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

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> Hi guys, i am new to the halo forums but i am a halo fan, i played halo 3 and reach for a long time and only just got into halo 5, i have to say, i am happy with how you guys made halo 5 multiplayer, with the boosting, thrust jumping and all the little things add to make this multiplayer very good. However i am not a fan of the increasing in time temp bans for leaving matches, i understand that it is not good sportsmanship to leave a match mid way through for one reason or another and i understand that multiple games left are required to get tempowary banned so the occasional mid way leave wont hurt but sometimes i rage lol, as stupid as it sounds, i rage if i die in a stupid way in infection or if the other team is way too good in big team battle and i leave the match, another reason might be if i’m playing on a map i dont like, as there is no way to back out if you’ve already found the players, and the result of me raging and leaving is me getting tempowarily banned, and at was confused why i was getting banned but them i remember that back in halo reach you would get banned for leaving too many games, and the bans only lasted 10-15 minutes, so it was fine, so i waited the time in halo 5 and kept playing, a couple hours later i left some games some more and got banned again, this time it said 45 minutes, thats a long time i thought and i thought that the tempowary bans must be at 45 minutes the longest time you can be tempowarily banned for, the next day, i’m playing and i quit some more games over the space of about an hour or two and then i was banned again for 3 hours!!! I was worried when i saw that message, seeing if it was right but i waited it out and got back to playing again, now today i was searching for an infection match and saw it was on a map i hated: freakshow so i left the match, i was hoping the dreaded ā€œthe banhammer strikesā€ message wouldnt show up and it didnt to my suprise, about an hour later (i dont remember leaving matches in this time) i accidentally searched for action sack instead of infection, so i left the match and i was hoping so bad that i wouldnt get tempowarily banned again but ofcourse, i was, this ban was a massive 8 hours, and in my opinion a temp ban 30 mins or more is ALOT for a minor non-sportsmanship thing such as leaving matches, save the 8 hour bans for hackers, or people boosing for xp or something, but basically i feel that the bans should be alot less time, i understand the reasoning for the bans and that the bans are trying to stop players from leaving games mid way through but the message still gets across with smaller bans such as 30 minute ones, i love halo, and waiting 8 hours to play it again sucks, why are you making your players who bought the game wait 8 hours for doing something as small as leaving games midwaythrough! Another question i have is does the tempowary ban time ever reset back down to 15 minutes or so, what i mean by that is if i get banned today for 15 minutes, the following ban that i get will increase in time to something like 45 minutes but if i don’t get tempowarily banned for a period of time for example a month, does it reset down to the starting time again?
> I can imagine many people have already brought this up but i’m hoping with all the effort i put into this long, long forum post, you guys take this into consideration.

you have quit 20 games out of the last 30 that you have played why would any sane person want to play with you? no really… give me ONE reason why anyone would want to play along with you? … halo has banned you for 15/45 mins/ 3 hours /5 hours then 8 hours. are you too (looking for a politicaly correct term) stupid that that you cant learn that quitting more and more games gets you more and more time time outs? suck it up buttercup and stop rage quitting, just makes you look more and more like a child. real men and women carry on.

I received a ban and I have no idea why? The last time anyone played on my account my 5 year old was using forge mode. I checked and there is no timer or anything regarding when my ban would be lifted. Can anyone please help me figure out what I was banned for or why I was banned at all?

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> I received a ban and I have no idea why? The last time anyone played on my account my 5 year old was using forge mode. I checked and there is no timer or anything regarding when my ban would be lifted. Can anyone please help me figure out what I was banned for or why I was banned at all?

I do not see any history, of this gamer tag Blucifer1989. Is this the tag that was banned?

