I played a lot of the beta and didn't have any issue. But in the final release of Battlefield 6 there is now a way to change your class using the E and Q keys (left and right)I am an ESDF player. I edit all my keys so instead of WASD I use ESDF where E is forward. My use is on my mouse thumb button (I believe Mouse 4). I tend to use that as use in every video game where I can. And I use ESDF where I can. I keep accidentally hitting E and changing Class. I'm not sure exactly how this is happening. It could be that just as I'm loading in I'm pressing E to run and its changing right before I respawn in. It could be right after I die. It could be a habit with my hands on the keys. The habit is very hard to break.My 3 friends in my squad are WASD stock key players and they said they have done it too, just not nearly as much as I have.This is highly frustrating! I would really like it ifIt was removed entirelyChange it so its something that can be changed in the key menus, perhaps the UI key editing so I can make it something else.Make it so its not just W and E (or may be its Q and E) and change it to USE and Spot. Whatever those keys normally represent, get changed when changed natively.Thanks. I really hope this message gets to somebody at EA/Dice. I can't be alone here. I'm (and I think many people) are totally fine just clicking to change classes, or setting up keys they see fit.

100 percent also use esdf this is the most frustrating thing in the world, I change classes multiple times a game by mistake. Not having an option to rebind this is crazy

same here, I use EDAF and am also constantly changing classes on accident. there's an option for just about every other key binding, why not this? I'd even settle for editing configs at this point, or to disable this.

Super annoying. Hope they fix it soon

totally same problem! I keep spawning in as a class that I don't use, and then I have to respawn and lose a life -- just because keybinds are hard coded and unchangeable for this. Remove this completely. It's not as if some people are playing without a mouse!! We can click the one we want.

It's starting to feel "Show stopper" to me. My friend who is WASD does this about twice per match himself. Something is up because I'm starting to form habits of moving my left hand off of the keyboard entirely and picking my Class but then i come back to the map screen and its already moved to a different class! I'm thinking it could be multiple things causing this, but one of them i think might be that you pick your character and load in and press E to run forward and sometimes, not always, but sometimes in that window its actually queing up menu E presses to change class - you've already changed class for the next time you died and don't even know it. Then when you die this is why you are on another class at the map screen. Have a look and eventually you'll probably see this. You were running around as X. You die. Go to map. Make sure you don't touch the keyboard at all. And its already moved over to another class.It's getting insanely frustrating. Like crazy frustrating. When I play Engineer and it moves me to Support it isn't too bad but going from Support to a Sniper is brutal. The best i can do is give the sniper the carbine I use and try to be useful for a minute before going back to the map. My friend always like "Why did you die! i was going to res you!" "wrong class again."This plus some other bugs and issues have made things pretty bothersome for playing.

Accidentally changing classes during death/map screen.

17 Replies

iamBenZii
Seasoned Newcomer
31 days ago
100 percent also use esdf this is the most frustrating thing in the world, I change classes multiple times a game by mistake. Not having an option to rebind this is crazy
Ayonaras
Seasoned Newcomer
30 days ago
same here, I use EDAF and am also constantly changing classes on accident. there's an option for just about every other key binding, why not this? I'd even settle for editing configs at this point, or to disable this.
BBsmokes1
Seasoned Newcomer
28 days ago
Super annoying. Hope they fix it soon
grapidx
Seasoned Novice
28 days ago
totally same problem! I keep spawning in as a class that I don't use, and then I have to respawn and lose a life -- just because keybinds are hard coded and unchangeable for this. Remove this completely. It's not as if some people are playing without a mouse!! We can click the one we want.
SpackleBucket
Seasoned Rookie
28 days ago
It's starting to feel "Show stopper" to me. My friend who is WASD does this about twice per match himself.
Something is up because I'm starting to form habits of moving my left hand off of the keyboard entirely and picking my Class but then i come back to the map screen and its already moved to a different class!
I'm thinking it could be multiple things causing this, but one of them i think might be that you pick your character and load in and press E to run forward and sometimes, not always, but sometimes in that window its actually queing up menu E presses to change class - you've already changed class for the next time you died and don't even know it. Then when you die this is why you are on another class at the map screen. Have a look and eventually you'll probably see this. You were running around as X. You die. Go to map. Make sure you don't touch the keyboard at all. And its already moved over to another class.
It's getting insanely frustrating. Like crazy frustrating. When I play Engineer and it moves me to Support it isn't too bad but going from Support to a Sniper is brutal. The best i can do is give the sniper the carbine I use and try to be useful for a minute before going back to the map. My friend always like "Why did you die! i was going to res you!" "wrong class again."

This plus some other bugs and issues have made things pretty bothersome for playing.
grapidx
Seasoned Novice
27 days ago
One band-aid fix while waiting for a real fix is just to press Y and change class if you notice it before shooting or running too far. But usually you only notice it when you start shooting and find out you have a pea-shooter instead of an assault rifle or whatever.
donkeyflopper
Seasoned Traveler
26 days ago
Yes please fix this. It's super annoying!
NotUltra20
New Novice
25 days ago
This needs to be fixed, I changed classes over 5 times in a single game by mistake because of that.
SpackleBucket
Seasoned Rookie
25 days ago
Thanks! I'll try to remember that. I'm at a point where when I am on the map screen I move my left hand off the keyboard entirely and then I try to pick what i want. Hit go. And then wait to push forward.
The problem is when you are in the zone. In the flow state, and are having fun is when this all goes out the window and you try to get back in to the match to help fix your friends tank and instead nope you're now a Support. Or you get back in there quickly to res everybody up and they are like "Yo get me up!" and you pull up that sniper beacon thingy.
It's rough.
infjitsu
Seasoned Newcomer
23 days ago
They will never fix this because they designed a console game and backported to PC and said F you deal with it to all PC users. Most annoying "feature" in the game, mostly because YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE BINDS. This game has 800000 options and keybinds and for some reason these ape devs force PC users to deal with this bull.