Honestly wanted to make a seperate thread just to talk not about whether a language filter should or shouldn’t be enforced in the game, but that the filter itself is completely broken.
Communicating in team games is important, I play a lot of 4v4’s and 3v3’s in the ranked matchmaking sytem. I need to sometimes tell my teammates things, like if some guy is using mass pykes against a patrol stacked group of lancers and doesn’t know that once they hit a critical mass they trade really well, I need to tell him to build archers to counter it.
At this point I dont even know what words are allowed or not, with the current profanity filter random words are blocked which then blocks the entire message. So far I’ve found that the word I or i, if in your message, will block the entire thing, other than that I think ‘make’ is also blocked but I can’t be sure becaue there is absolutely no pattern to what is ok to say and what isnt.
“I’ll flank” “I will make archers” “I will castle into knights” “we’re screwed” “I’m fine now thanks for the help” “I’m getting wrecked” (is it ‘wrecked’ or ‘I’m’ thats getting me blocked? who knows, find out next time on microsofts great decision making) - Random sentences are completely blocked out by this filter. EVEN TAUNTS are blocked, If I type 1 or 2 to an ally in the message as shorthand at the start of a sentence the entire thing will get blocked along with it.
General communication in this game is reliant on the very simple ping system and chat. Unless you want to copy other games and build a super complex ping system to copy league or apex then allow me to talk to my teammates. Last game I had to write and entire sentence out 5 times to warn my teammate about a rush because it blocked it over and over and I stilll don’t even know what it was blocking.
Maybe veteran players dont need type with each other to communicate but I have about 50 hours of gametime and many of the people in my MMR bracket have even less. This is costing us games and is incredibly frustrating whether we have actual profanity blocked or not.