diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b20808..0cb9c2b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # NAIL agent
 Navigate Acquire Interact Learn
 
-NAIL is a general game-playing agent designed for parser-based interactive fiction games 
+NAIL is a general game-playing agent designed for parser-based interactive fiction games
 ([Hausknecht et al. 2019](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04259)).
 NAIL employs a simple heuristic: examine the current location to identify relevant objects,
 interact with the identified objects, navigate to a new location, and repeat.
@@ -16,36 +16,33 @@ where it was evaluated on a set of twenty unknown parser-based IF games.
 * Python 3
 
 ## Installation
-* Install basic build tools.
-    * sudo apt-get update
-    * sudo apt-get install build-essential
-    * sudo apt-get install python3-dev
-
-* Install [fastText](https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText#building-fasttext-for-python)
-    * pip3 install pybind11
-    * git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText.git
-    * cd fastText
-    * pip3 install .
-    * cd ..
-
-* Install [Jericho](https://github.com/Microsoft/jericho)
-    * pip3 install jericho
-* Clone this nail_agent repository to your Linux machine.
-* Download the NAIL agent's language model to the nail_agent/agent/affordance_extractors/language_model directory:
-    * wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/8/8/B88DDDC1-F316-412A-94B3-025788436054/nail_agent_lm.zip
-* unzip nail_agent_lm.zip
-    * The unzipped directory should contain 1028 files.
-
-* pip3 install numpy
-* pip3 install fuzzywuzzy
-* pip3 install spacy
-* python3 -m spacy download en
-* pip3 install python-Levenshtein
+Install basic build tools.
+
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install build-essential
+    sudo apt-get install python3-dev
+
+> **Note:** We advise users to use virtual environments to avoid Python packages from different projects to interfere with each other. Popular choices are [Conda Environments](https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/getting-started.html) and [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html).
+
+Clone this **nail_agent** repository to your Linux machine.
+
+    git clone https://github.com/microsoft/nail_agent.git
+
+Download the NAIL agent's language model (8.1Gb, 1028 files) to the `nail_agent/agent/affordance_extractors/language_model` directory:
+
+    cd nail_agent/
+    wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/8/8/B88DDDC1-F316-412A-94B3-025788436054/nail_agent_lm.zip
+    unzip nail_agent_lm.zip -d agent/affordance_extractors/language_model/
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+    pip install -r requirements.txt
+    python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 
 ## Usage
-* Obtain a z-machine game (like zork1.z5)
-* cd nail_agent
-* python3 run_nail_agent.py <path_to_game>
+Obtain a Z-Machine game (like `zork1.z5`). Then, within the `nail_agent/` folder, run the following command:
+
+    python run_nail_agent.py <path_to_game>
 
 ## Contributing
 
diff --git a/agent/entity_detectors/spacy_entity_detector.py b/agent/entity_detectors/spacy_entity_detector.py
index 5ce6c0e..f9932d3 100644
--- a/agent/entity_detectors/spacy_entity_detector.py
+++ b/agent/entity_detectors/spacy_entity_detector.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ def __init__(self):
 
 
     def detect(self, observation_text):
+        # Spacy has trouble detecting entities ending with \n.
+        # Ref: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/4792#issuecomment-614295948
+        observation_text = observation_text.replace("\n", " ")
         doc = gv.nlp(observation_text)
         nouns = []
         for chunk in doc.noun_chunks:
diff --git a/agent/gv.py b/agent/gv.py
index 79b407e..156ef4f 100644
--- a/agent/gv.py
+++ b/agent/gv.py
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
 
 # Spacy NLP instance
 try:
-    nlp = spacy.load('en')
+    nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
 except Exception as e:
-    print("Failed to load \'en\' with exception {}. Try: python -m spacy download en".format(e))
+    print("Failed to load \'en\' with exception {}. Try: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm".format(e))
     sys.exit(1)
 
