The official Halo 5 "Why was I banned?" thread

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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> > > > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
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> > > You think you got it bad,Ban Hammer stikes i get 7 DAYS for nothing
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> > @xoxBradZxox, saying you have a 7 day ban for nothing your service records states differently, you have 10 DNF’s from your last 30 games, that is a 33% DNF rate and a few of them ar back to back, to get a 7 Day Ban you must haqve quit numerous times before, and had numerous bans ranging from hours to day’s, and if your last 30 games are anything to go by then I would class that as “Habitually quitting”. This is in Arena alone, Warzone on the other hand states 7 DNF’s out of 30 games, that is a 23% DNF rate.
> > Now if you say that they are all due to dissconnects then I would have to say that there is somthing wrong with the connection on your side, if it was server side and the whole team was kicked back to the lobby the game does not get recorded at all and a DNF will not show on your service record.
> > Each and every DNF/quit/other infraction of Matchmaking rules will increse the time served for a Ban, these do not reset, and most likely the threshhold to when a ban is triggered gets smaller and smaller, I.E. quit/DNF ONE game, complete another to finish, then you will be banned again.
> > TLDR: Don’t quit, check internet connection for packet loss, cycle router on/off to get a fresh connection, forward ports on router, if wireless go wired.
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> If you read my previous post i state i do not quit,when the the game finishes and the scores come up thats when it disconnects,thats where the game is broken,being disconnected should not be the same as DNF,state my service record all you want it does not differ from disconnected or DNF,
> My connection is fine 80 meg up and 12 down with no packet loss and the only game that don’t work properly is HALO 5
> And yes i am getting banned for nothing.

So let me get this straight, when you play a game, and you finish it, and then the post carnage report comes up, that is when you get kicked back to the lobby with a “you have lost connection to the server” right?
This is the banhammers way of saying “right time-out, were disonnecting you from our server’s for you to serve out your ban”.
When that happens the game does not get counted as a DNF, and is counted either as a Win/Loss/Tie.
If that what happens in ALL of those games that are classed as DNF’s in your service record as what I stated at the start of this post, then they would not be classed as a DNF but as either Win/Loss/Tie.
The only way to explain all those DNF’s is if you were disconnected during the game, not at the end of the game after the carnage report, is this what happened?

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> > > > > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
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> > > > You think you got it bad,Ban Hammer stikes i get 7 DAYS for nothing
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> > > @xoxBradZxox, saying you have a 7 day ban for nothing your service records states differently, you have 10 DNF’s from your last 30 games, that is a 33% DNF rate and a few of them ar back to back, to get a 7 Day Ban you must haqve quit numerous times before, and had numerous bans ranging from hours to day’s, and if your last 30 games are anything to go by then I would class that as “Habitually quitting”. This is in Arena alone, Warzone on the other hand states 7 DNF’s out of 30 games, that is a 23% DNF rate.
> > > Now if you say that they are all due to dissconnects then I would have to say that there is somthing wrong with the connection on your side, if it was server side and the whole team was kicked back to the lobby the game does not get recorded at all and a DNF will not show on your service record.
> > > Each and every DNF/quit/other infraction of Matchmaking rules will increse the time served for a Ban, these do not reset, and most likely the threshhold to when a ban is triggered gets smaller and smaller, I.E. quit/DNF ONE game, complete another to finish, then you will be banned again.
> > > TLDR: Don’t quit, check internet connection for packet loss, cycle router on/off to get a fresh connection, forward ports on router, if wireless go wired.
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> > If you read my previous post i state i do not quit,when the the game finishes and the scores come up thats when it disconnects,thats where the game is broken,being disconnected should not be the same as DNF,state my service record all you want it does not differ from disconnected or DNF,
> > My connection is fine 80 meg up and 12 down with no packet loss and the only game that don’t work properly is HALO 5
> > And yes i am getting banned for nothing.
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> So let me get this straight, when you play a game, and you finish it, and then the post carnage report comes up, that is when you get kicked back to the lobby with a “you have lost connection to the server” right?
> This is the banhammers way of saying “right time-out, were disonnecting you from our server’s for you to serve out your ban”.
> When that happens the game does not get counted as a DNF, and is counted either as a Win/Loss/Tie.
> If that what happens in ALL of those games that are classed as DNF’s in your service record as what I stated at the start of this post, then they would not be classed as a DNF but as either Win/Loss/Tie.
> The only way to explain all those DNF’s is if you were disconnected during the game, not at the end of the game after the carnage report, is this what happened?

