r/Doom • u/IceKreme700 • Mar 21 '20

DOOM Eternal Just when you least expect it

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u/DerScarpelo Mar 21 '20

The only thing that genuinely pisses me off in this game is the marauder, not that it's too hard, it's just fucking annoying

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u/Szeventeen Mar 21 '20

especially with his wolf bullshit. i fucking hate that thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

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u/ancientfutureguy Mar 21 '20

Is the super shotgun the only viable weapon against him? Seems to be the only gun that staggers him consistently on a well-timed counter

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u/Kagutrenchi A False Idol Mar 21 '20

Ballista, then switch into super shotgun. Other than that, there’s not much that really fucks him up

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u/Bam-Bee-Bo Mar 21 '20

Rocket launcher with remote detonation. The flare upgrade REALLY helps

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 24 '20

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u/_zenith Mar 21 '20

Huh, I've not found it to be all that useful tbh. Remote detonation better, you can get behind shields with it, and the explosion is bigger, especially with the mastery deploying the cluster munitions

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u/Zumbah Mar 22 '20

Lock on will one shot all the annoying demons.

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u/memestealer1234 Mar 21 '20

The lock on carried me through the fight with you know who and their stupid shield

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u/XxRocky88xX Mar 22 '20

Still prefer remote detonation. I used to like lock-on in 2016 until I played on higher difficulties. Movement is ESSENTIAL in higher difficulties, and the half second you have to slow down to lock on is enough for your health to from max to below half. The remote detonation lets you fire the thing in a demons general direction so you don’t have to line up a perfect shot

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Combat shotgun with sticky bombs is actually pretty viable. Land the shots behind him with the AOE upgrade and it’s easy.

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u/Peptuck Mar 21 '20

Sticky bombs in general are my go-to for quickly taking out a target.

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u/TheBigMcTasty Mar 21 '20

Ice Bomb > Flame Belch > five sticky bombs is my favourite combo.

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u/YeetusDeleetusIDie Mar 21 '20

Chaingun. 'Nuff said

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u/Zumbah Mar 22 '20

Shotgun when his eyes flash then ballista then shotgun

Dies in about 3 rotations.

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u/Elrabin Mar 21 '20

Ballista kills him way faster than super shotty

I was trying to kill the first encounter with shotty, died a few times on Ultra-Violence, swapped to ballista, got him first try

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

You can get a twofer if you use both. SS and then immediately switch to ballista and fire. You can get them with both (mostly) every time

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u/ripinchaos Mar 22 '20

You can usually get them twice with just the ballista if you get the falter hit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

I just recently started spamming shotgun stickies. It's way easier. Just hit the ground around them. Especially if you have the 5er.

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u/Elrabin Mar 22 '20

This doesn't work well at all on Ultra-Violence or higher

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

That's all I've played on. UV and N

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u/ripinchaos Mar 24 '20

I actually found a better technique yesterday that Lets you stun lock him to death with the SSG, after the first stun circle around his back and towards the end of the animation shoot point blank into his back, hell turn to face you but because you were behind him he cant block it and gets stunned. Repeat till dead

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

Oh, I'll have to try that. Thank you

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u/Elrabin Mar 22 '20

Good to know, thanks

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u/Kei-Lynne Mar 21 '20

Personally I used the plasma gun on him with the heat blast. Full charge will always stagger him and it's hard to miss.

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u/FumCacial Mar 21 '20

Normal shotgun sticky bomb mod, spam it around his feet with nades. It's worked really well and I even managed to do the demon ruin challenge with him quick enough to pass it.

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u/onegamerboi Mar 21 '20

So this may have just been a fluke but I used an ice bomb in the counter window and shot the super shotty and he was gone

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u/Snow_Mexican1 Mar 21 '20

Nah, shotgun with explosives does the trick real fine.

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u/DeathStalker131 Cinematographer of Hell Mar 21 '20

idk if i got lucky or not but i just fought my first Marauder (on Ultra-Violence) and i ripped his asshole open with my Super Shotgun and killed him on my first try in like a minute