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

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> This has happened to me two days in a row. I played a few matches in arena yesterday and I quit one of them, finished a few more and then I couldnt quit searching for a match. So I restarted the game, and when I came back I had a 12 hour ban.
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> Today I started by playing some warzone then played a game of slayer and I kept getting t-bagged so I just quit. I played some warzone firefit after that finished all other matches I played, opened a REQ pack and then I had a 24 hour ban!
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> I know that sometimes the system will wait until youve finished a match but as far as I know you have to at least quit 2 matches… If you’re goning to keep banning people for extended periods of time with NO grace period AT LEAST let banned people play the non ranked arena games.
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> EDIT: I assumed there was like a DNF reset every 24 hours

6 of your last 30 have been DNFs.
The 12 hour ban you got after the reset is because the Banhammer has an one round delay of one round.

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> how is this my fault? this is stupid. why i’m getting banned for your stupid servers? every other game mode works fine but infection always does this to me. Now i cant even play thanks to your incompetence.

3DNFs in infection,doesnt look like an convicident.
You also only left games where your performance was not so good,so I have to assume that you left this games to keep your K/D high and use the servers as an excuse for that.
That the last was an connection issue is clearly viable,maybe that was too much and you got banned.

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> > I have never posted anything here before I’m just pissed that I got banned for 24 hours, all I did was quit two matches and got banned for 8 hours, which I have no problem with, until i restarted the game and I get told I’ve been banned for 24 hours?? Help?
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> 5 DNFs in your last 20 games.
> Noway someone can help you except yourself.

Explain why it was 24 hours after I got an 8 hour ban and restarted the game??

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> > > I have never posted anything here before I’m just pissed that I got banned for 24 hours, all I did was quit two matches and got banned for 8 hours, which I have no problem with, until i restarted the game and I get told I’ve been banned for 24 hours?? Help?
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> > 5 DNFs in your last 20 games.
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> Explain why it was 24 hours after I got an 8 hour ban and restarted the game??

I cant.
Something I even I cant explain things or understand.
Most people here dont understand the hammer because its classified.

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> > > > I have never posted anything here before I’m just pissed that I got banned for 24 hours, all I did was quit two matches and got banned for 8 hours, which I have no problem with, until i restarted the game and I get told I’ve been banned for 24 hours?? Help?
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> > > 5 DNFs in your last 20 games.
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> > Explain why it was 24 hours after I got an 8 hour ban and restarted the game??
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Lol wtf…

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> > > > > I have never posted anything here before I’m just pissed that I got banned for 24 hours, all I did was quit two matches and got banned for 8 hours, which I have no problem with, until i restarted the game and I get told I’ve been banned for 24 hours?? Help?
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> > > Explain why it was 24 hours after I got an 8 hour ban and restarted the game??
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> Lol wtf…

Ive made an Edit.
Read it explain somethings.

Your servers have terrible performance, why are my friends with excellent connection with no other issues in other games getting disconnected on a rergular basis? Fix your servers already.

Lately everytime I play btb at the end of the match when I get my carnage report it says “connection lost” and I get banned. It’s been happening for almost a week now and I haven’t been leaving the games, but because it says connection lost I guess it’s counting it as me leaving. The ban timer is now up to 8 hours and I haven’t done anything wrong. Please help.

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> how is this my fault? this is stupid. why i’m getting banned for your stupid servers? every other game mode works fine but infection always does this to me. Now i cant even play thanks to your incompetence.

Cross-referencing your video with your history shows that the game in the video is this one. The game before that was a DNF. That’s why you got banned; it just took the banhammer an extra game to kick in.

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> Lately everytime I play btb at the end of the match when I get my carnage report it says “connection lost” and I get banned. It’s been happening for almost a week now and I haven’t been leaving the games, but because it says connection lost I guess it’s counting it as me leaving. The ban timer is now up to 8 hours and I haven’t done anything wrong. Please help.

