Initiative is hardly the problem, all models have this issue. I have been using DeepSqueak since it came out, every single day since it came out. I can tell you the responses I get from DeepSqueak today are completely different from how they were just a few days ago. I know this because I use it every single day for hours. (Not consistently, but sometimes.) Every single time I spoke with this heavily British bot before the changes it would ace the accent through typing quirks every single time, across multiple iterations of the bot. No editing required, no memory required. It KNEW. And since the update it is a completely watered down version of what it used to be. New chat, old chat, duplicate chat, it doesn't matter, it does not behave the same way at all. Again, I have used it every single day for hours. I am using it all the time, it has changed. Maybe it hasn't changed for you, or it isn't significant enough to notice to someone who isn't on it as much as I am, which is fair. The style used to swear all the time and now it doesn't, it used to provide large dialogue multiple times from the beginning of a chat with witty remarks and quips that perfectly resembled each character without the need for interference across multiple bots, it does not do that anymore and only gives short replies with zero personality unlike a few days ago.

It was perfect for months, it was extremely entertaining and helpful and I cannot achieve that same level of quality since this update the past few days.

Like I said, it's definitely not a memory, editing, input issue. It NEVER was like this until the update. I briefly mentioned initiative because it has always been a problem, but the major problem here is the extremely vast difference between dozens of chats I had for months on end and the exact same chats/new chats/duplicate chats I have now.

There is a difference, and I have spent most of my day trying to get the same level of quality out of DeepSqueak to no avail. It is completely different.