You were right, John, and the cause was simpler than it looked: your medal title was only ever drawn by your own game. Nothing about it was ever sent to anyone else. When you equip a medal your client builds that ribbon from your own inventory — but the little bundle of information each player broadcasts to everyone around them (position, gear, name, pet, cash effect) had no medal in it at all, so other players' games had nothing to draw. That is exactly what your screenshot shows.

That part was fixed the day you reported it. Your character now tells everyone which medal it is wearing, and every other player's game looks it up the same way yours does, so the text and the decorated ribbon come out identical on every screen. It clears when you take the medal off and follows you when you walk, jump, sit and die. Your own title also used to draw over the bottom status bar when you stood low on screen; that is corrected.

Since then I found and closed two more things behind it. GM Hide was never being sent between players at all — a GM using /hide stayed fully visible to everyone — which the title fix quietly depended on. And the decorated ribbon had a one-pixel transparent seam under the text on 17 of the 73 medal frames, including the one in your screenshot; the three pieces of the frame are not all the same height in the original art and we were sizing from the wrong one.

What to re-test on the development build: stand next to another player wearing a medal, walk and jump, swap to a different medal and confirm both the words and the ribbon change on their screen, then unequip and confirm it disappears within a second.

One honest note: the gap between your name and the title is our best estimate. No original material we hold shows the real spacing. If it looks a pixel or two off to you, say so — we will trust your eye over our guess.

Still not done: nobody has confirmed this live with two players yet.

Closing this — confirmed live with two players. The v43 test run checked that a second player's medal title shows under their name and vanishes within a second when they take it off, and it passed. That was the only thing left; the fix itself shipped some time ago but had never been seen by two real players. The one open question stands: the gap between name and title is our best estimate and no original material we hold shows the real spacing, so if it looks off to you, say so and we will trust your eye over our guess.