Cheaters/AFKer never learn.

Games Other Halo
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I was playing a match in team slayer today and I came a cross another inheritor who was on my team and they were afking through the entire match which is something they do constantly (I seen them up to over a year ago of them doing it) I got them banned awhile back for doing this but they apparently never learned and continue to afk matches giving teams with this yoink a disadvantage. During the match I got paired with them today my 2 other teammates both quit because of him and 1 person on the other team left from getting booted leaving me in a 2v3 but having an afk player feeding them kills making it a 1v3. Looking at their service record shows some reasoning to believe they boosted their way to inheritor buy modding or afking through games. the only time they even play during the match is if they are accidentally betrayed then they make it their life to ruin that match for you by constantly taking down your shield so the enemy can headshot you. Now you’re probably gonna say why not just submit a bad review of their player to not get paired with them. even though i played with them they didn’t appear on my recent player list at all, I searched their gamertag and went to submit a negative player review that way yet xbox tells me i never played a game with them even tho I have the theater clip proving I have played with them.

Obviously I won’t give their name away here but the trend I notice with afking Inheritors its usually those who have “X username X”, “xX username Xx” ,“I username I”, or “username cx” as their gamertags.

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I thought I was the only one picking up on this. In a game of grifball 2 dudes(inheritors) were afk for a little while, then when spawn killed, whipped out two rocket shooting dmrs. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in matchmaking. I know your struggle. :+1:

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I do occasionally see some afk player in Team Slayer but mostly this doesn’t happen. What most people do is go to Grifball and afk there. The longer the match goes on the more credit you get at the end. And sadly there’s not much you can do when you have a afk teammate. You can always leave the game yourself since there’s no longer a punishment for quitting too many games (you just lose your chances of getting a credit jackpot).

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> I do occasionally see some afk player in Team Slayer but mostly this doesn’t happen. What most people do is go to Grifball and afk there. The longer the match goes on the more credit you get at the end. And sadly there’s not much you can do when you have a afk teammate. You can always leave the game yourself since there’s no longer a punishment for quitting too many games (you just lose your chances of getting a credit jackpot).

I honestly could careless about the jackpot but I don’t wanna be the guy who screws over his team by leaving making it go down to a 2v4. in the case of this dude he acts afk but does pay attention to if he gets splash damaged from grenades or betrayed. this dude clearly is doing it to be a yoink, his entire service record smells of modded too so he’s probably trying to be a troll by doing it.

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> I thought I was the only one picking up on this. In a game of grifball 2 dudes(inheritors) were afk for a little while, then when spawn killed, whipped out two rocket shooting dmrs. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in matchmaking. I know your struggle. :+1:

Sounds like things are getting worse nowadays. Flying Rockethogs, Flying Spinning Spartans with Sniper Rifles that can no scope shoot through walls, and now Rocket Shooting DMRs… I thought the two shot kill DMR mod I seen modders using years ago was bad (First shot automatically eats your shields, second shot kills), but this takes the cake. This type of nonsense is cringy, like back in the day when I played Halo 2 matchmaking at a friend’s house online and there was a match on Terminal where a modder had a tank projectile shot shooting battle rifle. Yeah.

Apparently, it was brought to my attention today that there is a new method to report said modders, which is on the Xbox App. This apparently allows you to type out in detail what happened, so record when you come across this, and use the Xbox App to report these modders and add a link to the videos of what you captured, so this way, the LIVE Enforcement Team has adamant evidence of what these modders are doing and can issue prompt bans in kind. Same goes with cheaters who are Boosting/ performing ‘Peace Games’ in Grifball.

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> I was playing a match in team slayer today and I came a cross another inheritor who was on my team and they were afking through the entire match which is something they do constantly (I seen them up to over a year ago of them doing it) I got them banned awhile back for doing this but they apparently never learned and continue to afk matches giving teams with this yoink a disadvantage. During the match I got paired with them today my 2 other teammates both quit because of him and 1 person on the other team left from getting booted leaving me in a 2v3 but having an afk player feeding them kills making it a 1v3. Looking at their service record shows some reasoning to believe they boosted their way to inheritor buy modding or afking through games. the only time they even play during the match is if they are accidentally betrayed then they make it their life to ruin that match for you by constantly taking down your shield so the enemy can headshot you. Now you’re probably gonna say why not just submit a bad review of their player to not get paired with them. even though i played with them they didn’t appear on my recent player list at all, I searched their gamertag and went to submit a negative player review that way yet xbox tells me i never played a game with them even tho I have the theater clip proving I have played with them.
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> Obviously I won’t give their name away here but the trend I notice with afking Inheritors its usually those who have “X username X”, “xX username Xx” ,“I username I”, or “username cx” as their gamertags.

