TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank

phong

I think an option to hide your opponent's details could be helpful, maybe more for 1v1 Matchmaking, which the OP might have forgotten to include. A few people mentioned repeated encounters with the same player as one of the reasons they don't play ladder in a thread about that from a while back. @Tomma, you were one of them. Would you use such an option if it was available? Would it make you like ladder more?

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/5729/how-come-you-don-t-play-ladder/80?_=1683006634418

Tomma

@Phong how hiding who you are playing against resolves issue of dead ladder? Btw i still play ladder, i just described what i dont like about it atm.
Also there is option to hide info about your opponent via ui mod, i believe its called deaf archon or smth.

Blade_Walker

I understand the interest in playing against an 'untested' opponent, since it creates a potential for surprise and unexpected strategies. With a small community and as rankings increase, most of the other players around your skill level will become familiar with their play styles and habits.

What would be fun is for an anonymous tourney with each player becoming a 'black knight' and unknown to the other players and even the casters, which would create great speculation based on their choices in-game and potential freedom to play opposite to your usual style, only the TD would know who is who.

phong

@tomma thanks both for explaining why you said that and for mentioning the mod already exists. Maybe @misterdumass can give it a try

TheVVheelboy

Misterdumass won't give it a try for he doesn't play TMM contrary to popular opinion.

The_Janitor

I asked for similar thing but for 1v1 as the way to reduce pressure on players and obsession over rank but to not much positive outcome as I was hoping.

Resistance

Have you ever seen a single game that has ranked mm and gives you the possibilty to hide your credentials?

The_Janitor

@rezy-noob said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

Have you ever seen a single game that has ranked mm and gives you the possibilty to hide your credentials?

Depends on how much blind do you want me to be...
https://starcraft2.com/en-gb/ladder/grandmaster/3

But yea... I think I did see a game or two or every mainstream game that provides a way or two to ease up the pressure one way or the other...

Now wheatear or not do you want to acknowledge it is up to you, but lest not kid our self's...

phong

The UI mod Tomma mentioned does the job, Deaf Archon UI mod (credit goes to Eternal), hides rating and name of your opponents, both from the scoreboard and the chat. So give it a try if you're interested, @HintHunter

The_Janitor

@phong said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

The UI mod Tomma mentioned does the job, Deaf Archon UI mod, hides rating and name of your opponents, both from the scoreboard and the chat. So give it a try if you're interested, @HintHunter

Cool, still does not quite fixes the problem it just puts me more on disadvantage since player I playing Vs knows me and I don't know anything about him. Cool mod, implement it for all now.

phong

@hinthunter I kinda like it since I don't have to feel so bad about myself now if i lose to someone lower rated haha

The_Janitor

@phong said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

@hinthunter I kinda like it since I don't have to feel so bad about myself now if i lose to someone lower rated haha

Good for you, not quite good enuf for me or the original poster of this thread.

Resistance

@hinthunter what am i supposed to see in that link?
All i could have found is people changing their names manually to bar codes

The_Janitor

@rezy-noob said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

@hinthunter what am i supposed to see in that link?
All i could have found is people changing their names manually to bar codes

Well... Yes. Do you not get it or I am supposed to explain that as well?

Could go about it this way... By asking a question... Why people do change their names to barcodes in every division that StarCraft 2 has?

FtXCommando

Because it’s funny, same reason we did it on FAF

Resistance

Yeah you get banned for changing those manually, as long as it's not an "official" way of hiding your stuff it's not even remotely an argument, which bring back my original question.

The_Janitor

@rezy-noob said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

Yeah you get banned for changing those manually, as long as it's not an "official" way of hiding your stuff it's not even remotely an argument, which bring back my original question.

So you don't want to acknowledge it, that is fine.
Tilt it changes your original question will have same awnser from me.

TheVVheelboy

Eh, you sure they are hiding their names? Actions such as this have been quite popular not only on faf but in other games to literally just screw with other people. Not to hide their names cuz they are afraid of being seen or anything... It's just community trolling.

Resistance

@hinthunter ??? I've literally just pointed out there is no such option as hiding your credentials.

The closest example would be heartstone with streamer mode on that does that stuff but it doesn't apply to faf example

The_Janitor

@xiaomao said in TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank:

Eh, you sure they are hiding their names? Actions such as this have been quite popular not only on faf but in other games to literally just screw with other people. Not to hide their names cuz they are afraid of being seen or anything... It's just community trolling.

From the looks of it... yes they are hiding their names.
Some casual advanced trolling done by competing players lol what a joke.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-llllllllllll-names/1528
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/2i9kte/why_are_barcode_names_a_thing/
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/954437-league-of-legends/73229286
https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/526731-barcodes-on-sc2-discussion-ban-them-from-ladder

I mean this keeps going...

and this is just one game that happens to be most popular and most influential RTS

Providing option to hide names (and hopefully rating) would open many interesting possibilities with: meta, team games, 1v1, balance, venting, stress...

Open to talk about it in a discord...

@Rezy-Noob said in [TMM option to hide your opponent's name and rank]:

@hinthunter ??? I've literally just pointed out there is no such option as hiding your credentials.

The closest example would be heartstone with streamer mode on that does that stuff but it doesn't apply to faf example

Well life finds a way, like they did no? No such option? Why not implement it? Clearly it is somewhat wanted, clearly it gets some stuff done, clearly people do it for some purpose or goal...
We can help the players by doing this both to improve and to allow them to play care free.
I am not going to square one with this convo, so... acknowledge it.