Why is the game so cuss word free?

[A Cat]

Whats up with all the fraggin, krakin, groggin, etc? Scunners, blaggers, do those words even mean anything, lol? I feel like a kindergartener listening to reject's barks sometimes. Is that just how WH 40k setting is? Or does fatshark want to stay family friendly despite enemies being pinatas of exploding pus and maggots?

And then I hear an occasional "imbecile" or "degenerate" from a psyker or zealot and I'm like "what? you can say that?"

edit: tbh I disagree with most people here, to me most of these "make-pretend grown-up curse words" sound silly, whimsical even, as if WH 40k is a christian setting and characters don't want their parents to punish them for dirty words,

[Grey Mauser]

I feel like our cuss words just stopped existing in the 41'st millenium, and words like kark are what they are replaced with. Idk about scunner but blackguard is an entirely normal, real, and frankly pretty fancy insult, typically used by the more, well, old-fashioned people - just like the Fanatic Zealot.

[BigJ]

This isn't rogue trader, no cussing here.

[Captain Worthy]

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

[BigJ]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

Rogue trader.

[A Cat]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

Might be a fair point, actually, I'm not British or American and English is not my first language, so I might be missing some cultural dialectical context

[Kuma]

More often than not, modern day "cuss words" feel totally out of place when used on non-modern day settings.

Cant you play a game made for adults without cuss words? Sigh. That crap ruined my own language and it was hard to remove them again. I thought it was cool when i was in my youth and to sound "hard". You sound pretty stupid as adult using all the time swear words in your everyday language. If you cant say a sentence without even cussing once you need serious help.

[Nessa]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

Didn't watch Tithes, did you?
We got F-bomb there.
Welcome to modern age, brought to you by the Kasrkin.

[Slyspy]

Of course those words have meaning, in the context of the game. Do they not convey the gist of what is being said?

[Haggis]

Swear words are unnecessarily rude and crude and usually detract from a setting. Creating their own swear words did the job better. I understand that it seems a bit silly when this franchise from the 80s which was full of genocide, drugs, rape, human sacrifice, lobotomisation, and every other horror known to man; would be such sticklers over mere swear words, but I really do agree with their decision.

There is nothing worse than writing that has characters saying F every other word. I hate with a passion absolutely every film or show that is aimed at that 'teen-to-adult' age range, where middle-aged and elderly people try to write their lines for them, and think that they swear non-stop. I am glad that its not in 40k.

[Qau'lthir]

Originally posted by BigJ:

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

Rogue trader.

Originally posted by Nessa:

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Warhammer is a British product. American swearwords would be totally out of place in this universe.

Didn't watch Tithes, did you?
We got F-bomb there.
Welcome to modern age, brought to you by the Kasrkin.

It's more interesting to have a distinct world with its own vernacular than trying to mirror our own boring reality. Warhammer used to be that way and it was more interesting for it.

At least Darktide remains true to the legacy of what Warhammer used to be.

[tizeY]

Originally posted by Qau'lthir:

Originally posted by BigJ:

Rogue trader.

Originally posted by Nessa:

Didn't watch Tithes, did you?
We got F-bomb there.
Welcome to modern age, brought to you by the Kasrkin.

It's more interesting to have a distinct world with its own vernacular than trying to mirror our own boring reality. Warhammer used to be that way and it was more interesting for it.

At least Darktide remains true to the legacy of what Warhammer used to be.

Back in my day it was acceptable to burn down an entire village for 1 Heretic, good old witchhunters

Then there's 40k where it's still Xenoscum, Techfreak, Abomination, truly so different from our times.

[Urinietszche]

Zog you

[MagicMoist]

Pretty much everything I wanted to say has been covered. I like it when books, TV shows, and other works of fiction invent new words for their characters to use, as it really cements the story's authenticity. Warhammer 40k has a certain cheesy charm to it that feels a bit alien when compared to our real world, but that's what makes the universe so likable. Hearing my vet shout things like f***! s***! b****! and so on would honestly stick out too much for my taste.

[tizeY]

Originally posted by MagicMoist:

Pretty much everything I wanted to say has been covered. I like it when books, TV shows, and other works of fiction invent new words for their characters to use, as it really cements the story's authenticity. Warhammer 40k has a certain cheesy charm to it that feels a bit alien when compared to our real world, but that's what makes the universe so likable. Hearing my vet shout things like f***! s***! b****! and so on would honestly stick out too much for my taste.

Loose cannon vet in her voice screaming "kill the f/(ckers HAHA" would fit incredibly well, i mean all the character archetypes on the ship are mentally ill other than the ogryns which are, well. you know.