Doom Eternal Developers React to 27 Minute Speedrun 

*sees speedrun glitch* usual devs: "i guess we have to fix that" doom devs: "let's put unskippable cutscenes in the sky"

Patch notes: • purple sludge in the sky • slow the elevators • put funny notes for the speed runners to see • sky cutscenes

"Hey! Were leaving in 30 minutes" "Aight lemme beat Doom eternal real quick"

"This isn't level design's fault. You didn't tell us NOT to do this Jerry"😂😂😂

other developers:PATCH THAT PATCH THAT doom developers:lets put a rick roll in the sky

"Let's put an unskippable cutscene trigger outside the level with a Rick Roll just to irritate speedrunners" High quality developers

This by far the best devs react video I've seen. Kudos to them for not taking it too seriously. 19:50 is as much fun as I've ever heard the devs have in any of these.

Their reaction to him getting to the dev room is hilarious.

I love that the doom devs would rather just troll the speedrunners than actually make it hard for them to speedrun.

Dev: That's a creative director problem, he didn't tell us *NOT* to do this. LMAO

"He spends more time at this button than anything, we should have spent more time modeling it" Lets make the parts speedruners have to look at better looking, great devs

30:14 "It's almost like a community project and they use it to make their own world records." Well said

Speedrunner: *breaks the game* Everyone: *WOW* Developer: "It's a war.."

"Do they want us to fix it" That's perfect mentality

Love how they actually care about our thoughts even such insignificant as do we like it when the cheeses get fixed. Maaaaaad respect for the dev and for the most polished fps shooter ive ever touched

Fun Fact: Xamide did another any% speedrun shaving nearly 10 minutes off his record, currently 18m 58s 740ms

"ThE sEcrET RoOm!!!!!" "BRADOOOOON!!!!!!" Man, whoever Brandon is, he's gonna have a bad day tomorrow

"He doesn't even look at the beautiful view" I love their sarcasm too

23:25 the apple notification sound timed perfectly to the speedrunner shooting the ballista

You can tell hey had a lot of fun making the game. Devs like this are what we need for every game.

They went through 3 stages of emotion: 1. Hey finally, he can skip the elevator. 2. Wait what? How did he do that? 3. Look at the beautiful game we made.

Speedrunner: Launches himself to the end of the level Developers: “Look how they massacred my boy”

Hats off to the Devs. Their enthusiasm, humorous nature, friendliness, respectful attitude and laughs are so...so nice and enjoyable . This is by far the most watched Dev-related video I've watched.

Disgusting to hear Marty's voice after reading the Mick Gordon response. Hope the guy never gets hired by any studio ever again. What a massive liability.

Imagine flying up in the sky as speedrunner and suddenly an uskippable rickroll appears

Other devs: "Omg the exploits" Hugo: "TONY THE CRUCIBLE IS TOO BRIGHT"

The devs here are right; the interesting part isn't necessarily seeing the completed run, but also seeing the number of attempts it took to perfect each manoeuvre. It always blows my mind when they perform the clips and other tricks, and I'd love to see how they figure them out too.

When a player know the game mechanics better than the devlopers themselves.

Ironically, 27 minutes is also exactly how long Dean Takahashi played this game before he gave up and gave it a 3/10

“He must have played before” *no looks like his first time*

The devs said it’d be impressive if he played the game normally, little did they know xamide is one of the top glitchless ultra nightmare runners as well. If you liked this you’d love his other runs even more, he puts his runs on RU-vid as well

Love the way the devs are considering how their decisions will impact this sub community of their game, much respect!

"he's going to the dev room" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

'He's gotten his money's worth out of the game' THAT, THAT is what devs should be thinking, its soo pure. they legit want to make a game and that players get their money's worth from it. love these guys

14:49 is my favorite part of their reaction

26:44 "Yeah, the tower looked awesome!... That doesn't look awesome" 😂😂

Make a cutscene where, if the player flies high enough, it cuts to a helpless doomslayer floating in orbit.

Alternative title: 5 Parents watch their child getting abused for 27 minutes straight.

So much harder to enjoy the dev commentary after Mick outed Marty for who he really is. Such a shame.

Hey Marty, shame on you for treating Mick the way you did. No one deserves that kind of treatment.

Imagine spending 500+ hours to perfect a speedrun and when you go for it, it turns out the devs shadow dropped an update with an unskippable 10h rickroll cutscene in the sky xd.

-“do you think we should fix this?” -“I think it’s hilarious” You just gotta love these devs

Marty Stratton ain't that different than the Khan Maykr in this game, evil piece of crap hidden beneath power and glory

Multiplying the physics of the jump with the mouse and weapon wheel is genius

"We should put an unskippable cut scene in the sky" loool

devs - "lets put an unskippable cutscene in the skybox" i literally cannot stop laughing

If the devs did leave messages for speedrunners and made some sort of AI that can identify if someone is moving through a level quickly that would be fantastic. It would help embrace more speed runners and by tightening up glitchs for speedrunners to break it would be a great move by id.

They're reaction the barrel at 16:27 gets my EVERY time

I love how they point fingers at each other on who caused the exploits lmao

"Just wait till he gets to the purple sludge! That will slow him down!"

WOW IGN is upping their content quality. Props for including an explanation by the speedrunner at 10:15 adds a lot to understanding the speedrun and gives another perspective on the devs opinions/views

Really shows how fantastically in touch id devs actually are. Love this

Demons in normal speed run: Demons in glitch speedrun: "HE'S IN THE WALLS JIM!!! HE'S IN THE FRICKIN WALLS!!!"

