How do I remove players from the roblox escape menu

[wrtrewewqwewqwqwqee (bad_username)]

Hi, I am trying to find a way to remove the player list from the escape menu for a horror game I’m working on that will have fake players. I am trying to make it harder for real players to differentiate the fake ones.

(this is a photo I found online of the escape menu I am talking about if your confused)

I have found posts that have confirmed that this is possible and have code that used to work but now has changed due to roblox updates. I know this is possible because arsenal has also messed with the core gui so this cant just be dismissed as impossible.

the old solution:

Hiding players from player list

Adding on yet again to what @SummerEquinox said, you can build your custom implementation off of the one implemented in the core gui. The files are somewhere in [user]/AppData/local/Roblox/versions/[version]/content/scripts. But it will eventually fall out of date and require maintenance to add new features. I would use Git to add your changes onto the file, and merge your version with Roblox’s updated one every so often.

the patch:

Disconnect Player on Removal from DataModel

[Update] April 20, 2023 [Update] November 30, 2022 Hi Developers, Currently, removing the Player object from the DataModel will not result in a disconnect. This results in broken/unusable behaviors because complex systems in the Engine/Roblox rely on a Player Instance existing for each player. To address these concerns, we will be rolling out a change on November 28, 2022 that will disconnect a player if their corresponding Player object is removed from the DataModel (on the Server or Cl…

proof that the core gui can be messed with:

How did Rolve remove the Roblox Menu Gui?

How did they remove the Gui on this?? in the video once in the game it removes the roblox menu gui idk if this is just a glitch with my game or not

[RipBonzii (Label)]

You can do this by deleting the player on the client. as long as the player isn’t the LocalPlayer it will remove it from the menu and leaderboard

[hya123456h (KingBob)]

A sketchy way is to rename the playergui as soon as the player joins. (This can break quite a few things) but it does remove the entire menu