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You’d think that in a looter shooter, you’d easily be able to type “shoot” into chat without it being censored. After all, the word’s already in the genre itself. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case in Nexon’s The First Descendant since it’s a banned word in the game.
Yes, that means instead of being able to tell your teammates to “shoot the enemy,” you’ll have to jump through a few loopholes to get your point across, whether it’s adding spaces in between letters or mistyping it on purpose and hoping others understand. Of course, that’s not the only ridiculously banned word you can’t utter in-game. For some reason, “AFK” is also prohibited, which means you can’t actually let your team know when one of your squadmates is an .
Some, like Reddit user , speculate that this is due to it having “FK” written consecutively, which is hilarious considering it’s already a censored version of most people’s favorite swear word. You also aren’t allowed to show other players that you’re laughing your arse off because, again, “LMAO” is another banned term. Other words that the game absurdly censors include “subtitle,” “OMG,” and “snipe,” all for reasons unknown.
Now, even though The First Descendant monitors your word usage worse than a kindergarten classroom, this isn’t the first instance of hea.