I get to play the whole game,Its funny how i get to see the animation at the end then get disconnected
Not every game disconnects,i might get to play 3 or 4 games with out quitting but on the end of the 4th the ban hammer strikes and i havn’t even quit back to lobby,and yes it goes down as a DNF

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Why is people trying to positive?? When it should be negative.

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> > > > > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
> > > >
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> > > > You think you got it bad,Ban Hammer stikes i get 7 DAYS for nothing
> > >
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> > > @xoxBradZxox, saying you have a 7 day ban for nothing your service records states differently, you have 10 DNF’s from your last 30 games, that is a 33% DNF rate and a few of them ar back to back, to get a 7 Day Ban you must haqve quit numerous times before, and had numerous bans ranging from hours to day’s, and if your last 30 games are anything to go by then I would class that as “Habitually quitting”. This is in Arena alone, Warzone on the other hand states 7 DNF’s out of 30 games, that is a 23% DNF rate.
> > > Now if you say that they are all due to dissconnects then I would have to say that there is somthing wrong with the connection on your side, if it was server side and the whole team was kicked back to the lobby the game does not get recorded at all and a DNF will not show on your service record.
> > > Each and every DNF/quit/other infraction of Matchmaking rules will increse the time served for a Ban, these do not reset, and most likely the threshhold to when a ban is triggered gets smaller and smaller, I.E. quit/DNF ONE game, complete another to finish, then you will be banned again.
> > > TLDR: Don’t quit, check internet connection for packet loss, cycle router on/off to get a fresh connection, forward ports on router, if wireless go wired.
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> > If you read my previous post i state i do not quit,when the the game finishes and the scores come up thats when it disconnects,thats where the game is broken,being disconnected should not be the same as DNF,state my service record all you want it does not differ from disconnected or DNF,
> > My connection is fine 80 meg up and 12 down with no packet loss and the only game that don’t work properly is HALO 5
> > And yes i am getting banned for nothing.
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> So let me get this straight, when you play a game, and you finish it, and then the post carnage report comes up, that is when you get kicked back to the lobby with a “you have lost connection to the server” right?
> This is the banhammers way of saying “right time-out, were disonnecting you from our server’s for you to serve out your ban”.
> When that happens the game does not get counted as a DNF, and is counted either as a Win/Loss/Tie.
> If that what happens in ALL of those games that are classed as DNF’s in your service record as what I stated at the start of this post, then they would not be classed as a DNF but as either Win/Loss/Tie.
> The only way to explain all those DNF’s is if you were disconnected during the game, not at the end of the game after the carnage report, is this what happened?

You have that reversed. Your ‘disconnects’ are your ban taking effect after you quit the prior game.

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i thought i got banned also due to 7 ‘server disconnect’ in 7 games! turns out, my modem went out drinking without me… my modem is bad :frowning:
i looked at my history and prior to tonight, 2 DNF in 70 games, from tonight i got 7 DNF’s. pulled the plug on the whole system. sat in silence for 5 minutes and powered the whole lot up again. yippie k, i got through a whole game (loss) without a disconnect!

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> i thought i got banned also due to 7 ‘server disconnect’ in 7 games! turns out, my modem went out drinking without me… my modem is bad :frowning:
> i looked at my history and prior to tonight, 2 DNF in 70 games, from tonight i got 7 DNF’s. pulled the plug on the whole system. sat in silence for 5 minutes and powered the whole lot up again. yippie k, i got through a whole game (loss) without a disconnect!

