Exploration: Social features about beatsaberserverbrowser HOT 2 CLOSED

Two comments:

1. As far as Steam friends go, I'm fairly certain that the name the game uses for multiplayer is the Steam ID of the user as that is what shows up for me and my friend.
2. Even if it isn't, an in-game friends system with some sort of notification sort of like the Oculus notification system that has a fixed, dynamic position in game would be awesome, but I doubt that would be easy or even possible to do with mods because it's something that would need super deep integration.

Either way, literally just making a log file with all the players you have played with and at what time you played with would be a huge step in this direction.

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I'm closing this ticket for now, as I don't think it's currently possible to do much in this regard.

Some closing thoughts

The way multiplayer works, we only have two pieces of data for every player in the lobby:

1. Their user-id hash (unique within beat saber multiplayer, but meaningless on its own, can't be reversed)
2. Their username (not unique on Steam, and also apparently can be spoofed on multiplayer)

So in practical terms we can't even reliably know you what distinct player you are playing with.

A newer version of MultiplayerExtensions does provide extended user information, i.e. their platform and User ID, so there are opportunities to get this information in the future, but this is rather fragmented and unpredictable -- not many people have this version, and vanilla players never will have it.

So my position on this is:

• Social features are kind of out of scope for BSSB to begin with
• Social features depend on newer MpEx versions, so maybe it's better suited for that mod anyway
• I might consider adding the player list to server browser data so you can at least see is/was in a lobby with you, by name only, but that's more on the website side

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