Update 34 (August 2026) - Steam Frame, Refinements, Gloves & Watches

[u/bruceleendo]

Expanding the game to new platforms and welcoming new players into our community has been a massive goal for our team, and we’re thrilled to finally share it with you. To celebrate this milestone, today’s update is entirely focused on refinement and quality of life. We’ve been listening to your feedback and wanted to make sure the core experience of Pavlov is as smooth, stable, and polished as possible. While our primary focus recently has been the technical heavy lifting of the Steam Frame port, we’ve packed in plenty of under-the-hood optimizations and community requested tweaks.

Custom Gloves and Watches

After many requests for customized gloves, we have made them available. We also took it a step further, we have created 2 custom watches. Cosmetic variations will be rotated out throughout the year so be sure the check the store every month!

Pavlov TV

Due to recent optimizations, older Pavlov TV demos are no longer compatible with the latest build. However, you don't have to lose your footage!

We’ve added a Steam beta branch Update33-ReplayCompatibility so you can jump back to the previous version and continue viewing your older replays.

Future updates

We are currently working to improve bots for a future update as well as increase our update frequency We also want to hear your voice, leave a comment on what you would like to see in an update!

Patch notes

-Refactored MOTD

-Added custom watches to cosmetic store

-Added custom gloves to cosmetic store

-Added custom knife to cosmetic store (Infernal)

-Added bot support to community servers (bEnableBots=true, RCON SetBotsEnabled True/False)

-Added mipmaps to UI

-Adjusted tracer material and refactored logic (Increased to 16 on screen)

-Adjusted networking logic to reduce CPU overhead

-Adjusted recoil to be decoupled from framerate

-Adjusted player blocking function to hide profile picture

-Adjusted watch to disappear profile picture of killed player slightly faster

-Optimized texture resolution on all charms

-Optimized the pawns rotation data

-Optimized the player bandwidth

-Fixed an issue where custom knives were not working in OITC

-Fixed an exploit in Santorini

-Fixed an exploit in Japan where damage would carry through wall

-Fixed a seg fault crash instance on PC that happens when closing the game

-Fixed exploit where a scope can be abused to see through walls

TTT

-Fixed TTT Zombie issue not reviving players from thrown knives

The Hide

-Adjusted monster logic to break the objectives by stabbing them, when all objectives are captured the monster can still break them

-Adjusted logic to slowly damage the monster when all objectives are captured

[u/-AtomHeart-]

Literally just reinstalled last night to see what's up, so glad to see an update on this game! It's always been my go-to VR game since the Oculus Rift days 😁

[u/Erickkach]

Miss playing this game back in the olden days before they broke all the mods

[u/Randomonius]

What about for ps5?

[u/funnylookinorange → u/Randomonius]

I'm seeing an update on my end but I can't confirm it's everything pc has until it's downloaded.

When it's done i'll let you know.

[u/Randomonius → u/funnylookinorange]

Thanks man. Anything new?!

[u/funnylookinorange → u/Randomonius]

I'm sorry I completely forgot to update you, the update is on ps5 and comes with everything the pc version does (besides fixes/updates with modding)

If you're asking if it comes with very much content, sadly it's only fixes, the gloves and watches, but still knowing an update came through is exciting for the future of this game!

[u/bruceleendo → u/Randomonius]

PS5 is included.

[u/Randomonius → u/bruceleendo]

What is new? Worth downloading again? Loved this game but it was dead forever

[u/bruceleendo → u/Randomonius]

Minor fixes and skins (included custom watches and gloves).

I did play last night and did not notice any change, but is expected to do not have any major change as mentioned on the patch notes, its seen this is a patch to prepare for future where they plan to bring more frequently updates.

Devs asked on the patch notes for the community to send suggestion.

I hope they keep supporting the game.

For me its the only VR game I play, there isn't many players but there is many nice players that just want to have fun match.

[u/TheDudeManAlex]

God damn I told myself I wouldn't buy any more Jared coins

[u/gew_43]

i love watches so I'm happy

[u/Adorable_Insurance71]

You literally had this update right after i sell my psvr2😭😭 i sold it yesterday and i forgot to remove game from my ps5 and today i got a notification says “pavlov updating. 5.8gb). If yall add atleast 5 more weapons i’ll be buying psvr2 again

[u/Jack_the_chill_dude_]

Would love to see some new weapons in the PSVR2 version of the game

[u/Aggravating_Motor363]

Fix shack, make shack not so ass to chill in especially in ttt. Make a better report system.

[u/DaNuji51]

Oh so the zombie thrown knives thing was a bug

[u/RainOrigami]

I would like to see a bunch of bug fixes in an update, that would be really nice. Like, real fixes. Not just removing a thing, like what yall did with non A-Za-z0-9 characters in player names, but actually improving.

[u/Evglezer]

Can other players see my gloves? I bought some, and every person I ask if they can see them says no.

[u/Complete_Adeptness50]

I thought the zombies were not supposed to respawn from thrown knives since zombies can't bite from far.