You are doing it wrong…It can’t be on your end. Blame the servers. lol.

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*Original post. Click at your own discretion.

Warzone farmers lead to my friend being banned, assumed perma from his hollow response. “Welp, I’m not playing Halo ever again.”

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> Warzone farmers lead to my friend being banned, assumed perma from his hollow response. “Welp, I’m not playing Halo ever again.”

Quite the assumption you’ve made based on zero concrete info. Maybe he’s simply had enough of the situation that he keeps finding himself in…

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> > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
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> Well to explain the “I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby.” is the banhammer kicking in and issueing your ban, If you are up to an 8 hour ban then you have quit/DNF/infringed on Matchmaking rules in the past and this has accumilated to the “profile” that the banhammer has compiled about your gameplay.
> It dosn’t need to be fixed as it is working as intented by 343i.
> So getting back your point of “get this garbage cleaned up already!!!” there is nothing to get cleaned up, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk in you matches you are commiting any one of the Matchmaking rules then this will go against you, as most likley it has done in the past to warrant an 8hour ban and you are only bringing the banhammer on yourself.
> Your service record shows how many DNF’s you have aswell, over the last 5 days you have atleast 1 DNF per day.
> Your actions dictate how you play, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk then expect to have to pay the price(banned), if you don’t like the rules then it’s simple don’t play.
> 343i’s game, 343i’s rules.

You fail to understand. When you finish a match, you are returned to the lobby, you know, where it says “searching for Spartans”. Where you can freely exit said lobby and switch to another game type. For example, I finish a SWAT match, I see the carnage report, and I am returned to the matchmaking lobby where there is a countdown for the next match. How else are you supposed to stop being put in matches? It clearly is not working if I back out AFTER a match, not DURING a match, or after players have been assigned to the game and the countdown begins. What you are suggesting is that once I choose a game type, I can’t ever leave it? Please. Read the post carefully next time before you start spewing this nonsense about the system working. As for the DNF, that’s a similar issue where I will finish a game, and there is no carnage report, the game freezes and I can navigate Spartan menus but cant change game menus, so I HAVE to close Halo 5 and restart. That’s a fault on 343 too. I do not quit matches. So anyway, again, 343, clean up this mess, because it has happened yet again. I am absolutely sick of this.

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In doubles it has dropped my friend at the start. I have backed out to re-group with him. Now im banned… I get it, people shouldn’t be able to quit out, but the system being broken and dropping him is the issue. This auto ban system needs some extra love in more algorithms.

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> Warzone farmers lead to my friend being banned, assumed perma from his hollow response. “Welp, I’m not playing Halo ever again.”

It isn’t a permanent ban for quitting. Perhaps you should either get more details from your friend or direct him here to discuss his ban.

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> i thought i got banned also due to 7 ‘server disconnect’ in 7 games! turns out, my modem went out drinking without me… my modem is bad :frowning:
> i looked at my history and prior to tonight, 2 DNF in 70 games, from tonight i got 7 DNF’s. pulled the plug on the whole system. sat in silence for 5 minutes and powered the whole lot up again. yippie k, i got through a whole game (loss) without a disconnect!

I appreciate your honesty.

