hello, i have a long term steam name that i've used and i'm in a clan for a different game, with clan tags in that name, but in RO2 i'm in 3.SA, ergo i was wondering, is there any way, some console command or something, to have my in game name set as one thing, and my steam name as something completely different? Thanks a lot, Sah.
Multiplayer Names/Steam Names
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It must be a steam name. I believe there is a way to change your name for RO2 in the console but that only works for offline mode.
Steam -> Settings -> Friends.
At the top of that you can change you name to whatever you wish.
To clearify;
It is not the steam account name that is forced in-game, it is the steam profile name that is forced, which you can change as many times as you like.
It is not the steam account name that is forced in-game, it is the steam profile name that is forced, which you can change as many times as you like.
Easy. Your Steam name stays the same, but you can change how your name shows up in game.
In Steam, click on Friends on the top tabs, then click CHange profile name. That is what you will appear as in RO2. This does not change your Steam name, only in game name. You can change it as often as you want.
Except this does change your steam name, just not your account name. He wants to be able to play two different games with two different names if I understand correctly.
In agree with the previous statements that this should have definitely been an in-game feature...hopefully tripwire see's this thread and it is something easy to add to the game.
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As people have said before, your steam account name, that you signed up to steam with, and login to steam with, can never be changed, ever.
But that's fine, because nobody ever sees it and its only use is as a unique steam account identifier (along with your steam id, which you probably don't know) which you login to steam with.
Separate to that is your steam profile name, which your steam friends, or anyone who checks out your steam profile will see, and you can change as many times as you want. Since Team Fortress 2, all source games have used this as your in-game multiplayer name, and recently, older source game have even been updated to do the same (CSS, DODS).
It makes sense that TW followed suit and done the same, as it's a much more simpler system, that gives a little defence against smurfing, as steam tracks all previous profile names.
I highly doubt that TW will go back to having a different in-game name and steam profile name. I think they'd like as much synergy with steamworks as possible.
@Sah. I suggest you change your name manually before playing either of the games. You could automate the name change with a script for each game, but really it's a bit overkill.
But that's fine, because nobody ever sees it and its only use is as a unique steam account identifier (along with your steam id, which you probably don't know) which you login to steam with.
Separate to that is your steam profile name, which your steam friends, or anyone who checks out your steam profile will see, and you can change as many times as you want. Since Team Fortress 2, all source games have used this as your in-game multiplayer name, and recently, older source game have even been updated to do the same (CSS, DODS).
It makes sense that TW followed suit and done the same, as it's a much more simpler system, that gives a little defence against smurfing, as steam tracks all previous profile names.
I highly doubt that TW will go back to having a different in-game name and steam profile name. I think they'd like as much synergy with steamworks as possible.
@Sah. I suggest you change your name manually before playing either of the games. You could automate the name change with a script for each game, but really it's a bit overkill.
yes, some of you have understood what i meant correctly, and some of you are quite obviously finger counters; what i meant, was that in game, my name in RO2 Heroes of Stalingrad (this is the forum for that game), is set as my steam Profile Name. Now i play several different games under several different names, and have over a hundred people in my steamfriends list. Therefore i want to keep my steamfriends name the same. However my RO name is different to my steam name. I'm trying to get my steam profile name, and my RO2 in-game name, to be different names (meaning the constituent letters of the word will be different), without having to repeatedly change it all of the time.
Thanks, Sah.
Thanks, Sah.
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The answer is - No.
There is no way to have a different name in-game than you have on steam community. Hopefully there's a return of the setname command but of-coarse there are much more pressing changes that need to be made to the game at this time.
I don't expect this feature to be considered, let alone introduced for months. But hopefully, it eventually is.
There is no way to have a different name in-game than you have on steam community. Hopefully there's a return of the setname command but of-coarse there are much more pressing changes that need to be made to the game at this time.
I don't expect this feature to be considered, let alone introduced for months. But hopefully, it eventually is.
There is a lot of confusion and misinformation about this topic, so it does not hurt to be very clear when speaking about it =).
Steam Required?
Steam Required?
Sorry for the newb question, but is Steam required to play RO2? Every time there is a Steam problem (with this game and others) it takes forever to get an answer/fix. This latest problem has me unable to log into my Steam account, so I can't even get to experience the RO2 problems still not fixed.
Steam Required?
Sorry for the newb question, but is Steam required to play RO2? Every time there is a Steam problem (with this game and others) it takes forever to get an answer/fix. This latest problem has me unable to log into my Steam account, so I can't even get to experience the RO2 problems still not fixed.