Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10 (for some it may be harder/easier depending on skill and experience)
- Offline: 44(535)
- Online: 6(65)
- Approximate time to finish: ~45 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 6-7 (once for each campaign on any difficulty to unlock Nightmare, then once for each campaign ON Nightmare, and then once for the Speed Run achievement if you have not already gotten it)
- Minimum number of people required to boost online: Minimum of three players
- Online achievements obtainable in private matches: Yes they are!
- Number of missable achievements: 11 (all collectables must be found on one play-through and miscellaneous achievements)
- Glitched achievements: None
- Cheats: None
Introduction
Doom 3 BFG Edition has now arrived for the Xbox 360. It contains the full original game, its expansion pack Resurrection of Evil, as well as a brand new never-before-seen set of seven levels known as the “Lost Mission;” complete with fully re-mastered graphics and more. The original Doom and Doom 2 are also thrown into the bunch, but they do not stack with the previously released arcade versions. In general, this is a solid list with a mix of challenging and simple achievements.
Step One
Much like many other amazing games of the past, enjoy it! There isn’t much sense in achievement hunting this gem of a game, but if you simply wish to get the Gamerscore and move on, skip ahead to step two. Otherwise, have a blast! Blast a few demons while you’re at it!
Step Two
So now you’ve had your fun or you’ve decided the fun starts here. What you’re going to want to do is to go through each of the three parts of the whole package on at least Recruit first in order to unlock Nightmare for that part as well as to get a feel for the game if you have not already. While on your way through each run, try and grab as much of the miscellaneous stuff as you can to save yourself some time (no chapter select available to go back later). During this step is also when you’d want to go for the “Speed Run” achievement on Recruit difficulty if you did not get it yet.
Step Three
Now it’s time for Nightmare. Gear up and get ready. Please refer to each Nightmare achievement within the guide for tips and such for each part of the game. Nightmare is stackable, so you will unlock any lower difficulty achievements as well upon completion.
Step Four
Time to knock out the online. Thankfully the online achievements are fairly straightforward and do not require a lot of time to obtain. Once again, please refer to the guide on how to best obtain these. For the absolute best and quickest way to obtain ALL the MP in less than an hour, please refer to THIS post.
Click HERE to visit the Achievement Trading Thread to search for boosting partners.
BEST AND QUICKEST ONLINE BOOSTING METHOD
Below is a fool-proof way to obtain all six online achievements in no time.
You will need at least three players to successfully boost them online, and the achievements CAN be done in private matches. It would take a minimum of two matches for everything but "2 Deaths - 1 Gun". These ALL can be completed in under an hour.
So to begin, you will want to start up a private game on the map "Frag Chamber." Set the score limit to unlimited, and set the time to unlimited.
The first and quickest thing to do would be to take turns obtaining "Crushed!" (refer to the guide on how exactly to obtain the achievements).
After the chamber closes and re-opens, an invisibility power-up will spawn, thereby allowing progress for "Ninja Killer". The power-up lasts roughly one minute or so. If you are quick, you can get two kills with one usage. To get the power-up to re-spawn, just keep opening and closing the chamber. During this time another player could be going for "Crushed!".
Once that is done, head to the rocket launcher spawn (which is in the wide blue-walled room at the bottom of the stairs near the chamber) and proceed to obtain "2 Deaths - 1 Gun" for each player.
Next step once the above three achievements are done, go back to the lobby and change the map to "The Edge 2." Once again, set the values for score and time to unlimited.
Allow each player to obtain the "Telefragged!" achievement by swapping out turns. So for instance, Player A goes into the teleporter, Player B goes in after and gets the achievement off Player A. Then Player C gets the achievement off Player B. Lastly, Player A comes back and gets the achievement off Player C. See how easy that was? If doing with this two players, simply cut out one of the players' moves.
After going through the teleporter, you will notice a Berserk power-up near you. Let each player get one kill by using the power-up to obtain "Berserked!". There is about a two minute wait for it to respawn, so be prepared to sit for a while.
We are at the last step! Change the map to any map (preferably the smallest map) and change the score to the lowest possible value and keep the time at unlimited. Let one player kill ONE other player until the score limit is reached. Two of you should have just gotten "Clean Sheet". Now let a new match begin and then let the one player who was dying kill the two who just got it five times in total.
Now each player should be done with the online!
The "Clean Sheet" achievement could be mixed in with the others, but I find it would be best to hold it as a separate task to avoid confusion.
Many thanks to bLaKgRaVy and CurseofSamhain for helping with this!
Step Five
Now that you’ve completed all there is to do in the main Doom 3 package and you need to get started on Doom and Doom II if you have not already, please visit the following links which will take you to the guides for these two games. I will not be covering the Doom and Doom II achievements within this same guide.
Click HERE to visit the Doom 1 forums, HERE to go directly to the original achievement guide by aPerfektFIaw or HERE to go directly to the newer achievement guide and roadmap by Gackt.
Click HERE to visit the Doom II forums or HERE to go directly to the achievement guide by yours truly (Nevander).
Conclusion
Now that you’ve finished the game and all is done and the achievements are completed, it could be said that it sure was one hell of a ride. Such a great game of the past now with achievements, updated visuals, and more brings much satisfaction to many old school gamers, including myself.
USEFUL LINKS
Storage Locker and Door Codes
Achievement Trading Thread
Achievement Discussion
CREDITS
Thanks to id Software for such an amazing game and franchise!
https://www.idsoftware.com/
Thanks to the following individuals for their advice and additions to this guide (YT = YouTube username):
- bLaKgRaVy (assorted help)
- xD Rick (switching to fists)
- Lord Vinny (RAGE logo location)
- Minahjjang (assorted help)
- xX GRIM R3AP3R (collectables spreadsheet)
- Fergy2k8 (achievement description fix)
- Nevander (me)
- Tim’s Doom 3 Pages (collectables guides)
- Speed Demons Archive (speed run video)
- runtstain100 (YT)
- Urbanator123 (YT)
- xirvin92 (YT)
- AlanWilderDM (YT)
- TheGodlikeTube (YT)
- Dave6481 (YT)
[x360a would like to thank Nevander for this roadmap]