To stress-test their servers and netcode, Bethesda launched a in Q1 2016. This was not a demo. It was a raw, unfinished slice of the multiplayer component—one map (Heatwave) and one mode (6v6 Team Deathmatch). Access was granted via randomly selected Bethesda.net users.
: Players had access to two equipment items: the Personal Teleporter and the Frag Grenade . Differences from the Final Release DOOM 2016 Alpha PC game --nosTEAM--
As he explored the ruins, he stumbled upon a cryptic message scrawled on a wall: "--nosTEAM--." It seemed to be a command-line argument, likely used by the facility's developers to bypass the usual security measures and run the DOOM engine in a special mode. To stress-test their servers and netcode, Bethesda launched