After giving fans a sneak peek at QuakeCon 2014, and then a full-fledged announcement at E3 2015 last month, id Software brought it back to QuakeCon 2015 over the weekend.
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And id and Bethesda are well aware of that fact, as speaking with Gamespot, Bethesda’s Pete Hines has admitted that id Software have to prove themselves to this new generation.
“When you’re developing, you make thousands of decisions that have an impact on performance or visual fidelity”, Stratton says “We’ve always been at the forefront of saying we want our games to run as fast as possible at the highest resolution possible”.
He went out from there and set the goal of 1080p and 60 fps for DOOM. So for us, that goal is 1080p and 60fps. “So you draw that line in the sand”, disclosed the executive producer.
Players who have bought “Wolfenstein: The New Order” can have a very small chance of being selected to play for Doom’s multiplayer alpha test. This extra alpha test would be a good opportunity to test the multiplayer mode, as well as get the chance to give feedback as to what aspects need improvement. The frame-rate in particular is part of the game’s fluidity. It used to be the case that you couldn’t turn around without bumping into a story about which games were some combination of 720/900/1080p and 30 or 60 FPS. The developer has always managed to do a wonderful job in terms of graphical presentation, and by the looks of it, Doom won’t be an exception. “This is probably something we’ll think about for future iterations”, said Stratton.
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DOOM is scheduled to launch at some point in 2016 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The developer will select testers from the consoles, as well as the PC. “I think we’ll hit all of our goals”. As anyone who’s been following its progress will know, the production of the latest entry in the series, now simply called Doom, hasn’t been a smooth one: years of development were cast aside in 2011, when id took the bold step of returning to the drawing board.
