Battlefield V Beta has Banned the Term \u2018White man\u2019 in Game Chat \u2013 EA Say Profanity Filter is a \u201cwork-in-progress\u201d YouTuber and streamer Joe \u201cAngryJoe\u201d Vargas discovered to his (hilarious) surprise that the phrase \u201cWhite man\u201d is not permitted in Battlefield V game chat, which is just the latest in a string of odd restricted chat terms. The Battlefield V open beta is available right now on PS4, Xbox and PC, and fans have already discovered that a number of peculiar words are restricted in the game chat \u2013 including \u2018DLC\u2019. And of course, the words and phrases you would expect are also banned (racial\/homophobic slurs and other insults or trolling), but for some strange reason, the phrase \u2018White man\u2019 is also restricted. Phrases \u2018Asian man\u2019 or \u2018Brown man\u2019 are not banned, only White man, as AngryJoe tested it out during a recent livestream. As you can see in the clip, the chat box simply turns AngryJoe\u2019s input (in the top left corner) into a series of asterisks \u2013 but doesn\u2019t apply the same treatment to other terms. EA did respond to the community\u2019s surprise that \u2018DLC\u2019 was a banned term, saying that the filtering system was not working exactly as intended. It\u2019s unclear if this case of censoring \u2018White man\u2019 is also unintentional, but they do say that the filter is a \u2018work in progress\u2019. One of the new features we\u2019re working on is a profanity filter in-game to reduce toxicity. That being said, we have heard some complaints that the filter is blocking words that aren\u2019t profanity or shouldn\u2019t be blocked, like \u201cDLC\u201d, etc. and isn\u2019t blocking some words that should be (obviously, I will not be providing examples of these.) Please note: This is a work-in-progress and we will be taking this feedback to tweak the sensitivity of the filter and improve its usage without censoring relevant conversation. Healthy discussion is what drives improvement in our games, and we\u2019d never want to impede that.Thanks for bringing your concerns to us regarding the current iteration of the profanity filter and we\u2019ll keep working on it. Battlefield V is still in the beta stage, with the full game set for release on November 20 (delayed from initial release date of October 19), so there is time for any errors to be fixed before launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Battlefield V Beta has Banned the Term \u2018White man\u2019 in Game Chat \u2013 EA Say Profanity Filter is a \u201cwork-in-progress\u201d YouTuber and streamer Joe \u201cAngryJoe\u201d Vargas discovered to his (hilarious) surprise that the phrase \u201cWhite man\u201d is not permitted in Battlefield V game chat, which is just the latest in a string of odd restricted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}