Fighting a Possessed Marauder | DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One 

They don’t stack. The OP said somewhere in the comments that the buff totem overrides the spirit buff

I wish I could! Unfortunately the game doesn't let me. Totem overrides Spirit and I can't get a Marauder by any Archvile.

Hugo Martin: allow me to make this challenging then

Calm down, Satan

@@U99DrunkDinosaur TWO MARAUDERS ON SPIRIT AND ARCHVILE BUFF

I hope they are

I got a Possessed Marauder in Part one. it was like HELL

Triple possessed marauders lmao

@@amish4988 I guess you have to *Fight Like Hell.*

They had him on the totem already. Wasn't so very different.

Damn I'm sorry

I didn’t even know they could posses the piñatas

this is not really flexing, that marauder has just increased health, but it is still getting staggered. So..yeah its not true possesed marauder ;)

@@SLAD3 They can even possess the dumb fodder zombies. Then the chainsaw doesn’t work and it’s super awkward.

@@lukas753331 it was a joke....?

And one rocket launcher has lock on while the other has remote detonation. The marauder should dual wield those

And Doomguy’s baby is a mini Doomguy that helps you fight

And also whilst theres 3 possesed buffed empowered Barons of Hell chasing you with Rocket launchers that fire buffed Carcasses

@@Jayboe1123 sounds like a revenant

Why not a BFG?

Yes

Which is odd because I'm not an expert at all but I never had much problems with the Marauders. I struggled on the first fight hard and then the second was better and I was an expert of beating them by the third one in the base campaign. I've died a load in the DLC but not to a Marauder yet.

@@kikook222 That's because marauders have some of the simplest AI out of all the demons. Even Imps have more thought into how they fight than a Marauder. It comes running right at you, until it passes some invisible distance threshold, then it attempts to swing at you with the Axe If you are out of line of sight or too far away for too long, he summons the dog. Get too close, and he shotguns you. That's it. It doesn't take cover. It ignores other demons. It just runs at you like a dummy, and tries to hit you with his axe. Once you understand how they work, they are the easiest heavy demon in the game.

@@RunicRasol well i was sad about so much potential they have but after i think about it, it was meant to be easy. even worst players cant die when saw first mauraders if they read weeknes cuz you can run fill your life over and over again and simple ai supposed to dont ruin game for some players

Nerfed!?

Thing is, i feel like you’re not wrong

Archvile maze p2

Oh my God the Plutonia PTSD is kicking in.

ngl fighting those two marauders was the easiest rhing ever

@@5udimax lol that level gave me nigthmares

Isn't it called Spirit?

@@boopie577 its called summoner in doom 2016

@@spicyboi9717 Ah got it. But does it summon anything tho 🤔?

Yes, it does. It summons lots of demons. And it doesn't stop until you kill it.

Also, have you played DOOM 2016?

Hmm, how about 2 buffed Marauders and one possessed one?

@@Alt_0 you really wanna kills aye?, lets also add 2 barons of hell as well.

Nah, they’re not that cruel. They’ll just give us one possessed Marauder, one Tyrant, and a DOOM Hunter or Archvile for good measure.

Make it 3 = Quad 🎭

You forgot to add the two zeros

Maybe throw in a couple carcasses, some spectre whiplashes, some hate elementals and cacodemons, two barons, and a single tyrant as well, along with an archvile, a buff totem, and another marauder just to pour salt into the wound.

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 doom hunter?

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 make that the first fight

BFG goes bzzzzzzzzzzzz

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 might as well add the icon of sin

They'll probably fix that in Part 2. And then throw 2 possessed Marauders at you at once

@@SuperLlama42 make it 3

@@SuperLlama42 make it 4

20 take it or leave it

And on top of that, fight a Doom Slayer controlled by either ZeroMaster, FrostyZen, Xiae or any other absolutely competent player, with all cheats, runes, support runes and upgrades used all at once

Because Nuts.wad isn't enough to make your PC reenact Chernobyl.

Possessed Icon of Sin would be pretty epic tho let's be honest

@@M8gazine Agreed, dude. Even though it would result in millions of keyless keyboards, smashed monitors, and broken-in-half controllers all around the world.

this is so true lol

I think it was intentional that he can be faltered, or else the fight would be impossible. Also, the fact marauders have a different damage calculation for Ballista/SSG damage. This was intentional. And you can BET they will be pitting a spirit possessed marauder against you in Ancient Gods Part 2.

@@RunicRasol don't think it's necesssrily impossible, but more tedious since you pretty much have to ballista boost or dash back from him every time to not get hit

@nullptr_t I have a cheat table that also does it for me in one click (along with noclip/notarget), plus I use CE for other things like looking at encounter objects and updating the autosplitter. Thank you, but I'm good with CE for now.

@@alexlxpg4985 Maybe so, but it still shows there was intent there. There are 2 possibilities. A: They coded a 'no stagger' line for all the other enemies individually, and never added it to marauder because you were never meant to fight a possessed marauder B: They coded a 'no stagger' line that applied to all enemies, but then went back and changed it for the ONE enemy, but never used it cause the fight would have been less fun/fair if you cant stagger a marauder. B sounds a lot more likely to me. Also makes me think they were GOING to have you fight a possessed marauder, but changed their minds, and put in a totem-buffed marauder fight instead.

Archviles are demon elites, why the heck would they be possessed?

I hate you.

don't give them ideas I don't want plutonia 2

Nah it's gonna be two possessed archies.

