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What changed in The Hollow, newest first. Broadcast on the Hollow Relay.
Sharper ground, worn wrecks, leaner pack
- New ground textures: forest floor, dirt, burnt ground, desert, snow, stone and gravel.
- Hollow Wrecks: the lootable cars in sharper textures, and many of them now rusted through or sun-bleached.
- Blood is far more realistic: real spatter, thin stains that soak in, dark pools.
- The whole pack got lighter: every texture capped at 2048, about 300 MB smaller and 800 MB less graphics memory.
- Hollow Light: softer indoor shadows, warm flame light and a moodier grade inside buildings.
Hollow Jobs and Dread Hours
- Trader jobs go to tier 10: strongholds, strain nests, Rift breaches and Dread Hours, the night job.
- Job conditions (Feral Tide, Packed House, Hazard Pay ...), streak bonuses and Hollow Marks.
- Base threats: screamers call specials, Juggernauts breach walls, demons go for your generators, blood moon sieges from more than one side.
- The Hollow Army Truck, the Wheelbarrow and the OG log spikes are back.
- Early game is calmer: the countryside fills up as your game stage climbs, not on day one.
Diet, Hollow Rounds and Duskiron
- Diet and spoilage: eat a balanced diet for real bonuses, food rots unless you can or chill it, powered fridges.
- Hollow Rounds: six end-game ammo types for different threats, made at the Hollow Ammo Bench.
- Duskiron building blocks, vault doors, garage doors and roll-up gates.
- New looks for the vanilla dead: plaids, suits, scrub prints and camo.
- The OG Blunderbuss, the OG 4x4, the Widowmaker monobike and a 120-slot backpack.
The Rift opens
- Rift demons: twenty of them, from rooftop gargoyles to the Ashen Sovereign.
- Eight special infected, each with its own tell, power and sound.
- Hollow Gore, Nerve and Scent, ground fog and wet ground.
- Duskiron armour for every class and item quality from 1 to 600.
Fly, haul and dig
- The Hollow Chinook carries vehicles in its bay.
- The Skid Loader digs, the Raider Bus has a roof gun, dogs follow, guard and fight.
- Security cameras, a new lockpick, the skills page and the Hollow Settings.