game play that anyone on any difficulty can benefit from. Its a 6hr long video, but that also means you can fast forward to any level you need or where you get key things like the SSG or Rocket launcher and get advice on those.

Start ultra violence. Practice quick switching and weapon combos. There’s some easy basic combos. Precision + Ballista is a bread and butter choice, cap it off with either rocket for range or ssg for short range.

Learn weak points and always stay on the move, keep your resources topped up, armor tends to be the one people leave underbaked. Use the ssg upgrade to get easy armor shards on fodder, otherwise use ice nade into flamethrower then kill a group. Try also making a habit of burning a group before a blood punch or chainsaw.

Every arena has a specific demon roster that is the same in all of the difficulties. So best start memorizing what demons are in what arena, it’s all about whittling down problems. Demons like prowlers go into glory kill state from one ballista shot, so they’re easy to clear from the board early or better kept for later for easy glory kills. Ultimately the Marauder is your skill check on if you can quick switch and do the dance well. So practice on him.

Since you’re on pc, set some key binds for each weapon, that will help with quick swaps. I also like to put chainsaw on R since every game uses it for reload, a good way to translate a habit into eternal. When you feel Ultra Violence is too easy, take the next step and practice on nightmare, and you will surpass it.

Build habits, make room, balance resources. Rip and tear until it is done.

Just dive into nightmare and see what happens? You just need general fps skills.  Get used to lots of quick swapping tho

Play Ultra-Violence

I honestly think 90% of my success in the game comes from mastering the controls. Use keybinds for everything and then stick with them. From your post, it doesn't sound like you're too familiar with extensive keybinding.

Start with making melee and chainsaw as easy as possible to use, for example I use the side-buttons on my mouse instead of having to find a key on the keyboard.

Then think about binding (in my opinion) the four most important weapons: Super Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Ballista, and Heavy Cannon. For example, I use E for SSG, F for Rockets, 1 for Ballista, 2 for Heavy Cannon with Precision Bolt. All keys are right next to WASD, and I never have to think about what I want to be doing. Don't take my binds as gospel, just note the convenience of using such keys. A different setup will probably make more sense to you, but just be sure to stick with it and build muscle-memory.

This is good practice in general, and will not only make you way better at many FPS games on PC, it also makes them way more fun

Good. Let the hate flow through you. Let anger be your weapon. Let rage be your ammunition. They are rage. Brutal. Without mercy. But you... you will be worse. Rip and tear... until it is done.

Aww

Hi OP, exactly the same thoughts ! I don't play this game, but I came from that pasta parody post you made and this post is even more relatable.

Sense of competition or Ego fuels anger, anger fuels motivation to get that trophy, which in normal case you and I wouldn't be that bothered about.

We are social animals at the end, programmed to compete and ensure survival. So the brain goes "hmm this game feels important maybe winning this game would help me achieve this dumb human's survival needs" and releases anger hormones and riles you up.

Doomfist is not a Tank. He is a bigger, healthier dps and needs to be played as such. (I have not watched the replay so I could be wrong here) Knowing how to ability cycle, position and be threatening is good, but if you're struggling to secure kills, to me that points to an aiming issue if not a target prioritisation issue. Your main damage output and kill confirmation always has been and always will be Hand Cannon. You gotta land those shots. All of Dooms abilities more or less serve as mobility and tanking first, Cc second and damage threat third, so Hand Cannon picks up that slack. And when it comes to target priority, you are the thing that deals with the squishy that poses the greatest threat, that doesn't always mean killing them though. Distracting or controlling them is enough value until a window opens up where you can secure the kill. If providing distraction or CC value isn't working, then you must look for alternate targets that don't have as much support behind them and pick them off to weaken everyone else.

If you are genuinely interested I can take a look and make some suggestions. But I’d much rather take a look at a role lock game.

Playing Tank in Overwatch isn't always typically how "tanking" is defined in most other games. Tanking is usually basically being a bullet sponge, using your body and stuff to soak up damage for your teammates. In Overwatch, the prime example would be Reinhardt. You have a big shield that can block damage for your teammate. However, in Overwatch, tanks are designed more to take or hold space.

There are a lot of ways for you to be able to get value out of Doomfist, to be able to create space for your team. The obvious one is going for kills, but there are other ways. You can...

1. Hold a choke by cycling your cooldowns. You can keep punching enemies back, and use your block to get punch up more often and punch them further with empowered punch. Your slam can be used to deal some extra damage to make them back up a bit.

2. Displace enemies into bad positions, whether that be knocking them off of a high ground or punching them from out behind cover and allow your teammates to get an easy kill.

3. Distract the enemy team's backline by applying pressure. Doomfist can pretty easily apply backline pressure and escape when needed, since Doomfist has some of the best mobility in the game. He's difficult to ignore since his kit can be quite lethal. There have been many times where I've just stayed at a safe distance away from the enemy backline and shot some random left-clicks to draw attention, enough to get 2-3 people to look at me. This effectively turns the fight into a 4 v. 3 or 4 v. 2 without having to make a risky play for an elim.

