N00bz rejoice…Streamline now has a tutorial! Our master level designers have lovingly handcrafted a set of artisanal Streamline experiences that will guide new players through learning the game’s basic controls. Until now, these techniques have only been passed down by the game’s wise, old sages. Now you, too, can become a true Streamline pro! (Or at least become a competent player a lot more quickly!)

Already an adept Streamline player? Head to the Challenge map to test your skills! We set up an obstacle course that will push your parkour mastery to the limits. Try to make it to the end before time runs out while achieving your highest score! Don’t forget to brag about it to your fellow players. ;)

• Spawn points have been improved in a variety of scenarios. Situations where Runners spawn near Hunters, Hunters and Runners spawn in locations meant for each other, and Runners spawn directly next to each other should mostly be a thing of the past.
• Made yet more changes that may fix the now classic Streamline bug where you can’t see non-green gems. Cross your fingers! If it doesn’t work, we’re just going to start calling it a feature. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• The above changes should also resolve the issue where the Bitball goal doesn’t rotate like it should.
• We put the game’s characters through an extensive agility training program, so there shouldn’t be any more issues with player movement when changing directions while strafing.
• Ever fall through the floor in Overpass? We patched up that hole.
• Players can no longer get the Assist and Alley Oop bonuses in Bitball if they score and then score again when the ball respawns. Nice trick, but would have been cooler if you did it on one possession.
• In some cases, when players respawned as ghosts, they’d be stuck bent at the waist, facing down. It’s sad being a ghost, but we don’t want you to sulk, so you should be able to stand tall if you want to now.
• It’s a pain when a Hunter leaves during a Tag match, so we made it less painful by automatically assigning a new one when that happens.
• Throw it back! While it shouldn’t generally happen, if the Bitball manages to leave the Yard, it should now respawn. Play on!
• More backend tools for our support team so they can help you out even better than before.
• More localization improvements for our very much appreciated non-English speaking players!

It's been so great to see so many new faces jumping into Streamline matches since the Humble Freedom Bundle went on sale! I just want to take a few moments to welcome you all to the community and give you a few tips for finding your way around.

• If you haven't said hi on our Discord server[discord.gg] yet, that's a great first stop. That's where the core community tends to hang out and it's a great place to find a group of people to play with, to ask questions, get support and tips, announce your live streams, and just get to know everyone. The development team is also available there from around 10am-6pm EST every weekday!
  
• One of the unique features of Streamline is its integration with Streamote[streamote.tv], the web interface we developed to give viewers a chance to directly interact with the games they're watching on Twitch. If you're a broadcaster, it adds a great new layer of fun for your audience. If you're a viewer, you get to directly impact the game through bets and rule changes that affect the game's physics/maps/players in addition to playing a bingo-style mini game that can net you Streamline packs and additional coins for betting/rule changes!
  
• There are currently three game modes: Tag, which is great for smaller parties; Elimination, which shines with larger groups; and Bitball, which is a team competition mode.
  
• There's a great FAQ[support.proletariat.com] over on our support site if you have any questions about Streamline or Streamote. If your questions aren't answered there, you can send our team a message through that site or, of course, you can ask in the support channel on Discord. You can also…
  
• Follow us on Twitter! The Streamline account is @PlayStreamline and the Proletariat Inc. account is @Proletariat_inc. We chat with the community there and also make regular announcements about live streams (and will RT your Streamline streams!).
  
• There's an official Bitball guide[playstreamline.com]! If you're not quite sure about the rules of our competitive ball game, the guide should help get you up to speed. And, of course, ask on Discord and the community will be more than happy to help.
  
• In addition to the community live streams, the development team hosts games live on our Twitch channel[streamote.tv] three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 3-5pm EST. The matches are usually open to the public, so stop by and play with the devs! You can also join our Discord voice chat while you're playing :)

That's all for now! We're all excited to play a bunch with you as we continue early access development. Thanks so much for supporting the Humble Freedom Bundle and welcome to our community!

[www.humblebundle.com]Every day that we come into the studio, our team’s goal is to create experiences that are beloved by—and made for—everyone. After all, we make games for the people! As such, we are proud to include Streamline in the Humble Freedom Bundle[www.humblebundle.com], a collection of great games whose sale supports the liberties, rights, and well-being of people throughout the world.

