DOOM Eternal's "Battlemode" replaces traditional multiplayer

If you're looking to hop into DOOM Eternal and get in on some traditional 'Slayer' multiplayer action, we've got bad news. id Software revealed their asymmetric 'Battlemode' for DOOM Eternal at E3 2019, but what we didn't know is that option will be in place of traditional multiplayer. This was confirmed by Executive Producer Marty Stratton in an IGN interview.

"No traditional multiplayer mode. Battlemode is our primary multiplayer mode. The cool thing about it is it’s ripped straight from Doom; it’s the combat players want and love, you’re familiar with the gameplay, playing as a Slayer. When you look back to Doom 2016, we kind of did something more traditional. Skill vs skill twitch vs twitch. It didn’t have any of the components of Doom that people loved from the campaign. It didn’t have the slayer or demons in a meaningful way. It just kind of fell flat so we really flipped the script on it and decided we need to develop this internally, we need to pull it from what Doom is all about, demons vs slayer."