He later clarifies that we can expect "four dragon encounters and three Atlan encounters, the Atlan encounters effectively being their own levels, but the dragon encounters still being standard Doom Slayer on the ground, but the dragon is used to get the player to different points."

Doom: The Dark Ages also greatly expands upon the upgrade system of the previous two entries, to the point where you can now effectively make specific builds tailored to how you want to play. One of the guns you receive early on fires stakes that embed themselves in the enemies you hit.