Trying to include a player's name in a broadcast message

[Buffalo Baggins]

I have skaarj set up so that when you kill it, it triggers a special event that broadcasts a message
Is there a way for me to have the message include the players name?

Something like: "*Player* killed the Skaarj!"

[Masterkent]

The standard SpecialEvent doesn't provide such an option. You can define your own subclass of it and implement function Trigger like this:

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static function string GetNameOf(Pawn P)
{
      if (P == none)
            return "Someone";
      if (P.PlayerReplicationInfo != none)
            return P.PlayerReplicationInfo.PlayerName;
      if (Len(P.MenuName) == 0)
            P.MenuName = string(P.Class.Name);
      return P.NameArticle $ P.MenuName;
}

function Trigger(Actor A, Pawn EventInstigator)
{
      BroadcastMessage(GetNameOf(EventInstigator) @ Message, true, 'CriticalEvent');
}