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> > > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
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> > Well to explain the “I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby.” is the banhammer kicking in and issueing your ban, If you are up to an 8 hour ban then you have quit/DNF/infringed on Matchmaking rules in the past and this has accumilated to the “profile” that the banhammer has compiled about your gameplay.
> > It dosn’t need to be fixed as it is working as intented by 343i.
> > So getting back your point of “get this garbage cleaned up already!!!” there is nothing to get cleaned up, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk in you matches you are commiting any one of the Matchmaking rules then this will go against you, as most likley it has done in the past to warrant an 8hour ban and you are only bringing the banhammer on yourself.
> > Your service record shows how many DNF’s you have aswell, over the last 5 days you have atleast 1 DNF per day.
> > Your actions dictate how you play, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk then expect to have to pay the price(banned), if you don’t like the rules then it’s simple don’t play.
> > 343i’s game, 343i’s rules.
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> You fail to understand. When you finish a match, you are returned to the lobby, you know, where it says “searching for Spartans”. Where you can freely exit said lobby and switch to another game type. For example, I finish a SWAT match, I see the carnage report, and I am returned to the matchmaking lobby where there is a countdown for the next match. How else are you supposed to stop being put in matches? It clearly is not working if I back out AFTER a match, not DURING a match, or after players have been assigned to the game and the countdown begins. What you are suggesting is that once I choose a game type, I can’t ever leave it? Please. Read the post carefully next time before you start spewing this nonsense about the system working. As for the DNF, that’s a similar issue where I will finish a game, and there is no carnage report, the game freezes and I can navigate Spartan menus but cant change game menus, so I HAVE to close Halo 5 and restart. That’s a fault on 343 too. I do not quit matches. So anyway, again, 343, clean up this mess, because it has happened yet again. I am absolutely sick of this.

Try backing out to the lobby after the match ends and then looking at your carnage report. It sounds like you are taking to long to view it and it is registering you for the next match before you quit.

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> In doubles it has dropped my friend at the start. I have backed out to re-group with him. Now im banned… I get it, people shouldn’t be able to quit out, but the system being broken and dropping him is the issue. This auto ban system needs some extra love in more algorithms.

I understand you want to join your friend, but a quit is a quit. The reasons for it don’t matter and you would have had to quit quite a bit in order to get a ban.

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Help please. My cousin got banned I think. It says “at least one player in your fireteam is not permitted to play multiplayer games.” He said the game doesn’t tell him he is banned or why. It won’t let him play multiplayer games. And it doesn’t even give a duration on how long the ban is even if it is a ban. What should he do? Thanks

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Do the bans ever go back to just 10 minute bans? In other words, if we leave a game and get banned for 40 minutes then play 50 games and leave again will we get a ban for more or less time? I fear I know the answer, but I can’t see a legitimate reason to ban someone for increasing increments for leaving games once every 50 games.

It seems like you should be banned for leaving 2 games consecutively and each game played should take away a left game. Similar to the halo 3 betrayal system. If you betrayed 3 teammates across 3 games you would get kicked the following betrayal. Every game you played without betraying someone one betrayal would go away. Not that anyone will see this post and actually implement it in the game. I just know there are much better ways to punish those who leave many games. It seems I’m banned for every single DNF that happens regardless of how far away they are from each other. If I play 50 games a day, one of those games will inherently be 2v4 and I will be more inclined to leave.

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> Help please. My cousin got banned I think. It says “at least one player in your fireteam is not permitted to play multiplayer games.” He said the game doesn’t tell him he is banned or why. It won’t let him play multiplayer games. And it doesn’t even give a duration on how long the ban is even if it is a ban. What should he do? Thanks

Does your cousin have an Xbox LIVE Gold Membership?

