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Bethesda's cinematic trailer introduces an endless survival challenge, while viewers picture the Slayer on a movie screen.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 323,241 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (13,928).
DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations - Slaughter Mode Official Trailer | Available November 16
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- 1:44Slaughter Mode uses 19 arenas, with a new combination of enemies each round.
- 2:04Checkpoints let players claim rewards or gamble their accumulated haul for a larger payoff.
- 2:24Rewards include character skins, weapon skins, profile icons and tracks from Andrew Hulshult's IDKFA soundtrack.
- 2:36Weekly challenges offer further opportunities to earn rewards.
- 3:00The end cards announce the update's November 16 release.
Survival comes with a wager. In DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations' Slaughter Mode, clearing another round makes your run more valuable, but reaching a checkpoint presents a choice: collect your rewards or put them back on the line.
Fail after choosing to continue, and everything you risked is gone. It's a small moment of hesitation built into a game otherwise occupied with shields, firearms and demons.
Bethesda Softworks' official promotional trailer drew roughly 160,000 views in eight hours, well ahead of its usual pace. The comment section had already passed twice the channel's usual full-day total, with much of the conversation focused on the cinematic opening rather than the reward system.
That opening gives viewers an outside view of the Slayer at work. He emerges through an archway carrying a glowing green spear, tears into the gathered demons and eventually mounts one while firing a heavy cannon. Several commenters imagine a DOOM movie with this style of animation; others single out the unusual perspective on a character they normally control in first person.
The trailer then switches to the rules: randomized enemy waves and arenas, escalating rounds, weekly challenges and unlockable cosmetics and soundtrack tracks. Slaughter Mode arrives November 16 as a no-additional-cost update for the Revelations and Premium editions specified by Bethesda. The rewards include music from Andrew Hulshult's IDKFA soundtrack, giving players something besides another weapon skin to cash out for.
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What viewers say
Welp, Dark Ages is never being uninstalled now.
@galefirerpg3651See it on YouTubeThis is the first time I think I see him fight in a third person point of view.
@BetonerickNSee it on YouTubeThis cinematic convinced me there needs to be an actual Doom movie
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Hell of a trailer, respect to cinematic team at id
@JackOfBlackPhoenix2See it on YouTubeThanks ID for all these Doom Years
@sonaciel3403See it on YouTubeI was not expecting a cinematic trailer. Genuinely caught me off guard with how well done it is. Props to the animation team at ID.
@jlaf2002See it on YouTubeImagine Doom movie with that level of graphical fidelity.
@dzenfixSee it on YouTubeThe animation looks absolutely INSANE, crazy good work
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- Channel
- Bethesda Softworks
- Subscribers
- 2,110,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,002,115
- Channel views, pace per day
- 132,192 (on a normal day: 251,279)
- Video published
- November 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 158,788 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 323,241
The numbers
The trailer's early views are running far above Bethesda Softworks' usual start. Its comments also exceeded a typical full first day within eight hours.
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