 # Global Action Definitions
diff --git a/agent/util.py b/agent/util.py
index e343124..8c9303f 100644
--- a/agent/util.py
+++ b/agent/util.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 def first_sentence(text):
     """ Extracts the first sentence from text. """
     tokens = gv.nlp(text)
-    return next(tokens.sents).merge().text
+    return next(tokens.sents).text
 
 
 def tokenize(description):
diff --git a/agent/valid_detectors/learned_valid_detector.py b/agent/valid_detectors/learned_valid_detector.py
index 14bddba..529ecb8 100644
--- a/agent/valid_detectors/learned_valid_detector.py
+++ b/agent/valid_detectors/learned_valid_detector.py
@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
 import os, sys
-import fastText
+import fasttext
 sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 from valid_detector import ValidDetector
 import gv
 import util
 
+# Monkey patch to remove warning message in fasttext 0.9.2.
+# Ref: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/issues/1067
+fasttext.FastText.eprint = lambda x: None
+
 model_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),
                           "valid_model.bin")
 
 class LearnedValidDetector(ValidDetector):
     """
-    Uses a fastText classifier to predict the validity of the response text.
+    Uses a fasttext classifier to predict the validity of the response text.
 
     """
     def __init__(self):
         super().__init__()
-        self.model = fastText.load_model(model_path)
+        self.model = fasttext.load_model(model_path)
 
     def action_valid(self, action, response_text):
         if not util.action_recognized(action, response_text):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bf5a8be..58cbba0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,29 +1,6 @@
-certifi==2018.10.15
-chardet==3.0.4
-cymem==2.0.2
-cytoolz==0.9.0.1
-dill==0.2.8.2
-en-core-web-sm==2.0.0
-fasttext==0.8.22
-fuzzywuzzy==0.17.0
-idna==2.7
-jericho==1.1.1
-msgpack==0.5.6
-msgpack-numpy==0.4.3.2
-murmurhash==1.0.1
-numpy==1.15.3
-pkg-resources==0.0.0
-plac==0.9.6
-preshed==2.0.1
-pybind11==2.2.4
-python-Levenshtein==0.12.0
-regex==2018.1.10
-requests==2.20.0
-six==1.11.0
-spacy==2.0.16
-thinc==6.12.0
-toolz==0.9.0
-tqdm==4.28.1
-ujson==1.35
-urllib3==1.24
-wrapt==1.10.11
+spacy==3.1.1
+fasttext==0.9.2
+jericho==3.0.5
+numpy==1.20.3
+python-Levenshtein==0.12.2
+fuzzywuzzy==0.18.0
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diff --git a/run_nail_agent.py b/run_nail_agent.py
index 6f790a8..96b314e 100644
--- a/run_nail_agent.py
+++ b/run_nail_agent.py
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ def main():
     agent = NailAgent(seed=args.seed, env=env, rom_name=os.path.basename(args.game))
 
     # Get the first observation from the environment.
-    obs = env.reset()
+    obs, info = env.reset()
+
+    # Keep track of the maximum score achieved.
+    max_score = 0
 
     # Run the agent on the environment for the specified number of steps.
     for step_num in range(args.steps):
@@ -36,23 +39,26 @@ def main():
         action = agent.take_action(obs)
 
         # Pass the action to the environment.
-        new_obs, score, done, info = env.step(action)
+        new_obs, reward, done, info = env.step(action)
+        max_score = max(info["score"], max_score)
 
         # Update the agent.
-        agent.observe(obs, action, score, new_obs, done)
+        agent.observe(obs, action, reward, new_obs, done)
         obs = new_obs
 
         # Output this step.
-        print("Step {}   Action [{}]   Score {}\n{}".format(step_num, action, score, obs))
+        print("Step {}   Action [{}]   Score {}\n{}".format(step_num, action, info["score"], obs))
 
         # Check for done (such as on death).
         if done:
             print("Environment returned done=True. So reset the environment.\n")
-            obs = env.reset()
+            obs, info = env.reset()
 
     # Clean up the agent.
     agent.finalize()
 
+    print(f"Max score achieved: {max_score}")
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()