Give custom display name for specific NPCs

[ak47toh]

Just wondering are we able to give a custom display name for specific NPCs? For example, I would like to name "Isaac Kleiner" or "Eli Vance" instead of them being named as "Scientist". I may also do this for some important NPCs that have their own names instead of being generically called scientist, guard, or Xen aliens etc.

The thing is, Sven Co-op also have this feature as they introduced it as displayname keyvalue like this below. They are zombies reskinned, but they had renamed as "uboa man" instead of showing up as Zombie.

Perhaps we could also introduce something like that too introducing a keyvalue for custom display name? If the NPCs have no custom displayname values input it in, it will use the default ones specified by the base script/game from deathnotice.inc.

[Alienmario]

Yes, that should be doable, for the killfeed at least.
We can use the entity user data subsystem for name keeping.

The hud display seems to me like a relic of the past, unfitting for modern/sp campaigns. If we do it, it should be disabled by default.

[ak47toh]

The hud display seems to me like a relic of the past, unfitting for modern/sp campaigns. If we do it, it should be disabled by default.

That's alright. I wasn't requesting for this part. Let whatever shows up at Black Mesa be as it is. But since it does shows up at the killfeed so I might as well just conveniently bring up this suggestion to give NPCs their own custom display name.

There are more names to add on over the physics related entities that kills the players or NPCs, but I will create a separate issue at another time in future.