The Quality of Life Update

May 30th, 2026 - Roblox News

Here it is! The update for the game where you have to escape from a moving picture has finally arrived. After 211 days, the fourth major update has arrived, titled “Quality of Life Update.” This update compiles various patches and bug fixes for the game. Since Roblox has changed significantly, the game has developed more bugs and required updates. The reason this update took so long to release is that the game’s code was originally written in a disorganized manner (spaghetti code), making it very difficult to debug and maintain—fearing that fixing one bug might introduce another. But we didn’t give up and released this update on the release date of the Backrooms movie (one day late, but that’s okay).

Here are the notable changes included in this 1.4 Quality of Life update:

- Added a survival time leaderboard. The player list now includes two additional columns: longest survival time and current survival time

- Added a new achievement: King of The Backrooms (Become the player with the longest survival time; not awarded when playing on a private server)

- Redesigned the “portals” for teleporting to the next level

- Player avatars now face the direction the player is looking

- Changed the sound effect for achievement notifications

- Hidden all spawn locations

- Expanded the safe zone in certain levels

- Removed the portal to the 2025 Halloween event

- Added a main menu to the game

+ Click “PLAY GAME” to go to Level 0 (the starting level)

+ Click “CREDITS” to view the closing message from FredCentre Software

- Removed the loading screen in Level 0

- The sound that plays when the player dies now plays immediately (unlike before, when it played about 1 second after death)

- Fixed an issue where certain materials didn’t produce any footstep sounds when standing up

- Fixed a controller malfunction when playing on PC (The bug prevented players from moving using the left stick)

- Disabled auto-jump on the mobile version

- Version and Build numbers will only be displayed in the Menu, not in other Levels

- Fixed an issue where nextbots were missing their images in Level 1 and Level 3

- Removed the Rick Roll poster from the secret room in Level 5

- Completely hide the teleportation portal to the secret level in Level 2

SOME ISSUES

- Ragdoll physics will no longer function due to a conflict with the “Follow Head” feature (Feature #4 mentioned above)

- Nextbots' pathfinding does not work very well (this bug has existed since the game's release)

- The survival time list at Level 0 may not function correctly

Version: 1.4