Will Doom 5(Doom Eternal) be a buggy game at launch ?

no. Bethesda is only publisher. and are great ones.

it will be as polished as Doom reboot at launch.

Bethesda also only published Dishonored 2, Wolfenstein games and The Evil Within games and all of them had issues at launch.

I don't see why it would. It's made by id Software. Last time they did anything buggy was with the texture pop-ins in 'RAGE' 8 years ago. Plus, they'll be using same engine as they used for DOOM 4 with just some added things, and DOOM 4 didn't have bugs.

@undefined: nope ID Software doesn’t develop crap buggy games.

I don't remember the last Doom being buggy I enjoyed my time playing through it. More of the same and I'll be happy.

Wolfenstein 2 the new colossus was made by id tech 6 engine and it was quite buggy at launch.

I guess the wait and see approach is best.

Was it? I had it at release (xbone) and didn't find it buggy at all.

because evil within and dishonored uses id tech 5 which was terrible engine.

wolfenstein just suck because of machinegames.

Doom used id tech 6 the most optimize engine of this gen. Doom Eternal using Id tech 7 which is advancement of id tech 6.

Doom is not an MMO and Bethesda isn’t the developer so it’s unfair to assume this will suffer a similar fate as Fallout 76.

For the record - all MMOs have terrible and buggy launches. Especially high profile MMOs.

MachineGames and Bethesda make buggy games. I don't see how that is connected to id Software.

Some people seem to be confused between developers and publishers it seems...

Bethesda published some games like The Evil Within 1&2 and dishonored 2 which they weren't the developer but the result was a buggy game at launch.

Bethesda has published RPGs,Survival Horror games , FPS games and first person stealth games that were buggy at launch.

Yes, some people do seem confused. Those studios are not id Software.

@dorog1995: all publishers have published games that were buggy at launch. There is no such thing as a bug free game. It’s just a case of whether the bugs are noticeable or game breaking.

If this wasn’t to case the term ‘known shipable’ wouldn’t exist.

The answer is actually no.

Doom 2016 was so we'll optimized, ID did a fantastic job on Doom, I was so freaking surprise how we'll that game plays, especially on PC! I played Doom 2016 5 times because it wasn't such a buggy mess, Bethesda had nothing to do with Doom series, they only published the game, just like EA only published games but never been part of developing.

That said, if you look at Doom: Eternal gameplay reveal a few months ago, you can already tell it will not be a buggy mess of a game, just like Doom 2016 wasn't a buggy mess, it was well made optimized.

(Damnit TC, you got me talking about Doom, you are making me go reinstall Doom 2016 and going on my 6th playthrough now lol)

Doom 2016 is easily the best game of this generation bar none which will surpassed by Metro Exodus in few month. such a masterpiece and best pure FPS since Half life 2. only FPS that are better than DOOM are Half life and STALKER.

Doom Eternal is going to be bigger masterpiece than Doom was. by being set on earth, running on bigger engine, having more open areas instead of locked arena, swords, focus on story etc.

People need to learn the difference between Bethesda and Bethesda Game Studios

Don't remember ID Software making a buggy game.

@dorog1995:

Doom 4 wasn't buggy, so I don't see why this should be any different.

No. It iterates on the solid foundation provided by DOOM.

DOOM 2016 was one of the best optimized games out there, running on one of the most solid engines I've ever seen.

You are underestimating how much publishers can control the games they are publishing even if they are not developing it.

Publishers set the amount of budget for every part of development process and marketing.Publishers also set the release date of the game.(And developers cannot always convince the publishers to give them more time)

Publishers can also control the direction of the game they are publishing.(Like forcing developers to add Microtransactions if they get the desire to do so)

Yeah but they aren't using the same Doom 4 engine.

But its foundation is based on id tech 6. its a proper sequel not glorified expansion. so its better to release on new engine.

@dorog1995: Wow, could've fooled me !

I mean it does look a lot like DOOM 2016 graphically, which is not a bad thing if you ask me :)

Doom 2016 felt optimized once gameplay commenced. But, I got the feeling where it's more shaky is during the game's initial startup and in the menus. I don't know if it's Steam or Doom 2016 itself. But, it does take quite long to start (for an id game). Maybe it's just me. But, I'm suspicious of the game when I'm changing options or otherwise in the menu.

Publishers don't really do much. Well the good ones don't do much, the bad ones actively screw up games.

DOOM 2016 ran great on all the machines I played it on. I have a feeling Eternal will be similar.

No. As others have said Bethesda is only the publisher. However that’s not to say the game won’t have any bugs but just not on the level of a Bethesda Game Studio developed game. Also it isn’t a vast open world game either and those are much more prone to bugs.

If you really want to crash it, try switching back and forth between D3D and Vulkan. I know Doom 2016 gets flaky when I do that. ;)

Doom 2016 ran very fine for me. I had no issues with it at all. I hope Doom Eternal also goes well.

Not just you, the game takes ages to start up on my PC. While playing, it's smooth as butter though. The menus take a long time to get smooth, and they usually don't become smooth until I've already loaded my save file and am in the game.