Please, don’t get me wrong, but - the feature is already in there. It’s just that “right now” we’re all sharing the same avatar.
And, again, don’t get me wrong - but I’m expecting a somewhat more direct answer from someone who’s a bit more professionally involved with the said feature(s), instead of a "yea, right now it’s too early to have avatars even though we all do, but it’s surely something that will come down the line. As a matter of fact, if you’re interested in Epic creating a public API to access your UE4-related friendlist from an external app, please vote on my wishful-thinking poll on the forums " as that’s really not a satisfactory answer, or anywhere close to the answer to my question which was “if we can change avatars, how do i do it”.
I’m really not very interested in Epic forking over a new API for UE4 games to access UE4 friendlists in a poorman’s attempt to mimic Steam. Currently, as it is - UE4 very much has it in it’s capabilities to connect and converse with some back-end systems to fetch and update anyone’s account or friendlist. Heavy Gear Assault for example, has that feature in already.
In fact, and I’m not trying to appear rude here - it’s too early to open up the friendlist system to public because it’s only, what, 4-5 weeks old. Your poll will make more technical sense in a month or two, once the friendlist grows out of it’s “child illnesses” which will sporadically crop up (and be reactively ironed out) in the following months.