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

No, im unbanned

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> > I got banned five times in a row because the servers are garbage; why wasn’t that included?
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> This gave me a good chuckle, lol

Is all halos being banned

This ban issue with being disconnected from the servers need to be addressed, my fiancé currently has a 9 hour ban from being disconnected from the servers, you people need to fix this before you lose a lot of players.

I just got banned for absolutely no reason. Firstly got “disconnected” more like someone kicking me from a big team battle while playing CTF and I was running the flag back for the win
 Secondly lost a CTF on Viking then the menus froze so I was forced to restart my xbox and now I’m banned
 For literally nothing, and this type of banning keeps happening over and over
 Kind of ridiculous. Can this be fixed please


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> This ban issue with being disconnected from the servers need to be addressed, my fiancé currently has a 9 hour ban from being disconnected from the servers, you people need to fix this before you lose a lot of players.

If you want help,you should post with your real account and not with an alternative.

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> I just got banned for absolutely no reason. Firstly got “disconnected” more like someone kicking me from a big team battle while playing CTF and I was running the flag back for the win
 Secondly lost a CTF on Viking then the menus froze so I was forced to restart my xbox and now I’m banned
 For literally nothing, and this type of banning keeps happening over and over
 Kind of ridiculous. Can this be fixed please


You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games.
Then you dont get banned for Viking ,you got banned for the DNF on Deadlock,the banhammer has an one round delay.
Then you cant get kicked unless its an private match.

Double post glitch,please ignore.

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> > I just got banned for absolutely no reason. Firstly got “disconnected” more like someone kicking me from a big team battle while playing CTF and I was running the flag back for the win
 Secondly lost a CTF on Viking then the menus froze so I was forced to restart my xbox and now I’m banned
 For literally nothing, and this type of banning keeps happening over and over
 Kind of ridiculous. Can this be fixed please

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> You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games.
> Then you dont get banned for Viking ,you got banned for the DNF on Deadlock,the banhammer has an one round delay.
> Then you cant get kicked unless its an private match.

Interesting, I had been disconnected on deadlock and it said I lost connection to server. Thank you for your help.

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> I got banned five times in a row because the servers are garbage; why wasn’t that included?

the servers are garbage because you have bad internet, are connected to a faraway server, or your download is yoink.

So I decided to play halo master chief collection and play halo for which I haven’t played since 2013 I picked up the fuel Rod I shot one of them in the face and he didn’t die are you serious really so now MCC has -Yoink- as much as Halo five dose 343 you have until halo 6 to correct your mistake if not then quit

I was just banned for literally ZERO REASON. I completed my game, and without any message I’m returned to the arena lobby where it says I’m banned. What’s worse is the game also isn’t retrieving my reqs, so warzone is a waste of time. This is absolutely -Yoink-!

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> I was just banned for literally ZERO REASON. I completed my game, and without any message I’m returned to the arena lobby where it says I’m banned. What’s worse is the game also isn’t retrieving my reqs, so warzone is a waste of time. This is absolutely -Yoink-!

What you likely experienced was the “late banhammer”, which is normal banhammer behavior. The banhammer usually takes 1 extra game to catch up. So you weren’t banned for the game you finished (this one). You were probably banned for the previous game which is listed as DNF in your history. It also probably didn’t help that 5 out of your most recent 10 Arena games are DNFs.

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> > I was just banned for literally ZERO REASON. I completed my game, and without any message I’m returned to the arena lobby where it says I’m banned. What’s worse is the game also isn’t retrieving my reqs, so warzone is a waste of time. This is absolutely -Yoink-!
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> What you likely experienced was the “late banhammer”, which is normal banhammer behavior. The banhammer usually takes 1 extra game to catch up. So you weren’t banned for the game you finished (this one). You were probably banned for the previous game which is listed as DNF in your history. It also probably didn’t help that 5 out of your most recent 10 Arena games are DNFs.

That’s great, except for the fact that I quit that game because of the awful lagging that continually plagues me in this game. Also, how does the time between games not effect this? I believe I’ve played a total of three games today, which means you have to be looking at Arena games from yesterday. Which is absurd. Honestly, this ban system, while admirable in its intentions, is incredibly flawed. The ban finished though, so thanks I guess

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> I just got banned for absolutely no reason. Firstly got “disconnected” more like someone kicking me from a big team battle while playing CTF and I was running the flag back for the win
 Secondly lost a CTF on Viking then the menus froze so I was forced to restart my xbox and now I’m banned
 For literally nothing, and this type of banning keeps happening over and over
 Kind of ridiculous. Can this be fixed please


Unfortunately, cases like yours will not result in anything other than just you cluttering up this forum. 343 doesn’t even have customer support, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. For example, I had one DNF in 12 consecutive matches and hadn’t had a DNF in over two months and I was struck with the banhammer! Stupid, yes. But select situations like mine, or yours, tend to get no traction because at the end of the day this isn’t really to solve problems, just blow hot air–if that makes sense.

You did have seven DNFs in the last week, so that’s different than my situation. But with how frequently you play, you’re completely around 85-90% of your matches, which isn’t that bad.

