[2022] [Reported] Weapon number banned in chat

you can say c*ckatrice in game, you have been able to for a long time now.

Twinkle Berry wasn’t a Troop the last time I edited the censor outside of “1488” if I recall correctly.

We do not edit the bad word list often because we have to take the game chat offline to do it.
Fixing that one is on my list though.

Just remember, from the outside things often look simpler than they are.

For example here’s 2 examples of entries on the bad words list:

([f|F][\W][u|U][\W][c|C][\W][k|K][\W])
(^|[^a-zA-Z0-9#_-])1[ \/]*4[ \/]*8[ \/]*8

These are two 4 letter words, it looks worse when you get longer words.

Just to get ahead of the next criticism, I know this looks unnecessarily complicated now right?
But this is what the chat software knows how to read and we didn’t write the chat software. We are game developers, not chatroom developers. We don’t re-invent the wheel unless it makes sense. There’s better uses for our time such as fixing gameplay bugs, introducing new content and features.

If it were super simple these mistakes wouldn’t happen. I get you don’t have a lot of faith but not everything is as it always seems from an outside perspective.

We also test any additions to the censor on our test server, however, it’s not simple to think of every possible variation all the time. Sometimes one will be missed and in that case we just fix it and move on.

Most of the team have degrees and have been working in the industry for over a decade including at huge AAA studios like EA Games and Blizzard. Yeah we’re still human and make dumb mistakes sometimes but generally bugs come up because of super weird intricate interactions, not something a highschool level programmer could avoid.

Happy to keep this thread open as long as the community guidelines are followed, if not I will have to close it. Thanks.

Please bear in mind my post was in response to criticisms in an attempt to provide more transparency, not as a general response to the original bug report.

As already mentioned, if we can fix it so team sharing isn’t broken then we will.
If we can’t we will remove it from the censor.
In general our stance is not to allow any very clear references to supporting Hitler or Nazis in our game though and we’re not apologetic about that regardless of any feedback we receive to the contrary. I shouldn’t need to explain that.

Yes or I wouldn’t have said anything. As always we delete or edit out the posts that breached the community guidelines.

Nothing further is needed from the community the bug was reported, it’s not as high priority given the other bugs that the team are working on right now so it’s not at the top of the list and will take time.