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 unique PC model of Doom.
Introduced formally over the weekend with a trailer on the huge Xbox showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is a prequel to the current Doom video games from id Software program and appears rad as heck. It encompasses 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 components of that trailer—a chainsaw protect 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 traditional FPS video games and replaces it with the newly revealed Shieldsaw. Within the video demonstrating the brand new weapon, Craneo performs by the opening stage of Doom 2, which conveniently hides a chainsaw (now a Shieldsaw) on the very begin. You may obtain the mod and mess around with it proper now.
As you may 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 once you increase the protect, which is a brilliant option to incorporate “blocking.” You may as well, should you change some settings, toss the protect at enemies and do harm to them identical to within the huge Doom: The Darkish Ages trailer.
I examined out the mod actual quick and had a blast ripping by 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 undecided I can return to the chainsaw.
Whereas that is very cool, it shouldn’t be stunning 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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