the-profanity-filter-in-techniques-ogre-reborn-is-so-strict-you-may’t-use-one-of-many-default-names

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Techniques Ogre Reborn, a remastered model of Techniques Ogre: Let Us Cling Collectively, itself a remake of a strategy-RPG traditional, assigns a default occasion title based mostly in your character’s date of beginning. In case your date of beginning is between Could 2 and Could 25, that default title is Flamescale. As Twitter person Choojermelon factors out, although it is one of many names the game picks for you, making an attempt to just accept it ends in the error message, “Textual content comprises banned phrases. Please change your entry.”

Choojermelon instructed it could possibly be as a result of Flamescale comprises the phrase “mescal”, an abbreviation of “mescaline”, as within the hallucinogenic drug. Others theorized it is perhaps due to containing “lame” as a substitute, however making an attempt it myself “lame” by itself is ok whereas “mescal” just isn’t. Additionally banned: cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and heroin, although not marijuana.

It would not be the primary time a profanity filter has been tripped up by an innocuous phrase as a result of one other phrase on a ban record was inside it. The Darkish Souls 2 profanity filter was notorious for stopping gamers from having the phrase “knight” of their title as a result of it filtered out something containing the letters “nig”. Darkish Souls 2’s banned thesaurus has been uploaded, so you may learn it and be baffled by the inclusion of such harmless strings of letters as “however” (absolutely simply banning “butt” would do the job?) alongside longer phrases of weird specificity like “cockfucklutated”.

What makes the harshness of Techniques Ogre Reborn’s filter extra notable is that it is a completely singleplayer game. We’re used to on-line video games having chat filters, and ensuing oddities like Genshin Affect censoring the phrases “Taiwan”, “Hong Kong”, “Putin”, “Hitler”, and “phrases”, however seeing a strict filter in a singleplayer game is extra stunning. Is it a remnant of a canceled multiplayer mode, or was it included for the sake of limiting streamers and pranksters who may add a screenshot of a impolite phrase on social media?

It is a good distance from Fallout 4, which not solely allow you to enter “Fuck”, “Fucker”, or “Fuckface” as your character’s title however rewarded you by having robotic butler Codsworth greet you with traces recorded particularly for them. I attempted calling my occasion “Fuckface” in Techniques Ogre Reborn, however it wasn’t having a bar of it. “Cockfucklutated” was right out.