

The alpha will include one mode, a 6V6 Team Deathmatch, in which two teams of 6 players will try to dominate each other by fighting over the Revenant and Gauss Rifle power-ups. Narrow corridors, walkways and small chambers all link to a central, open area of the map, providing players with a variety of environments that suit varying playstyles, as well as the focus point for fighting over key power-ups. The Alpha will feature one multiplayer map called Heatwave, an industrial-themed map featuring plenty of armor, ammo, and health pickups. The Closed Alpha will be an English-only test, regardless of the full game being available in multiple languages.

Bethesda notes that it is not the Beta, of which entry was offered with the Wolfenstein: The New Order pre-order, nor is it a demo, or representative of the final game. Bethesda and id Software have revealed the first details about the closed Alpha of DOOM which is characterised as a "series of development-driven tests designed to stress test the game’s dedicated server infrastructure in a real-world consumer environment".
