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

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> > I just quit ONE FFA because I was rubber banding nonstop. I searched on expanded because I could not find a game on balanced. What happens? I freaking get banned for 10 minutes. 343, do you really not want me to play your game? I’m sick of this garbage. I would literally rather not have quitters banned than to have this trash banhammer place. I play TONS of halo, I’ve lagged out of a few and quit a few but I GUARANTEE less than 1% of games do I quit or lag out. FIX THIS SYSTEM NOW!
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> So the game you quit out of was FFA Slayer on the RIG, 5/9/2016, there was also another game that is in your History as a DNF was Tank World, Community action sack on 5/9/2016 aswell wich was 4 games before the FFA Slayer match.
> Now from what I surmise I think that there must have been some other infringement of the match making rules to equate to your 10 minute ban, possibly either a couple of mis timed grenage throws ending in a TK(or the idiot just got in the way lol) or a couple of accidental suicides in other matches(which sometimes makes for great theatre watching for the lols)
> As this hammer does not reset all these DNF’s/ infringment of the matchmaking rules start to add up and becomes ever greater.
> Also as the system can’t tell the difference if you have had a genuine interuption to your internet/dissconect, or just simply turned the xbox off/unplug your router, it counts this a a quit/DNF, if there was a problem with the actual Server then all player’s would have been kicked back to the matchmaking screen, or it would try another server to connect to.
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It doesn’t. I can’t help games I lag out of. The system is very poor and I am not satisfied with its implementation. Thanks for the response though.

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> > > I love when Im having a blast playing warzone and suddenly the game decides that Im not worthy to keep playing that match so I get kicked and then I get ban :slight_smile: I LOVE IT
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> So are you telling me that in those 20 days it has improved?

Disconnects are pretty rare for me. Always have been. However, it’s kind of like getting pulled over and told you were speeding, getting a ticket, and then waiting 6 months to protest the ticket. I wasn’t sure if you were trolling or you had actually been banned 20 days ago or why you would wait that long to post about it.

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> > > > I love when Im having a blast playing warzone and suddenly the game decides that Im not worthy to keep playing that match so I get kicked and then I get ban :slight_smile: I LOVE IT
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> Disconnects are pretty rare for me. Always have been. However, it’s kind of like getting pulled over and told you were speeding, getting a ticket, and then waiting 6 months to protest the ticket. I wasn’t sure if you were trolling or you had actually been banned 20 days ago or why you would wait that long to post about it.

Because at the end I started to get used to it and then I just moved on and went back to the MCC

I’m getting banned over and over again while just trying to play the game. This latest one is lasting for 6 hours after I lagged out AFTER THE GAME WAS OVER. This is ridiculous. I’m not spending any more money on this game.

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> I’m getting banned over and over again while just trying to play the game. This latest one is lasting for 6 hours after I lagged out AFTER THE GAME WAS OVER. This is ridiculous. I’m not spending any more money on this game.

When you say “lag out after the game was over”, do you mean you saw a message that said “Disconnected from the server” immediately after the game ended, followed by a ban message?
Also, making multiple accounts on Waypoint is against forum rules. Considering that you are talking about getting bans in Halo 5 and have no Halo 5 history on this account, this appears to be an alternate account.

Aaaand… Banhammer strikes again!!!
After quitting 1 match. Yes, one. I left a slayer match, started a new one and finished it properly. And than BAM! 45 min. ban.
And why the hell is that? I wasnt using my microphone, so i have no idea.
P.S. Not fair.

> As it takes more than a single offence to earn a ban you will never be banned for leaving one match, it will be multiple offences that have led to a ban being placed on your account.

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> > It said I was banned for quitting too many amtches I didnt leave those matches it lagged me out a couple of lagswitchers reported me for supposivly hacking as well i dont even know how to hack i reported the lag switchers but they reversed their ban with a hack and put it on me
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> The Xbox One is not currently able to be modified in any way, as such nobody can hack or modify any games that run on the console.