This Humble Bundle will be available until 2:00pm EST on Monday, February 20, and 100 percent of all sales will go to support the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[www.aclu.org], Doctors Without Borders (MSF)[www.doctorswithoutborders.org], and the International Rescue Committee (IRC)[www.rescue.org]. On top of that, Humble Bundle is matching contributions up to $300,000!Here’s what you will get if you purchase the bundle for at least $30 (you can always contribute more!):

• 2064: Read Only Memories
• 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
• A Virus Named TOM
• AI War: Fleet Command
• Day of the Tentacle Remastered
• Ellipsis
• Girls Like Robots
• Guacamelee!
• Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora Deluxe
• Human Resource Machine
• Invisible, Inc.
• Mini Metro
• Monster Loves You!
• Mushroom 11
• Ninja Pizza Girl
• No Time to Explain Remastered
• Nuclear Throne
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch
• Overgrowth
• Retro Game Crunch
• Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball
• ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
• Secrets of Rætikon
• Song of the Deep
• Spirits
• Sproggiwood
• Stardew Valley
• Streamline
• Subnautica
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
• The Stanley Parable
• The Swapper
• The Witness
• Thirty Flights of Loving
• Tower of Guns
• VVVVVV
• Waking Mars
• World of Goo

That incredible list contains more than $600 worth of games and books! We’re beyond honored to share this Humble Bundle with the outstanding studios and authors that are involved. We’re also tremendously excited to be a part of something that not only brings joy to the people, but contributes to fantastic organizations that share our studio’s core values.

You have less than a week to get your hands on the bundle, so be sure to grab it soon! Don’t forget to let your friends know about it as well…pretty sure they’ll want to get in on the fun and opportunity to do good. Even if you already have Streamline, the collection you get is a steal and, of course, your money goes to some great causes. Everyone wins! Hooray freedom!

If you get excited for game updates that are all about fixing stuff up, well…you better hold onto your butts…Streamline 2.6 is here! We geared up and busted a bunch of bugs to make the world game a safer place for all of humanity players.

Seriously, though, this update is mostly focused on tidying up while we prepare some bigger content that still needs to bake a little longer. More stuff, coming soon!

Now, all the fixes!

Actual footage of our dev team working on this release

• Teams will no longer become uneven when Players join a Bitball game mid-match. Fair game is fair!
  
• Charged throws during Bitball now correctly trigger passing bonuses. Go long!
  
• The Ragdoll rule was causing horrific disfigurations instead of silly floppiness. Sorry for the nightmares!
  
• Fixed an issue where Bitball players couldn’t punch former teammates during the following pre-match free play. Alliances are fleeting once again!
  
• In Tag mode with two players, Runner deaths caused by the environment no longer trigger Red Zones. You should still try to not fall off the map, though.
  
• Corrected a situation where Players sometimes couldn't eliminate each other during Not So Sudden Death in a Tag match.
  
• The Long Wharf map no longer has phantom lava during the Floor is Lava rule. You’ll only get hurt when you make the questionable decision to step on visible lava now!
  
• In Tag mode, Players will no longer incorrectly get the “Skin of Your Teeth” bonus when they tag a Runner. Because that makes absolutely no sense.

• Fixed the level-up screen for Level 50 players who were seeing some crazy negative numbers.
  
• A handful of localization improvements, including adding some missing translations and fixing bad layouts.
  
• Players will no longer get stuck with a nine-player party in Bitball.
  
• Twitch chat messages that are purged by moderators will now get purged in the in-game chat display.
  
• Fixed some instances where post-match Bitball results didn’t add up properly.
  
• Players who would get a “game not found” error when trying to join an invite-only game via Steam should no longer run into this problem.
  
• Improvements were made to the mid-match Rule Store to make it less awkward when the match features multiple broadcasters.

• Added some back-end features to make it easier for our community and support team to help players out with linking/unlinking Steam and Twitch accounts.
  
• A bunch of miscellaneous bug fixes.

As always, if you notice any issues or have any feedback, we’d love to hear from you! Head over to our Discord server[discord.gg] and leave a note in the Feedback or Support section and our community team will be glad to help you out.

New year, new improved Streamline! Streamline 2.5 is a big one in terms of tweaking and fixing some of the big features that were introduced in the last update. We cleaned up a slew of Bitball quirks, drastically improved the Steam friends feature, gave you all the monitor resolutions your system craves, made the spawn points less tragic, and put our exterminator hats on while we blasted away a bunch of bugs. Basically, we betterized™ the game, because we love you.

Everyone’s favorite new team mode was the star of the last Streamline update but, like any shiny new thing, we discovered some things about it after it was released that needed a bit more shine.