@@SomeKindaSpy possessed archies that spawn possessed demons instead of normal ones.

Are you Lucifer ?

don't say that

@@nog6885 it will happen anyway, so prepare lol.

I agree. The Knights and Barons are so fast you barely can out run them.

Same, at least this asshole can be stunned

Oh shi-

Is that even possible

@@LLMT69 yeah it is

Wait what how do you even get a possessed icon of sin

Icon of sin was a shit boss fight, we should have been able to fist fight that mfker in a massive robot titan that was in the slayers fortress

Wdym? The other spirit demons are staggerable

Wait really?

Wait stagger is like when u can glory kill them right?

Or was that falter

After years of research, I have now concluded that it is actually a falter. Sorry for the misunderstandings

You my friend has made my nightmare run a little easier.

Does the sentinel hammer stagger them?

Id probably thought of that because it would.. well, make the bastard unkillable and break the game. Even if they didn't plan for the Marauder to be able to be possessed (which doesn't seem to be the case) it's an easy oversight to catch in a game as polished as this.

You can falter possessed demons with the microwave beam if i'm not wrong

Main reason why i loved my fight with the buffed marauder in the DLC I enjoy the marauders but think they're fundamentally flawed. having a "wait for your turn" enemy doesn't make me feel like i'm fighting my equal or some badass enemy, especially when they can be stun locked to death with ssg+ballista while you drop nades at their feet. The fact that the only reason you can't absolutely floor them is cause they're restricting when you can damage them shows their only means of defense is the game negating damage in specific intervals. You can argue dropping sticky nades around the shield and use the remote rocket detonator but the damage is negligible and you're bound to just prolong the fight since the splash damage will trigger his dog and keep his shield raised for longer from my experience. He is at his most enjoyable when he's just chasing you from behind while you clear arenas of enemies, occasional turning around to unload into him as he closes in for a swing. A solid pressure unit like the hell knights, but far from an "equal" or high brow enemy design.

@@missingaforest3639, so you’re saying they need to make him more powerful? You are a masochist.

@@tromboneman4517 not really, him always being able to take damage (or having an effective way to counter his shield) would make him easier. Which is why to counter act it they should also make him quicker, beefier and have more variety in his attacks. His dash borderline feels like pure flair cause when he's open to attack you rarely have to actually worry about needing to readjust your aim to shoot him. he's usually dashing when you can't attack him anyway, he just makes a b-line towards you to swing after he chucks a projectile that can be strafed without even needing to dash half the time. the way he plays out in the video kinda leans towards what i'm thinking off. He's resilient but he's open to attacks most of the time so you're not just "waiting for your turn" which is my main concern, something i was also iffy about with the new Blood Maykrs. I also think he shouldnt be able to be stun locked to death, reward/encourage combos but dont make it an instant win that he can't counter at all. make it a duel, not a game of "red light, green light". maybe it's just my expectations but when they revealed his character design and hyped him up in the early reveals and i fought him for the first time i was expecting this games "Vergil" but we got an enemy that only has 3 lines when he's introduced and revealed to have about the same number of attacks and methods of approach. Normally i'd let something like this go but Eternal is so well crafted my mind races about its design. That and the lionization of the Marauder as a counter culture towards all the complainers kinda ruined all real discussion on how to improve him as an enemy. It's all just "he sucks/too hard, get rid of him" or "he's perfect/easy, git gud". pretty disappointing to say the least. The discussions around him, not the enemy. I have my complaints but the TL;DR is he's not perfect, but the game is better with him involved.

@@missingaforest3639 good take u should post on the subreddit

I agree. Honestly this doesn't look hard to fight at all. In fact, looks more easier than it does hard.

What the fuck do you mean, it's in the game

@@js1zzle can you read... like the description?

*gets usurped by a spirit* My eyes have been opened

Oh you came cross a possessed doom hunter.. I pray for your soul

Nah man. The tight space on The Holt with the dual CyberDemon's and one of em is possessed. Fuck that entire fight on Nightmare. Pray for my UN Run.

@@Rikimarufang Not gonna lie. Double Titans killed me more than ANY other fight in AGP1. Had to resort to basically dodging everything the possessed one threw my way, while killing all the others in the arena. Then it was a 1V1 against him, and he finally went down.. after a LOT of damage got pumped into him. That damage mitigation (or is it a health buff?) is no joke.

@@RunicRasol Bruh, the tentacles in the little puddles pissed me off so much when I had to make a quick escape

Ouch. I thought my buddy from the workplace had bad luck when he got owned by a possessed doom hunter in Nightmare mode 😐

I think you mean "game Journalists"

@@supatroopa57 And the commentariat. Read the comments on PCG's article, there are so many whiners.

That's id for you. Master level trolls who know their hardcore fans are master level masochists. I'm disappointed to know there is no possessed Marauder, though. I was looking forward to that possibility after the disgrace that was the double Marauder fight.

marauders are still shit enemies, not hard, just annoying and unfun

They won't. Them allowing him to be faltered right now shows it. There's a line between 'tough but fair' and 'game-breaking BS' ID knows this line well, and while some fights require near prefect play to beat; especially on UN, all of them follow 'the rules' of the game.

it does happen, in the second slayer gate on the last DLC level, if you're not fast enough lol

@@masterpotato9889 yep, im at that slayer gate right now and it’s happened. Fuck me sideways.

I can't beat that damn slayer gate to save my life.. Not only do you have to deal with him but tons of other shit running around with it..