In For Honor, players use the swastika as a symbol. Ubisoft has provided guidelines on how to deal with it.
On reddit, a player uploaded a screenshot showing that he faced a team with three players using the swastika symbol. In For Honor, players can create symbols using a fairly flexible editor. Some create the Ferrari logo, while others seemingly create the swastika.
Community Manager Eric Pope has also discovered the thread and provides these guidelines on how to deal with it in For Honor:
- Defeat Nazis when you encounter them in-game.
- Report Nazis when you see them in-game.
- Help make our community a better place.
The swastika is an ancient symbol originally without a unified meaning. In various religions, it is understood as a good luck sign. Since 1945, the symbol has been banned in Germany because it is associated with the oppressive regime and the crimes of the National Socialists.
There is also trouble with “Deus Vult” in the USA
For Honor exists in a somewhat strange tension field of political correctness. The English community of knights uses the battle cry “Deus Vult” (God wills it) as a hallmark, battle cry, and meme among themselves.
Under the motto “Deus Vult”, the Crusades took place in the Middle Ages.
As the US site Polygon writes, the “Alt-Right” movement in the USA uses the term as a motto to make it clear: If we win and Trump is elected president, then Islam is in trouble.
However, in the game “For Honor”, “Deus Vult” is evidently not seen by players in this context, but rather in a politically detached framework.
You can find prettier emblems, for which no one considers you a hate criminal, here:
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