Reliable glory kill setups explained - Arch-vile and Tyrant
Channel: Juan Casanova
Date: 30/04/2020

For the 100% category of speedrunning in Doom Eternal, you need to complete, among other things, all challenges in all missions. Some of the hardest ones are glory kill challenges, requiring you to kill a certain type of demon with a particular glory kill. Sometimes the demons will just not stagger, making it impossible to glory kill them. Nekravol II is the king of absurd challenge maps, asking you to glory kill an arch-vile and a Tyrant in a specific way. There is only one of each in the level.

This is particularly annoying in Ultra-Nightmare runs, since you cannot reset the level, load a checkpoint or do anything at all to repeat a part if you accidentally kill the demon instead of staggering it (or you get the wrong glory kill). After weeks of discussions, research and experimentation by a lot of people (not just me by far), we learned about weapon damages, demon healths, stagger ranges, and the importance of animations in staggers.

I explain a bit of this and present reliable (difficult though, specially for the Tyrant) setups for staggering the arch-vile and the tyrant, so that, ideally, your UN 100% run does not die to a demon being too keen to die.