The team behind Battlefield 2042’s development has recently released a blog post outlining several initiatives and approaches the team is developing to ensure a positive, fair, and welcoming experience for all players. Since DICE and EA believe the community is at the core of Battlefield, and as such, the team has created a Community Charter, which will serve as an inclusive code of conduct for all players who join Battlefield 2042. Additionally, the blog post highlights Positive Play features and Reporting tools that players can use to improve their in-game experience. The team has also implemented Fair Play measures to ensure a level playing field.
Community Charter
They take their commitment to Positive & Fair play seriously, and won’t tolerate bad actors on the Battlefield. As a community, we play the objective, together. They believe the community is a globally inclusive and diverse community where any race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, or country of origin are welcome. That’s why they have outlined their expectations for their player base in the Community Charter. In it, they state the following four rules:
Treat Others as They Would Like to be Treated - Squad up and play the objective, together. We won’t tolerate players who negatively disrupt or engage in harmful behavior towards others.
Keep Things Fair - Be on the right side of the fight. If you see players breaking the rules, report them.
Share Appropriate Content - Don’t fight dirty. Make sure whatever content you’re sharing is appropriate for Battlefield players.
Keep Things Honorable - Protect your squad. Keep it legal in Battlefield, and do not participate or encourage in dangerous or illegal activities.
Positive Play
Positive Play is about ensuring you’re able to refine your social experience while playing Battlefield 2042. This comes in the form of several tools and features to help you define that experience for yourself.
You are able to block or unblock players in-game, ensuring they cannot message or voice chat with you.
An in-game text profanity filter will always be active.
The option to mute in-game text or chat is available. You can select to mute either individuals, all players, or chat.
You can report a player directly from in-game so that you don’t need to tab out.
Battlefield Portal will also offer players several admin tools such as the ability to apply persistent bans across Community Experiences that you’ve created.
Reporting
Here’s where they are calling on the players to be on the right side of the fight when it comes to keeping things fair. If you see players breaking the rules, report them so they can investigate. It helps maintain a healthy community They’ve streamlined their reporting process to make it more efficient so you can report the player and get back to the game. To make sure you understand the different reporting tools.
From the Player and Squad List or Social Menu, select the player you wish to report.
Select Report
Select the reason for your report
Abusive Text Chat, Abusive Voice Chat, Cheating/Exploiting, Gameplay Sabotage, Offensive Player Name, or Harassment
Select Send Report
You can add an optional comment if necessary
For console players, remember that if another player has sent you harassing messages in a chat or voice on Xbox or PlayStation, you can report them directly to PlayStation and Xbox. Find out how to do that on their websites:
PlayStation Network - How to report inappropriate behavior
Xbox Live - How to file a complaint to report a player
After you have reported a player, you will get an in-game notice that the report has been received. From there, if the team decides to take action on the reported user, you will be notified via email that action was taken on the user.
Fair Play
DICE’s first step to ensuring Fair Play is that they’ll use Easy-Anti Cheat (EAC) as their anti-cheat tool of choice. EAC already has a proven track record in identifying cheaters, such as within Apex Legends. It is also proven to be effective in ensuring your privacy, and security.
Due to cross-play functionality, when a cheater is sanctioned it will cause them to be instantly disconnected mid-match and permanently banned across all platforms. As before, they still have the ability to apply IP and hardware bans if necessary. To keep their community a fair place, they have a no-tolerance rule in place. There are no warnings and no suspensions when it comes to cheating. If you don’t play by the rules, you’re out.
Lastly, ensuring Fair Play and combating modern cheating solutions is an ongoing commitment that doesn’t end at launch. While not always visible to you as a player, this means that post-launch they’ll continue to invest in developing internal capabilities and technologies that augment 3rd party anti-cheat solutions, provide multiple layers of defense, and ensure their games are fair and fun for everyone.
