Black Hollow — Patch 0.3.0

Ability Loadouts

• Added the Plague Shelf, where you can change your four-slot combat loadout during the day.

• Added Plague Flame, a widening surge of plague fire that ignites enemies and leaves burning ground.

• Added Plague Barrier, a cast-through ward that damages and violently repels enemies.

• Added Pestilent Burst, a high-damage flask that infects enemies and spreads contagion when they die.

• Added Leeching Vapors, a lingering flask cloud that drains health from enemies.

• Updated ability icons, cooldown indicators, crosshair feedback, controls, and the HUD to reflect your equipped loadout.

Combat and Progression

• Light and Heavy Staff Attacks now consume stamina, with Heavy Attacks requiring a larger commitment.

• Improved Heavy Attack animation timing, hit detection, impact feedback, and damage consistency.

• Added temporary and permanent Staff research covering damage, attack speed, stamina efficiency, and Heavy Attack range.

• Added dedicated Plague Flame and Plague Barrier upgrades.

• Added new relic interactions and balance options for Plague Flame and Plague Barrier.

• The temporary research store can now be previewed before Night 1. Purchases unlock after completing the first night.

• Ability-specific upgrades now appear only when the corresponding ability is equipped.

World and Effects

• Added dynamic day-and-night lighting.

• Moonlight, ambient lighting, fog, sky color, reflections, and the celestial light now transition as night advances into dawn.

• Gave Plague Flame new casting effects, fire waves, enemy burns, ground pyres, dynamic lighting, and cleaner effect decay.

• Added distinct effects for Pestilent Burst and Leeching Vapors.

• Improved enemy visibility under changing lighting with normalized model lighting and enhanced eye glow.

Interface and Fixes

• Redesigned the Plague Shelf interface with clearer slot selection, ability details, controller navigation, and an option to restore the original loadout.

• Improved the Bestiary with better resolution scaling, more room for entries and attacks, responsive text, and cleaner page transitions.

• Updated the temporary research store to support Staff, Plague Flame, and Plague Barrier upgrade categories.

• Fixed equipped abilities and run upgrades being reset when advancing to later nights.

• Fixed several combat-animation, cooldown, effect-lifetime, and resolution-scaling issues.