Can I change my nick in BL2?

[٦Ŋφλμǿᶙﮖ]

BL2 takes my nickname from Steam ID, and it's displayed incorrectly. Can I make my in-game nick differ from Steam one? I've given a name to my character, so I wonder, why won't display it instead?

[Gr8eyes]

I think you can change that name in your Steam settings under friends..Just change the name beside your Avatar.

[[>YLB<]_Nihlathak]

you can change the name of your characters at anytime at the change thing station ingame, where you can respec, reskin

[٦Ŋφλμǿᶙﮖ]

Thanks for the answers, but that's not the thing. I'll try to make it clear: my nickname in Steam is ٦ŊφλµǾųڳ. It won't display correctly in the BL2 (the rest see only a bunch of squares). I don't want to change it in Steam (beside my Avatar). I just want to set some other name to be displayed in-game for the players (for example, the name of my character). Is it possible?

[whatever 💀🎺]

Maybe. IF you know what you are doing (take backups, edit config files) then try looking at WillowGame.ini file in Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\ directory. In section [Engine.PlayerController] there is a setting

bOverrideOnlineProfileName=false

and in section [DefaultPlayer] there is the

Name=Player

setting. Changing the first one to true might change your name to Player (or to any value you set). However, I have no idea if this works, but these sure look like the right settings.

[٦Ŋφλμǿᶙﮖ]

Thank you! At first try it won't work, but now I know where to dig :)

[[☥] - CJ -]

Obviously Borderlands doesnt like the characters your name is made with.
if you want it changed then you'll have to change the name yourself.

Your Steam name is what shows up in game, if the game doesnt show your name correctly then the logical thing to do would be to change your name to something else OR deal with the fact that Borderlands doesnt like special characters in Steam names.
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In any case, its a problem with the characters in your name, as they arent normal letters you cant really complain about something not showing them correctly.

its always been like this btw.

[Tealus]

CJ, you're not getting it. Borderland 2 takes your Steam name and uses it when in multiplayer mode. It doesn't give you a choice as to which steam name to use (so you can't choose an alias). Borderland 2 also does not display non-english characters properly while using English version. It has nothing to do with the characters name themselves but the Steam name that Borderland 2 uses and displays for multiplayer.

Special chars have been used since the 80s. It's silly that Gearbox's programmers didn't expect it, specially for a game that has was was expected to be translated into many languages including russian, chinese, and japanese that uses non-english alphabet. There really isn't any excuse for not supporting it or giving a means to players a way to provide a "english translation" of their steam name.

[ALEX]

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