“Doom Eternal Devs acknowledge their programming skills for 27 minutes”

These guys were great. You can tell they put a lot of love into the game, and are genuinely proud of it, and their team, and happy to see people enjoying it in whatever way they choose.

Seeing this now after finding out what Marty did makes me sick

"Look how beautiful our maps are Jerry" This was so wholesome, why am I just now seeing this.

It was really heart warming when they said they found it fascinating and knew they couldn’t stop it so they would rather interact with it.

Devs reacting to speedruns of their game is the best series ever

Its a long standing belief of mine that the more physics exploits and repeatable player/world glitches exist in a game (within reason, as in it functions fine and perfecrly normal as long as you dont take the proper steps) the more fun the game is and the more replayability it has. Like halo trilogy jumps and boosts, so on

I love how they keep considering adding things to slow him down just to piss him off

Every other Game Dev: Ah, I see what he did Doom Eternal Devs: *WHAT*

Marty can go to hell for what he did to Mick

devs are amazing they dont get mad, the respect the speedrunners and even give them the option if they want certain bugs fixed, thats exactly the type of relationship you should have with your community

Thanks to all the people in the comments transcribing every quote for the deaf community

Most devs: “our game is broken. We messed up the code.” Doom eternal devs: “our game is so well optimized it lets you go BLAU”

The devs prove that they are real gamers by showing the speedrun community the respect they deserve.

this is still the best Devs React video you guys have put out to date

“You do have to hand it to the people who do this. The amount of time they spend in the game to figure this stuff out is - what the HELL just HAPPENED”

"...why don't you beat the game fast playing it the right way" We literally have a separate category for that, it's called glitchless

He isn't speedrunning, this is just lore accurate Doom Slayer

19:55 I’ve never seen a secret room that’s inside of a level that isn’t completely inaccessible

"We should put an unskippable cut scene in the sky" LMAO

And that's how my father went to school every day.

Just the way they breaking it down and even curious about the speedrunners take. I'll always love Doom for this

Having the speedrunner commenting and giving more feedback is a amazing !

“Just wait for the purple sludge, that will stop him!” The speedrunner: Oh No! Anyways.

"Oh let's see him fight the maurader-" *Maurauder dies before they finish their sentence* "WHAT!"

this is jus the best dev reacts from ign their reaction is hillarious always coming back to it 😂

Thank you guys so much for making this game! its honestly my new favorite story shooter! Its also my first doom game, a great one to start my demon killing journey lol

"Do they want us to fix it?" That mentality is so excellent, these devs are great. And they're right, the community is small enough that getting actual feedback is super feasible

The devs: " Should we fix this? Because I kind of don't want to. It's hilarious"

Someone needs to let the developers know about glitches runs Edit: the fact that they say parts are "amazing" is exactly why this kind of speedrunning is a thing, why it's challenging for the runner, and why it won't stop! Loved the video!

"It's refreshing to see him do the combat. Alot of people like this level." "Oh he found a barrel, he's doing the jump."

Speedrunner: exploits bugs and glitches Other Dev: "Dammit gotta fix those." Id Software Dev: "The Icon of Sin's eyes do not glow, it's weird, man."

"we should do an unskippable cutscene and it's the worst kind of cutscene" "or we could do a simple rick roll'd or something"

9:42 that groan of pain lmao

When is 'Doom Eternal developers react to Mick Gordon's response' coming out

Doom Eternal Developers: Look how they massacred my boy.

Speedrunner: Spends his entire life on playing Doom Eternal to perfection his speedrun Developers seeing it: Do you think he has played the game before?

Answering the devs about the "do speedrunners like when devs fix route defining, or route helping bugs and glitches" question: It depends on the bug/glitch and the game. Some games' speedruns are based around one glitch or one one kind of glitched system or a chain of glitches stemming from the same problem. When *these* glitches are taken out, and the game has versions that you can go back to, there's usually different categories that might get made after a moment of assessment stemming from "before verson x" and "after version x" aka with the x bug and without the x bug, while for other games there might be a moment of regrouping and stalling to make new routes and possibly finding new glitches and bugs (which doesn't always happen). Some runners might find the fix annoying, while others might see the fixing of the bug like a new challenge to find new ways to break the game and stuff, but again, it depends on the bugs and games. Runners especially find annoying when they get treated more like a beta tester then anything else (right nintendo?). This doesn't mean that they don't enjoy when the game gets fixed to be more stable and healthy (they love it actually).

It would be nice to have this happen with more developers

I'll tell you what... hearing developers talk about "how they can cater to their players and fans." Is the most refreshing game talk I've heard in years. These developers deserve an award on keeping their fans happy alone. Hats off to these guys for genuinely caring about their fans and game... wish every game company had the passion these guys have.... thank you

"You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars." "Fine then, I won't."

One of the best reaction video out there. This guy must have spent so much time to find all these so called short cuts.

Surprised at the lack of hate for Marty Stratton in the comment section, based on the whole story with Mick Gordon one would think more people would be going after him.

"Why don't you just complete the game the way we designed it" LUL, I loved all their reactions.

Title should be “Devs plan a counter attack on the speed runners”

"He's killing the demons, Marty!"

*Great crew and commetary, loved their genuine reactions!*