Exit 8 corridor now explains its rule in chalk on the floor and shows your count

Sewer gas now ignites from a crowbar hit that throws sparks, a blowtorch, a bullet or flare passing through it, and blasts next to it, so you can light it up from a distance

Typing dots now only show nearby and in line of sight, they used to be visible across the map and through walls

Bolts can now be thrown while pushing a cart

Items in a cart now work like on the ground: radios receive, alarm clocks, music boxes and samovars run, gas cylinders and jerrycans explode when shot

Minefield weather now has far more mines, scattered in clumps and rows across the map

Explosions from mines, gas cylinders and canisters no longer kill everything, good armor can survive one blast

Rostovoy grabs anyone who gets close in front or beside him and spins around fast on anyone behind, no more beating him from behind

Rostovoy copies a random player and is smarter about who to hunt, and wanders the Backrooms when it's empty

Rostovoy goes for Bats and Kekobas first when he sees them

Rostovoy photos are now worth more than any other monster

Backrooms loot is now worth 1.6x more

Mines now go off twice as fast once armed, running off one is much harder

Mimics remember more of your lines and say different ones each game

Broken furniture stays the way it fell and drops its doors, drawers and dishes on the floor, a smashed sideboard now actually looks smashed

New lighting in houses and dungeons: soft shadows, light bouncing off walls and through open doors

Smoother FPS in buildings and dungeons

A closed truck now hides you from monsters

Melee hits where you aim

Ammo comes in bigger packs and is 40% cheaper

Items with passive effects now say what they do

Mimic door growl after a hit is much louder and starts right away instead of 1.5 seconds later, the bass growl was barely audible on regular speakers

Pause menu Players button is now in capitals like the rest

You now sit at the truck phone only when aiming at the desk with the phone and monitor, the stool no longer seats you, so items on the shelf next to it are easy to take

First-day road hints are smaller, no longer overlap and switch to an edge arrow only once the target leaves the screen

Red Forest is now a paid route for 800, loot there is 20% more valuable than on Impulse and so are monster heads, without more monsters

Red Forest: once the emitter unit is pulled, monsters from all over the street gather by the truck and along the paths from it to the dungeon entrances instead of going to the antenna, and the rest of the day's monsters come out several times faster

Psi waves now knock you down only at 80 psi or more instead of 50

Ultimate monsters now come out one at a time: the first not before its hour for the danger level (15:00 on 5, 16:00 on 4, 17:00 on 3, at night on 2), each next one two hours after the previous, on high danger they used to show up at the same hour

Monsters in one area now come out one at a time, no more than once every 5 game minutes, instead of all at once

Monsters heading to the truck in the evening now spread over the whole evening and arrive one by one

Mimics run 35% longer and get tired like a player

Mimics turn on their flashlight only in the dark: outside from 19:00, in dungeons in unlit spots, and switch it off by day and in lit rooms

Mimics stop in the middle of the road less often, and when wandering on their own they walk around radiation

Bestiary facts are rewritten as simple sentences without headers, easier to read

Sitting at the phone, the first person camera now turns to the monitor and stops at 35 degrees to the right, so you can no longer spin around behind your back

Psi waves from the antenna now always add at least 10% psi, even far from the antenna

The antenna's hum and howl in Blood Rift now carry 50% farther

The mouse wheel now skips the flashlight and walkie-talkie by default and only cycles loot; you can turn them back on in the HUD settings

Your piggy bank now starts with 200 money instead of 100

The PDA battery now drains 30% faster, about 4 minutes with the screen open instead of 5.6

Blood Rift now runs faster, its houses are drawn in batches like on every other map

Psi phantoms no longer shrink into a dot, they dissolve into a lilac haze along their silhouette and flicker out, and one that runs into you jolts you and your camera like a hit

Psi near the antenna now builds 20% slower and fades 2.5 times slower, a full bar takes 150 seconds to drain instead of 60

The antenna's hum and howl in Blood Rift now carry another 50% farther

You start with 100 money and buy flashlights and gear by phone instead of finding them on the shelf

Loot slots now start at 3, slots 1 and 2 are the flashlight and the walkie-talkie

Monsters hit by a bolt come running at you, flares stun for twice as long, and gunshots draw monsters from far away

Big monster corpses are much faster to tear apart

The weight gauge now accounts for your suit

Dungeon ceilings now have proper textures

Better performance underground

In first-person runs mimics now move like first-person players: no walking backwards, eyes ahead instead of at the floor, occasional jumps while running and onto ledges like the handcar

Mimics now drop off the handcar and other ledges with a real fall, instead of snapping to the ground in a single frame