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> > Hi guys, i am new to the halo forums but i am a halo fan, i played halo 3 and reach for a long time and only just got into halo 5, i have to say, i am happy with how you guys made halo 5 multiplayer, with the boosting, thrust jumping and all the little things add to make this multiplayer very good. However i am not a fan of the increasing in time temp bans for leaving matches, i understand that it is not good sportsmanship to leave a match mid way through for one reason or another and i understand that multiple games left are required to get tempowary banned so the occasional mid way leave wont hurt but sometimes i rage lol, as stupid as it sounds, i rage if i die in a stupid way in infection or if the other team is way too good in big team battle and i leave the match, another reason might be if i’m playing on a map i dont like, as there is no way to back out if you’ve already found the players, and the result of me raging and leaving is me getting tempowarily banned, and at was confused why i was getting banned but them i remember that back in halo reach you would get banned for leaving too many games, and the bans only lasted 10-15 minutes, so it was fine, so i waited the time in halo 5 and kept playing, a couple hours later i left some games some more and got banned again, this time it said 45 minutes, thats a long time i thought and i thought that the tempowary bans must be at 45 minutes the longest time you can be tempowarily banned for, the next day, i’m playing and i quit some more games over the space of about an hour or two and then i was banned again for 3 hours!!! I was worried when i saw that message, seeing if it was right but i waited it out and got back to playing again, now today i was searching for an infection match and saw it was on a map i hated: freakshow so i left the match, i was hoping the dreaded ā€œthe banhammer strikesā€ message wouldnt show up and it didnt to my suprise, about an hour later (i dont remember leaving matches in this time) i accidentally searched for action sack instead of infection, so i left the match and i was hoping so bad that i wouldnt get tempowarily banned again but ofcourse, i was, this ban was a massive 8 hours, and in my opinion a temp ban 30 mins or more is ALOT for a minor non-sportsmanship thing such as leaving matches, save the 8 hour bans for hackers, or people boosing for xp or something, but basically i feel that the bans should be alot less time, i understand the reasoning for the bans and that the bans are trying to stop players from leaving games mid way through but the message still gets across with smaller bans such as 30 minute ones, i love halo, and waiting 8 hours to play it again sucks, why are you making your players who bought the game wait 8 hours for doing something as small as leaving games midwaythrough! Another question i have is does the tempowary ban time ever reset back down to 15 minutes or so, what i mean by that is if i get banned today for 15 minutes, the following ban that i get will increase in time to something like 45 minutes but if i don’t get tempowarily banned for a period of time for example a month, does it reset down to the starting time again?
> > I can imagine many people have already brought this up but i’m hoping with all the effort i put into this long, long forum post, you guys take this into consideration.
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> you have quit 20 games out of the last 30 that you have played why would any sane person want to play with you? no really… give me ONE reason why anyone would want to play along with you? … halo has banned you for 15/45 mins/ 3 hours /5 hours then 8 hours. are you too (looking for a politicaly correct term) stupid that that you cant learn that quitting more and more games gets you more and more time time outs? suck it up buttercup and stop rage quitting, just makes you look more and more like a child. real men and women carry on.

Couldn’t agree with you more.

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> > Hi guys, i am new to the halo forums but i am a halo fan, i played halo 3 and reach for a long time and only just got into halo 5, i have to say, i am happy with how you guys made halo 5 multiplayer, with the boosting, thrust jumping and all the little things add to make this multiplayer very good. However i am not a fan of the increasing in time temp bans for leaving matches, i understand that it is not good sportsmanship to leave a match mid way through for one reason or another and i understand that multiple games left are required to get tempowary banned so the occasional mid way leave wont hurt but sometimes i rage lol, as stupid as it sounds, i rage if i die in a stupid way in infection or if the other team is way too good in big team battle and i leave the match, another reason might be if i’m playing on a map i dont like, as there is no way to back out if you’ve already found the players, and the result of me raging and leaving is me getting tempowarily banned, and at was confused why i was getting banned but them i remember that back in halo reach you would get banned for leaving too many games, and the bans only lasted 10-15 minutes, so it was fine, so i waited the time in halo 5 and kept playing, a couple hours later i left some games some more and got banned again, this time it said 45 minutes, thats a long time i thought and i thought that the tempowary bans must be at 45 minutes the longest time you can be tempowarily banned for, the next day, i’m playing and i quit some more games over the space of about an hour or two and then i was banned again for 3 hours!!! I was worried when i saw that message, seeing if it was right but i waited it out and got back to playing again, now today i was searching for an infection match and saw it was on a map i hated: freakshow so i left the match, i was hoping the dreaded ā€œthe banhammer strikesā€ message wouldnt show up and it didnt to my suprise, about an hour later (i dont remember leaving matches in this time) i accidentally searched for action sack instead of infection, so i left the match and i was hoping so bad that i wouldnt get tempowarily banned again but ofcourse, i was, this ban was a massive 8 hours, and in my opinion a temp ban 30 mins or more is ALOT for a minor non-sportsmanship thing such as leaving matches, save the 8 hour bans for hackers, or people boosing for xp or something, but basically i feel that the bans should be alot less time, i understand the reasoning for the bans and that the bans are trying to stop players from leaving games mid way through but the message still gets across with smaller bans such as 30 minute ones, i love halo, and waiting 8 hours to play it again sucks, why are you making your players who bought the game wait 8 hours for doing something as small as leaving games midwaythrough! Another question i have is does the tempowary ban time ever reset back down to 15 minutes or so, what i mean by that is if i get banned today for 15 minutes, the following ban that i get will increase in time to something like 45 minutes but if i don’t get tempowarily banned for a period of time for example a month, does it reset down to the starting time again?
> > I can imagine many people have already brought this up but i’m hoping with all the effort i put into this long, long forum post, you guys take this into consideration.
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> When you quit, you leave your team to play shorthanded. I don’t call that a minor thing. When you quit a lot, then you are making a lot of people upset. The bans are accumulative, the more you quit, the longer the ban. I have not herd of the slate getting wiped clean. Best solution, don’t quit!

