Is boosting in ranked bannable? Say if an onyx player brings silver players on their team so if they win they get a huge boost but suffer little for a loss. I’m seeing this almost every match now from my opponent teams and I win but get no gain.
Nope, with how the ranking system works, those low rank players will still have to show the skill needed for the higher ranks. They could boost to Onyx, but it will take a lot longer than natural Onyx players. And if they wanted to keep it they would have to continue playing with those better players to carry them.
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You have to dig into the silver accounts game history and see if there’s reasonable cause to submit tickets over it. You look at account life, match history, and team mates played with. Sometimes it really is just friends of different skill levels but…its very very obvious when it isn’t.
It is bannable if its an account deliberately made for that purpose, and found to derank to maintain a low ranking, and switch gears when playing with their usual team mates. Like seeing the silver drop 15 to 20 kills and low deaths in an onyx lobby for example.
Its been a problem forever though. I’ve gotten people banned in halo 5 for doing it. I literally played against a player with the gamer tag “bronzeonfire” lol
I will say though that In halo infinite, the matches scale up way more than they scale down. If i bring in team mates even that are platinum, they can’t at all hang against daimond and onyx players. To the point where I feel bad for joining them or inviting them.
So yea. It can get people banned. How many people will actually take the time to report it to the support site though? That’s where the problem is. I think they should consider an in game method for these things, along with actual cheaters/hackers as well.
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The low rank players are not the ones boosting. They are the accounts used to boost the gains of the other players, and create soft losses. It’s used to manipulate the MM and find easier games. A player on a fake silver account with the skill of an onyx player. The matches they get are different than they would be in a 4 stacked onyx squad for example.
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Ah yea I see what you mean, like smurf accounts. Yea you can report them if you want. But this was a thing in Halo 5 too. Not sure how they can really mitigate it besides IP address bans, which they’d need solid proof to make it justifiable. But I know exactly what you mean, it’s annoying for sure.
Come to think of it…this was a thing in Halo 3 too. I didn’t play much of 2 online, but 3 for sure had this issue too.
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Read my comment to the OP, and yes the severity of the ban becomes the difference of temporary bans, permanent bans and that which you speak of if there is repeated catches. That’s what was explained to me through the support emails In halo 5.
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Boosting (or smurfing), if provable, is most likely bannable. There’s been a few posts here that alluded to this that were voicing concern about being banned.
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