Monsters now go for the closest prey they've noticed and switch mid-chase to one twice as close, so a mimic standing right in front of them is no longer ignored because a player is behind it

In first person the bolt now flies toward the center of the screen with constant strength, slightly upward like a grenade, instead of bending its arc to whatever point you aim at

Mimics no longer fetch every bolt you throw like a dog, and they ignore noise while they can see a player

Monsters that can see you no longer wander off to check a stray noise like a thrown bolt

Bats and Moose are now rarer, together they make up at most a third of street monsters and no more than 6 per map, a paid map used to be swarmed by them

Bats and Moose now stay off the map until 11:00 and only 2 of them guard the truck, the rest roam the map

Banes hunt in packs again but now attack one at a time, one bites and backs off while the rest circle and wait their turn

Monsters no longer move in a crowd, they spread out over the map and take different sides of the truck, and only half of them head to the truck in the evening

Days now start calmer, 1-3 weak monsters on arrival and a quiet first hour, then stronger ones come out gradually, on hard maps like Handcar and Impulse they keep coming until 16:00-17:00 instead of 13:00

Undertow now needs to see you for 3 seconds to reach full pull and can only kill after that, opening a door straight into it is no longer instant death

Undertow now has 3x more health

Monsters now hear a shout only when your voice stays loud, a single sharp sound in quiet talk used to count as a shout

Photo rewards now depend on how deadly the monster is, 100 for instant killers (Bat, Moose, Undertow, Kekoba), 50 for Beekeeper and Winch, 25 for the rest

Bolts are now twice as loud for monsters and steady noise like the truck charger now fades into the background, a Bat drawn by the charger used to ignore every bolt

The handcar lever now moves noticeably slower, W and S need pressing about 1.3 times a second instead of 2.2, top speed is unchanged

Prices in the store were significantly raised to differentiate between item grades

Clothing now has drawbacks, so nothing is a straight upgrade anymore: heavy armor tires you out and makes noise, sealed science suits cut stamina, the light Wind suit takes 15% more damage and radiation, big backpacks drain stamina and rattle, and masks with optics cost stamina. First-grade items have no drawbacks, and drawbacks show in red on the shop card and in the locker

Exoskeletons are now loud (+30% noise), Assault and Cargo are 10% slower, and Sprint has 15 radiation protection instead of 45. Specialists are the best in their own field again: Ecologist 50 and Hazmat 65 radiation, Dark 45 armor

Ghillie now works by a clear rule instead of "40% stealth": while you sneak or stand still, sighted monsters can't see you past 3 m. Walking, running, your own hit or shot (for 4 s), a lit flashlight or a raised PDA give you away, and it won't shake off a monster that is already chasing you

Felt overshoes now make normal walking silent instead of "30% quiet", running is as loud as before, and falls hurt 25% more in them

Dusk gas mask is now a radiation filter (30 instead of 10), PMK gives 10 stamina instead of 5, Sneakers give 10 speed, Rubber boots 15 radiation, and masks with optics no longer give armor

Moose and Bat now have four times the health (2400 and 1200 instead of 600 and 300), Kekoba twice (240 instead of 120)

Magpie now winds up and pecks faster, you can no longer walk away from its hit, only run

Spare ammo is now one reload: a Makarov pack holds 8 rounds (was 16), 12-gauge shells hold 2 (was 6), and the shell box now looks like a small box for two

Loot is now more varied: the same item shows up less often on one map, and cheap things like food and the rubber duck are no longer nearly impossible to find

Monsters now see 20% shorter in first person, the chase was too relentless

The elk is 25% slower: 4.3 m/s instead of 5.8, you can now outrun it

Zenit camera frame now hugs the monster by its size and facing, a long monster seen from the side gives a wide frame instead of a thin column

Zenit in top-down view: focus takes 1 second instead of 3, and you can shoot standing sideways to the monster, just not with your back to it

Faster movement, longer sprint, Half-Life style jumps

Rebuilt cellars and sewers

50% more monsters, all out from the start, better hearing

Monsters fight each other only in sight

Heavy armor survives instant kills

Loot on paid maps worth twice as much

Brighter flashlights, longer batteries

Map edge is a wall with radiation instead of instant death

Atlases for large numbers of models and textures, Impulse runs at 138 fps instead of 87

Aiming no longer needs a button: a firearm is raised whenever it is in your hands and the barrel follows the mouse, Shift lowers it and gives you back full running speed

The right mouse button now scans for loot, the map moved from V to Tab and voice chat from T to V

Batteries last longer: the regular flashlight 4 minutes instead of 3, the powerful one 8 instead of 6 and the PDA screen 4 instead of 3

