The Division 2 censors the word Assault due to the first letters

Ubisoft are known for their war on toxicity in video games but their measures sometimes go over the top and sometimes they just look plain silly. Such is the case with The Division 2 where players can't use the word "Assault" in loadouts.

[BlackShark001]

Ohhhhh.... Please!

[IMissJimRyan]

You can shoot someone's head, but read "ass" is too offensive.

[Gaming101]

Next Solid Snake's name shall be striken from the records for the double entendre that it is.

[ChrisW]

Maybe pronouncing it correctly would stop the censoring...

"uh-sawlt"

[TheColbertinator]

Ass salt

[REDGUM]

Lube anyone?

[Relientk77]

So is every Assassin's Creed game going to get censored next?

This is so stupid.

[Vanfernal]

And that's a double "ass". 😆

[ChrisW]

Ass Ass In?

I'm quite certain I saw a video on the Net about that...

[uncleDAD]

Say hello to In's Creed

[AngelicToucH]

Ass in Ass ..the creed of beautiful men

[ChrisW]

It's pronounced "uh-sas-in"

Remember, we're talking about chat here.

[Xb1ps4]

😒

[HylianMigz]

hahaha

[2pacalypsenow]

It OK to kill thousands of people, but don't use the words "ass". it's offensive.

[rainslacker]

I don't get it. Everyone has an ass. What is there to be offended about? Do some people not identify their ass or something?

[EliteComments123]

LOL STUPID

[NoneYuh]

This has happened for years in games. It’s annoying, but this is making it out to be a big deal. From my experience a fix is never implemented to differentiate a partial word from a full one. Just name it “shooty blasty” and call it a day

[rainslacker]

Maybe they're going for realism. Military wouldn't call it an assault would they? They'd call it a strike. Sounds better for PR if things go wrong.

[Hungryalpaca]

What? The military always uses the word assault.

[ziggurcat]

the filter in the PS4 communities is brutal for that. some of the strangest words get censored for no reason at all.

[RabbitFly]

This has happened in every game with text based chat since the start of auto censoring in mmos. This is not news or some dumb political agenda. Its just the limitation of autotranslate software.

[annoyedgamer]

MMOS are not rated M however.

[RabbitFly]

Guidelines for voice chat exist despite esrb rating.

Don't get me wrong I also think censoring chat is pointless and stupid. The point is that it has been going on for a long long time. This is not news and not the political agenda this dumb article is making it out to be.

It is simply standard practice. Not something Ubisoft did to make some kind of stance on language.

[DirtyBollix]

Pathetic.

[synistatha1]

I really miss the 90's this generation is so damn sensitive to everything it's ridiculous smfh

[2pacalypsenow]

100%

The latest trigger is a "white woman" who created a Chinese restaurant is somehow racist and offensive.

[rainslacker]

I remember this being a thing in the 90's as well. Comes from loose parsing of the string data to determine if it's allowed or not. No real way around it if you want to censor the word itself in those scenarios without more complex algorithms which are mostly just a waste of resources in the bigger picture.

[DaDrunkenJester]

This is why we cant expect algorithms to predict censorship or copyright. They just don't understand the complexities of human language.

I dont understand why "ass" is even a filtered word anyway. Is it not a rated M game? Is it just their own personal loadout? Doesnt normal television say worse words than ass all the time? It makes no sense to me.

[Tross]

I see, it’s a program that did this. That makes more sense than a person doing it, and just makes me that much more weary of a future where everything is automated. Perhaps the executives at Ubisoft should assess their assets and call in their assistants to help assemble a better system to assuage this situation.

[DaDrunkenJester]

*Your comment was flagged for having way too many ass's*

[Tross]

@DaDrunkenJester And here I was thinking I failed us all for forgetting to include the word assimilate in my sentence. Ubisoft’s associates would be so disappointed. I’m probably going to keep thinking of words like that all day.

[rainslacker]

Yep. The program has a list of words that are not allowed. For each word it takes the string data, separates it, and checks to see if the string of letters in that disallowed word exists in the word being examined. If so, then it censors the word, or takes some other action. It's a very common form of moderating text in public chat rooms, and in forums like this one, although they don't use one here. I think reddit and Steam do though, as i see censored words on there.

If say "butt" wasn't allowed, then it would censor butter.

There are ways to see if it's part of another word, but it's a much more complex program, and generally not worth implementing for general use.

[Tross]

WTF? This is 10 days late for an April Fools joke.

[mch2011uk]

Bumbumin's Creed??

[DaniMacYo]

Lame

[Alek83]

Wow that's like Anthem level retarded there.

[Dragonscale]

Ass tounding. Ridiculous tbh I mean there are dozens of words that contain ass in them fgs lol.

[Count_Bakula]

I also can't name my shotgun loadout "Shotgun"....

[AngainorG7X]

Oh my GOOOOOOD

[annoyedgamer]

M rated game censoring mild swear words. Something seems off here....

[ajax17]

God, they suck

[AngelicToucH]

LMAO meanwhile in the subtitles that are in my language they literally say "fuck your mother" and "my dick" in the campaign...lmao this is just rich

[Spartacus10]

What difference is it going to make? Its 18+, the only person that will complain about bad language is Steve Rogers.

[victorMaje]

Stupidism

[Kornholic]

"Ubisoft are known for their war on toxicity in video games"

Ubisoft is the toxicity in video games.

[GameBoyColor]

Im the wise words of a hyena goon "fuck the division!" Lol jk I love the game but this is stupid

[neomahi]

Oh you've gotta be kidding! Damn liberal hippies!

[neomahi]

Ass is in the Bible but the Bible teaches it's a serious sin to take the name of God in vain, far heavier price then even the f-bomb "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for I will not hold him blameless who taketh my name I'm vain". That it includes God as his title. No Oh my.... Thank.... I swear to......... Damn it, holy.... Holy mother of.... It's all included, yelling it or not. Man can get to heaven saying the f-bomb over and over, but use the name of God other than in a religious manner and guess what? You're in violation, so they're gonna start complying with that? I'm more offended with that than ass. What, are they going to start making artists put t-shirts on all women. Who decided that just showing the nipple constituted nudity, does not the whole boob turn a guy on? Someone needs to get their priorities Strait. Morons!

[jjb1981]

So I guess I'll be playing "In's Creed: Odyssey"

[N3mzor]

Bumbumin's Creed

[quent]

Crazy World

[mastershredder]

Ass-inine.

[LOLcheeseORZ]

I don't understand....

[TheHan]

Just Wow!

[BioDead]

ass out

[Vanfernal]

Just change the loadoud name to "buttault". Easy fix. 😆