Hey guys, I'm madlymaxt and I LOOOOOVE Doom Eternal. I love it so much that I have recently done a particular type of speedrun that I think would be great as a category in Doom Eternal. It's a Ultra Nightmare No Chainsaw No Crucible and glitchless speedrun of the main campaign. I believe this to be a very difficult but fun challenge as it required me to really think through how to save as much ammo as possible, only using as much as needed, and also using the blood punch to an insanely high degree. My technique, which I call doom fu, involves using the regenerating upgrade of the blood punch and glory killing in order to continuously kill enemies only with the blood punch, while keeping yourself stocked up on health and armor. Check out my video on youtube for the full run I did.

What do you guys think? Should Doom Eternal have a no chainsaw category? I'd love to see what the community could come up with in terms of completing this challenge without using the BFG. I have gotten good enough at this point that I can make it to the icon of sin without using the bfg once in the entire campaign, but obviously I haven't recorded a legit run of that yet. But defeating the icon so far REQUIRES using the BFG. Maybe somebody can figure out a way to no chainsaw the Icon without using the BFG.

thats very cool, congratulations. Im no doom eternal expert myself so I cant tell you but I think you should post your idea in the doom eternal speedrunning discord server and see if the category gains traction, if so then it means its good. The only problem I would see is that its very specific and kinda arbitrary so they might not want to add them to the game or even the CEs, but you can always have a spreadsheet with the leaderboards even if it means less activity

Welcome to the site. These are the general forums, and it’s unlikely anyone who runs this game will see this. You should post this in that game’s forum.