Welcome to the Doom: The Dark Ages achievements and trophies guide. This guide covers all 28 achievements/trophies available in the base game at launch.
Game Stats
- Difficulty: 3/10
- Time to Completion: 20-30 hours
- Does Difficulty Affect Achievements/Trophies?: No. You can unlock all achievements/trophies on any of the difficulty settings. Feel free to fully customize your play experience.
- Missable Achievements/Trophies: None. You can replay chapter to collect missing items.
- Bugged Achievements/Trophies: Some people have reported that Berserker is not unlocking. A work around is to wait to do all upgrades until Chapter 22. Adding a simple check when the game boots up for missed achievement/trophy pops is a good best practice. The developers at id Software will likely add this in the first patch.
General Tips
- Enable Auto-Sprint in the Gameplay settings if you don’t want to keep hitting the sprint button.
- Take your time and explore each area looking for places to climb or jump down to.
- Periodically check your map to see if nearby collectibles have been added.
- Use melee attacks to get enemies to drop ammo.
- Hit larger enemies with finishers (melee or LT+RT/L2+R2) for extra health drops.
Links
Story Achievements
A Dark Beginning
20G – Complete Chapter: Village of Khalim.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. Defeat the titan with a turret at the end of Chapter 1: Village of Khalim.
Essential Upgrade
20G – Acquire your first Demonic Essence upgrade.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating the leader at the end of Chapter 2: Hebeth.
Supersized Brawl
30G – Complete Chapter: Barrier Core.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after disposing of the core at the end of Chapter 3: Barrier Core.
Vagary Down!
30G – Kill the Vagary Champion.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating the Vagary Champion at the end of Chapter 4: Sentinel Barracks.
Bringing the House Down
30G – Complete Chapter: The Holy City of Aratum.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after completing Chapter 5: The Holy City of Aratum.
Agaddon Champion Down!
30G – Kill an Agaddon Hunter.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating an Agaddon Hunter at the end of Chapter 8: Abyssal Forest.
Ancestral Blessing
20G – Acquire your first Shield Rune.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock when you find your first Shield Rune near the end of Chapter 9: Ancestral Forge.
Komodo Champion Down!
30G – Kill a Komodo demon.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating the Komodo Champion at the start of Chapter 14: Spire of Nerathul.
Gimme That
20G – Acquire the Ballistic Force Crossbow.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock when you find the Ballistic Force Crossbow during Chapter 14: Spire of Nerathul.
Jailbreak
30G – Complete Chapter: Spire of Nerathul.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after completing Chapter 14: Spire of Nerathul.
Too Angry to Die
30G – Complete Chapter: Harbor of Souls.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after completing Chapter 19: Harbor of Souls.
Argent Return
30G – Complete Chapter: Resurrection.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating Kreed Maykr and completing Chapter 20: Resurrection.
The Only Thing They Fear
50G – Defeat The Old One and Enhanced Ahzrak.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after defeating The Old One and Enhanced Ahzrak bosses at the end of Chapter 21: Final Battle.
Game Complete
70G – Complete the campaign on any difficulty.
Automatic story achievement/trophy. This will unlock after and completing Chapter 22: Reckoning and finishing the game on any difficulty.
Weapon Achievements
Weapon Mastery
Fully Loaded
30G – Complete the Mastery Challenge for a single weapon.
Unlock and complete the Mastery Challenge for any weapon.
See Gunpletionist for details.
Gunpletionist
50G – Complete the Mastery Challenge for all weapons.
Complete all weapon Mastery Challenges. Each challenge will unlock after purchasing all upgrades for the weapon. Track progress on the Challenges menu. Tab over to Mastery with RT/R2 and pin the ones you are working on to track progress. The game will not announce when a Mastery Challenge completes.
For challenges that require hitting a number of demons, set Damage to Demons down to 50%. If you need kill counts, set Damage to Demons up to 1000%. Make sure you read the descriptions so you know what upgrades to use. Farm these in any red battle arena, preferably near the endgame for higher number of targets. Melee demons to get more ammo and restart the checkpoint to respawn all enemies..
Launcher
Grenade Launcher: Clusterfun – Every other shot from the Grenade Launcher will drop secondary fragments. Aim for tough demons to do secondary damage to them and weaker demons nearby 100 times. Set damage to 50%.
Rocket Launcher: Engorge – Parry projectiles to initiate Cannibalism. Then fire at the ground with enemies nearby to deal damage to the demons and heal yourself 50 times. Set damage to 50%.
