Beast of Reincarnation Patch Notes: v1.0.8

The second patch, 15 August 2026, and the first one that changes the game rather than its settings. DLSS 4/4.5 and FSR 4 shipped, camera distance presets and subtitle sizes arrived, Bloom Arts hit harder, and the Pilgrim’s Zone main route is now two areas shorter.

Platform PC (Steam) and Xbox Series X|SUpdated 15 August 2026 — patch v1.0.8

By Beast of Reincarnation Guide Editorial Team

From the publisher’s support-centre article, which is the longer of the two first-party documents: it carries twenty-four items where the Steam announcement carries twenty-three. The missing one is Brad’s arrival dialogue becoming manual, and it is included here.

• Added player camera distance options: Close, Medium and Far.
• Made various further adjustments to the player camera, both in and out of combat; camera adjustments are said to be continuing in future updates.
• Adjusted certain in-game cinematic camera cuts.
• Changed Brad’s event dialogue on entering a new area so it plays when you choose rather than automatically.
• Adjusted the triggering conditions for events and cutscenes to reduce consecutive plays when moving between areas. Players mid-playthrough may see a very small number of event lines play twice as a result.
• Adjusted the return cutscenes after defeating bosses.
• Expanded keybinding so the “Interact” action can be assigned freely to any button or key.
• Expanded keybinding settings to support the side buttons on mice that have them (PC).
• Added subtitle size options: Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large. Event and cutscene subtitles take the setting; gameplay subtitles stay at Medium size above that, to stop them overlapping other UI.
• Implemented DLSS 4/4.5 (L/M) and FSR 4 support (PC). Frame generation is named as planned rather than included.
• Placed additional objective markers along the progression route in the early story.
• Emma no longer takes damage from falling or from being partially submerged in water.
• Adjusted water submersion detection, in select areas only, with further adjustment planned.
• Adjusted combat behaviour for some bosses.
• Increased the damage and the HP recovery of Bloom Arts.
• Changed one battle midway through the Fuji Frontier Zone into a scripted event.
• Attacks from surrounding enemies are now interrupted during Execution and Execution Assist animations.
• Attacks from surrounding enemies are now interrupted during Assassination and Assassination Assist animations.
• Adjusted enemy placement in select areas.
• Changed the lock-on defaults to OFF for Auto-Target (Attack), Auto-Target (Parry) and Auto-Target (Switch). Players who had already configured these keep their own settings.
• Shortened the main route in the Pilgrim’s Zone — you can now go straight to the Belfry without passing through the Cave or the Stone Chamber.
• Fixed an issue on the cloud streaming version where delayed enemy spawns could block progression.
• Fixed heavy performance drops when the “End of the Line” skill mod was active on the Bloom Art “Kiku: Bloom Strike”.
• Fixed unintentional audio and visual noise in certain cutscenes.

Twenty-four items, listed below in the publisher’s order. The support-centre article covers PC and PlayStation together under the title “Patch Notes: v1.0.8 / v1.006.000”, and the per-platform version article gives Steam 1.0.8.0, Xbox Series 1.0.8.0 and PS5 1.006.000, read 18 August 2026. Two items are tagged PC-only in the notes themselves — mouse side-button binding and the DLSS/FSR implementation — which is the first time the publisher has drawn a platform line inside a changelog for this game.

Numbers, again, and now scope as well. No figure is published for camera distances, subtitle sizes, the Bloom Art damage and healing increase, or which bosses had their combat behaviour adjusted. “Select areas” is the notes’ own phrase for both the water-submersion and the enemy-placement work, and no area is named. Nothing states which of the twenty-four the Xbox build received beyond the two PC-only tags, and no PlayStation-specific line exists at all.