• Winter blues (but…a good kind)! To cut down on confusion, your team is now always Blue, and the opposing team is always Red. Your clothes are also no longer recolored in Bitball matches. Instead, players on the opposing team have a red outline.
• Players can now cancel their ball charge by jumping. Don’t throw it away if you don’t want to!
• There were some spots on the maps where the Bitball could be punched/thrown out of the arena. Now you no longer need to fear challenging The Beast to get your ball back!
• The ground in Overpass was apparently a little too soft in spots, allowing the Bitball to sometimes get stuck in it. We poured some cement. Problem solved!
• Teams are now randomly assigned by default. Don’t worry; the host can still manually assign players if they want to make things more balanced (or not).
• Game Con had missing collisions on some booth curtains. No more access to alternate under-the-stairs dimensions.
• Teams were sometimes able to have more than five players if additional players dropped in mid-match. It’s now limited to five per side. Stop trying to cheat, cheaters.
• Bitball now enforces a 10 player limit to keep things at maximum fun levels. You must have 10 players or less in order to start a match, and your party will be resized to a max of 10 players (including the host) if it’s too big. Less is more!
• Through some sort of map switching wizardry, Bitball games could be started on unsupported maps. We have thwarted future efforts to access said maps.
• The Bitball scoreboard didn’t update sometimes. Now it does every time. Reliable!
• Boost initiation animations/effects no longer play after each punch when in overcharge mode.
• We made some UI fixes where long lists or names were cut-off on scoreboards.
• Fixed a few dialogs/tips that referenced the wrong things/numbers at the wrong times and were just plain confusing.
• The goals have been removed from the pre-match freeplay.
• The “Choose Teams” button is now disabled when too many players are in a party for a Bitball match.
• Fixed an issue where the "Score" and "Defend" UI elements appeared for the entirety of Round 1 of a match and did not appear in Round 2.
• Players no longer get the "Robbed" bonus when they score a goal that goes off the post. Because they scored.

We introduced the ability to invite your Steam friends to play with you in the last update, but we realized it wasn’t working quite how we wanted it to. So we did it better this time!

• If you have Steam friends who are online and in Streamline parties that allow Steam friends to join, you will see a "FRIENDS" button on the home menu and the number of friends you can join. Clicking this button opens a display that gives you a list of options to join your friends’ parties!

Our New Year’s resolution was to allow players to select any resolution their video card supports that is greater than Streamline’s 1280x720 minimum resolution. Mission complete!

The Rule store will now only feature three items for purchase, but will appear prior to every round.

Streamline was translated into six new languages in the last update, which created six new issues to fix in this one.

• The game now consistently translates into German when that language is selected.
• Fixed an issue where multi-line dialogs broke some translations.
• Special characters are no longer displayed in lower-case if they’re supposed to be capitalized.
• Fixed various instances of labels failing to translate into the selected language.
• Various UI adjustments to accommodate for translated text that we originally missed.
• The main error messages have been translated.

Runners generally want to keep their distance from the Hunter and stay out of red zones, but sometimes their spawn points ignored that common sense (pesky trolls, them spawn points be). We improved the game’s logic to make sure these scenarios don’t happen nearly as often.

• The holiday season is over, and so are your chances to find those red and green gym bags.
• Players now get the “Clothes” Steam achievements at levels 1, 5, 20, and 50!
• The graphical issue where you sometimes couldn’t see gems other than the small green ones has been fixed. Whoops, looks like it wasn't totally fixed…we'll try again!
• The correct death tip is now shown if you die from entering the opposing team’s goal in Bitball.
• Players now get the Natural Selection, Poke The Bear, Ninja, Paparazzi, and Rekt bonuses in Tag mode like they are supposed to.
• The Floor is Lava rule no longer generates lava way above the ground plane in the Overpass map.
• Players no longer experience permanent rule effects if they die during that rule.
• The URL in Twitch chat to join a match was sometimes not functioning properly and is now fixed.
• Players that Find Match into a match will now leave the host's party when they leave the match.
• Players no longer get stuck in parties after trying to join a Top Live Game and then cancelling.
• Fixed a crash when trying to modify Steam Controller input settings.
• Improved the flow when joining a game from Top Live Games while currently in another party.
• Fixed an issue where viewers were occasionally unable to activate rules purchased in new Rule Store.
• Added FX to the Boost Bar when Energy Drink is active, or when your team has Full Overcharge in Bitball.
• Corrected a glitch that caused deployed rules to only display the upper-left corner of the Twitch user's icon.
• The post-match UI no longer breaks if all players but the host leave the game.
• Clicking the Region/Party Type/Allow Steam Friends edit button no longer resets the current selections.
• Players' Twitch icons now always display the correct user’s icon.
• Various minor UI fixes/improvements.
• Rules are no longer highlighted incorrectly if a rule was purchased in the same slot in a previous round.
• Fixed an issue where the player’s camera remains tilted if they enter spectator mode during Puke Town.
• Players can no longer interact with the menu during the "searching for game" state.
• Equipping gloves is no longer possible while wearing the Test Subject Jumper torso item.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We have a shiny new update for you that features some of the most exciting additions to the game yet, including a new game mode, winter customizations, localization into six new languages, Steam integrations, and much more! Welcome to Streamline 2.4!

