As a researcher following the mobile gaming scene, I’m happy to report that DOOM: The Dark Ages just received a significant update! Update 2.2, released on Wednesday, focuses on improving the experience for players on handheld gaming devices, alongside a number of important bug fixes. It’s great news for anyone wanting to play this latest shooter on the go.
This update also adds support for the Steam Deck and improves performance on upcoming handheld gaming devices like the ASUS ROG Ally and Ally X, which will be available starting October 16th.
This update for DOOM: The Dark Ages automatically adjusts to the best settings when played on a handheld gaming device, and remembers those settings for each device you use.
I’ve been digging into the performance numbers for DOOM: The Dark Ages, and id Software has shared what you can expect on different hardware. Here’s a breakdown of how it runs based on their internal testing – pretty cool to see this level of detail!
- Steam Deck: 720p @ ~30FPS
- Z1 Devices: 720p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally)
- Z1E Devices: 1080p @ ~30FPS (such as ASUS ROG Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go)
- Z2A Devices: 720p @ ~30FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally)
- Z2E Devices: 1080p @ ~60FPS (such as XBOX ROG Ally X)
Id Software points out that the benchmark results are based on devices operating at their maximum power and while plugged in, not running on battery.
The Xbox Ally X is expected to perform much better than other handheld gaming devices.
This aligns with early feedback, including our own review where gaming editor Rebecca Spear highlighted the Xbox Ally X’s strong performance in recent titles like Fantasy 16. However, that power comes at a cost – the Xbox Ally X is priced at $1,000 in the U.S.
You can find the remaining patch notes from Update 2.2 below:
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Enemy AI:
- Resolved a rare crash if the player used the Shield Throw on Plasma Shield Soldiers with the “Power Surge” Shield upgrade
- Final Battle:
- Visuals for area denial from Prince Ahzrak’s Blood Pillars expiring now render correctly.
- Fixed a rare crash when using the BFC during the beginning of each phase of the enhanced Prince Ahzrak boss fight
- Gameplay:
- Fixed an issue where death and damage stats were not registering properly in cases of multiple damage instances occurring on the same frame as an entity death. (This change also addresses a bug where the Accelerator Mastery Challenge was not incrementing properly)
- Cycler Plasma Gun no longer glows white when fired with Berserker Power in Harbor of Souls and Resurrection
- Using the Shield now correctly recovers from staggering during a melee strike while attempting to block or parry. This prevents a Shield lockout or cases where the Shield would briefly pop into a blocking state after the input was released
Levels
- Hebeth
- Fixed an issue where reloading checkpoints after the Gold and Sentinel Shrine tutorial could cause objectives to vanish until level restart or transition
- Sentinel Barracks
- Mancubus no longer respawns during the Vagary Champion boss fight.
- Removed Hell Knight and Stalker Imp reinforcements from Mancubus Leader spawn wave in the burning tree fight
- Siege – Part 1
- Hell Knights, Stalker Imps and Imps no longer respawn during the Vagary fights throughout the battlefield
- The wolf statue Ruby no longer gets stuck behind a red energy gate if it is not collected after breaking the wolf statues and reloading the south gore portal checkpoint
- Siege – Part 2
- Fixed an issue where an errant Serf could appear in the courtyard when reloading the checkpoint
- Ancestral Forge
- Arachnotron no longer respawns during Agaddon Hunter fight at the end of heart sandbox section
- Fixed a potential crash when loading a checkpoint after dying in the Agaddon Hunter fight in the Ancestral Courtyard
- Spire of Nerathul
- Chaingun Arachnotron no longer respawns during final encounter of the cathedral stasis emitter section
- Temple of Lomarith
- Arachnotron and Cacodemon no longer respawn during the shipwreck morale fight
- The melee pickups now appear correctly on the secret boat “Hell Knight rush” encounter
- Resurrection
- The armored Arachnotron that spawns after the Acolyte dies no longer respawns during first morale fight
- Reckoning
- Arachnotron no longer respawns during buffed Agaddon Hunter encounter
The Ripatorium
- All Platforms:
- Vagaries should now only spawn in open areas where they can move around
- Xbox Only:
- Fixed a crash to the Xbox home screen when changing profiles while suspended in an active Ripatorium match with full demon bar
Audio
- Fixed an issue where the Shield Saw grinding SFX could stop if the player opens the Dossier while the Shield is in a Power Node and then returns to gameplay
UI
- Fixed an issue with Codex entries not tracking progress properly after revisiting levels via Mission Select
- Resolved an issue with the Ripatorium tutorial pop-up intended for first visit of the game mode occurring on subsequent visits
- Fixed bug where opening the Dossier the frame after breaking a metal lock or using a switch could cause the trigger to fail and block progression
- Addressed a potential crash when Alt-Tabbing away and returning to the game during a load screen
VFX
- Corrected issue where picking up a toy collectible could trigger the Shield or an equipped weapon’s visual effects during the animation
- Addressed stray purple lines appearing when overloading a Cacodemon with the Cycler
- Addressed bug where first-person gore overlay flickers around screen edge during AI execute actions while resolution scaling is active
New Active Tunables
- Reduced damage of certain attacks from the Agaddon Hunter, Cosmic Baron, Hell Knight and Komodo to reduce the number of attacks that break the Shield in one hit on Nightmare Difficulty
- Adjusted the Brink of Death system on all difficulties to be more in line with the game at launch. This system protects the player from certain instances of lethal damage, creating the opportunity to fight back from a near-death state
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