Mars Core

Doom Eternal missions
Hell on Earth Exultia Cultist Base Doom Hunter Base Super Gore Nest ARC Complex Mars Core Sentinel Prime Taras Nabad Nekravol Nekravol - Part II Urdak Final Sin Fortress of Doom (hub)
The Ancient Gods, Part One
UAC Atlantica Facility The Blood Swamps The Holt ARC Carrier (hub)
The Ancient Gods, Part Two
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Mars Core is the seventh level of Doom Eternal. After learning from Samuel Hayden that Deag Grav, the final Hell priest, is on Sentinel Prime, the Doom Slayer must proceed to Mars to locate a trans-dimensional gateway to Sentinel Prime, hidden in the planet's core within the lost Night Sentinel city of Hebeth. As conventional travel would take too long, the Slayer travels to Phobos to gain access to its BFG-10000 orbital defense system and blast a hole in Mars directly to the core.

"With the help of Samuel Hayden, the final Hell priest has been located on Sentinel Prime - a city from your past. The only known path to this now accursed place is through the dimensional gateway hidden in the core of Mars, wherein the lost city of Hebeth resides. The journey there will take time you can't afford to waste - a dilemma which calls for a more...direct approach."

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Pre-release

A shortened version of the first half of Mars Core was the second level of Doom Eternal to be displayed to the public in the BE3 reveal on June 10, 2018.

The noticeable differences from the reveal to the final product includes the following:

• The player takes control of the Doom Slayer before walking inside the elevator, as opposed to starting inside the elevator in the final version.
• The PA system inside the Phobos outpost has a different voice actor.
• The exclusion of the green cracks before exiting out of a vent during the reveal.
• The exclusion of the UAC Spokesperson hologram before exiting outside.
• The exclusion of a 1-Up outside.
• The exclusion of Samuel Hayden and VEGA throughout the level, presumably to avoid spoilers.
• The exclusion of the Doom hunter and dread knights near the BFG-10000.
• The exclusion of the chaingun throughout the level, likely being developed at that time. The final version introduces the chaingun as a mandatory pickup in Super Gore Nest to advance the level, although the part of the level itself was not seen at that time, further supporting the theory.
• The main entrance to the BFG-10000 is accessible in the reveal, which contains an arch-vile. The Doom Slayer pulls out and swings his Crucible blade in a cinematic, after which the reveal ended. In the final version, however, the main entrance is inaccessible and a maintenance hatch underneath is taken instead. Both the arch-vile and the crucible blade are introduced later, on Taras Nabad.