Yes, the slate dose get wiped clean after a set peiord of time/number of completed games without incident. (I know from personal experience) I at one point was up to 3 hours and after a LONG period of good behavior it went back down to 10 minutes.

Is there anything I can do to get a 24hr ban lifted? My 5 yr old plays on my account pretty regularly and he’s managed to get me banned for 24 hrs I’m not sure how is there any sort of forgiveness system? Obviously I’ll need to set him up with his own account because now I can’t play ranked or social playlist for the rest of my night off…

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> Is there anything I can do to get a 24hr ban lifted? My 5 yr old plays on my account pretty regularly and he’s managed to get me banned for 24 hrs I’m not sure how is there any sort of forgiveness system? Obviously I’ll need to set him up with his own account because now I can’t play ranked or social playlist for the rest of my night off…

It’s an automated system I’m unaware of any ban being lifted. If it was your child who was responsible you might have a talk with him about video game etiquette so he knows what behavior to avoid in the future (Quitting/Afking/Betraying.)

I got banned for 6 hours because i keep getting kicked offline…only an issue with Halo 5… any solutions?

Thanks!

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> I got banned for 6 hours because i keep getting kicked offline…only an issue with Halo 5… any solutions?
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> Thanks!

On your history, you have many DNF’s on different dates. Getting a six hour ban, means that this has happened to you before. In the past, I had the power got out on me six to eight times, and was never banned. The best solution is not to quit/AFK/betray.

I just got a ban because I was disconnected from the server? WTF? I tried playing in arena, like I always do, and I guess the server had some issue and I got disconnected. OK, fine. So I started a different game, about halfway through, got disconnected. That one kinda sucked, but oh well. Tried another game, got disconnected in the first 10 seconds, and BOOM got banned. How can I get banned for not doing a damn thing other than getting disconnected from the server?

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> I just got a ban because I was disconnected from the server? WTF? I tried playing in arena, like I always do, and I guess the server had some issue and I got disconnected. OK, fine. So I started a different game, about halfway through, got disconnected. That one kinda sucked, but oh well. Tried another game, got disconnected in the first 10 seconds, and BOOM got banned. How can I get banned for not doing a damn thing other than getting disconnected from the server?

I just tried to have a look at your game history, and there was none to be found. Are you using a different GT?

As I have posted above this one, you will see that I got kick out several times, and was not banned. There must be more to this?

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> > I just got a ban because I was disconnected from the server? WTF? I tried playing in arena, like I always do, and I guess the server had some issue and I got disconnected. OK, fine. So I started a different game, about halfway through, got disconnected. That one kinda sucked, but oh well. Tried another game, got disconnected in the first 10 seconds, and BOOM got banned. How can I get banned for not doing a damn thing other than getting disconnected from the server?
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> I just tried to have a look at your game history, and there was none to be found. Are you using a different GT?
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> As I have posted above this one, you will see that I got kick out several times, and was not banned. There must be more to this?

