One thing, in particular, highlighted in the first round of previews - is the fact this game is a "strictly campaign" affair. In other words - don't expect multiplayer to feature. Here's exactly what Marty Stratton had to say about this (via Eurogamer):

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

in my experience, a game can either focus on multiplayer or singleplayer, but when it tries to be both, it's not as good as it could have been had it gone one direction only. and as everyone knows, games can still fail miserably without trying to be too many things at once

mp can be fun, but inevitably the player count will perpetually decline to zero (speeding up when the next "big" mp game is released), but the devs/publishers are still obligated to maintain, update, pay for servers.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

devs/publishers are still obligated to maintain, update, pay for servers.

"Obligated" only because they refuse to let players host their own servers or connect directly to one another.

[–] BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Coop Halo was pretty good. I could see it working for Doom too.

[–] ripripripriprip@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Peer to peer connection, no matchmaking.

That would be plenty for a co-op doom. Barebones? Yes. Needs barely any upkeep? Also yes.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

HD2