The Great Hollow Is Beautiful, Brutal, and Breaking Nightreign Players

I’ve spent the last week doing something I never thought I’d do in Elden Ring: Nightreign—standing at the edge of a cliff, squinting at the minimap, and whispering, ‘Please don’t be a death pit.’ That’s the Great Hollow experience, folks. The Forsaken Hollows DLC has been out for a month and a half now, and while the two new Nightfarers and the new bosses are landing pretty well, the new Shifting Earth map is getting dragged through the mud on Steam. And honestly? I get it.

It’s Not Technically a New Map, But It Sure Feels Like One

The Great Hollow is a Shifting Earth event, so it may or may not show up when you’re running a DLC boss. You might get the default map or one of four other Shifting Earths instead. But unlike those other events, which usually transform one part of the map, the Great Hollow basically swaps out the entire area. No central castle. No ravine down the middle. No southern lake or northern cliffs. Instead, you get a giant crystal that looks like it crash-landed and split the land into broken cliffs and multiple vertical levels. There are ruins full of enemies, plus churches, forts, and mines scattered around. The in-game map has multiple layers, and you have to use spirit springs carefully to fall down and shoot back up. It’s a lot.

The center crystal also holds a major party buff that can be clutch for the final boss. To get it, you need to find and break several smaller colored crystals around the map. Their locations change every attempt. So you can’t just memorize one route and call it a day.

Why Everyone Is So Frustrated 😤

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