How to Change Your Name in the Left 4 Dead Game
- 1). Load "Left 4 Dead" from your "Steam" window. Go to the "Options" screen, choose the "Keyboard/Mouse" tab and select "Activate Developer Console."
- 2). Begin a new single- or multi-player game. You have to be in a game to bring up the necessary screen.
- 3). Press the tilde key, the "~" key in the upper-left corner of your keyboard, to bring up the "Command" window, which has a blinking cursor and a text entry line.
- 4). Type in the words "setinfo name" without quotation marks, then leave a space and type in the new username.
- 5). Press "Enter" and the name change goes through.
- 6). Press the "~" button again to close the "Command" screen.
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