Rip, Tear and Roll Out: DOOM Invades World of Tanks With a Double-Barreled BFG

Hell has found a new battlefield, and this time the Doom Slayer is bringing considerably more armor. World of Tanks is joining forces with the DOOM universe for Battle Pass Special: DOOM, a limited 40-stage event that brings Doomguy, Doom Slayer, Samuel Hayden, Commander Thira and The Betrayer into Wargaming’s armored warfare alongside DOOM music, iconic weapons converted into 3D attachments and a British twin-gun heavy tank transformed into something that looks as though the BFG9000 was given tracks.

The special begins October 1, with the European event panel listing the run from October 1 at 06:30 until October 12 at 05:30, while regional announcements may display slightly different local cutoffs. Its central progression is divided between Base and Improved rewards: everyone can earn DOOM-themed customization and two franchise characters simply by advancing through the Chapter, while the Improved Pass ultimately unlocks the FV225 Collector together with its exclusive “FV225 Mk. BFG” 3D style.

The crossover is also unusually broad in the eras of DOOM it represents. Wargaming has not restricted itself to the modern Doom Slayer. The original Doomguy, the BFG9000, classic HUD imagery and other 1990s references coexist with the Praetor Suit, Crucible, Night Sentinels and characters from the newer games. The result is less a promotion for one specific DOOM release than a heavily armed retrospective of the franchise.

Forty Stages Stand Between You and the BFG Tank

The main Battle Pass Special consists of 40 stages, retaining World of Tanks’ familiar limited-Chapter structure while replacing the usual military presentation with DOOM imagery, music and rewards. Progress through the stages unlocks items on the Base track, while purchasing the Improved Pass opens a parallel premium reward line culminating in the crossover’s defining prize.

That final Improved reward is the FV225 Collector, supplied with a Garage slot, crew and the elaborate “FV225 Mk. BFG” 3D style. Wargaming’s current event documentation identifies the reward version as a Tier IX British Premium heavy tank, built around twin guns that function similarly to the researchable British double-barreled heavies. The theme is immediately obvious: if DOOM’s Super Shotgun is defined by two barrels, then a DOOM tank was probably never going to settle for one.

Players interested purely in the franchise content do not need to purchase everything, however. The Base track contains some of the crossover’s most recognizable rewards, including characters, styles, inscriptions and decals, while the Improved route concentrates the highest-value economic rewards and the vehicle itself.

Doom Slayer and The Betrayer Can Be Earned From the Base Track

Two of the five crossover characters are integrated directly into Battle Pass progression. Doom Slayer and The Betrayer—Valen—appear among the Base Rewards, both arriving as recruitable crew members with zero perks so players can assign their nation and qualification.

The choice of Valen alongside the Slayer gives the collaboration a stronger connection to modern DOOM lore than simply dropping its protagonist into a tank. The Betrayer was once one of the Night Sentinels’ most respected commanders before grief over his son allowed Hell to manipulate him, eventually becoming one of the more tragic figures surrounding the Slayer’s war against the demons.

Doom Slayer needs considerably less explanation. Wargaming describes him through the transformation of the original marine into the almost mythological warrior empowered by the Divinity Machine, complete with his familiar emphasis on three words: “Rip and tear.”

Crucially, these are not silent portrait rewards. Wargaming says the crossover characters feature authentic original voices and sounds, giving the commanders dedicated audio inside World of Tanks rather than treating them as conventional cosmetic crew skins.

Classic Doomguy Has Not Been Forgotten

Players who identify DOOM with a pixelated marine portrait rather than the modern Praetor Suit have their own representation. Doomguy appears as a separate commander, visually and conceptually distinct from Doom Slayer.

Wargaming leans into the joke that the original protagonist was never especially conversational. His classic grunts form part of his audio identity, while VEGA assists with battlefield information that requires something more articulate.

Doomguy is part of the additional premium content rather than the standard Battle Pass track. He appears in the Classic Carnage bundle alongside an entire set of old-school-inspired 3D attachments, making that package the most obvious choice for players whose nostalgia begins with the original DOOM rather than the later id Software trilogy.

The distinction between Doomguy and Doom Slayer may seem excessive in another crossover. Here it is the point: Battle Pass Special: DOOM is deliberately treating different eras of the protagonist as different pieces of franchise history.

Samuel Hayden and Commander Thira Round Out the Crew

The remaining commanders expand that timeline further. Samuel Hayden represents the UAC side of the modern saga, the brilliant scientist who transferred his consciousness into a cybernetic body after his human form failed. His Lazarus Labs package includes the commander plus a mission series awarding 500 Bonds, Training Booklets for every nation, a Universal Manual, Personal Training Manual and 25 ×5 XP missions.

Commander Thira, meanwhile, reaches into the Night Sentinel side of the universe. Wargaming describes her as both royal heir and battlefield commander, combining political leadership with an ancient power used alongside the Doom Slayer against Hell’s armies. Her Sentinel Command package includes a mission chain offering 800 Experimental Equipment components, twenty +50% Credit Personal Reserves and twenty ×5 XP missions.

