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Hell-blazers: Update 2, "The Speedrun Killer" — Your Mate Devo

I'm Nicholas van der Waard, host of "Hell-blazers: Speedrunning  Doom Eternal ."  My blog is about horror, but also sex, metal and videogames ; this article explores some of those idea in  Doom Eternal . What follows is another interview with  Your Mate Devo , an Aussie speedrunner and software engineer. We cover the game’s Update 2 patch, and its effect on the game's ability to be speedrun "Hell-blazers" interviews Twitch streamers, speedrunners and Doom fans about Doom Eternal (2020); it asks them, based on their own experiences, to compare the game to the rest of the franchise, and what effect it will have on speedrunning and gaming at large. General information about "Hell-blazers" can be found, here ; a compendium of the interviews as they are published can be found here (which also includes interesting videos, break-downs and other articles). Instability Nick: Since Patch 2 of Doom Eternal, I’ve seen considerably less speedrunners playing D