I sent you a PM about the individual you are talking about. I looked at their true profile and found evidence of discriminatory hate on their Reach Profile (Bypassing the Four Word/Letter tag filter to create something hateful) on top of their shenanigans. That is more than enough to report them as the LIVE Enforcement Team does not take lightly to discriminatory hate in any iteration. I strongly suggest reporting them for that.

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I’m impressed, you found a way to report completely useless “teammates” that just sit back and do nothing all game while you do all the work… do you know if this would also work in firefight? I routinely outscore all of my “teammates” combined(95% of the time these useless kids are using the handicap settings of course) and am tired of long drawn out games where I do most of the work while they sit back and earn undeserved perfection commendations. If you have any insight into this lizking please share!

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> I’m impressed, you found a way to report completely useless “teammates” that just sit back and do nothing all game while you do all the work… do you know if this would also work in firefight? I routinely outscore all of my “teammates” combined(95% of the time these useless kids are using the handicap settings of course) and am tired of long drawn out games where I do most of the work while they sit back and earn undeserved perfection commendations. If you have any insight into this lizking please share!

The thing is as long as they are consistently playing and not being a troll about it, even if they suck, there really isn’t much you can do. What I learned is in Arcadefight when your three teammates go for the Fuel Rod Cannon, choose the Sniper Rifle loadout. You can outshoot them 90% of the time due to the Sniper Rifle’s projectile being faster than the Fuel Rod Cannon’s projectile and is a great way to work on one’s sniper skills. It’s funny to go into games, have no deaths and the highest score doing this, while your three team mates chose the fuel rod and died 4-18 times.

Now I will say with doing what I mentioned in the first paragraph, have a ‘Safe Room’ in the event that Tier Three Heretic Elites (Cizlin and I call them Deserters) spawn in with Grenade Launchers, Rocket Launcher, and Spartan Lasers, something you can either let the Elites come to you safely in close quarters where they most likely won’t fire, or you can poke out, get a kill, reload, rinse and repeat. Installation 04, Beachhead, Outpost, and Holdout all have what I call ‘Safe Rooms’.

Now on the matter of AFKing teammates for the entire game, or ones who get one kill (To bypass the banhammer) and AFK for the entire duration of the game, record it and report them through the Xbox App with a link to the video either from XboxDVR or your Xbox Feed. Reporting in this manner with a detailed explanation and a video will give the LIVE Enforcement Team more than enough evidence to issue a manual ban.

If they’re AFKing in this way and not dying, not just are they ruining the quality and experience of LIVE services for you with what they are doing via idling(Which is a reportable offense), since they are gaining (Not earning) progress towards commedations in doing so as well as getting cR at the end of the game, that is boosting. They did not earn that cR or Commedations as they were not playing, just idling. Being physically present via idling, spinning in place, bagging, jumping in place, etc. doesn’t entitle one to ingame gains from doing nothing or should I say for people who want to argue otherwise not playing the game as intended by the developer. 343i showed their stance on Boosting and Farming years ago and they are against it as they feel it is cheating, thus with that and Code of Conduct, it is cheating, and makes it a reportable offense for that as well. Think about the ‘Peace Games’ in Grifball where people in one iteration or another idle/don’t play the game as intended by the developer for 13+ minutes to cheat the Performance Bonus System and get 20,000+ cR. It’s the same here, even if the cR payout is lower.

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I’m going to assume that Xbox feed and Xbox dvr that you mentioned are only available on the 1 as I have never heard of them and still use a 360. Ah well, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing then and trying my best to make sure the afkers die at least once per round. It’s easy unless one of the other active players has enemy priority and manages to stay away from wherever the afker happens to be in the map.

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> I’m going to assume that Xbox feed and Xbox dvr that you mentioned are only available on the 1 as I have never heard of them and still use a 360. Ah well, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing then and trying my best to make sure the afkers die at least once per round. It’s easy unless one of the other active players has enemy priority and manages to stay away from wherever the afker happens to be in the map.

