I am playing the most recent version of the game, and ever since the profanity filter has been active, it seems to be extra strong for me. What happens is this:
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when there is a word in a sentence me or someone writes, that is found bad, the entire sentence is **** starred for me. Not just that word, but the entire sentence. I have heard from friends this sometimes even happens when there is not even a single word starred for them, in that sentence. It is a HORRIBLE to experience to say the least.
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some players names are completely *** starred out. Like the player HomoSapiens (or so I heard from someone who did not have his name starred, because I could not see it, obviously). But this has happened multiple times, one other a player had ‘■■■■■■■’ in his name. EDIT: I just notice ‘■■■■■■■’ is also banned here. I am trying to type bas-tard. In case that is profane too: an out of wedlock child, is that about right? Dear lord…
I am really fed up about this. No one asked for this filter (I was shown a poll on this forum which said 95% of people felt no need for such a filter). If you do make it, for heaven’s sake, please, TEST IT! This is now just completely breaking immersion for me. I can’t even get over proper strats with an ally, because half the time the entire sentence is STARRED just because he wrote the word ‘japs’ in it. Japs. Hello, SpiritOfTheLaw, #gojaps! Or onager, we all know what that was like.
Another frustrating aspect after the introduction of this filter, is that there now is a noticable time delay between sending a message, and reading it ingame. There’s a delay of about 0,5 to 1 seconds, which actually is a lot.
Please, please, please give the option to disable this yesterday rather than tomorrow. And even then, make it so that it actually contributes something.