Just noticed that this got posted to the wrong gamer tag. I still can’t figure out how to delete that one, LOL. This one (Evanrude113) is the correct one.

I think the ban was for something like 1.45. But now I’m afraid that if I lose connection with the server again, that I will just keep getting banned. Halo is really the only game I play. I may not be a great player, but I love the game, and I don’t quit even if I am losing, which is quite frequently. I always finish so I can get my points and stuff.

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> > > I just got a ban because I was disconnected from the server? WTF? I tried playing in arena, like I always do, and I guess the server had some issue and I got disconnected. OK, fine. So I started a different game, about halfway through, got disconnected. That one kinda sucked, but oh well. Tried another game, got disconnected in the first 10 seconds, and BOOM got banned. How can I get banned for not doing a damn thing other than getting disconnected from the server?
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> > I just tried to have a look at your game history, and there was none to be found. Are you using a different GT?
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> > As I have posted above this one, you will see that I got kick out several times, and was not banned. There must be more to this?
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> Just noticed that this got posted to the wrong gamer tag. I still can’t figure out how to delete that one, LOL. This one (Evanrude113) is the correct one.

The ban hammer can not tell is you quit/lagged, this is probably why you were banned. There are a couple things you can do to make sure your end is good. First make sure your XBOX NAT is set to open. (You have to mess with your router settings to do this.) Next make sure you are hardwired, wifi just doesn’t do it. this will limit the problems on your end. Hope this helps!

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> > > > I just got a ban because I was disconnected from the server? WTF? I tried playing in arena, like I always do, and I guess the server had some issue and I got disconnected. OK, fine. So I started a different game, about halfway through, got disconnected. That one kinda sucked, but oh well. Tried another game, got disconnected in the first 10 seconds, and BOOM got banned. How can I get banned for not doing a damn thing other than getting disconnected from the server?
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> > > I just tried to have a look at your game history, and there was none to be found. Are you using a different GT?
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> > > As I have posted above this one, you will see that I got kick out several times, and was not banned. There must be more to this?
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> > Just noticed that this got posted to the wrong gamer tag. I still can’t figure out how to delete that one, LOL. This one (Evanrude113) is the correct one.
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> The ban hammer can not tell is you quit/lagged,

It can tell the difference, it just doesn’t care because it’s impossible to tell the difference between someone lagging out and someone pulling their ethernet cord or between a power outage and you turning off your xbox.

Ok now I play almost every night and never quit any games unless I’m disconnected from the game because the game kicks out all of the players. Just now I finished a game, jumped off for dinner and get back on to find out I’ve been banned for an hour…can someone look into this because I’m all for banning bad players but this is ridiculous.

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> Ok now I play almost every night and never quit any games unless I’m disconnected from the game because the game kicks out all of the players. Just now I finished a game, jumped off for dinner and get back on to find out I’ve been banned for an hour…can someone look into this because I’m all for banning bad players but this is ridiculous.

You have 3 DNFs in your last twenty games.
Thats enough to trigger a ban.
And as you got an hour ban,you already got banned in the past for a few times.

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> > Will being disconnected by lagging out of a game cause a ban, or count against me, aside from losing whatever XP or RP boost I had used?
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> 1-2 games where you lag out shouldn’t. But if it becomes an issue, you may want to consider checking out your network settings to try and prevent it in the future.

I am sorry, You should not create a network system that doesn’t accommodate all your customer, Not to mention it is your choice to sale the game to everyone. It is your responsibility to make sure everyone is serve equally without any discrimination. You should keep that in your mind that Not everyone is a Network Engineer, so they would not how to port forward or even understand the entire router interface. FYI that’s how I feel.

I bought Halo 5 today and was playing online (I had the game pass prior but didn’t do any social online modes other than customs) and got banned for ā€œcommitting suicideā€ too many times, but I didn’t know the map I was playing on and got banned … can someone help?

[Edit!] NVM, It was my first time and the ban has been lifted] I bought Halo 5 today and was playing online (I had the game pass prior but didn’t do any social online modes other than customs) and got banned for ā€œcommitting suicideā€ too many times, but I didn’t know the map I was playing on and got banned … can someone help?