A normal name not accepted

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Character Customisation

Issue Description (Required):

I tried to name my psyker “Sieglinde” which is a relatively normal, if a little outdated real-life name. The game would not let me. It told me that I had to use normal letters and numbers, and only certain symbols or spaces.

As I tried to only use standard English letters to type in a relatively normal name, I am VERY confused as to why I cannot name my character “Sieglinde.”

I’ve attempted to just play the game without it, but over the past couple of days, I have since found it continues to bother me enough that I am officially posting a bug report about it. Because I cannot think that this is anything but a bug.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Create new operator, choose psyker, attempt to name them “Sieglinde”

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

Player ID (Optional):

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I’m guessing they filtered Sieg because of Sieg Heil. I also noticed these weird filters, whoever makes the regex for the names is very very overzealous. Reminds me a lot of Dark Souls and the notorious K***hts.

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You know, that does make sense, in a rather profoundly dumb way. You would think developers would be able to program a better naming filter system than that. But I suppose not. Either way, I find this unacceptable.

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Lol. Try Siegfried, same result?

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We love the Scunthorpe Problem

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To be fair, if you had ever been to Scunthorpe you would filter out the whole word.

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Hi Torruun, I’ve added the name to our allow list and you should now be able to use it!

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