extraQL doesn't rename Steam profile

[lDavidl]

I just tested extraQL (on a different system and Steam account than my own) after reading this post on Reddit. Name changing indeed doesn't appear to work anymore ;(

Last time I played QL on my account was in mid 2024 and I don't recall if extraQL was working at that time. I doubt that I wouldn't have noticed my name being white instead of its usual colors.

[PredatH0r]

Valve broke or intentionally disabled the SteamAPI_ISteamFriends_SetPersonaName API function in steam_api.dll.
It still returns "ok", but doesn't do anything.
Yakumo reported the problem in the Steam forum, but no response from Valve.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/600768571255094705/

[BrianWiz]

Been looking into this over the last couple of hours. It seems like the only way to do this now is doing some sort of browser hacking where you open up the user profile edit page and target the personaName field...really bad.

That being said. If you look at the QL server browser you'll notice like 90% of the servers are using minqlx. minqlx has a console command !name WhateverNameYouWant and simply !name to have the server forget it and fallback to your Steam name. This is per-server of course. The biggest trade off here is that anyone on your Steam friends list who want to play with you might get confused because your Steam name could be 100% decoupled from what's shown in-game.

But, it's better than nothing. I've never actually used ExtraQL yet, so I'm not sure if it already takes advantage of that command. But if not, you could have a script that runs that command when you join a server.