Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer survival horror game that came out in 2016. It stands out from others by featuring many iconic characters from horror franchises.
Dead by Daylight games are for 5 players, where 4 are the survivors and 1 is the killer. Survivors must complete some goals to escape, while the killer must capture them all.
Being a horror game, violence and gore is very common in Dead by Daylight. Therefore, the game is rated M (for players 17 and older).
However, even if it is an ‘M’ game, the game’s chat censorship system is not behaving as such. This mainly affects the chat for players.
According to multiple reports, Dead by Daylight chat censorship is unnecessarily strict. So, many are demanding an option to disable censoring (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).
Dead by Daylight chat censorship system frustrates many players
Many Dead by Daylight players are unhappy with the game’s chat censorship system. They see it as illogical that in an M-rated game there are so many censored simple words.
Can someone explain this to me?
I’m allowed to brutally stab 4 teenagers to death and take a selfie with their corpse as a psychopath.
I’m allowed to telekinetically snap someone’s arm, leg, and neck brutally with a closeup zoom of a child ghost’s face.
Also can LITERALLY stick a chainsaw through someone’s chest and grunt in approval.
But I can’t type the word “fuck” or “tube” in post-game chat because I might offend someone.
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The issue in question does not only affect insults, but even normal words can be interpreted as offensive.
There should be a choice to have censored chats turned on or off.
I know, bit of a hot take. But it’s gotten to the point where I feel like I’m playing Roblox. Words like “Dance”, “Phone”, “Kill” (In a game where you kill or be killed) and even names like “Wilhelm” is apparently too harsh. Can’t even name players without getting a row of hashtags.
At this point, just give us an option to turn it off. And if anyone here is actually hurt by the word “Dance”, let me know.
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So, as a potential solution, Dead by Daylight players are asking for an option to turn off censorship.
Character names and game perks censored by the system
Apparently, much of the issue is that there are words whose censorship is totally unjustified. The system can be so strict that even character names and perks from the same game can experience censorship.
The problem is that it doesnt just censor “bad words”, their attempt of a filter to censor, just randomly blocks any word you wrote.
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At the moment there is no official acknowledgment on the issue from the developers. We will update this story once new details emerge on the matter.
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