Update 2.7.0: Driver customization and 3x race Fuel

Your driver. Your style.

Every car in Stream Racer now has someone behind the wheel: you. Design your own driver in the companion app and they ride along in every race you join, on any channel. And because a new look deserves a bigger payday, race Fuel just tripled.

Driver customization

Open the Driver page in the companion app and make it yours:

• Body: two body types, ten skin tones, a build slider and 21 faces.
• Hair: 18 hairstyles plus bald, in 10 natural and 10 bold colors. Add one of six beards and five mustaches; they follow your hair color.
• Outfit: 50 items across hats, glasses, tops, bottoms and shoes.

Faces, a choice of hairstyles, the natural hair colors and a starter outfit are free. Everything else is bought with Fuel or Nitro (a few premium tops are Nitro only), and you can try any item on before you buy. The outfit cart buys a whole look in one go.

Haven't designed a driver yet? You race with a random driver made from the free options until you do.

Your portrait, everywhere

Your driver's portrait replaces your Twitch profile picture in the lobby, the race results, the Grand Prix standings and final results, the menu leaderboards and the leaderboards in the app. Race and Grand Prix results keep the portrait each racer had in that race, even after they change their look.

For hosts: drivers never hold up a race. Joining and the race start don't wait for portraits, which show a placeholder until they are ready, and a racer whose driver isn't ready within two seconds of the start races in a standard outfit for that race. With SHOW PROFILE IMAGES turned off, the lobby and results show a driver placeholder instead of the portrait.

Podium moments

• After every race, the results screen puts the top three on a podium, parked next to their cars with their drivers celebrating. The finishing positions sit in a full-height list beside it.
• In the Grand Prix finale, the top three step out of their cars onto the podium with a celebration for their place: a victory celebration for first, a fist pump for second and a wave for third.
• The automatic Grand Prix reveal now gives each place a little more time, and the fireworks keep going until you close the screen.

More Fuel, every race

Race Fuel is three times higher for every finisher:

• 1st place: 30 Fuel (was 10)
• 2nd place: 21 Fuel (was 7)
• 3rd place: 15 Fuel (was 5)
• Every other finisher: 9 Fuel (was 3)

Daily bonus: your first 10 finished races each day pay double Fuel, so winning one of them earns 60 Fuel. Only finished races that pay Fuel count toward the ten, and the day resets at 00:00 UTC. The bonus stacks with boosted periods: during a Double Rewards weekend, bonus races pay three times the new base. The lobby explains the bonus, the race results mark every bonus race next to its Fuel, and Home in the companion app shows how many bonus races you have left today.

Fuel cap: your wallet now holds up to 99,999 Fuel (was 9,999).

A DNF still earns no Fuel, and Points are unchanged.

The Twitch extension, in the game

The free Stream Racer Twitch extension lets your viewers join, boost and follow their position right from the video player, use Bits on chaos effects and pick their ride in the garage. The first time you start this update, a short tour shows how it works and ends with an INSTALL FOR FREE ON TWITCH button. You can open the tour again any time from the new TWITCH EXTENSION tile on the Home menu.

• Bigger chaos for the same Bits: Banana Peels drops 16 peels (was 8), half of them farther down the track. Oil Spills creates five patches that last 25 seconds (was three for 12 seconds), up to 15 on track. Traffic Cone Buddy delivers 15 cones even in small races, with at most two buddies per car and the rest waiting down the track.
• Click to view: chaos announcements, the newest name in the boom feed and the boom pack heading have a CLICK TO VIEW tab. Click it to move the camera to the action.

Also in this update

• New loading screens, lobby and results banners and Track Builder billboards for the companion app, the Twitch extension and driver customization. The MAKE IT YOURS and SHOP THE LOOK banners open the Driver page in the app.
• Billboards pick a random advert again every time a race loads. Track Builder keeps your saved choices while you edit.
• Simplified Chinese racer names now appear in the lobby, leaderboard, results and other name displays.
• Car name labels cost less to render, especially when hidden with Tab or during cinematics, and keep their Twitch colors, outlines and shadows.
• Cars move smoothly when you fly alongside them with the camera.
• Your menu portrait and the menu leaderboard portraits appear before the first race instead of blank white circles.

Racers, type !race in chat when the lobby opens, then head to app.streamracer.com to suit up. Questions or feedback? Join us on Discord.