I’m getting really tired of getting deranked because I get thrown into games with teammates who AFK or leave. A short ban isn’t enough. There needs to be serious repercussions for leaving matches or AFKING. Takes all the skill out of the game if you are forced into impossible odds bc there is no negative consequences for leaving or AFKING. I’m trying to get to Onyx and the grind is taking much longer than it should because of 3v4 matches or matches where someone constantly gets farmed bc they aren’t playing. Something needs to be done ASAP.
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I honestly think after 5 times of doing either it should be a 24 hour multiplayer ban.
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I had an Oddball match like this very recently. A couple minutes into the match I was wondering why I am doing all the work killing the enemies and trying to get the ball. Then I discovered 2 players AFK at a far end of the map. I don’t know the third player was hiding.
Simplest solution:
Separate player pool, qualify for a ban and you’re put in that player pool. You continue playing but with others who do the same unwanted behaviour as you displayed.
To get back to the normal pool, have a few clean consequtive matches where you play normaly.
No rewards of any kind, challenges not tracked.
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Having a separate player pool for AFK/Drop-out players and making them work back to normal player pool would be a great solution. I’ve had similar problems with people dropping out, but I also understand that sometimes it’s not the players fault and they could have lost connection for all we know so I think banning them, even short term isn’t the optimal solution.
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I was also thinking griefers of all sorts, not just AFKers and quitters, but team killers and whatnot as well.
Cheating is on another level so that shouldn’t apply to this thing. Unless, they too would get their own player pool to splash around in with others who cheat.
Anyway, yeah, things happens in real life sure, but I doubt many have such luck that they’d qualify for an outright ban.
Power outage or disconnect, a once or twice occurance. Not to the point where you constantly join only to disconnect. If you’d qualify for a ban at that point, you’ve made a grevious error as you’ve been thrown out enough times to get a ban. Seek the fault at that point.
I mean, I had connectivity issues with Reach once, got thrown out three times, twice first, then I reset my router, once again after thinking I got it fixed. Game put up a warning, and I stopped playing, would’ve stopped without the warning anyway.
Same with Halo 4.
But yeah, I’ve been advocating a separate player pool for this purpose since Reach, heck, it was what was intended with the Reputation system before the Xbox 360 even launched. That you’d start matching with player of similar rep to yours.
Glad that didn’t get implemented, but, the general idea could be used.
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most people are not rage quitting or griefing, the game is literally crashing on us… i have gotten 4 ranked games within 5 games where i have crashed. the game freezes up and stops responding i am so angry i was d5 almost d6 now im back to d4 im raging.
Honestly cheaters should lose their money and be banned from playing the game entirely. If u cheat then congrats u lost access to the game and anything and everything you bought including battle pass etc. Only way to play again is to buy a new Xbox and change IP and make a new account.
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Just had a game where it was just me and my brother against a full team bc both teammates quit out after getting killed once. For real it’s got me so heated I’d be happy with a 7 day ban for these kids honestly.
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Good idea, this would just be enough harsh. But the right way
I think something like this would be good but with rewards and challenges tracked but maybe with very little or no rank progression.
If you try your best and perform better on average in the match than others playing at your ELO, you’ll lose little to no SR despite losses or leavers.