Plasma Rifle
Accelerator: Redline – Equip Modulator and Mega Cell to speed this up. Fire the Accelerator until it turns red. All shots fired in red count toward the 1000 damage. Set damage to 1000%.
Cycler: Thermal Runaway – Shoot tough demons until they glow. Then kill them to release the arcs. Set damage between 200-300%.
Rail Spike
Shredder: Burster – Equip Pincushion and shoot tough demons until they glow. Then throw your shield at them to deal damage 100 times. Set damage to 50%.
Impaler: Acupuncture – Equip Chronospike to make this easier. Melee tough enemies to drain your charges. Then headshot weaker demons to refill them 100 times. Set damage to 50%.
Chainshot
Chainshot: Reverberation – Charge up Chainshot with RT/R2 and fire it at demons 100 times. Set damage to 50%.
Shotgun
Combat Shotgun: Barrel Stuffer – Shoot large demons up close 150 times and set damage to 50%.
Super Shotgun: Super Barrel Stuffer – Shoot large demons up close 50 times and set damage to 50%.
Skullcrusher
Ravager: Gatherer – Equip Ignition to make this easier. Shoot enemies, especially tough ones, up close until the Ravager glows blue. This will start spawning ammo drops near the enemy. Pick up 100 ammo drops. Set damage to 50%.
Pulverizer: Hunter – Killing enemies builds up the charge, so clear demons as quickly as possible. Set damage to 1000%.
Upgrades
Upgraded
20G – Acquire your first weapon upgrade.
Purchase your first weapon upgrade for 100 Gold at a Sentinel Shrine. This can be unlocked when you are introduced to the Sentinel Shrines in Chapter 2.
See Berserker below for details.
Shield Adept
30G – Acquire all shield upgrades under the base category.
Purchase all base shield upgrades at a Sentinel Shrine for 350 Gold and 3 Rubies.
See Berserker below for details.
Powerful Investment
30G – Acquire all upgrades for a single shield rune.
Purchase all upgrades for 1 shield rune at a Sentinel Shrine for 575 Gold.
See Berserker below for details.
Melee Expert
30G – Acquire all melee weapon upgrades.
Purchase all melee weapon upgrades at a Sentinel Shrine for 1100 Gold and 6 Rubies.
See Berserker below for details.
Berserker
50G – Acquire all Shield Base, Shield Rune, and Melee Weapon upgrades.
Warning: Some players have reported that this achievement/trophy is not unlocking. To avoid hitting this problem, save the shield and melee upgrades until you reach the final shrine in Chapter 22.
Purchase all base shield, shield rune, and melee weapon upgrades at a Sentinel Shrine for 3750 Gold and 9 Rubies.
Refer to the Doom: The Dark Ages Collectibles Guide for locations of Gold and Rubies.
Collectible Achievements
Demonic Essence
Essential Ammo
40G – Acquire all Demonic Essence ammo upgrades.
Collect all Demonic Essence ammo upgrades. Refer to Essentially Unstoppable for details.
Essential Armor
40G – Acquire all Demonic Essence armor upgrades.
Collect all Demonic Essence armor upgrades. Refer to Essentially Unstoppable for details.
Essential Health
40G – Acquire all Demonic Essence Health upgrades.
Collect all Demonic Essence health upgrades. Refer to Essentially Unstoppable for details.
Essentially Unstoppable
50G – Acquire all Demonic Essence upgrades.
Collect all 32 Demonic Essence upgrades by killing certain leaders and champions that are marked.
Refer to the Doom: The Dark Ages Collectibles Guide for locations of all Demonic Essence.
Mission Challenges
Challenge Completed
50G – Complete all Mission Challenges in the campaign.
Finish all 48 Mission Challenges in the campaign after they are introduced in Chapter 4. Progress may be tracked in Challenges Menu and challenges can be pinned (A/X) to help track progress.
Refer to the Doom: The Dark Ages Collectibles Guide for details on all Mission Challenges.
Collectibles
Toy Collector
50G – Acquire all Collectible demon toys.
Collect all 24 demon toys throughout Doom: The Dark Ages.
Refer to the Doom: The Dark Ages Collectibles Guide for locations of all Toys.
Lore Nerd
50G – Acquire all Codex Lore pages.
Collect all 26 Codex Lore pages throughout Doom: The Dark Ages.
Refer to the Doom: The Dark Ages Collectibles Guide for locations of all Codex pages.
That’s it for the Doom: The Dark Ages achievements and trophies guide. Please post any questions or comments below. Thanks.