Hello stckrboy, I hope u r well, also hope u took a look a my suggestion my friend. Now I am not arguing with anyone nor would ever as that would be rude I think as I know you feel the same. But yesterday, I had a fairly long talk w\MS about hacks n mods. They are happening as I was hacked as well once. But modifying the console n game is almost always different cases were as game mods are not mods to ur console. Hacks are becoming an issue now as MS said this. But do you know if the glitch disconnect ban issue many posts here discuss is being fixed, I think the next update is scheduled around 10\25\16, approx? Also I myself often cannot quit after a finished game, even before or during the lobby or in matchmaking all which happen out of game and harm no one, my controller (use many but paddle seem a little worse) wont let me quit very often and is in fact a XB hardware issue. Yes I know the rules well but most of what I see posted is no ones fault and players are clearly being banned for things they have no responsability for. Now we both know many fib but these are real issues u must agree. Perhaps a diplomatic look see could eliminate many many posts here. If I can be of help, please pm me. Thank you, take care, be well and thnx for your fine work for our Halo family, I appreciate you and waypoint very much,;~}

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> Hello stckrboy, I hope u r well, also hope u took a look a my suggestion my friend. Now I am not arguing with anyone nor would ever as that would be rude I think as I know you feel the same. But yesterday, I had a fairly long talk w\MS about hacks n mods. They are happening as I was hacked as well once. But modifying the console n game is almost always different cases were as game mods are not mods to ur console. Hacks are becoming an issue now as MS said this.

I think the MS rep you were talking to was likely referring more to ‘account hacks’ than game / console modifications - at that, Xbox Live / MS accounts generally aren’t hacked. It’s more down to either socisa engineering, weak passwords, or granting permissions to rogue apps that allow your account to be taken over. An actual hacked account would be very high profile.

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> But do you know if the glitch disconnect ban issue many posts here discuss is being fixed, I think the next update is scheduled around 10\25\16, approx? Also I myself often cannot quit after a finished game, even before or during the lobby or in matchmaking all which happen out of game and harm no one, my controller (use many but paddle seem a little worse) wont let me quit very often and is in fact a XB hardware issue. Yes I know the rules well but most of what I see posted is no ones fault and players are clearly being banned for things they have no responsability for. Now we both know many fib but these are real issues u must agree. Perhaps a diplomatic look see could eliminate many many posts here. If I can be of help, please pm me. Thank you, take care, be well and thnx for your fine work for our Halo family, I appreciate you and waypoint very much,;~}

The next update is going to drop this Thursday September 8th. Can’t say if there will be any fixes for what you mentioned I’m afraid, I don’t get to see patch notes before they’re released unfortunately :slight_smile:

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> Aaaand… Banhammer strikes again!!!
> After quitting 1 match. Yes, one. I left a slayer match, started a new one and finished it properly. And than BAM! 45 min. ban.
> And why the hell is that? I wasnt using my microphone, so i have no idea.
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> > As it takes more than a single offence to earn a ban you will never be banned for leaving one match, it will be multiple offences that have led to a ban being placed on your account.

They don’t mean 1 Dnf at a time won’t get you banned, they mean if you have only Dnf’d 1 game in your career you won’t get banned. You have 5 Dnf’s in the last 6 days, the system doesn’t forget or reset, the dnf’s just keep adding up as do your ban times.

I’m sure it’s been said but the banning needs to be loosened up. I had to quit a game of Mantis Breakout because it was nothing but a black screen and friendly Spartan names flooring around. Then the next game is husky raid and right as the game ends I lose connection then a ban hammer is laid down. Two games left in a row, one of which I had no control over, and I get banned. That’s really isn’t fair. The system should be able to tell the difference between quitting and disconnecting.

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> I’m sure it’s been said but the banning needs to be loosened up. I had to quit a game of Mantis Breakout because it was nothing but a black screen and friendly Spartan names flooring around. Then the next game is husky raid and right as the game ends I lose connection then a ban hammer is laid down. Two games left in a row, one of which I had no control over, and I get banned. That’s really isn’t fair. The system should be able to tell the difference between quitting and disconnecting.

That game of Husky Raid you’re talking about was completed, and is listed in your history as “TIE”, not DNF. So you weren’t actually booted from the Husky Raid game. What happened was the banhammer kicking in for that game of Mantis Breakout before you did not finish; it just kicked in as soon as Husky Raid was over, making it seem like you got disconnected. But it was only the Mantis Breakout game you quit before that triggered the ban. Here is an excerpt about this from the first page:

> __Why was I banned for winning a match / quitting one match / quitting a custom game? *__You weren’t. The ban system runs at least 1 game behind so your ban will have been placed for a previous offence. After completing your next event, whether it is a matchmaking game, custom game, forge session, spectating a friend or viewing theatre, the system will then show you a message telling you that you have been banned. As it takes more than a single offence to earn a ban you will never be banned for leaving one match, it will be multiple offences that have led to a ban being placed on your account.

