KNOWN ISSUE: Gore Disabled

[FatsharkJulia]

We are aware of an issue in which Gore has been disabled for those playing Darktide in Germany and Austria.

This will be addressed in our hotfix releasing on December the 5th, however, ragdoll interactions will remain disabled. More information can be seen here:

Hotfix #53 (1.5.11) - Patch Notes

OK, I have an official statement now, especially to reply to people who were asking why now? This is something we weren’t doing before, but as we’ve released on more platforms, we want to ensure we have a cohesive age-rating compliance across our platforms. This is what led to the change. That said, when we were applying these, Germany and Austria were two of the regions where more restrictions were incorrectly applied than necessary. Those will be rolled back at our hotfix on Dec. 5. From the…

UPDATE: 28/11

Statement on Region Restrictions

[Steam_Headerwhat] Hey Everyone, We know there’s been a lot of confusion today, and we wanted to clear it up. With Hotfix #53 (1.5.11) yesterday, we rolled out some changes to certain regions (Japan, Germany and Austria) in order to be in line with what is required for the various rating boards across platforms and we didn’t communicate that to players properly. That’s on us. Now that we are on more platforms, we need to ensure we’re compliant across all of them. In the process of doing this…

UPDATE: 03/12

@FatsharkStrawHat

We rolled out some changes to certain regions (Japan, Germany and Austria) to be better aligned with age rating boards. Germany and Austria were incorrectly given more restrictions than intended. With the upcoming Hotfix #54 (1.6.1), Germany and Austria will have most of their gore setting restored to what it was previously, with the exception of post-death ragdoll interactions to be in line with recent Steam rule on German regulations and to align settings with console regulations (on-death ragdoll animations will still be present). This means German and Austrian console players will get access to the same gore settings - except for post-death ragdoll interactions. This puts it in line with the settings on XBOX/WinPC and PS5. For Japan, all settings will go back to as they were, with the exception of PlayStation 5 to comply with regulations.

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[kash0r]

Issue Type (Required):

Visual

Issue Description (Required):

Gore settings and gore ingame gone

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

1. Start the game
2. Load meatgrinder
3. check video settings

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[Nimmerlein]

Same here, since the patch there are no more dismemberments possible. Tested in match AND training room.

[XenomorphPrime]

What country are ya from if i may ask?

[kuli]

Apparently, region restrictions were added with the most recent patch 1.5.11 that remove blood decals, gore (gibbing), visible wounds, and interactive ragdolls. This might be enforced for Austria, Germany, Japan, and probably other applicable countries.

[Badwin]

Yup. Link to the PS5-related restrictions code. There are similar files for Steam and Xbox.

Looks like the Xbox version of this file has been there for a while, with only rag dolls affected, but I haven’t looked hard to see if that was actually implemented/enabled.

[Miregall23]

But why would they do that

[murphIV]

omg that’s terrible

i use for the blood god I would be so upset if the normal gibs got turned off…bummer it’s so good

For the Blood God

[jackjackson]

I reckon a mod will fix it by the end of the week

[AccountMadeToReply]

Remove Region Restrictions (uncensor)

[CrazedCatCookie]

This makes no sense for Germany and Austria (don’t know enough about Japan to comment). Germany used to be quite strict about gore in video games, but that’s not been a thing in at least 10 years now. There was never a problem with Darktide’s gore in Germany.
Austria has never had any issues with gore in video games. In fact, when Germany still had their infamous ban list, you could get all of those games in Austria, uncensored, because we usually received the European version. Sometimes, however, we got lumped in with the Germans and received their censored content. Guess that happens when you ignorantly or lazily just treat it all as one locale - I wonder how Fatshark would feel if Sweden, Norway, and Denmark were all just considered the same locale.

I don’t know what happened here, but this can’t come from governments or official regulations. It must be a misunderstanding or mistake on Fatshark’s part, IMO.

[gpkgpk]

FWIW Mods already fixed it.

[ForumWarrior]

It is so wild to me that we have countries in the world that censor things like this

[Vertraxxx]

I can understand certain regions having restrictions on the PS5, but it makes no sense for the same restrictions to affect PCs, which have been fine so far. It’s probably a bug. I expect it will be fixed in next week’s patch.

[MadMartigan]

Games always had to have blood turned off for Germany. Didn’t realise it was still a thing but maybe it is.

[XenomorphPrime]

Nope it isn’t since last console gen in mosz cases.

TLOU2 had gore, all the wolfenstein Games did, even Vermintide 2 had gore.
Calisto Orotocol, Deadspace etc still do have gore.

So its not that in Germany there is “no blood” out of sudden

[Met1983]

@devs or publisher

Please remove the censorship in the German Steam version !

There is no reason to remove the gore at all.

This is fraud to German costumers censoring a game after 2 years of release.!

[ronnsen86]

Issue Type (Required):

Visual

Issue Description (Required):

There is no gore or ragdoll in the PS5 Pro Version

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

It’s a constant problem

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

Xbox

[XenomorphPrime]

From what i saw, some do have some don’t.

Also the update removed gore for some PC Players aswell according to steam forums( even non german ones)

[DingX233]

Germany, Austria, and Japan