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> > > > So this has been going on for as long as the game has been around. I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby. How ridiculous is that? THAT needs to be fixed. I mean, I play a complete match, I get the carnage report. I back out of the lobby to play a different game type. Bam! Banhammer. It happens so frequently that now I’m up to an 8 hour ban. Come on, get this garbage cleaned up already!!!
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> > > Well to explain the “I will get banned when I back out of the matchmaking lobby.” is the banhammer kicking in and issueing your ban, If you are up to an 8 hour ban then you have quit/DNF/infringed on Matchmaking rules in the past and this has accumilated to the “profile” that the banhammer has compiled about your gameplay.
> > > It dosn’t need to be fixed as it is working as intented by 343i.
> > > So getting back your point of “get this garbage cleaned up already!!!” there is nothing to get cleaned up, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk in you matches you are commiting any one of the Matchmaking rules then this will go against you, as most likley it has done in the past to warrant an 8hour ban and you are only bringing the banhammer on yourself.
> > > Your service record shows how many DNF’s you have aswell, over the last 5 days you have atleast 1 DNF per day.
> > > Your actions dictate how you play, If you quit/DNF/betray/idle-afk then expect to have to pay the price(banned), if you don’t like the rules then it’s simple don’t play.
> > > 343i’s game, 343i’s rules.
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> > You fail to understand. When you finish a match, you are returned to the lobby, you know, where it says “searching for Spartans”. Where you can freely exit said lobby and switch to another game type. For example, I finish a SWAT match, I see the carnage report, and I am returned to the matchmaking lobby where there is a countdown for the next match. How else are you supposed to stop being put in matches? It clearly is not working if I back out AFTER a match, not DURING a match, or after players have been assigned to the game and the countdown begins. What you are suggesting is that once I choose a game type, I can’t ever leave it? Please. Read the post carefully next time before you start spewing this nonsense about the system working. As for the DNF, that’s a similar issue where I will finish a game, and there is no carnage report, the game freezes and I can navigate Spartan menus but cant change game menus, so I HAVE to close Halo 5 and restart. That’s a fault on 343 too. I do not quit matches. So anyway, again, 343, clean up this mess, because it has happened yet again. I am absolutely sick of this.
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> Try backing out to the lobby after the match ends and then looking at your carnage report. It sounds like you are taking to long to view it and it is registering you for the next match before you quit.

I do appreciate your helpful comment. I have been trying to do that, as I had a similar thought. I usually do close out the carnage report quickly and exit matchmaking if my intent is to switch game types. However, even the game tells you as you back out, that you may still be put in a game if it has been matched already. So I feel if they count that as quitting, that’s their fault for matching the game then letting me “quit.” So I don’t think that is the issue, I truly believe there is a crucial error in 343’s system. I just wish they would pay attention the outcry here and do something about it. I will be sure to take your advice though and see if it changes the outcome at all. Again, thank you for saying something constructive.

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Hello, i have just been banned for the second time first 3 minutes now 45 minutes whilst i did not quit the system must not be working properly because everytime after a few matches after the match has ended it says one member in your fireteam is banned… I get banned for finishing matches ?

Edit: I do have a Moderate NAT though, but that shouldnt give problems like this ?

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yup 2x in a row my console lost connection to the servers but my internet is fine… 5minutes ban. Its only 5 minutes but it pisses me off so much I keep getting kicked out of games cuz of this stupid -Yoink-.

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> Hello, i have just been banned for the second time first 3 minutes now 45 minutes whilst i did not quit the system must not be working properly because everytime after a few matches after the match has ended it says one member in your fireteam is banned… I get banned for finishing matches ?
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> Edit: I do have a Moderate NAT though, but that shouldnt give problems like this ?

You have 10 DNFs and a little over fifty matches. That is about 1 in 5. When you are banned it takes the game a minute or two to catch up. So you quit and the system decided you earned a ban, you play one more match and your ban is enacted. Ideally your nat should be open. There are a few guides about how to open your nat floating about the forums. You can search for them with the search bar at the top.

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> yup 2x in a row my console lost connection to the servers but my internet is fine… 5minutes ban. Its only 5 minutes but it pisses me off so much I keep getting kicked out of games cuz of this stupid -Yoink-.

Et tu Gluby?

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Really, 10 did not finish ? Thats not right, i did not quit that much only like 2 times because i had to do something or got called.
So then its my NAT ? I find it really hard to fix that myself i will call a mechanic to fix it for me another time.

Thanks.

Edit: Just a question, this only happens in Arena ? I can play Warzone and Warzone Firefight with Moderate NAT without any connection problems ?

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Hey I did nothing and I got banned in halo 5 can you please fix that