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

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> When does the Banhammer reset?
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> Weekly?
> Monthy?
> Yearly?
> Never?

Did anybody answer this?

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> > When does the Banhammer reset?
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> Did anybody answer this?

It doesn’t. It seems to be based in part on percentages so long periods of good behavior with a lot of matches played should make it less likely to trigger for the occasional misconduct.

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> > > When does the Banhammer reset?
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> It doesn’t. It seems to be based in part on percentages so long periods of good behavior with a lot of matches played should make it less likely to trigger for the occasional misconduct.

Thanks! Very helpful.

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> This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not create alternate accounts to bypass forum bans. Alternate accounts will be permanently banned, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.*Original post. Click at your own discretion. Aw man, I was banned for 6 hours for idling out of too many games. I didn’t know Halo had gotten so lame. I actually have a life. I’m not 12. I have things that require my immediate attention. I used to play a lot of Halo. But I stopped when 5 came out and didn’t have split screen online multiplayer. I don’t understand why it’s not like all the Halos before. What is the point of having a social and a ranked if there’s going to be strict super serious neckbeard rules for BOTH? And most importantly, I don’t care to hear from any of your serious players who think I don’t deserve to play a game if I idle out occasionally, betray sometimes, etc. So, now that Halo completely sucks, does anyone know of any similar games but where bans aren’t handed out like we’re MLG or some insanity. I feel a bit like all the little kids I trolled hard in CE 2 3 Reach and 4, finally grew up and now they have chronic butthurtz and influenced Halo to have strict rules to protect all the 6 year olds from needing therapy from getting naded by their own team.

Well what do you expect? The game is rated T for teen.

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> > This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not create alternate accounts to bypass forum bans. Alternate accounts will be permanently banned, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.*Original post. Click at your own discretion. Aw man, I was banned for 6 hours for idling out of too many games. I didn’t know Halo had gotten so lame. I actually have a life. I’m not 12. I have things that require my immediate attention. I used to play a lot of Halo. But I stopped when 5 came out and didn’t have split screen online multiplayer. I don’t understand why it’s not like all the Halos before. What is the point of having a social and a ranked if there’s going to be strict super serious neckbeard rules for BOTH? And most importantly, I don’t care to hear from any of your serious players who think I don’t deserve to play a game if I idle out occasionally, betray sometimes, etc. So, now that Halo completely sucks, does anyone know of any similar games but where bans aren’t handed out like we’re MLG or some insanity. I feel a bit like all the little kids I trolled hard in CE 2 3 Reach and 4, finally grew up and now they have chronic butthurtz and influenced Halo to have strict rules to protect all the 6 year olds from needing therapy from getting naded by their own team.
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> Well what do you expect? The game is rated T for teen.

What does the rating have to do with multiplayer interaction with other players?

Also, the banhammer is based off of Halo 3’s banhammer, which guess what, also bans you for idling too many games.

> - Skill, EXP, or Credit Boosting, deleveling, idling through games, cheating, habitual quitting or any other type of unsociable and unsportsmanlike behavior.

Can 343 industries tell me why I got banned because of a glitch with the spartan laser? Both times I fired the weapon it killed me causing a suicide which kicked me out of the game and banned me from playing. I went back and watched the video from that match and there was nobody in front of me and no reason at all why those laser shots would have killed me other than a glitch. I’ve spent good money on this game and enjoy playing but this type of treatment is unacceptable and I want some answers!

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> > > This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not create alternate accounts to bypass forum bans. Alternate accounts will be permanently banned, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.*Original post. Click at your own discretion. Aw man, I was banned for 6 hours for idling out of too many games. I didn’t know Halo had gotten so lame. I actually have a life. I’m not 12. I have things that require my immediate attention. I used to play a lot of Halo. But I stopped when 5 came out and didn’t have split screen online multiplayer. I don’t understand why it’s not like all the Halos before. What is the point of having a social and a ranked if there’s going to be strict super serious neckbeard rules for BOTH? And most importantly, I don’t care to hear from any of your serious players who think I don’t deserve to play a game if I idle out occasionally, betray sometimes, etc. So, now that Halo completely sucks, does anyone know of any similar games but where bans aren’t handed out like we’re MLG or some insanity. I feel a bit like all the little kids I trolled hard in CE 2 3 Reach and 4, finally grew up and now they have chronic butthurtz and influenced Halo to have strict rules to protect all the 6 year olds from needing therapy from getting naded by their own team.
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> Also, the banhammer is based off of Halo 3’s banhammer, which guess what, also bans you for idling too many games.
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He was talking about how halo 5 has strict rules to protect all 6 year olds.

