I accidentally betrayed a couple of people in Grifball, which as a result booted me. It wasn’t on purpose as the people deliberately jumped in front of me as I was killing the other player on the enemy team. A couple days ago this also happened after one accidental kill as I was sword lunging at the bomb carrier who was jumping into the plate. The enemy scored, and I got kicked by a trigger happy troll on purpose. My resulting ban was 10 minutes, and now it’s 20 minutes for this one that just occurred. I initially wanted to play a match tonight and then practice my SWAT skills, which now I have no motivation to play Arena at all due to this little issue.
I shouldn’t be suffering a negative reputation of bans for doing nothing wrong. No player should at that rate. I am a player of Halo for years now and I have had a very stable reputation for not getting bans or anything of the sort. I think the betrayal system should be upped a bit. I’ve been betrayed tons of times and never have had the option to boot someone, but so help me if I accidentally hit someone with a sword or hammer, I get mega ban penalties? That’s not even right.
The boot kill limit should be placed at 10 or fifteen or something of that nature.
Honestly, I much rather have had it removed in Grifball altogether. Or a system that recognizes continuous large amounts of betrayals in a very short period of time so people boot only then. I’m far too used to playing Halo: Reach and Halo 4’s Grifball when players are getting betrayed left or right in the heat of fighting when people get too close to each other. I try to stay far from others but people get close to me on purpose, which is why the whole concept of the boot system needs a change to combat that, so players who aren’t doing anything on purpose don’t get into trouble while trolls scoot along kicking people for the Hell of it.
Please post this in the H5 Ban Megathread link in my signature.
This thread really has more to do with grifball betrayal booting than bans. I agree with OP, grifball has a boot/ban problem. I quit playing it after getting banned. Being constantly worried about accidentally betraying takes the fun out of grifball. When the other team is right at our goal with the ball, I have to decide whether to try to kill them in a crowded area (risking a betrayal and possible ban) or let them score. That’s the situation and area most of my betrayals come from.
Learn how to play griffball
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I have been playing Grifball since Halo 3 introduced it. I know how to play Grifball better than a lot. People jumping in front of me on purpose and getting me kicked to be a troll is far out of my control.
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> This thread really has more to do with grifball betrayal booting than bans. I agree with OP, grifball has a boot/ban problem. I quit playing it after getting banned. Being constantly worried about accidentally betraying takes the fun out of grifball. When the other team is right at our goal with the ball, I have to decide whether to try to kill them in a crowded area (risking a betrayal and possible ban) or let them score. That’s the situation and area most of my betrayals come from.
Exactly. I enjoyed Halo: Reach and Halo 4 Grifball where the penalties were removed because it happens often. It’s not a matter of being bad at it or too reliant on a hammer or being bad at being spread out, contrary to what people claim is always the issue. The issue is no matter how much you spread out, people group up and it’s starting to become a thing on purpose just because people realize it’s a quick method for banning people just for the Hell of it. Honestly a system should exist that notices how many people get booted per match that the person who boots people play. Then match the system to how the people play and what their kills are. This system could flesh out who’s a trigger happy booter or troll, versus the true accidents that happen. There’s only so many options to avoid removing a system that shouldn’t even be in Grifball.
Veteran Grifball players can’t even enjoy the gametype anymore… That’s saddening.
I like it as it uses a reference from the Brutes hahah, it`s happened to me a couple times but other then that.
BAN HAMMER! 
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betrayals happen all the time in grifball and the halo 5 hammers actually have a powerful enough range to kill unshielded Spartans in only a couple of hits outside of lunge distance.
grifball is also supposed to be FUN, you know play the game with friends or randoms.