The day is half again as long: 8:00 to midnight now takes 22.5 real minutes instead of 15, so a game hour runs 84 seconds

Two runs between quota hand-ins instead of three, so the quota splits over two days and you need 100, 150, 203, 266 or 344 a run: the same real time to earn it, but every single run weighs more

Loot is worth about a third more, roughly 15% more items and 13% higher prices, so a full clear pays around 220, 355, 550, 890 and 1370 by danger level

The Military Outpost is now a free course, and the Impulse plant costs 400 instead of 800

Bought goods and the starting gear on the truck rack are no longer worthless: the bar takes a purchase back for half its shop price and the starting flashlights and vodka for 5 each, but it will not swallow a purchase nobody has collected yet, that one rides in and out on the tray until someone picks it up

Dungeons have more ways around: two to six loops instead of one to three, short detours of three or four rooms count too, crossroads and T-junctions turn up twice as often and wide four metre corridors twice as often as narrow ones, so a creature standing in a corridor can be walked around

An emergency exit is now placed as far from the main entrance as the ground allows, instead of just deeper along the corridors

Only one Likho at a time, one on the surface and one underground whatever the danger level, and its bite does 45 damage instead of 60

The interaction cone for opening, taking and pressing is widened from 90 to 100 degrees

Walking backwards is nearly full speed now and the leg rhythm comes from the clips themselves so the feet no longer slip, and you only turn your back when your direction really is opposite to your view, so a twitch of the mouse no longer flips you around

The pelvis no longer snaps when you switch between strafing left and right, it turns smoothly

Picking up an item while your hand is already full no longer switches slots: you keep working with what you were holding, and only a two-handed item takes over

The button that leaves a location is now held for two seconds with a progress bar, the way the bar departure already was, so nobody drives the crew off by pressing it once

Shining your flashlight straight at a monster gives you away even from inside a bush, the bush hides your body, not your light

A Pasechnik sends its swarm at a silent player from a metre and a half, not three, it used to catch you through a thin wall and a floor above

A Liho hits for 60 health instead of 50

The hour when monsters head over to guard the truck now depends on how dangerous the location is, 20 to 23 on the easiest and as early as 15 on the hardest

The doll is carried by the waist with her head up, and the record player lies flat on an open palm with the lid open and the record facing up

Monster spawning is rebuilt from scratch, monsters are no longer tied to a map or a dungeon theme, each species has its own weight for the surface and for dungeons and each location has a power budget for the day

The surface carries two to three times a dungeon's budget, so even difficulty 1 gives 4 to 5 monsters across a location and days with nobody at all are gone

Monsters arrive through the whole day instead of all at dawn, and the very first day of a run carries half of them

A species that came out on your last sortie is half as likely on the next one, and a Sipun now joins difficulty 1, so the easy runs stop repeating the same three monsters

Each species has its own place: Zhmurka, the Televizor and the Lebedka stay indoors, the Sohaty and the Netopyr are outdoors only, Tyaga and Naplyv sit in radiation patches next to the expensive loot, and magpie flocks build themselves up to four birds

A Sipun charges its pounce twice as fast, 0.44 seconds instead of 0.8

The name tag fades in and out twice as slowly

Clients pick up loot the instant they press E, the host only confirms it and hands the item back to the world if it refuses

Clients put loot on the truck shelf instantly instead of watching it appear a ping later

Knocking another player down is honest on both screens, the pusher decides the fall and the victim waits up to 0.35 s for them to actually arrive, so nobody gets floored by someone still a meter away

A client's own actions no longer wait a ping: truck door, charger arcs, flare launch, tossing a body, stepping on a mine, buying in the bar and picking a course

Shooting a monster as a client makes it flinch on the spot

Being knocked down by another player throws you a meter and a half while you fall instead of dropping you on the spot

The bar counter takes an item at any point you aim at, even right on top of another one

While a living mimic shares your floor, teammate markers are hidden entirely, a missing marker used to give the mimic away

Joining a run in progress before 10:00 game time drops you out of the truck alive, later than that you spectate until the road, and joining while the crew is at the bar always means spectating

Sortie difficulty does not repeat two days in a row, the weather is picked so the total comes out different

Monsters come out onto the surface two hours earlier on difficulty 2 to 5

The surface on difficulty 2 is no longer empty, power ceiling by night is 4 instead of 1 and the hourly roll is 12% instead of 6%, so somebody walks outside on four days out of five

Mimics come out earlier, their hour is rolled anywhere in the five hours below their threshold instead of three

The server name in the list is the host's name instead of Gamma Team for everyone

The currency sign next to your money in the save list is amber, like the price tag on loot

The run settings panel in the save menu has a solid backing, it used to blend into the radiation sign behind it