Lately, when I’ve been playing Halo 5, I seem to encounter AFK players or players who throw the match in Mythic Warzone Firefight. It seems this problem has popped up around a week ago and it’s very frustrating to deal with this. I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and if they have any information on this new influx of AFKers/throwers.
Same, even took video just in case and reported them on Xbox, but I doubt it’ll actually do anything.
It’s been a growing issue for a while. As the infinite release date approaches more and more grinders hoping for 152 have been AFKing in MWZFF in order to boost the xp.
It’s just an unfortunate feature of the games design that heavily incentivizes this behavior on that specific playlist. Best bet for enforcement is to report via the Waypoint Support tickets that you can find Here. I have heard they have a much better rep of taking action than XBL enforcement but i dont have any data to prove that one way or the other, still its another option if you’re looking for it.
Even if action is taken against one player there will always be more, and I expect the problem will only get worse as the release date approaches so you may just have to get used to it im afraid. The Halo Reach Grifball servers suffered a similar fate back in the day, it is what it is.
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> Lately, when I’ve been playing Halo 5, I seem to encounter AFK players or players who throw the match in Mythic Warzone Firefight. It seems this problem has popped up around a week ago and it’s very frustrating to deal with this. I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and if they have any information on this new influx of AFKers/throwers.
It’s been happening for a while to be honest. Ever since they announced the rewards for reaching 152 a lot of players will just XP farm by doing nothing.
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> Same, even took video just in case and reported them on Xbox, but I doubt it’ll actually do anything.
If you make a gameclip of someone doing this kind of stuff and send it through Halo Support they’ll usually take action against the offenders. I’ve come across many people who have been AFKing, reported them. After a few days the player got banned, whenever I saw them again in matchmaking they seemed to have learned their lesson.
Unfortunately reporting through Xbox itself won’t do much other than lower their account reputation - which has a very minimal effect other than flagging their account as “avoid me”.
GamerDVR is a great site, allows you to send links to your game clips so the Halo Support team can see them. It’s a lot easier than porting over a file and uploading it to them.
Most annoying one so far for me was one who was “actively” afk. Round 5 was going to spawn a bunch of bosses where he was, so he spawned a scout warthog and started goofing off somewhere else. Never seen someone put so much effort into not playing a game.
Best bet is to try to find a group of people grinding to play with. I only started hammering it out last week, and I’ve already had a couple people add me as a friend for future grouping.
This was a huge issue when I was doing my 152 grind back in September - January and it did cause a couple of thrown games.
As others have said please please please report them in waypoint and hopefully get them banned so they have to restart their 152 grind on another account.
Report them through Halo Support not just Xbox, I reported a lot of them, some players 3x times in 3 games.
It takes a lot of time for them to do something like a few weeks but hey, if it bans them for a month I think it’s worth. I often send a Screenshot of the scoreboard that shows their 0 damage, and one that shows that they were in the game since the beginning (so they don’t say ‘‘maybe he joined at the end’’).
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> Report them through Halo Support not just Xbox, I reported a lot of them, some players 3x times in 3 games.
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> It takes a lot of time for them to do something like a few weeks but hey, if it bans them for a month I think it’s worth. I often send a Screenshot of the scoreboard that shows their 0 damage, and one that shows that they were in the game since the beginning (so they don’t say ‘‘maybe he joined at the end’’).
To add to this, you can take video of matches too. I have had a few tickets completed where a player was technically moving (to avoid the AFK boot), but they were just moving in random patterns in the spawn area. The more you can provide, the better on these. I know of at least two bans that came from my reports.