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Appreciate the constructive feedback dropped here and there in this thread.
Reality is - this is a learning filter that is being rolled out through more EA titles.
We called it out as an issue when they turned it on for Battlefield V (only, so far), especially after the shenanigans prior to launch.
We’ve been feeding back to the team regarding some of the words that are block (like “do”, really?), and the filter was not set for the rating of the game.
I know it’s frustrating, it’s something a separate team that oversees multiple EA titles is working on.
As I get updates I can share, I will share them here.
-Braddock512
Can we still have an option to turn it off? Is it even possible?
I can check. As it’s a new tool, it may or may not have that option yet. Like I said, they’re rolling it out to have appropriate filters based on game rating - but that’s not functional yet.
Example: E for Everyone won’t work for games like Battlefield as some stricter rules for games that have a younger player base may inadvertently block legit phrases in a T or M rated game.
Weird. People mention all the time that MP in BF games has never been rated. And rating itself is based only on SP experience.
Would it not be appropriate for the M rated games to have a toggle that ignores the filtering ingame.
After all the worst things one can say in the BF chat are not cuss words but words/sentences that cannot ever be really filtered.
Ehrm… go watch Battlefield Friends and you’ll find out what the term means… it is not literal.
I think there is…
Be as well asking the “support team” why hackers reported weeks if not months ago are still in the game hacking away. Hardly an incentive to play the game when the player base is now so small that running into the same chimp hacking is a daily occurrence..
I mean… The ability to turn off the filter was promised after the Beta, the twitter links I posted prove that it was supposed to be in…
I saw the links you posted. Unfortunately, sometimes folks make statements that aren’t vetted by other teams. This isn’t throwing David under the bus, by any means. However, it wasn’t one person’s decision to make and the decision after launch was to not have it disabled.
That’s because the support team doesn’t handle anti-cheat. That’s a completely separate team at DICE.
-Braddock512
No, it wouldn’t. The reason is simple: While some words are fine for a mature audience, there still needs to be a block on hate speech, racism, etc. There’s absolutely zero excuse or allowance for those types of comments.
RE: your second point - that’s why a new tool with learning capabilities was brought in.
-Braddock512
Presumably a non existent one going by the amount of reported hackers doing the rounds… 
Some constructive feedback from someone who’s been playing since the launch of 1942 and won’t be buying another version after V. Not even going to say “unless” because I don’t see anything changing - hoping I’m wrong, and I’ll be more than happy to eat my own words if I am.
The biggest issue is the taking away of features without replacing them with something that either works better - or works at all.
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Server rentals: After running a team who had multiple servers for over a decade, the removal of this feature is ridiculous. We had a great community built up around it, had a ton of fun, competed in amateur ladders, etc. We ran a fair server, handled our own anti-cheat along with PB (at the time) and worked to keep the teams balanced and fair. That’s likely the major contributor to our servers being so popular for so long.
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Team Switch: This ability is gone. Quite often, I’d switch from the winning team to the losing to try to help derail steamrolls. Sometimes it worked - other times it didn’t. However, having the option was a great thing.
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Team Balance: There’s nothing. Zero. You can be playing in a full server, and after being steamrolled, half of the losing team will leave, the entire winning team will stay, then it’s 12 v 32. Server doesn’t even try to move people around so that it’d be 22v22 so at least the numbers would be even.
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Hard Corps mode: Many of us loved that mode. Stripped away the UI, made managing resources much more important, and worked much better for competitive play. There’s nothing to take it’s place.
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Epic scale maps. The maps now are almost too small for 64 players. It makes it a twitch shooter like COD, Doom, etc. That has eroded the soul of Battlefield into complete exile.
Instead - we see silly things come up - these nonsense “experimental” weapons, ridiculous cosmetics, a chat filter that does more harm than good (by that I mean people accept the challenge of misspelling things so that it’ll get around the filter, and continue with their bigoted, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ rants). There’s zero anti-cheat. Fair Fight is a joke - Respawn uses it with Titanfall as well, and it was a joke there. The official line was, “If you see it, report it and we’ll handle it” - and nothing gets done. The same hackers are in the game months / years later while being reported many, many times.
I’m not just some young guy throwing money at a gaming company to keep on the forefront of gaming. I’m a 50 year old gamer who not just buys gaming equipment / games for myself, but my children and grandchildren as well. At this time, I will not drop another dime with anything that has the EA brand on it because of these issues with Battlefield, because EA had Respawn abandon Titanfall, has such awful community support and customer support.
I am tired of the lack of communication, the lack of listening to the community / fan base unless they manage to break through the silly downvote / upvote system on Reddit, and seemingly the complete ignoring of the community that cares enough to come to the official forums to talk about things. That lack of any sort of participation in the official forums is what leads to it becoming such a toxic place where people don’t just discuss things, they throw the dial to 11 and wind up being just snide and rude to each other.
DICE used to really connect with the community on all levels. That’s gone just as much as the soul of Battlefield is.
So we can expect a future where people will not be able to taunt others with “ez” at the end of the round?
That would be appreciated.
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In these games it is not an f word or another cuss word that will get people the most riled up but things that question or belittle their skill and efforts
So this all means we will never have an option to turn the filer on and off? And the only solution is if people responsible for the filter can make it "smart’?
Hmm unsure… I see people declaring ez and they lost the round lok
The problem with that? The line won’t stop.
Every word will have more than one meaning. Some person will find offence to anything and everything, and it only takes a few people making a scene for something absurd to get a negative conotation… You cannot block racism, hate, ect by blocking words, because someone will -always- find something new.
Link to section: And in doing so you block more and more words. The filter currently in the game is a perfect example. By trying to block so much, it’s breaking down communications on a fundamental level.And in doing so you block more and more words. The filter currently in the game is a perfect example. By trying to block so much, it’s breaking down communications on a fundamental level.
You can change the game. You can’t change people
They usually do that to humiliate their own teammates and claim that their team was really bad and didn’t resist at all.
Yesterday one said I was using aimbot in plane
I wrote “ cmon 12-1 in plane = aimbot“
It came out as “** plane = aimbot” Rofl.