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> > > > This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not create alternate accounts to bypass forum bans. Alternate accounts will be permanently banned, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.*Original post. Click at your own discretion. Aw man, I was banned for 6 hours for idling out of too many games. I didn’t know Halo had gotten so lame. I actually have a life. I’m not 12. I have things that require my immediate attention. I used to play a lot of Halo. But I stopped when 5 came out and didn’t have split screen online multiplayer. I don’t understand why it’s not like all the Halos before. What is the point of having a social and a ranked if there’s going to be strict super serious neckbeard rules for BOTH? And most importantly, I don’t care to hear from any of your serious players who think I don’t deserve to play a game if I idle out occasionally, betray sometimes, etc. So, now that Halo completely sucks, does anyone know of any similar games but where bans aren’t handed out like we’re MLG or some insanity. I feel a bit like all the little kids I trolled hard in CE 2 3 Reach and 4, finally grew up and now they have chronic butthurtz and influenced Halo to have strict rules to protect all the 6 year olds from needing therapy from getting naded by their own team.
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> > What does the rating have to do with multiplayer interaction with other players?
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> > > - Skill, EXP, or Credit Boosting, deleveling, idling through games, cheating, habitual quitting or any other type of unsociable and unsportsmanlike behavior.
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> He was talking about how halo 5 has strict rules to protect all 6 year olds.

The rules that have been in place since Halo 3?

And again, the rating doesn’t handle multiplayer interaction. It being rated T means nothing here. It never really did.

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> He was talking about how halo 5 has strict rules to protect all 6 year olds.

Misconduct takes a toll on all players, regardless of age or motivation. The system benefits everyone. Some people will act badly and then try to blame the system for their behavior as an excuse, but they don’t have much of a leg to stand on. Now, let’s stick to questions about the ban system please.

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> Can 343 industries tell me why I got banned because of a glitch with the spartan laser? Both times I fired the weapon it killed me causing a suicide which kicked me out of the game and banned me from playing. I went back and watched the video from that match and there was nobody in front of me and no reason at all why those laser shots would have killed me other than a glitch. I’ve spent good money on this game and enjoy playing but this type of treatment is unacceptable and I want some answers!

If you’d like to link the game I can review it and confirm you didn’t hit any map geometry; multiple suicides are a form of griefing. It takes three I believe for a boot.

My account COG K3RBY got banned I have only played maybe 20 games ever in halo 5 no one ever. Told me quitting a game would get me banned?
Considering I grew up on Halo this is a real dissapointment to me that halo just banned me for no reason @bungie wouldn’t have ever let this happen Please look into this I haven’t ever cheated or anything in halo 5 I just got an xbox one.

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> My account COG K3RBY got banned I have only played maybe 20 games ever in halo 5 no one ever. Told me quitting a game would get me banned?
> Considering I grew up on Halo this is a real dissapointment to me that halo just banned me for no reason @bungie wouldn’t have ever let this happen Please look into this I haven’t ever cheated or anything in halo 5 I just got an xbox one.

You have quited 6 games in your last 20games enough to get a ban from the bansysten created by BUNGIE.

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> My account COG Considering I grew up on Halo this is a real dissapointment to me that halo just banned me for no reason @bungie wouldn’t have ever let this happen.

Bungie used the same system on it was less sophisticated. Updated tooling will allow modern systems to catch offenders that the old system was unable to.

I don’t understand how I got banned I turned my Xbox off after the match ended and I was in the menu but my Xbox stays on when I turn it off that’s what resulted in my ban i don’t understand why I got put on an 8 hour ban I did absolutely nothing wrong

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> I don’t understand how I got banned I turned my Xbox off after the match ended and I was in the menu but my Xbox stays on when I turn it off that’s what resulted in my ban i don’t understand why I got put on an 8 hour ban I did absolutely nothing wrong

Four out of your last ten matches were DNFs, I’d say that was the reason. The ban system runs on a short delay so you may get banned a match or two after the misconduct.

Another ban. This is bad, 343 you are alienating true halo player. Ok so everyone on my team left but me and so I put the controller on its side so I wouldn’t get banned for inactivity but I still got banned. This is stupid. My rank is tanking and its due to people leaving my team. And I try to sit one out because I am tired of being the last on my team and thats enough to ban me? I’m sorry this is just the rudest and most unfair system I’ve ever experienced. And all I get in response to my inquiry is threats of more banishments in the forums. Get real… 343 owes its customers a fair and just experience. Please get me to someone who can do something about this so I don’t regret ever even having bought this halo installment.

