Ugh, I'm starting to think this must be a bug with the PS4 itself. I have tried to reproduce this on my devkit by saving and loading 50 times in the shortest time frame possible and it just doesn't occur. Unless there's something specific you are doing but aren't connecting to the rest of the problem during this, I just cannot reproduce it under any capacity.
Did you enable any cheats?
Doesn't seem to be the case. https://www.trueachievements.com/game/DOOM-64/achievements
Reminder that you can jump to any level with whatever equipment you want (including demon keys) via the password system, so you can recreate your progress with added demon keys (and also jump to the levels you get them from and complete them separately):
By some chance, do you know if the saves you do after the fact show up when the game restarts? Specifically if you do a quicksave or such after the save list dissappears, does that quicksave persist or does it revert back to before the list bugged when you restarted? I also suspect quickloading breaks as well?
I had this happen too, just last night. I was playing for a few levels, but not excessively quicksaving. When it did happen, interestingly, I died on a raising platform. Though the other levels people mentioned I don't think have them, so perhaps nothing to do with it. It was such a minor issue though, a quick restart and everything was fine, but I know as a developer it might drive me a bit nuts. Cheers!
Is there a level you would say is particularly indicative?
It gets more intense once you get to Hell. If it doesn't grab you a few levels after that, it might not be for you.
It's not exactly the intention of the password system, but no it won't disable achievements if you use it (it wasn't exactly functional to check if an N64 password was legit or generated, so we just gave the user the benefit of the doubt).
The memory pack, as far as we can recall, in fact only saved passwords. Rounding limits and all. Definitely not midlevel saves though, there was barely enough room for that (Hexen tried, it filled the entire pak).
I'll give it a go. It is doom so I inherently want to like it. But I never realized just how important the sound and industrial music is to doom feeling like doom.
Gotcha. That was my hunch but I didn't want to assume. Thanks!
So outside of specific maps (MAP30 in Doom2, TNT and Plutonia), enemies in Doom cannot actually telefrag. However Lostsouls in Doom64 do have another trick up their sleeves, if their spawn is obstructed they die like their Doom2 counterpart, but along with it they also cause explosive damage. It's not always lethal but it's enough to prevent intentionally obstructing the Pain Elemental from spawning them.
Lost Souls are enourmous fucking bullshit in every single Doom Game, but especially so in 64 and 3.