Together with Doom Slayer, Doomguy and The Betrayer, the lineup covers a surprisingly large portion of DOOM’s different periods rather than filling five commander slots with variations of the same protagonist.

The FV225 Mk. BFG Looks Like Hell Built a Heavy Tank

The crossover’s most extravagant creation is undoubtedly the “FV225 Mk. BFG” 3D style. Wargaming has treated the vehicle less like a standard licensed repaint and more like an attempt to convert DOOM’s visual language into an armored machine.

The twin-gun arrangement provides the foundation, but the exterior is packed with specific references. The BFG9000 naturally appears as part of the design language, joined by the Crucible, Slayer insignia, elements of the Praetor Suit, battle scars and keepsakes accumulated across the Slayer’s campaigns. Even the bustle rack is used to display objects associated with the journey through Hell.

Wargaming gives individual names to these details: Old Scars, The Great Communicator, Double Barreled, Mark of the Slayer, BFG, Praetor Suit, The Crucible and Place of Remembrance. It is the kind of 3D style that rewards inspection because many of its references would be unnecessary if the goal were simply to cover a British heavy tank in red lighting and demonic symbols.

The vehicle itself remains mechanically World of Tanks. The skin does not suddenly allow it to fire the actual BFG9000. That is probably fortunate for matchmaking.

The Double-Barrel Mechanic Is the Perfect DOOM Connection

The choice of a twin-gun heavy is more than visual convenience. DOOM has always understood the satisfaction of firing something excessive at extremely close range, and few weapons embody that better than the Super Shotgun.

The FV225 translates that idea into tank combat through guns capable of operating like the British branch’s established double-barreled system. Players can use the vehicle’s firepower conventionally or exploit the twin-gun mechanic when the tactical situation allows it, creating exactly the sort of high-impact attack the crossover’s presentation demands.

Wargaming describes the machine as sturdy and hard-hitting rather than pretending it is literally the Doom Slayer in mechanical form. The thematic link comes from how it delivers damage: two barrels, substantial armor and a visual design that suggests subtlety was removed somewhere around the first design meeting.

In a collaboration full of references, this is the one that actually connects franchise identity to vehicle mechanics.

The Free Track Still Contains a Significant Amount of DOOM

Players who do not purchase the Improved Pass can still earn substantial themed content. The Base Rewards include the “Maykr” and “Praetor” all-season 2D styles, six DOOM inscriptions, six Shield Saw decals, Personal Reserves, selectable Bounty Equipment, equipment directives, four days of WoT Premium Account, 800 Bonds and 700,000 Credits alongside Doom Slayer, The Betrayer and the “Rip and Tear” medal.

The two styles represent opposing sides of the modern DOOM aesthetic particularly well. Maykr imagery draws on the ancient celestial civilization whose apparent divinity hides a far darker bargain, while Praetor turns the Slayer’s iconic combat suit into a visual theme applicable to ordinary tanks.

This means the Battle Pass can still function as a genuine crossover event for free players rather than merely advertising the FV225 at the end of a premium reward track. The vehicle remains the largest prize, but many of the immediately recognizable DOOM elements sit outside the paywall.

The Improved Track Goes Straight for the Cheat Codes

The Improved Rewards become considerably more playful. Alongside the FV225 and its 3D style are the “The Dark Ages” 2D style, six IDDQD inscriptions, six UNF inscriptions and sets of Crucible Blade, BFG-9000 and Slayer Helmet decals.

For anyone who played the original DOOM, IDDQD requires almost no introduction. The legendary cheat code enabled god mode, and Wargaming is appropriately careful to clarify through Bethesda’s announcement that applying the inscription to a tank does not grant the associated supernatural durability.

That is probably for the best.

Additional Improved rewards include twelve days of WoT Premium Account, 12,000 Free XP, 400,000 Credits, multiple Personal Reserves, Universal Guides and Universal blueprint fragments. The paid track is therefore carrying both the most desirable themed cosmetic rewards and a substantial amount of ordinary progression value.

Two Attachment Collections Divide Classic and Modern DOOM

Players who want to push the crossover beyond the Battle Pass itself can obtain dedicated sets of 3D attachments, again separated according to the franchise era they represent.

Doomguy’s Keepsakes pays tribute to the classic games with the DOOM Ornament, Chaingun, Classic HUD, Demon Disposal Kit and Marine’s Stash. The Fight Like Hell collection shifts to the modern trilogy and contains the BFG9000, UAC Rocket Launcher, Cacodemon, Slayer’s Stash and Slayer Suit.

The Classic HUD may be the most amusing adaptation. DOOM’s original status bar—with its immediately recognizable face portrait—belongs to a completely different genre and era of videogame interface design, yet World of Tanks converts it into a physical object mounted onto an armored vehicle.

The BFG9000 is easier to understand. Put one on a tank and very few people are going to ask why.