You could always use the AFKer to lure in enemies. Sometimes, smaller stray enemies like Jackals and Grunts can sneak by undetected by players who are playing the game and can go after the AFKer. This seems to happen most frequently on Beachhead and Waterfront from my experience of seeing people AFK. This will actually prove if they are indeed AFKing or being a troll, as if they’re being a troll, they tend to respond to this, usually by starting to hit you, shoot at you, throw grenades at you (Half the time killing themselves), or in the worst case scenario, they grab the rockethog or Ghost (If on Beachhead) to try to betray you via splattering you for ‘interrupting their AFK session’. Nudging an AFKer out in the open will usually have these results if they are trolling instead, sometimes followed by a hateful message, which is reportable.

As for utilizing the Xbox App and the recording feature, yes these are features that are on the Xbox One, and the Xbox App is also on Windows 10. You still should file a report, cheating being the reason against AFKers regardless as they get cR payout at the end of the game whether they died or not that they did not earn by not playing the game as intended by the developer, and that is boosting, a form of cheating.

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> > I’m going to assume that Xbox feed and Xbox dvr that you mentioned are only available on the 1 as I have never heard of them and still use a 360. Ah well, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing then and trying my best to make sure the afkers die at least once per round. It’s easy unless one of the other active players has enemy priority and manages to stay away from wherever the afker happens to be in the map.
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> You could always use the AFKer to lure in enemies. Sometimes, smaller stray enemies like Jackals and Grunts can sneak by undetected by players who are playing the game and can go after the AFKer. This seems to happen most frequently on Beachhead and Waterfront from my experience of seeing people AFK. This will actually prove if they are indeed AFKing or being a troll, as if they’re being a troll, they tend to respond to this, usually by starting to hit you, shoot at you, throw grenades at you (Half the time killing themselves), or in the worst case scenario, they grab the rockethog or Ghost (If on Beachhead) to try to betray you via splattering you for ‘interrupting their AFK session’. Nudging an AFKer out in the open will usually have these results if they are trolling instead, sometimes followed by a hateful message, which is reportable.

Oh yeah, I definitely do these things, either nudging the afkers into the open to be shot, or by forcing them off the map via rocket launcher or concussion rifle which I only ever pick up for this specific purpose. The ease of this depends entirely on which player receives enemy priority at the start of the match as if it’s not either you or the afker it can be difficult to lure the enemies into position to punish the boosting kid. On some maps it’s possible to betray the offending kid with objects or vehicles but on others it’s nearly impossible.

To further my point about these useless handicap-setting-using kids, I just played a game of firefight in courtyard with three other “teammates”. All of these kids were using various handicap settings while I of course was not. I should preface this with the fact that I have been drinking steadily for the past six hours since the Eagles game came on(any of you with any football knowledge will completely understand the necessity to drink in order to make it through this lackluster season)…I managed to outscore them all, and they were all active all game, over 2-1 as a group. Final scores were me 101k, others 19,16, and 10. And that includes a random death second round on my part. I just laugh at their complete ineptitude.

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i was going to try to make some sort of defence onto some of the modders because i mod too (but ONLY offline) then i got paired with a hacker on firefight on reach and he teleported out of the map and started sniping, i left the match,so now i agree the online modders should suck a -yoink- but only online because offline modders like me don’t actually create a victim nor manipulate the system so we can’t really get banned. Even though we don’t play the game as the devs intended its usually to push the boundary’s of the game for ourselves not for people who don’t want to.

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> i was going to try to make some sort of defence onto some of the modders because i mod too (but ONLY offline) then i got paired with a hacker on firefight on reach and he teleported out of the map and started sniping, i left the match,so now i agree the online modders should suck a -yoink- but only online because offline modders like me don’t actually create a victim nor manipulate the system so we can’t really get banned. Even though we don’t play the game as the devs intended its usually to push the boundary’s of the game for ourselves not for people who don’t want to.

I personally do not agree with modding at all but provided you only partake in it offline I don’t see the harm in that. It’s the kids that go into matchmaking with aimbots and one shot kills and the ability to fly around that are the problem. What do they prove by doing this other than they aren’t skilled enough to get kills during standard gameplay?

As for the firefight modder you encountered, what map was this on? There are quite a few spots that should be soft kill zones but got overlooked during the map creation process(for example, the spot on top of the tower above spawn on glacier). I’ve played a lot of firefight over the years and have never seen anyone actually out of the map ala Halo2 superbouncers that appeared well above map limits.

