Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors

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Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 has given me hours of sweet demon-blasting joy since itlaunched in the middle of last year. I dropped in only yesterday to clarify a hazy memory of a particular level, and lost a good forty minutes to disemboweling imps with a shotgun in glorious 4K, Andrew Hushult'sthunderous riff on the E1M1 theme thrashing in my ears. Never mind the days I spent last year picking through John Romero's episodesSigil andSigil 2, or the ferociously difficult new campaign by MachineGames,Legacy of Rust.

It was a pretty comprehensive package, but Nightdive and Bethesda have continued to tinker away with it in the months since. This culminated in a new update that arrived earlier this week, which makes numerous smaller fixes and quality-of-life changes, but mainly adds support for multiplayer mods.

Playing multiplayer mods through Doom + Doom 2 is a little more elaborate than playing modded single-player Doom. For starters, the accompanyingSteam post notes the mods in question «must be authored with Vanilla DOOM, DeHackEd, MBF21 or BOOM to be compatible» and that the host must activate the mod before entering the online menu. Players will likewise need to subscribe to the same mod before joining the match, which the blog recommends doing using «room codes». While it may sound complicated, it's a fairly standard requirement for playing multiplayer mods through a base game, and certainly more straightforward than playing modded Doom multiplayer via other means, which required players to installZandronum orGZDoom (the latter of which didn't have great support for multiplayer mods) and then install compatible mods.

You can read the full patch noteshere. 2025 is a big year for the first-person shooter's angry green grandaddy. The latest entry in the series, Doom: The Dark Ages, got its first in-depth presentation earlier this week, with id Software revealing a heavier,more grounded combat system than the airborne acrobatics of Doom Eternal. The new game