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Ok so everyone on my team left but me and so I put the controller on its side so I wouldn’t get banned for inactivity but I still got banned. This is stupid. My rank is tanking and its due to people leaving my team. And I try to sit one out because I am tired of being the last on my team and thats enough to ban me? I’m sorry this is just the rudest and most unfair system I’ve ever experienced. And all I get in response to my inquiry is threats of more banishments in the forums. Get real… 343 owes its customers a fair and just experience. Please get me to someone who can do something about this so I don’t regret ever even having bought this halo installment.

Please hire forum monitors that can inform developers with unfair policies and change stupid programming to fit the better interests of true halo players. Ok so everyone on my team left but me and so I put the controller on its side so I wouldn’t get banned for inactivity but I still got banned. This is stupid. My rank is tanking and its due to people leaving my team. And I try to sit one out because I am tired of being the last on my team and thats enough to ban me? I’m sorry this is just the rudest and most unfair system I’ve ever experienced. And all I get in response to my inquiry is threats of more banishments in the forums. Get real… 343 owes its customers a fair and just experience. Please get me to someone who can do something about this so I don’t regret ever even having bought this halo installment.

I got banned and I didn’t even leave any games but one. As well all night I got teamed with people leaving games. Please stop this ban policy or inform who ever needs to be about this.I wanna be able to leave if players stop playing or leave because playing the rest of the match really sucks.

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> > > To 343s defense the code for the ban system is still the same as used by Bungie,only upgraded.
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> > I’ve never been banned before in any halo or any other fps (xbox, xbox 360, pc all the way back to counter strike on a 56k modem) Im also talking about the matchmaking I was matched with the same crappy team 5 times in a row I just wanted to play with a new team… Plus sometimes I’ll have to push some buttons more then once before I get a response, like the melee. Never had that problem with other halos. This banhammer policy feels insulting to gamers and the game is developed under par to the other halo games where the controls were tight during online play. And it’s not on my side, 8 -18ms latency and 100mb down. This is poor and lazy design and a bad idea that should have never been implemented.
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This is not appropriate. This is a real issue that alienates real players. I expect more than this.Ok so everyone on my team left but me and so I put the controller on its side so I wouldn’t get banned for inactivity but I still got banned. This is stupid. My rank is tanking and its due to people leaving my team. And I try to sit one out because I am tired of being the last on my team and thats enough to ban me? I’m sorry this is just the rudest and most unfair system I’ve ever experienced. And all I get in response to my inquiry is threats of more banishments in the forums. Get real… 343 owes its customers a fair and just experience. Please get me to someone who can do something about this so I don’t regret ever even having bought this halo installment.

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> Another ban. This is bad, 343 you are alienating true halo player

You had to perform some kind of misconduct in order to be banned. In your case you idled for three minutes in this match here. Idling will net you a ban.

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> Please hire forum monitors that can inform developers with unfair policies and change stupid programming to fit the better interests of true halo players

This is off topic and shows you don’t understand our role on this site. We’re volunteers. The monitor’s role is to ensure the site rules are followed and do the necessary house-keeping o the forum. I went ahead and addressed this, but stay on topic in the future.

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> I got banned and I didn’t even leave any games but one. As well all night I got teamed with people leaving games. Please stop this ban policy or inform who ever needs to be about this.I wanna be able to leave if players stop playing or leave because playing the rest of the match really sucks.

The ban system is in place in part to to deal with those who Idle, quit, team kill, etc. There is a progressive discipline system in place to deal with misconduct.

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> > > I’ve never been banned before in any halo or any other fps (xbox, xbox 360, pc all the way back to counter strike on a 56k modem) Im also talking about the matchmaking I was matched with the same crappy team 5 times in a row I just wanted to play with a new team… Plus sometimes I’ll have to push some buttons more then once before I get a response, like the melee. Never had that problem with other halos. This banhammer policy feels insulting to gamers and the game is developed under par to the other halo games where the controls were tight during online play. And it’s not on my side, 8 -18ms latency and 100mb down. This is poor and lazy design and a bad idea that should have never been implemented.
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> This is not appropriate. This is a real issue that alienates real players. I expect more than this.

The ban system benefits real players. The post you say isn’t ā€˜appropriate’ answered a question and attempted to assist the other player. So it was appropriate.
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