Storing a player's name via ACS?

[Ænima]

Is there a way to get a player's name and store it in a string to be called later?

Example: Something like

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printbold(s:"killstreak record held by ",s:champ,s:" with ",d:streakrecord,s:" kills.");

Whereas "champ" is the string where the player's name is stored.

[Llewellyn]

I don't think so.
I tried GetCvar("Name") before but it had unpredictable results... it came up with like the last used string or something.

EDIT: LOL I just tried it again, in a test wad I had and it called me "Fatso"

[President People]

Jumpmaze uses a record tracker. Maybe you could try looking at that?

Though I probably don't know what I'm talking about. :)

[Llewellyn]

Jumpmaze uses a record tracker. Maybe you could try looking at that?

Though I probably don't know what I'm talking about. :)

I don't think it has anything to do with your name.

The problem he has is not trying to store anything really, the problem is that there isn't any way to GET a player's name.

Maybe if you could somehow access %o in an obituary and save it magically.

[Ivan]

Did you not try the "n" value of print ? Here, a quote from the wiki;

name, depending on expression. If expression is -1, it prints the level name (e.g., "Entryway"); for -2 the map lump name (e.g., "MAP01"); and for -3 the skill name (e.g., "Hurt me plenty"). If expression is 0 then it prints the name of the activator (a class name if the activator isn't a player, player name otherwise); if expression is greater than 0, then it prints the name of the n-th player (one-based)).

[Ijon Tichy]

Is there a way to get a player's name and store it in a string to be called later?

Example: Something like

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printbold(s:"killstreak record held by ",s:champ,s:" with ",d:streakrecord,s:" kills.");

Whereas "champ" is the string where the player's name is stored.

use stralloc; things like this are explicitly what it's made for

edit: or use n:pln+1 for this specific example but who's counting