[Potato Uno]

See picture below.



This only appears if a client is given a weapon via TF2Items. If they switch to a weapon they legally own (in their backpack) then it disappears. Anyone have any idea or any clue why Valve bothered coding up such a pointless feature?

The text basically displays the name of the item they have equipped.

Spoiler

Someone said it is related to this update note:

- Updated several HUD elements to include the name of the weapon's owner when a player is carrying a weapon they picked-up

But since I don't play PvP and dropped weapons don't happen in MvM I don't know if that's true or not.

[Chdata]

read the tf2 update news

[Potato Uno]

Not helpful, especially since the only relevant things are the MvM exploit fixes.

[Benoist3012]

This hud is actually used for dropped weapon, "Updated several HUD elements to include the name of the weapon's owner when a player is carrying a weapon they picked-up"

In game it show, "Eyelander dropped by Benoist3012", but it seem this hud appear also for given weapon, probably because you haven't it in your loadout.

[Pelipoika]

You might be able to get rid of it if you set m_iAccountID to the players accountid on the given weapon, but i don't know what makes up the id

[Akuba]

For me, I would love to have this thing popping up for all my weapons. Valve should add a option for that.

[Pelipoika]

Originally Posted by Akuba For me, I would love to have this thing popping up for all my weapons. Valve should add a option for that.

This accomplishes that, i tested

PHP Code:

#pragma semicolon 1

#include <sdktools>

public void OnPluginStart()
{
    HookEvent("post_inventory_application", Event_PlayerSpawn, EventHookMode_Post);
}

public void Event_PlayerSpawn(Handle event, const char[] name, bool dontBroadcast)
{
    int client = GetClientOfUserId(GetEventInt(event, "userid"));
    
    for(int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
    {
        int weapon = GetPlayerWeaponSlot(client, i);
        if(IsValidEntity(weapon))
            SetEntProp(weapon, Prop_Send, "m_iAccountID", 0);
    }
} 


Doesn't seem to be a good idea to do it for other weapons than Primary, Secondary and Melee

[Potato Uno]

I'm not bothered by that HUD message (it's mostly unnoticeable in MvM anyway, with the money HUD blocking it) but I thought Valve was introducing some tracking mechanism "let's catch all the servers that give out economy items and ban them!" or something.

As for m_iAccountID, its value is the value on the player's steam3 ID. So if a client's steam ID is [U:1:123456789], then m_iAccountID will be an integer of 123456789. You would need to do some voo-doo magic with GetClientAuthId(...), then an ExplodeString along the ":", then StringToInt index 2 of that split.

[Akuba]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno "let's catch all the servers that give out economy items and ban them!"

If that happens, rip tf2 for me.

And thanks @PeliPoika for that code snipped.

[rswallen]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno As for m_iAccountID, its value is the value on the player's steam3 ID. So if a client's steam ID is [U:1:123456789], then m_iAccountID will be an integer of 123456789. You would need to do some voo-doo magic with GetClientAuthId(...), then an ExplodeString along the ":", then StringToInt index 2 of that split.

Or just use GetSteamAccountID(int client)