I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
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> I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
Good morning.
I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
-Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
-Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
-Glitching to access ‘premium content’
It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
-Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
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> > I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
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> Good morning.
>
> I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
>
> -Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
> It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
>
> -Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
> If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
>
> -Glitching to access ‘premium content’
> It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
>
> -Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
> Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
>
> If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
>
> I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
Don’t want to ruin your morning, but spawntraps in Grifball are a completely legitimate scoring strategy, and breaking a spawntrap is a skill that all competitive players need to develop. And are you seriously saying that people will get banned for pursuing their plasma pistol commendations? (Not that “averaging 26-30” is even a thing.)
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> > > I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
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> >
> > Good morning.
> > I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
> > -Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
> > It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
> > -Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
> > If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
> > -Glitching to access ‘premium content’
> > It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
> > -Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
> > Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
> > If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
> > I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
>
>
> Don’t want to ruin your morning, but spawntraps in Grifball are a completely legitimate scoring strategy, and breaking a spawntrap is a skill that all competitive players need to develop. And are you seriously saying that people will get banned for pursuing their plasma pistol commendations? (Not that “averaging 26-30” is even a thing.)
Spawntrapping to score a goal is legitimate strategy, however to sit there and do it the entire game is not, and if a player repetitiously does it and is repetitously is reported, they can be banned.
From Section F of the Code of Conduct -“Do not take any action to cause degradation of service for Microsoft or other users, including but not limited to network interference or manipulation.”
From Section F of the Code of Conduct: -“Do not exploit game vulnerabilities or glitches.”
Here is also further proof that it is unacceptable and unsporting right from the Xbox Support Site .
From that page:Examples of unacceptable behavior include:-Violating the Xbox Live Code of Conduct
-Cheating or “griefing” (intentionally ruining the fun of the game for other players)
-Skill, EXP, or credit boosting, habitual quitting, sitting idle in games, and other unsociable and unsportsmanlike behavior–That’s right from the official Xbox Sites. Spawntrapping the majority to the entire duration of the game is a bannable offense if a player is reported enough for doing so, due to boosting (Which is cheating), griefing the game by ruining the game play experience for other players, and violates the LIVE code of Conduct as I have proved above.
And yes, you can be banned for boosting commedations.
The Automated banhammer does search for irregular patterns, and if it deems a kill pattern to be boosting due to being irregular, a player can be banned. I used Plasma Pistol as an example, because a weapon of such usually has a low kill pattern, compared to that of for example a Battle Rifle or DMR. If players sit there and boost over long term in a short amount of time, especially weapons like the Plasma Pistol and Pulse Grenade, the banhammer can issue a ban for boosting, or even separate boosters into separate games and repopulate both games to stop the boosting.
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> > > > I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
> > >
> > >
> > > Good morning.
> > > I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
> > > -Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
> > > It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
> > > -Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
> > > If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
> > > -Glitching to access ‘premium content’
> > > It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
> > > -Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
> > > Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
> > > If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
> > > I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
> >
> >
> > Don’t want to ruin your morning, but spawntraps in Grifball are a completely legitimate scoring strategy, and breaking a spawntrap is a skill that all competitive players need to develop. And are you seriously saying that people will get banned for pursuing their plasma pistol commendations? (Not that “averaging 26-30” is even a thing.)
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> Spawntrapping to score a goal is legitimate strategy, however to sit there and do it the entire game is not, and if a player repetitiously does it and is repetitously is reported, they can be banned.
>
> From Section F of the Code of Conduct -“Do not take any action to cause degradation of service for Microsoft or other users, including but not limited to network interference or manipulation.”
>
> From Section F of the Code of Conduct: -“Do not exploit game vulnerabilities or glitches.”
Whoah! Did you just say that spawn trapping in Grifball is a form of glitching or network manipulation? Wow. It’s like you don’t even know what a spawntrap is.
Even the first part of your reply seems to not understand it. A spawn trap ONLY works if it is done “repetitiously”. That’s why it’s called a “trap”. And, for the most part, the people spawntrapping are the ones with the hammers. They have no control over how long it takes the ball runner to score.
Are you trying to tell us that the automatic banhammer software is sophisticated enough to distinguish between different Grifball scoring strategies, when 343i can’t even manage to create a basic file search or MCC postgame lobby? You seem like a nice guy, but part of me feels like you’re just making up some of this as you go.
