Summary
I am reporting an urgent issue regarding the voice chat introduced in the recent update. It appears there is a new AI voice filter forced onto player mics, and the problem with this is that you cannot hear other/background/external noises.
Because the AI voice filter is only fixated on isolating the voice, it is completely blocking out all other natural audio. For example:
You can’t hear when a person’s laughing.
You can’t hear their keyboard.
You can’t hear if they make any noise.
You can’t hear if they are opening a wrapper, like a chocolate bar or something.
You can’t hear if they’re whispering either.
This is bad because we should be able to hear everything. Audio cues are essential for communicating, and stripping away human elements like laughing or whispering ruins the social connection of playing with friends. Now there’s a filter on it, which is really frustrating. it is forced too as you havent included any option to turn it off!!
in windows for example, there is this too and many people HATE this and complained, we turned that all off due to it srtipping away noises we need to hear.
voice chat was perfectly fine before this update and since V42.00, SINCE 20/08/2026, It is now broken!!
Required Fix: To fix it, either remove the AI voice filter entirely or add a setting in the settings to allow the players to decide if they want it on or off. Can the developers fix this as soon as possible? It is becoming very frustrating to play the game because of this problem, and it needs immediate attention to restore proper communication.
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Audio
Steps to Reproduce
there is a forces ai filter on,
Expected Result
remove the ai voice filter
or add in a setting to allow us to turn it off.
Observed Result
its soo frustrating, sometimes when you are laughing so much, its total silence. and it takes away the feeling…
Affects Versions
5.8
5.7
5.6
5.5
5.4
5.3
5.2
5.1
5.0
4.27
Platform(s)
Android
iOS
Linux
Mac
OpenXR
visionOS
Windows
Additional Notes
fix this asap