Getting real sick of getting dicsonnected after each game is finished, not getting my req points and experience after getting FIRST PLACE and being banned for quitting, this is a disgraceful online service, this time I get banned for 30 minutes for this -Yoink-? Yesterday when it happened it was 8 minutes! If this isn’t fixed Halo 5 will be the last and terrible Halo game I’ll have played, what a game to end the series with, the one that killed it.

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> > Aaaand… Banhammer strikes again!!!
> > After quitting 1 match. Yes, one. I left a slayer match, started a new one and finished it properly. And than BAM! 45 min. ban.
> > And why the hell is that? I wasnt using my microphone, so i have no idea.
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> > > As it takes more than a single offence to earn a ban you will never be banned for leaving one match, it will be multiple offences that have led to a ban being placed on your account.
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> They don’t mean 1 Dnf at a time won’t get you banned, they mean if you have only Dnf’d 1 game in your career you won’t get banned. You have 5 Dnf’s in the last 6 days, the system doesn’t forget or reset, the dnf’s just keep adding up as do your ban times.

Oh…i see
Thanks for clarifying!

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> Getting real sick of getting dicsonnected after each game is finished, not getting my req points and experience after getting FIRST PLACE and being banned for quitting, this is a disgraceful online service, this time I get banned for 30 minutes for this -Yoink-? Yesterday when it happened it was 8 minutes! If this isn’t fixed Halo 5 will be the last and terrible Halo game I’ll have played, what a game to end the series with, the one that killed it.

Going back into your history and cross referencing that with what you said in your post, you appear to be talking about this game of Infection, where you got 1st place. Since this game is listed as completed in your history, you did get RP and Exp from that game. The reason you saw a disconnect message as soon as you finished that game was because of the previous Infection game that you did not finish. The banhammer took 1 extra game to catch up to you. Your first place Infection game was counted as complete, awarded you all RP and exp, and is did not contribute to your 30 min ban. You also have DNFs yesterday that are followed by completed games in both Warzone and Arena, so any bans you got yesterday would have been similarly issued 1 game after your actual DNF.

In my opinion we shouldn’t get ban strikes that turn in to cool down periods from leaving games it’s actually pretty unfair to us as they people who buy the games some of us have real obligation that resolves in to us having to get off such as work kids etc… so with that being said I think that 343 should reenact the deranking systems that bungi start in halo 3 but only for the leaving mach making games and use the cool down periods for the more serious offense.

I got banned again because the servers dropped me - LEFT FIRETEAM - Although it was only for 9 minutes.

They need to sort this out still

LOL… So when your screen freezes for a period of time, and you have to hit the home button to relaunch the game, you get banned… I can see that I most likely will not purchaced the next Halo game…

I finished a game and as I was looking at the stats, the screen froze to where I couldn’t go back or any other options… so I hit the home button and closed out Halo and then relaunched the game only to find that I have an 1/2 hour ban for quiting… BS

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How about we all just drop the Ban Hammer on the next Halo game and say FU to purchasing it… (Thumbs up)…

nothing offensive here… just what ppl feel. and if you monitors are offended over this type of comment, you have a lot of disappointment ahead of you in life… I enjoy playing Halo, but I Can move on to other games, that are not affiliated with 343, just as easy

How about we all just drop the Ban Hammer on the next Halo game and say FU to purchasing it… (Thumbs up)

so i just started a game. team arena im onyx. plaza slayer. went in by myself. start off get OS. get 2 kills. we are up 7 to 1 i believe. i backsmack a kid in cafe ramp to make it 8 to 1 then my screen goes black like its loading a game and boom! ive been banned for 40 mins.??? so i go on a smurf and it keeps saying your fireteam has changed. my nat type is open. why does H5 have to be so broken at times? can you gujys just fix this? btw i got msg from the random 3 team mates asking why i quit, im an idiot, im a loser, they are reporting me… when i never quit and my connection is fine. wtf im tired of this

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> so i just started a game. team arena im onyx. plaza slayer. went in by myself. start off get OS. get 2 kills. we are up 7 to 1 i believe. i backsmack a kid in cafe ramp to make it 8 to 1 then my screen goes black like its loading a game and boom! ive been banned for 40 mins.??? so i go on a smurf and it keeps saying your fireteam has changed. my nat type is open. why does H5 have to be so broken at times? can you gujys just fix this? btw i got msg from the random 3 team mates asking why i quit, im an idiot, im a loser, they are reporting me… when i never quit and my connection is fine. wtf im tired of this

It’s kind of dumb and I was having the same problem. Do a power cycle on the system. I was having network issues today until I did this exact thing.

Hold the power button let power down completely and then wait 30 seconds and power back up.