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> I was playing a match in team slayer today and I came a cross another inheritor who was on my team and they were afking through the entire match which is something they do constantly (I seen them up to over a year ago of them doing it) I got them banned awhile back for doing this but they apparently never learned and continue to afk matches giving teams with this yoink a disadvantage. During the match I got paired with them today my 2 other teammates both quit because of him and 1 person on the other team left from getting booted leaving me in a 2v3 but having an afk player feeding them kills making it a 1v3. Looking at their service record shows some reasoning to believe they boosted their way to inheritor buy modding or afking through games. the only time they even play during the match is if they are accidentally betrayed then they make it their life to ruin that match for you by constantly taking down your shield so the enemy can headshot you. Now you’re probably gonna say why not just submit a bad review of their player to not get paired with them. even though i played with them they didn’t appear on my recent player list at all, I searched their gamertag and went to submit a negative player review that way yet xbox tells me i never played a game with them even tho I have the theater clip proving I have played with them.
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> Obviously I won’t give their name away here but the trend I notice with afking Inheritors its usually those who have “X username X”, “xX username Xx” ,“I username I”, or “username cx” as their gamertags.

It’s my understanding that there’s some type of program people can download which prevents them from showing up in others’ recent players list. I’ve seen that happen off-and-on even going back to when this game was relatively new and it’s always shady players who mysteriously vanish.

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> > i was going to try to make some sort of defence onto some of the modders because i mod too (but ONLY offline) then i got paired with a hacker on firefight on reach and he teleported out of the map and started sniping, i left the match,so now i agree the online modders should suck a -yoink- but only online because offline modders like me don’t actually create a victim nor manipulate the system so we can’t really get banned. Even though we don’t play the game as the devs intended its usually to push the boundary’s of the game for ourselves not for people who don’t want to.
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> I personally do not agree with modding at all but provided you only partake in it offline I don’t see the harm in that. It’s the kids that go into matchmaking with aimbots and one shot kills and the ability to fly around that are the problem. What do they prove by doing this other than they aren’t skilled enough to get kills during standard gameplay?
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> As for the firefight modder you encountered, what map was this on? There are quite a few spots that should be soft kill zones but got overlooked during the map creation process(for example, the spot on top of the tower above spawn on glacier). I’ve played a lot of firefight over the years and have never seen anyone actually out of the map ala Halo2 superbouncers that appeared well above map limits.

It actually was glacier.How did you guess?And it was on the tower as well.I guess i was wrong about him/her modding.

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> > > i was going to try to make some sort of defence onto some of the modders because i mod too (but ONLY offline) then i got paired with a hacker on firefight on reach and he teleported out of the map and started sniping, i left the match,so now i agree the online modders should suck a -yoink- but only online because offline modders like me don’t actually create a victim nor manipulate the system so we can’t really get banned. Even though we don’t play the game as the devs intended its usually to push the boundary’s of the game for ourselves not for people who don’t want to.
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> > I personally do not agree with modding at all but provided you only partake in it offline I don’t see the harm in that. It’s the kids that go into matchmaking with aimbots and one shot kills and the ability to fly around that are the problem. What do they prove by doing this other than they aren’t skilled enough to get kills during standard gameplay?
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> > As for the firefight modder you encountered, what map was this on? There are quite a few spots that should be soft kill zones but got overlooked during the map creation process(for example, the spot on top of the tower above spawn on glacier). I’ve played a lot of firefight over the years and have never seen anyone actually out of the map ala Halo2 superbouncers that appeared well above map limits.
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> It actually was glacier.How did you guess?And it was on the tower as well.I guess i was wrong about him/her modding.

Well this is in my experience the number one place these useless kids will go to to avoid the possibility of losing their perfection commendation while others do all the work for them. It’s easy to counter though; simply shoot a rocket at them shortly after they get up there(sometimes it takes a few for this to work) and they’ll eventually suicide because the soft kill zone is all around that location and you’ll eventually drop their counter to zero. They then quit almost every time to burden others with their pathetic playstyle and/or afking.

Oh and if youre new to the the game it’s understandable to feel as if that was some kind of mod…just last night while playing on corvette I had a new-looking player quit out simply because I was getting all the kills(mind you, he was sitting across the map from where the enemies spawn attempting to pick off whatever happened to get by me. Shortly after he quit I got a message saying “MODDERR”. Couldn’t even spell it properly.