Team Fortress 2 Multiplayer Name Change

It really pissed me off when we were playing Team Fortress 2 in AREA51 that you have to use your Steam Community name in the game.

Team Fortress 2 Multiplayer Name Change

It really pissed me off when we were playing Team Fortress 2 in AREA51 that you have to use your Steam Community name in the game.

Like our gaming cafe of choice AREA51, many places run the Steam Cafe License Program (paying through the nose for the annual subscription it mind you - it aint cheap!!) which doesnt allow the locking of accounts to a Steam Community Profile.

I tried going to Console and typing name A51-Sarge but that didnt work. Hat tip to Sam for figuring it out.

All you need to do is :

  • Open the console
  • Type : setinfo name A51-Sarge

Cant wait for Tuesday now that we'll know who we're killing!

BTW, if you dont already know, Tuesday is the weekly gaming LAN night at AREA51, kicking off at 7pm and lasting till late. FREE cinema passes to be given away and everybody is welcome.

We play Day Of Defeat : Source, Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike. We've also been known to scrap it out in Age of Empires 2 (The Daddy RTS) and Battlefield 2!

Tags: AREA51 | Gaming
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Jimmy said:
I have been looking for this for weeks, it really helped
Mathias said:
hi. thx for this. ive been looking for this very long. thx
|DI| Sneaky Noob said:
in-game you just press shift tab, chick on Settings, and BOOM, name change is right there, Instant change and you dont have to exit your game :D
Saleen219 said:
Thanks to Sneaky - YOUR idea worked for me.
Namra said:
Notice that if you want spaces in your new nickname, you must type it like this
setinfo name "blah blah"