How to change your Rocket League Profile Picture (Avatar)?

Changing your profile picture, also known as an avatar, in Rocket League can help establish your online identity and possibly provide other players with insight into your gaming style. Below is a guide on how to change your avatar depending on your preferred gaming platform:

Change your Rocket League profile picture on:

1. Steam
2. Epic Games
3. Xbox
4. PlayStation
5. Switch

Steam

Here’s how you can change your Rocket League profile picture on Steam.

• Step 1: Open Steam Client and head to your profile section by clicking on your Steam username. This can usually be found on the top right hand corner.
• Step 2: Click View my Profile and from the dropdown select Edit Profile, then click on Avatar.
• Step 3: Chose any Avatar of your choice or upload one that you like.

Epic Games

Sadly at this point, the Epic Games Launcher does not allow profile picture changes. Even though their roadmap suggests that adding profiles and avatar features is something they are going to be working on, it’s unclear when this will happen.For now, the only workaround that Rocket League players on Epic Games can use is changing their profile picture using bakkesmod. For the unaware, bakkesmod is a training utility that lets Rocket League users on Epic Games access additional features like workshop maps and client-side item mods.Do note that even changing your profile pic with bakkesmod will only enable you to see the avatar / profile picture since the entire setup is built to be client-side only.Here are the steps to change your profile picture via bakkesmod on Epic Games Launcher:

1. Install bakkesmod, here’s a video that will show you how or you can even find instructions on the download page.
2. After bakkesmod is installed, install the Alpha Console Plugin for bakkesmod.
3. Now run bakkesmod and Rocket League, then in the game, press F6 to open bakkesmod’s console window.
4. In bakkesmod console type “plugin load acplugin” (without quotes) and hit enter, then close bakkesmod console.
5. Now hit F5 on your keyboard to launch Alpha Console, select the Cosmetics Tab on top, click “Open Directory” under Epic Avatar.
6. This should open a window to the following path .. Roaming/bakkesmod/bakkesmod/data/acplugin
7. Drag and drop your desired image (must be 1:1 square aspect ratio) in this folder.
8. Finally, head back to Alpha Console in Rocket League and click the “Reload Image” button under Epic Avatar to display your image.

Xbox

Here are the steps involved in changing your Rocket League profile picture on Xbox.

• Step 1: Press the Home Button on your Xbox controller to access the menu.
• Step 2: Next, use the right bumper key on your controller and navigate to Profile & System and press A to select.
• Step 3: On the menu that pops up select My Profile and on the consecutive page select Customize Profile on the right.
• Step 4: From there click on Change Gamerpic.
• Step 5: You’ll now be on page where you can either choose an Avatar you like of upload a Profile Picture that you want.

PlayStation

The following steps will help you change your Rocket League profile pic on PlayStation.

• Step 1: Navigate to where you see your Profile Icon in PS5 (top right) and click on it.
• Step 2: From the menu that pops open select Profile.
• Step 3: On the page that opens click on the little Pencil Icon (Edit Profile).
• Step 4: On the subsequent menu you can either select Avatar or Profile Picture depending on which you want to change.
• Step 5: If you select Avatar, you choices will be limited to a collections of Avatars that Sony has (plus what you may have unlocked).
• Step 6: If you select Profile Picture, you will be able to upload image of your choice.

Do note that viewability varies between Avatar and Profile Picture on the PlayStation.

Switch

Lastly, if you’re on Nintendo Switch, here is how to change your Rocket League profile picture. The only requirement is for you to have the Switch Online App and ensure your system is up to date.

• Step 1: Click on the Switch Online App.
• Step 2: From the Menu on the left, select Missions & Rewards.
• Step 3: Here you can use your My Nintendo Platinum Points to get icon elements – like characters, backgrounds, and frames.
• Step 4: You can combine these elements to make your own custom profile icon.

All icons and elements are located in the Icon Collection at the top right of the page.

Related: How to get Free Credits in Rocket League

And that is how you can change your Rocket League profile image based on which platform you play the game on. Also, on most consoles, you can also do the part of changing Avatar or Profile Image using the mobile apps for both iOS and Android. And this should be possible for Steam as well.