4. Bait out cooldowns for your teammates. Let's say your Genji has his ult ready, but the enemy team has an Ana. If their Ana sleeps your Genji during his ult, he will lose all value on his ult and he is likely to end up dying. If you apply a lot of pressure to the Ana and force her to try to use her sleep dart on you, then it allows your Genji to get more value out of his ult. Even if you end up dying in the process, it might be beneficial since your Genji could get 2 or 3 kills.

There have been many games where I've realized that it's difficult for me to get direct value out of my kit because of the map and enemy team comp, but there's ways for me to give my teammates more value or to make it more difficult for the enemy team to get value. I just had a game a bit ago where I was on attack-side King's Row and just dicked around on the high ground behind the enemy backline. I really wasn't doing much, but just the fact that I was there led their supports to back up and lose LOS of their tank, which caused my dps to easily get a kill on the tank and move up to cap the point. I didn't even have 200 damage, and also died to the enemy team's Echo, but we capped the point quite quickly just because I made myself a presence, enough so that the rest of my team could pop off.

Only tech I regularly utilise apart from jump punches which should be standard is the stair slam, very big if you bare it in mind. Plan around it when baiting enemies back and you can get enough shields to fully charge punch in a big groups face

go crazy ahhhh go stupid ahhh go crazy

Easy way: Play Doom Eternal.

Rune selection is very important on higher difficulty. If you're having trouble with a battle try changing those up.

I'd recommend learning the enemy spawns. Memorization is key. I personally play with no HUD so it feels like I'm always one shot and my gameplay doesn't change based on how much health I think I have. Also, keep replaying the level you struggle at to understand what you can improve on.

I just finished my 5th play through a couple days ago. Such a good game. My 4th play through was my impossible run. I focused on upgrading my suit and a Plasma pistol only and I’m glad I did. It helps with ammo and also by the time I finish the run I had completely upgraded my suit plasma cutter and every node for every weapon. Because I only had a plasma cutter equipped I got a ton of plasma ammo and credits instead of random Ammo

The thing if you did 2/3runs back to back already you should be familiar with what to do and the advice I can give doing impossible run is don't think of it as you're doing it on "Impossible run" difficulty just play it normally as you usual do and you'll beat it believe me, that's what I did and beat it first go.

Respect the legit playthrough, I personally found the environmental sections like Centrifuge, Mining and especially Cargo Bay were the worst. Keep an eye for those

Huuuuuh I was so glad to complete this as my second run ever of the game I had to do it 2 times cause my first run I died getting too close to one of the insta kill walls right before the final chapter my wife never saw me so defeated and pissed the next day I started a new run and I did it in 2 days cause of work so satisfying 😌 good luck

If you haven't already, I suggest completing the side missions while also hunting down the weapon parts.

They WILL be helpful.

Not a speed runner, but I’ll probably try to use this so I don’t have to watch the cut scene each time!

I think speedrunners are flying through the skybox here or something and skipping the whole thing lol. Might be useful for a version where they can't go outside the map or something I guess.

Too add on to this, as far as I know this works on toys, the granade launchers and albums

Yeah, that’s known. Just weapon swap right before picking up something and you can avoid the animation.

Maybe watch a speed run before acting like you discovered something new.

Don't be afraid to use a charged punch as an escape. It's just a charge, you can get it back with another block. I see too many Dooms try to get value with a charge punch when they'd be better off falling back to their team.

On that note, don't be afraid to use cooldowns to disengage. Doom isn't a sponge tank, he's meant to go in, disrupt, and get out. If you can get a kill on a player out of position or who wasted cooldowns, great, but you don't need to get a kill every single engage.

Sure thing! The most important tip I have for you is that being flashy and doing cool rollouts is not necessary. Focus on getting reliable value before learning those. However, a couple of techs I think are very important are punch cancel and slam cancels. Punch cancel is when you charge punch, and when you are moving forward, you jump to send you farther, but you will cancel your punch, it's strictly for moving. Slam cancel is when you cancel slam to avoid the landing part. You can do this by either pressing slam again shortly after you activate it, or to use a different ability immediately after, which will send you farther. Hope this helps!

In that case, remember this: don't expect your support to come for you, it's on you to get out. Also, really practice that hand cannon aim. It's a beast up close.

most important thing is to use cover. you are pretty squishy for a tank so never just run around and expect not to die.

you can engage with slam but be aware that you have to get out of the situation. so you rather engage with punch or you slam in the backline behind cover, wait for 2/3/4 seconds than engage with punch kill a squishy and get out again.

best way to get empowered punch is shoot (to get attention) - punch - block

getting sleepdarted/ junk trapped/ or stunned (not cass flashbang) equals death most of the time so try to bait dart, after that you can engage

my own rule is to get back to supports when i am below 200hp or go for mega

dont hard engage when they have a sombra in the backline

if they have an ana and you wanna kill her land your ult and hold slam button down to immediately bait her dart

MOST IMPORTANT RULE: KEYBIND AND DEY SAY VOICELINE AND NEVER SWAP

Sometimes you have to look out for your teamates. If they die you will probably lose too. Look for enemy flankers like Sombra or Tracer. If an Hog tries to hook someone try to disrupt him with punch or shield your ally with block or your body before Hog can kill him with his second shot.

Peel for them occationally. You primary goal is to win not get K/D. Adapt to your team instead the other way around.

When I was playing episode 1 I didn't know about this and it's why I hated e1m4

Not many people will get it

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