In your game history, there are two instances of where you played a game of Tank World followed by a game of BTB. In both cases, you quit the Tank World games (or at least you did not finish them). So those are the games you are getting banned for; it just takes the system one extra game before the ban triggers. It just so happens that both bans followed BTB games, so it seems like BTB is the problem. Don’t worry, your ability to play BTB is fine; just stop quitting if you’re quitting or maybe troubleshoot your connection if you are disconnecting often and the bans should stop.

For me there have been a certain amount of breakout games where a play a few and then are banned for 2 to 8 hours. Approximately every few games I get banned on a daily basis. After a few games it says connection lost and then therefore bans me for a long period of time where I have to wait until the next day to play arena matches again. It’s really a shame because it seems to only be happening in breakout which is really fun since the breakout refresh but is unplayable after a few games because I get banned for quitting matches.

If anyone else is having these problems with the new breakout please post a comment so it can get fixed to make halo 5 a better game.

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> Lately everytime I play btb at the end of the match when I get my carnage report it says “connection lost” and I get banned. It’s been happening for almost a week now and I haven’t been leaving the games, but because it says connection lost I guess it’s counting it as me leaving. The ban timer is now up to 8 hours and I haven’t done anything wrong. Please help.

It seems to not only be happening in breakout.

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> For me there have been a certain amount of breakout games where a play a few and then are banned for 2 to 8 hours. Approximately every few games I get banned on a daily basis. After a few games it says connection lost and then therefore bans me for a long period of time where I have to wait until the next day to play arena matches again. It’s really a shame because it seems to only be happening in breakout which is really fun since the breakout refresh but is unplayable after a few games because I get banned for quitting matches.
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> If anyone else is having these problems with the new breakout please post a comment so it can get fixed to make halo 5 a better game.

From your last 20 games,6are DNFs mostly CTF and only one was in Breakout.
Nothing I or someone else can change only you can change it…

I got banned because same guy wanted me to leave and i didn’t he call me all sort of F***ing names say -Yoink- then after my next game i got banned for “Leaving to many games” even though i always use boost so i don’t leave. can anyone tell me 1. why this happened 2. help me stop this.

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> I got banned because same guy wanted me to leave and i didn’t he call me all sort of F***ing names say -Yoink- then after my next game i got banned for “Leaving to many games” even though i always use boost so i don’t leave. can anyone tell me 1. why this happened 2. help me stop this.

You were likely banned for this Doubles match that you did not finish.

i get banned from leaving one game. I leave a game start another one and after that game is over i get banned. I have seen people leave 5 or 6 games and not get banned.

The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.

The banning system just banned me erroneously. I have 1 recent DNF…26 matches ago. I played 25 matches over the past 3 days and roughly 10 matches today. Mid-game in Team Doubles I get pulled to a loading screen and told my fireteam changed and then I’m banned for “quitting too many matches”. 1 DNF in 26 matches. Seriously Bungie. This is ridiculous. Get your -Yoink- together.

Edit: Here’s the link to my Service Record, now showing my current, uncalled for DNF in Team Doubles, and 25 matches in a row before that over 3 days with no DNF’s. I rarely ever quit. I just don’t. So this is very excessive to do to players and then they get a hugely negative impact to CSR because I’m also considered quitting when it isn’t even my fault. Double whammy punishment. Not fair in the slightest.

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> The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.

You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.

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> The banning system just banned me erroneously. I have 1 recent DNF…26 matches ago. I played 25 matches over the past 3 days and roughly 10 matches today. Mid-game in Team Doubles I get pulled to a loading screen and told my fireteam changed and then I’m banned for “quitting too many matches”. 1 DNF in 26 matches. Seriously Bungie. This is ridiculous. Get your -Yoink- together.
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> Edit: Here’s the link to my Service Record, now showing my current, uncalled for DNF in Team Doubles, and 25 matches in a row before that over 3 days with no DNF’s. I rarely ever quit. I just don’t. So this is very excessive to do to players and then they get a hugely negative impact to CSR because I’m also considered quitting when it isn’t even my fault. Double whammy punishment. Not fair in the slightest.

The fireteam has changed message means that you disconnected from the server, not that the server disconnected from you. More than likely you have some mild networking issues on your end. As far as anyone knows there is no reset time for dnf’s.

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> > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.