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> > > > > I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
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> > > >
> > > > Good morning.
> > > > I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
> > > > -Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
> > > > It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
> > > > -Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
> > > > If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
> > > > -Glitching to access ‘premium content’
> > > > It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
> > > > -Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
> > > > Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
> > > > If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
> > > > I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
> > >
> > >
> > > Don’t want to ruin your morning, but spawntraps in Grifball are a completely legitimate scoring strategy, and breaking a spawntrap is a skill that all competitive players need to develop. And are you seriously saying that people will get banned for pursuing their plasma pistol commendations? (Not that “averaging 26-30” is even a thing.)
> >
> >
> > Spawntrapping to score a goal is legitimate strategy, however to sit there and do it the entire game is not, and if a player repetitiously does it and is repetitously is reported, they can be banned.
> >
> > From Section F of the Code of Conduct -“Do not take any action to cause degradation of service for Microsoft or other users, including but not limited to network interference or manipulation.”
> >
> > From Section F of the Code of Conduct: -“Do not exploit game vulnerabilities or glitches.”
>
>
> Whoah! Did you just say that spawn trapping in Grifball is a form of glitching or network manipulation? Wow. It’s like you don’t even know what a spawntrap is.
>
> Even the first part of your reply seems to not understand it. A spawn trap ONLY works if it is done “repetitiously”. That’s why it’s called a “trap”. And, for the most part, the people spawntrapping are the ones with the hammers. They have no control over how long it takes the ball runner to score.
>
> Are you trying to tell us that the automatic banhammer software is sophisticated enough to distinguish between different Grifball scoring strategies, when 343i can’t even manage to create a basic file search or MCC postgame lobby? You seem like a nice guy, but part of me feels like you’re just making up some of this as you go.
I’m not making it up, I have talked to the community engineer Cizlin regarding the manner on LIVE as well as some credible people from the AGLA regarding spawntrapping in threads prior to this, including Waypoint Moderator Snickerdoodle, one of the AGLA Admin Rage More Nerd, and a friend and AGLA player RECEPTOR 17. I think with all of that, I have enough credible sources, and here is the thread if you don’t believe me. I have also had spawn trapping done to me in CTF, so it can be done in objective games outside of Grifball. Three people in Halo 4 with BRs and the fourth with the Flagnum on the opposing team on Simplex on Halo 4 for eight minutes and twenty seconds.
As for spawntrapping itself, it is a form of game manipulation if you do so beyond several seconds for the simple case to score. You are exploiting the game’s poor spawn system for personal gain when done for purposes beyond scoring a goal. Doing so in that fashion also does degrade the gameplay experience for others, so it is also griefing when people do so for beyond the sake of scoring. It is boosting as well when done in a fashion beyond playing the objective based game for the sake of the objective. If a player can score the goal, then why stop instead of scoring it?
There is no excuse or justification for cheating as in spawntrapping for boosting XP/cR , Commedations, and K/D ratio. Spawntrapping beyond the sake of scoring is not a glitch, however it is an exploit and is a form of game manipulation via cheating by boosting. It’s common sense when a player is playing the game to score the goal and playing the game to cheat via boosting. If the ball holder is back at his goal with the ball and the other three are spawntrapping to earn up kills, it’s cheating through boosting as well as griefing, really, just common sense.
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> > > > > I played this game for the last 3 years and never once gotten any warnings or have been banned. Ever. Now, I got banned. I don’t use any mods, I don’t mod my Xbox 360 or cheat in anyway possible. My 360 was having some connection issues before I started the game and then it went away. My router itself is fine and signal is strong on my computer, phone and 360. I played 14 games today and about 2 of those games were having some slowing down. I am pretty good in the Meta/Husky Raid game and again, never cheated or modded my weapons, controller or system. I’m positive that this ban is a mistake. On another note, I have left 3 of those games because half of my team left and it was lagging. After the last game, it said I had matchmaking connection difficulties and I saw the “player has been banned” message below. I did absolutely nothing wrong to get myself banned, especially when I don’t even mod or cheat. I just have skill from experience.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Good morning.