Anyone else think that banning someone because he quits is stupid? Let me explain why: as we all can see the net-code of the game sucks, if you don’t play in the United States it’s hard to find a match with good connection in some playlists, or find one at all (343 have delayed the Halo Championship in Europe because of connection issues, this is the proof that the problem still exists after almost a year) and playing against someone who can easily anticipate you it’s frustrating, and even more if you get disconnected and banned, then if you suck in a match and you’re only sinking your teammates, the easiest thing to do is quitting (I know it’s not good to join in progress because someone has left, but in past Halos there wasn’t this option, it was a bit longer to find a match but at least you couldn’t be put in a match which is just ended, like now happens too often), and the final reason is that the banhammer is irritating all the customers of this game, maybe it swings to make “Justice”, but it is too unfair, it reminds me the Digital Rights Management that were used so often from videogame companies in the past years, which were more tools to ruin the fun of all the people that have always bought games legally, instead of protecting the game from piracy.

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> > I just got banned for absolutely no reason. Firstly got “disconnected” more like someone kicking me from a big team battle while playing CTF and I was running the flag back for the win
 Secondly lost a CTF on Viking then the menus froze so I was forced to restart my xbox and now I’m banned
 For literally nothing, and this type of banning keeps happening over and over
 Kind of ridiculous. Can this be fixed please

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> Unfortunately, cases like yours will not result in anything other than just you cluttering up this forum. 343 doesn’t even have customer support, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. For example, I had one DNF in 12 consecutive matches and hadn’t had a DNF in over two months and I was struck with the banhammer! Stupid, yes. But select situations like mine, or yours, tend to get no traction because at the end of the day this isn’t really to solve problems, just blow hot air–if that makes sense.
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> You did have seven DNFs in the last week, so that’s different than my situation. But with how frequently you play, you’re completely around 85-90% of your matches, which isn’t that bad.

25 DNFs in 200 matches 4 of which were in your last 30. You’re over 10% in both cases. Cherry picking a selection of matches from your history to make the system seems worse than it is, well that is just a bit pointless.

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> Anyone else think that banning someone because he quits is stupid? Let me explain why: as we all can see the net-code of the game sucks, if you don’t play in the United States it’s hard to find a match with good connection in some playlists, or find one at all (343 have delayed the Halo Championship in Europe because of connection issues, this is the proof that the problem still exists after almost a year) and playing against someone who can easily anticipate you it’s frustrating, and even more if you get disconnected and banned, then if you suck in a match and you’re only sinking your teammates, the easiest thing to do is quitting (I know it’s not good to join in progress because someone has left, but in past Halos there wasn’t this option, it was a bit longer to find a match but at least you couldn’t be put in a match which is just ended, like now happens too often), and the final reason is that the banhammer is irritating all the customers of this game, maybe it swings to make “Justice”, but it is too unfair, it reminds me the Digital Rights Management that were used so often from videogame companies in the past years, which were more tools to ruin the fun of all the people that have always bought games legally, instead of protecting the game from piracy.

Not particularly. Quitting hurts your team. It hurts the enemy team’s experience as well. I don’t want to put at a disadvantage because my teammate quit and I don’t want to coast to victory because part of the enemy team quit. Most of us don’t want to play with people who are going to quit. The ban system is an attempt to curb behavior that negatively effects matchmaking. Quitting is part of that.

Join in progress is not a good solution. It’s like a Band-Aid hastily applied. It won’t necessarily cover the wound and even if it does it may be too late to make a difference. It also isn’t available in the ranked games. While I don’t care about my ranking a lot of people do and I can understand that the don’t want to go down a rank because a team member quit.

The fact that the system takes into account disconnects is so that people who want to get around the system can’t pull the cord to their router or shut off their xbox in order to avoid the consequence of their actions. Even if they are truly disconnecting (and I have my doubts about a lot of those claims) it still hurts the other people playing the game. Now I understand that the servers aren’t equally distributed and that should be changed. There isn’t any reason that people in Europe or Australia should be at a disadvantage.

banned just for joinning a game and being “idle” too long wtf i hate halo im just gunna go break the damn disc this is -Yoink-

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> banned just for joinning a game and being “idle” too long wtf i hate halo im just gunna go break the damn disc this is -Yoink-

You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games.
This is enough too get banned.
Also the banhammer has an one round delay.

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> > banned just for joinning a game and being “idle” too long wtf i hate halo im just gunna go break the damn disc this is -Yoink-
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> You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games.
> This is enough too get banned.
> Also the banhammer has an one round delay.

Just to know, why the banhammer runs with a delay?

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> banned just for joinning a game and being “idle” too long wtf i hate halo im just gunna go break the damn disc this is -Yoink-

Idling is on the list of ban worthy offenses. You have to be have absolutely no controller input for 3 minutes to get the boot for idling.

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> > > banned just for joinning a game and being “idle” too long wtf i hate halo im just gunna go break the damn disc this is -Yoink-
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> > You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games.
> > This is enough too get banned.
> > Also the banhammer has an one round delay.
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> Just to know, why the banhammer runs with a delay?

I don’t think anyone know for sure, but I suspect it has a lot to do with how quickly you’re put into the next match. It runs a game behind most of the time. You quit/afk/grief and trigger the ban and the you play a match. At the end of the match you get a disconnect message and then the ban is implemented.