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‘Back 4 Blood’ has an overzealous profanity filter

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Back 4 Blood has an aggressive profanity filter, censoring not only swear words but also words like the only-profane-if-you’re-in-the-40s Hell and even the letter combination oo.During NME’s own time with the game, we encountered a Steam user with the name of F1 racing icon Rubens Barrichello.

This became Rubens Barric****o, to filter out language that the game perceived to be profane. You can see this impacts the name over the player’s head, but also his name on the bottom left.While we weren’t able to test, this raises the possibility that hello could also get hit with the filter, knocking it down to ****o.

Players with oo in their name – in this case an Xbox player in the game called Doom Trooper – will have that chunk of their name.

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