[Antithasys]

A few updates back valve added the ability to see the people in your friends list while looking at the scoreboard in TF2. They now have this little friend or person icon next to the players name.

I bring this up because I had a request to make peoples friends stick together on the autobalancer I just wrote. The request was to add friends when joining a server and then have the balancer make sure you guys are not separated by it.

Instead of basically recreating the friend system, I figured using the steam one was better, and since it appears you can get that information from within the game, it would also alleviate any map change storage issues related to creating my own list.

So my question is does anyone know any code, or where to go to get some code, to identify players friends in TF2?

Thanks in advance.

[GManNickG]

I'm sure that showing that information is client-side, since the server doesn't need to know who the clients friends are; the client does.

[Antithasys]

Hmm. Not promising.

So what would the best way to store this information then?

I have seen plugins do it with kvfiles and I have seen databases.

The kvfiles is interesting, but the database has long term benefits as well as multi-thread capability.

All I really want to do is allow for a client to store a few friends and have that information retained during a map load.

Anyone know the best solution?

[ichthys]

Originally Posted by Antithasys Hmm. Not promising. So what would the best way to store this information then? I have seen plugins do it with kvfiles and I have seen databases. The kvfiles is interesting, but the database has long term benefits as well as multi-thread capability. All I really want to do is allow for a client to store a few friends and have that information retained during a map load. Anyone know the best solution?

I know this is an old thread. But did you ever get anything like this working?

[FaTony]

Access steam community page, parse it, store info. Basically a shitload of work.

[Dragonshadow]

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=129763 might be able to do something with it

[asherkin]

You would need to do what FaTony said, the friends marks on the scoreboard are entirely client-side.