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"name console" is not allowed and set your name to "unamed" or "unnamed" if changed in-game. #2628

Open metita opened 5 years ago

metita commented 5 years ago

Credits to @Rainnegan on this one.

For some reason, console is not a valid name for a player, game will force your name to unnamed if your name gets changed in-game. If you enter a listenserver with console as a name, your name will be forced to unamed (should be unnamed).

Before entering to a server: image

Name get changed by default: image

We will change our name to anything else: image

Then we change our name to console again: image

SamVanheer commented 5 years ago

I think that's to counter social engineering attacks where a player claims to be the console and announces something.

agrastiOs commented 5 years ago

@basuritashka it should be or in the title, not nor

metita commented 5 years ago

@agrastiOs Thanks, I was thinking in something else.

SkillartzHD commented 5 years ago

this is old, I have removed this filter for the name "consoles", but there was no result, for \ / .. it's ok to have this filter