When I play war of rights and it is populated (about midday my time in Australia) I have my son next to me on his own computer.
Now the community is generally very polite and there is really not that much swearing. Other multiplayer games though are permeated these days with swearing if they allow in game voice. Generally it is the younger teens and 20s that do most of the swearing. Like geeks trying to be cool by being bad. This game I was hoping was the exception.
However I loaded up the confederates just now because my son wanted to see the game for the first time. I walked for a bit and joined the confederate line in a nearby forest. Following an officer there.
However an young 20 year old sounding Australian could not get his line command to work. He was not upset. But felt the need to use the Cu*, Fu*, Sh* and other words repeatedly (every second word waswas one or two swear words) while trying to explain to the other officer what the line command should do and how we were going to attack. Then an American started denigrating the yankees with the Cu*, Fu*, Sh* words also. I exited the game. Having to explain to my son that the community is not usually this rude and unsavoury. I switched to the Yankees and found the usual very polite crowd of more mature people fighting and winning. I want to enjoy a rich civil war experience not have my ears assaulted by teenagers.
My question is. In Holdfast I could mute any specific person (usually one playing youtube music on an open mic or just teeny swearing to be cool) permanently just by look at their name. Pressing a key to bring up a list of players and clicking a mic icon off next to their name.
Will War of Rights have something like this to make for a pleasant experience. Where I can be unafraid to play on an open mic so I can speak to my family while gaming.
Perhaps this is why so many avoid multiplayer games these days. I don't know why people have to swear in the worst possible way in games these days. Especially one where the period
would have been more polite. I can kind of understand it in rising storm 2 vietnam, because that is kind of what it was like. But in the civil war period, they were fairly religious and upbringing would have
made cussing a rarer thing??
Perhaps Commands should be limited to official voice overs and text and a mute everybody command given to blanket ban all voice chat for me.
I love to get to know people and am very social. But I really don't have time for mind numbing company like the experience above.
This has lead me to believe that I really do need to join and stick to a good regiment. With upstanding values.
P.S. Playing holdfast which is in early access and filled with teen geeks trying to sound hard core has made me realise that these kind of filters are very important to my gaming enjoyment.
I am no prude. But when I am trying to relax I don't like to know I am playing with the keyboard warrior try hard types.