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My player name is the annoyingly generic "steamuser" and I can't find any setting to change it. In the non-Steam-ified version this was done in the Multiplayer menu under setup but that menu option does not exist here.

This is running on Linux and I get an error connecting to Bethesda.net every time I start the game, but it works fine in singleplayer at least (haven't tried multi). A guess might be that this Bethesda.net error is why I can't find the setting, but that is just a guess. So...

How do I change my player name?

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    When I disable my internet and start the game, it still picks up my Steam name there, even with it failing to connect to bethesda.net. But I am wondering if that is because I previously have played the game with internet connection and successful connection to bethesda.net
    – Timmy Jim ♦
    Dec 3, 2021 at 18:13
  • @TimmyJim Maybe I should be working on trying to figure out why it won't connect to bethesda.net I see that I already have an account there, and it's linked to steam, so the connection must have worked for some other game.
    – Organic Marble
    Dec 3, 2021 at 18:37
  • Perhaps relink your Steam account to bethesda.net if possible. Maybe a previous password change or something invalidated your credentials.
    – Timmy Jim ♦
    Dec 3, 2021 at 18:55
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    @TimmyJim good suggestion - but it looks like the other bethesda.net game is Doom 2016 which works fine, and I don't want to mess that up in favor of Quake! Steam community forums show lots of problems with Quake/bethesda.net
    – Organic Marble
    Dec 3, 2021 at 18:57

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This all came about because of not being able to connect to bethesda.net

I changed the proton version to specify 6.3.8, That allowed me to connect and then everything worked.

(Previously I was using proton-experimental)

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In Quake, the normal way would be to use the console (defaults to tilde) and type:

name NameyMcNameyface

This can also be added to your autoexec.cfg

https://www.quakewiki.net/console/console-commands/quake-console-commands

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  • Thanks. I tried it in the Steam version. It accepted the console command without any error, but the name displayed on the menu screen as seen in the question did not change.
    – Organic Marble
    Dec 3, 2021 at 21:25

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