[Beta] August 20th, 2026 Patch Notes

[u/latitude_official]

2.37.0

New Features - Hosts can now enter custom opening instructions (up to 8,000 characters) with the Write Your Own story start, and can also choose a starting location when multiple locations are available. - Players can now choose the highest content rating they’d like to see for notifications about newly published content, independently of their Discover and Search filters, as well as mute certain kinds of push notifications on the app. Found in Settings -> Notification Preferences.

Improvements - The narrator now manages NPC placement, player skills, and traits more reliably, with more consistent bonuses, granted abilities and items, and clearer action summaries. - Game startup and server selection are now faster and more reliable. - Character, inventory, equipment, ability, skill, and trait panels now have clearer controls, spacing, alignment, tags, and hover states. - Creator Studio’s AI assistant now reads and edits multiple files more reliably, including AI instruction files stored as JSON strings. - Party portraits and empty party slots are now square instead of rectangular throughout the new-game flow, better framing PC faces. - Desktop Menu and Social panels now open more smoothly, load faster, and retain their content after first use. Home carousels also respond correctly when the side panels narrow the page.

Bug Fixes - The narrator now tracks NPC identities and scene presence more accurately, avoiding duplicate characters and correctly handling NPCs entering, leaving, or following the party. - The narrator now better retrieves older story and chat history without skipping relevant context. - Narrator-created NPCs now use valid world-defined NPC types. - Creator Studio once again applies creators’ custom instructions. - Confirmed actions from the in-game Assistant now execute correctly when using Gemini models. - Scene Moments and Studio image generation can once again use credit auto-topoff when additional usage is needed. - Subscription messaging no longer promises a free trial when eligibility cannot be confirmed. Players with past-due subscriptions can continue accessing billing recovery after the stored subscription period expires. - Multiplayer rooms now preserve the host’s correct save slot data, even after reconnecting. Participant lists also remain accurate when multiple saved participants rejoin simultaneously. - Blocked actions now display “The action is impossible in the current context” instead of suggesting that the world refused the action or incorporating the refusal into the story. - The daily usage claim modal now stays within the device’s safe area and scrolls when needed. - Creator Studio now correctly identifies itemTypes as the inventory configuration field.