I would build either a list of hashes, or a hash of hashes:

use warnings;
use strict;

use Data::Dumper;

my $data = '\player_0\STOMP\frags_0\0\ping_0\ 146\team_0\0\mesh_0\Male
+ Soldier'.
           '\skin_0\TOPModels.Skins.CCSM\face_0\TOPModels.Skins.Legs\n
+gsecret_0\false'.
           '\player_1\animals\frags_1\0\ping_1\ 374\team_1\1\mesh_1\Ma
+le Soldier'.
           '\skin_1\TOPModels.Skins.SFMe\face_1\TOPModels.Skins.SWATTe
+x0'.
           '\ngsecret_1\false\player_2\Rigodon\frags_2\0\ping_2\ 159\t
+eam_2\1'.
           '\mesh_2\Male Soldier\skin_2\TOPModels.Skins.SFMe\face_2\TO
+PModels.Skins.SWATTex0'.
           '\ngsecret_2\false\queryid\64.1';

#Build a heirarchy
my @list;
my %tree;
while ($data=~/\G\\(\w+)_(\d+)\\([^\\]+)/g) {
    $list[$2]->{$1}=$3;
    $tree{$2}->{$1}=$3;
}

print Dumper(\@list,\%tree);

__END__
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.Legs',
            'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.CCSM',
            'frags' => '0',
            'team' => '0',
            'ping' => ' 146',
            'player' => 'STOMP',
            'ngsecret' => 'false',
            'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
          },
          {
            'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SWATTex0',
            'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SFMe',
            'frags' => '0',
            'team' => '1',
            'ping' => ' 374',
            'player' => 'animals',
            'ngsecret' => 'false',
            'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
          },
          {
            'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SWATTex0',
            'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SFMe',
            'frags' => '0',
            'team' => '1',
            'ping' => ' 159',
            'player' => 'Rigodon',
            'ngsecret' => 'false',
            'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
          }
        ];
$VAR2 = {
          '0' => {
                   'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.Legs',
                   'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.CCSM',
                   'frags' => '0',
                   'team' => '0',
                   'ping' => ' 146',
                   'player' => 'STOMP',
                   'ngsecret' => 'false',
                   'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
                 },
          '1' => {
                   'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SWATTex0',
                   'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SFMe',
                   'frags' => '0',
                   'team' => '1',
                   'ping' => ' 374',
                   'player' => 'animals',
                   'ngsecret' => 'false',
                   'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
                 },
          '2' => {
                   'face' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SWATTex0',
                   'skin' => 'TOPModels.Skins.SFMe',
                   'frags' => '0',
                   'team' => '1',
                   'ping' => ' 159',
                   'player' => 'Rigodon',
                   'ngsecret' => 'false',
                   'mesh' => 'Male Soldier'
                 }
        };
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