It’s time to rally your team and take on your rivals! Bitball is a new mode that finally brings team competition gameplay to the fast-paced world of Streamline. Grab your friends (or jump into a Quick Matched game) and battle it out against other teams to see who will reign supreme!

Two teams compete in Bitball, racking up points by scoring on each other’s goals. Match hosts can make teams and stream viewers can place bets on the winning team (along with the usual Streamote features). Bonus: everyone who plays is rewarded, win or lose!

Don’t forget to check out our full guide to Bitball![playstreamline.com]

No Twitch? No problem! The players have spoken and we’ve removed the requirement of using a Twitch account as your Streamline login (though you’ll still need a Twitch account to make use of Streamote functionality…for reasons). Players can now simply use their Steam name to play with their friends on Steam, join other matches, and more. Need help figuring out how to use this new integration? Check out the Streamline Steam Integration FAQ![support.proletariat.com]

Just in time for those chilly winter Streamline sessions, we’ve added new Winter Holiday packs! Celebrate the season with new character customizations that are sure to keep you cozy and festive. They’re only available for a limited time, so be sure to collect them while you can! Another bonus: the Winter packs have their own custom look—unwrap your gifts just like they’re real presents (and not just your gym bag)!

Bienvenue! Willkommen! Benvenuto! ¡Bienvenido! Bem vinda! Добро пожаловать! The game’s text is now localized into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian languages! There are still a few gaps while we finish the translations but the bulk of the work is available now for your reading pleasure.

You’re now able to create your party and manage its settings from within Streamline. Stay in the game and get your next match started more quickly without bouncing to other windows!

We’ve made a number of changes to movement and combat to emphasize the fun and reduce the grief:

• Stun duration has been reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds.
  
• Increased the dash distance for non-Hunter air attacks.
  
• Improved attack aim assist and hit detection.
  
• Players who are stunned can no longer be knocked back again during the stun.
  
• Punching now cancels the stun invulnerability players gain while stunned.
  
• Punching now ends your boost chain.
  
• Reduced the duration of the stun invulnerability from 2 seconds to 1 second.
  
• Movement speed while sliding has been reduced.
  
• Wall running while boosting is now faster!
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause extremely fast speeds while wall-running.

• Streamline can be launched directly from URLs, including joining a party and getting in their game.
  
• When you’re killed, you’re told why and how so you can hopefully not repeat it.
  
• In-game chat will no longer display Streamote messages from Twitch.
  
• In-game chat now supports rich text, including color and word-wrap.
  
• Point “Orbs” have been renamed “Gems.”
  
• Due to the above, the “Multiball” rule has been renamed “Gem Frenzy.”
  
• It’s now possible to skip the betting and rule purchasing phases. In the case of multiple broadcasters, everyone must agree to skip.

• A wide variety of obscure crashes have been fixed.
  
• Fixed a few different issues people had with hosting matches.
  
• The Floor Is Lava no longer injures players on bouncers in Game Con.
  
• The Buzzed hair now only has one set of color options instead of two.
  
• Dying from Rules no longer results in empty boosts upon respawn.
  
• Items and colors that can’t be earned in packs by players don’t appear as locked in the inventory anymore.
  
• Inventory no longer shows lock icons on colors that don’t actually exist.
  
• Fixed some issues around Slo’ Thuggin’ and Yakety Hill and how they interacted with respawn times and music.
  
• Fixed a problem where music did not always play during a match.
  
• Fixed a problem with kicking players who have already left from games/parties.

[playstreamline.com]With the release of Streamline 2.4 bringing Bitball to the world, the team at Proletariat decided to put together a guide to help everyone learn the new mode's rules and tricks. Check it out on the Streamline website[playstreamline.com]!