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  • How people are beating Doom on Ultra-Nightmare without dying

    Doom's Ultra-Nightmare mode is so difficult that nobody at developer id Software was able to complete it. The premise is simple: Take the game's most punishing difficulty setting, Nightmare, then apply permadeath to it. One wrong move and a six-hour play session can be wiped clean in an instant.
    Yet diligent players were able to best this test within two days of the game's release. The first was Zero Master, who holds a speedrun record for Doom 2. Only six hours later a different player, DraQu, who currently holds many speedrunning records for this latest Doom reboot, also completed this insane gauntlet.
    Speaking over Skype, DraQu tells me that he practiced for this run by first attempting the game on Nightmare mode. After that, he jumped straight into Ultra-Nightmare. When asked how many attempts it took, DraQu says he didn't keep track, but estimated about 20 with approximately 11-16 tries on day one followed by a mere three on the second day.
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