> > > > I looked through your Halo 4 game history and stats and you are honest when you say you haven’t modded anything. Quitting a couple of games would not have resulted in a permaban. There are no signs of any bugs or glitches in your game history either. With that said, there are only a couple of things that could potentially earn you a permaban.
> > > > -Knowingly playing with people who mod/have modded content.
> > > > It doesn’t matter if you don’t mod if you associate yourself knowingly with modders. The banhammer will see this and issue a ban to you as well as them in a case as such. Modded content also includes modded gametypes for custom games.
> > > > -Constantly griefing matchmaking games.
> > > > If you are constantly griefing online matchmaking games (As an example, spawntrapping in Grifball or CTF, killing your opponent again and again as he or she spawns, preventing them from doing anything) can be a bannable offense if enough people report you. Why? You are exploiting the spawning system to essentially cheat by boosting K/D and commedations while simultaneously degrading the gameplay experience for others.
> > > > -Glitching to access ‘premium content’
> > > > It was brought to my attention on Halo Archive that you can temporarily glitch (I won’t share the method as that will get me in trouble here on Waypoint) the DMR CTE and Battle Rifle BLS into online matchmaking. I have shared theories elsewhere that those two guns maybe placeholders for scripting (Like the Scarab Gun was in Halo 2) and hence locked away for that reason. Glitching to access something you shouldn’t have, especially something that isn’t available to anybody legitimately can result in a ban.
> > > > -Boosting achievements and/or Commedations
> > > > Boosting is considered cheating and boosting either commedations and/or achievements will earn you a permaban if the banhammer picks up on it, a sit looks for patterns. Good example, lets say in the last 20 games, you averaged 26-30 kills with a plasma pistol each game. The banhammer will know this pattern isn’t normal and will likely issue a ban.
> > > > If it is not any of these, then you may want to reach out to Waypoint Admin B is for Bravo here on Waypoint or on Twitter and describe the given situation, as I am seeing one of two scenarios here. One is that you were indeed wrongfully banned, and the other being that you may have been playing with a player who mods and the banhammer caught him and determined that you were knowingly playing with him.
> > > > I hope this helps and have a nice day now.
> > >
> > >
> > > Don’t want to ruin your morning, but spawntraps in Grifball are a completely legitimate scoring strategy, and breaking a spawntrap is a skill that all competitive players need to develop. And are you seriously saying that people will get banned for pursuing their plasma pistol commendations? (Not that “averaging 26-30” is even a thing.)
> >
> >
> > Spawntrapping to score a goal is legitimate strategy, however to sit there and do it the entire game is not, and if a player repetitiously does it and is repetitously is reported, they can be banned.
> > From Section F of the Code of Conduct -“Do not take any action to cause degradation of service for Microsoft or other users, including but not limited to network interference or manipulation.”
> > From Section F of the Code of Conduct: -“Do not exploit game vulnerabilities or glitches.”
>
>
> Whoah! Did you just say that spawn trapping in Grifball is a form of glitching or network manipulation? Wow. It’s like you don’t even know what a spawntrap is.
> Even the first part of your reply seems to not understand it. A spawn trap ONLY works if it is done “repetitiously”. That’s why it’s called a “trap”. And, for the most part, the people spawntrapping are the ones with the hammers. They have no control over how long it takes the ball runner to score.
> Are you trying to tell us that the automatic banhammer software is sophisticated enough to distinguish between different Grifball scoring strategies, when 343i can’t even manage to create a basic file search or MCC postgame lobby? You seem like a nice guy, but part of me feels like you’re just making up some of this as you go.
Also with the banhammer, keep in mind, it’s origins do come from Bungie, not 343i themselves, and remember how hard Bungie was on people who would try to cheat or manipulate the game. I do know players who indeed have tryed to boost commedations on Halo 4. The banhammer caught on, and started separating the party into two separate games and repopulated to try to stop it. They continued and all were issued a temporary XP ban, and this is where my Plasma Pistol example came from as that is what they were trying to boost.
The banhammer can detect unusual cases of boosting, though not commonly in grifball. If a player is repetitively reported by others using the LIVE reporting features for cheating and that player has a history of spawntrapping to boost, that player can earn a ban for the reasons I stated in a previous post.
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Thank you, LizKing. I am in total agreement!