My character’s name and appearance was reset. I was able to change the appearance back to what it was, but the name “Methanol-Mommy” seems to have been blocked, which I think is unfair, considering methanol isn’t a drug.
I don’t think there’s any thought at all, I have messed around ALOT with names in this game and I am 100% sure it’s some sort of algorithm or AI deciding what is allowed or not. It shifts and adapts in real time.
In terms of the 40k empire’s food safety regulations and the 40k average physical fitness of humans, perhaps there are really people who can drink methanol as if it were alcohol.
The way non-english speaking companies (I can only point at talent tooltips if you think they don’t qualify) usually do this is by buying a filter off a company that specifically makes and maintains these filters. Dark Souls games notably do this too which is why you have really funny overly specific wordfilters.
Just in case you don’t wanna click it the list starts strong with stuff like “angrypirates”. It’s important to note that these don’t care if they’re in the middle of the word, so unless a special exception is made, Scum is censored because of cum. I think that was literally the case on HS release.
Anyway I assume they’re paying for a service like this and the service might now use AI to shift the censorlist around a lot so it looks like they’re doing things that justify a subscription fee.
Jenkem was blocked so I had to use gobledygook letters, then I tried some different combinations of gobledygook letters didn’t like it and decided to switch back to what it was in the pic but it had learned and now it’s like this instead:
Interesting, I remember a guy getting banned for a couple hundred years because he kept circumventing name filters. It’s kind of funny to think they invested in some AI real time solution to solve that
Hi Captain, I can confirm we did not change your name or your operative’s appearance.
Edit: It looks like a series of Barber visits took place between Sun 29 Mar 2026 06:24:15 UTC and Sun 29 Mar 2026 07:31:31 UTC, in which the name and appearance was changed each time. I hope this helps!
That is very odd. I for sure never did the initial change in which my character’s name and gender were swapped. Unless someone logged onto my account and did only that and nothing else, I don’t know how that could have happened. I did visit the barber shortly after I noticed what happened to change my character’s look back to what it was, are you sure that’s not what those visits were? Additionally, it wouldn’t let me change my name back to “Methanol-Mommy” until this morning, like it was blocked. If it helps, the first name it was changed to was Montov, which I believe is a default name. Either way, its fixed now, so thanks for the help.