Special Missions Add Free Decals Outside the Main Chapter

The Battle Pass is accompanied by dedicated combat missions for players using Tier IV–XI vehicles in Random Battles. These objectives are deliberately straightforward—winning while finishing among the team’s top ten by XP, accumulating damage, earning XP, damaging several vehicles in one battle and eventually destroying eight opponents across any number of matches.

Completing the chains provides consumables and temporary Personal Reserves alongside Keycard and Cacodemon decals. Free offers associated with the mission sets provide additional copies of those customization elements.

This side progression fits the short duration of the event. With only around eleven days to clear the 40-stage Battle Pass, Wargaming is not asking players to complete extremely specialized combat feats merely to earn a decal. Most requirements should progress naturally alongside the Chapter.

Twitch Drops Bring More Hellish Cosmetics

There is another route for additional crossover rewards through Twitch Drops. Watching participating World of Tanks creators for three hours can grant Keycard decals and expirable XP reserves, while a second three-hour Drop available through selected creators—including Dakillzor, Skill4ltu, DezGamez and Monsteryoo—contains Cacodemon decals, Pudding and Tea, Large Repair Kits and Large First Aid Kits.

The drops are secondary to the actual Battle Pass, but they allow players interested in completing the broader DOOM collection to obtain more customization without consuming Chapter progression.

Combined with free missions, premium bundles, Base rewards and Improved rewards, the collaboration is deliberately distributed across several systems. Reaching Stage 40 does not technically mean possessing every DOOM item available during the event.

Which, appropriately enough, gives completionists their own version of hunting for secrets.

The Battle Pass Screen Has Its Own DOOM Soundtrack

One of the smaller additions may also be among the most effective: iconic DOOM music plays on the Battle Pass Special interface.

Music has become inseparable from modern DOOM. The aggressive industrial-metal sound associated with its recent games transformed menu screens and combat encounters into part of a continuous audiovisual assault, so a crossover relying solely on vehicles and cosmetics would lose a substantial piece of the franchise’s identity.

Wargaming’s inclusion of dedicated tracks means the collaboration begins before a player ever enters battle. Combined with the authentic commander audio, it pushes the event beyond visual licensing and gives the Garage and Battle Pass menu their own temporary personality.

Whether the average tanker begins playing more aggressively because DOOM music is running in the background is a separate balance question.

The Event Spans Almost Every Era of the Franchise

What makes Battle Pass Special: DOOM unusually coherent is that its references are not limited to one release. Classic Doomguy, old HUD imagery and the Chaingun sit beside Doom Slayer, Samuel Hayden, the Praetor Suit, Crucible, Night Sentinels and Commander Thira.

Bethesda’s own announcement frames the event in exactly those terms: a crossover spanning the DOOM universe rather than promoting one individual game. That gives veteran players something recognizable while still using the imagery that transformed the franchise after its 2016 revival.

The BFG9000 is the obvious bridge because it has survived nearly every era. Its exaggerated presence on the FV225 makes the tank an appropriate symbol for the entire event: part old-school destructive excess, part modern Slayer mythology and entirely unconcerned with restraint.

Eleven Days Is Not Much Time to Rip Through 40 Stages

The most important practical detail is the schedule. The event panel supplied for the European region shows October 1, 06:30 through October 12, 05:30, giving players roughly eleven days to work through all 40 stages. Wargaming and Bethesda’s international announcements describe the event more generally as running October 1–11, reflecting regional timing differences around the global cutoff.

Either way, this is a concentrated Battle Pass rather than a season-long progression track. Anyone targeting the FV225 Collector should plan accordingly, particularly because the tank belongs to the final Improved reward tier rather than appearing early in the Chapter.

Players interested primarily in Doom Slayer, The Betrayer or the Base cosmetics have considerably more flexibility. Completionists pursuing commanders, attachments, mission decals, Twitch rewards and the final tank will have substantially more to organize.

That seems appropriate for DOOM.

Walking slowly through Hell has never been the recommended strategy.

The Only Thing They Fear Is a Twin-Gun Heavy

Battle Pass Special: DOOM begins October 1, bringing 40 stages of franchise-themed rewards to World of Tanks for a short, violent collaboration built around one very simple design principle: everything is better with more firepower.

Doom Slayer and The Betrayer can be earned through Base progression. Doomguy, Samuel Hayden and Commander Thira extend the commander roster through additional bundles. The Maykr, Praetor and Dark Ages styles cover tanks in different pieces of DOOM mythology, while BFGs, Cacodemons, Chainguns, Crucibles, HUD elements and cheat-code inscriptions turn the Garage into something considerably less historical than usual.

At the end of the Improved track sits the FV225 Collector in its “FV225 Mk. BFG” 3D style, a British twin-gun Premium heavy that looks ready to solve demonic invasions through the traditional armored-warfare method of applying significantly more gun.

The Slayer has used shotguns, rocket launchers, plasma rifles and the BFG.

For eleven days in October, he gets a tank.