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

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> So I was temporarily banned for losing connection the second the match started. But my Xbox is recording all the matches I was supposed to be in in the theatre option. What the hell does this mean obviously my connection is good enough to connect but not strong enough to have me in it please 343 studios or whoever can help me fix this please do. Been playing halo forever and just got some free time to start 5 also why ban people who quit matches anyway halos fun if they join and quit the only people who are gonna really be upset are the people who take games way to seriously, people always use to quit as the match would start in the other halos and still would win or lose no reason to make someone completely hate your company because you guys started acting like a government who puts the metal blockers in the park to prevent kids from having fun.

Am I understanding this correctly?

In your theatre history are several matches you never really participated in, from start to finish?

I have never checked my history how long DNF games are.

Well I just wanted to point out that the system isn’t working quite as intended and there are hiccups.

Im not really upset about it but I did get an 11 minute ban on the 6th of April because I lagged out of a FFA match with only seconds left.

I checked my arena history. The previous time I lagged out was in a btb game (75 games played earlier).

IMO that doesn’t show a history of either quitting or having to many connection problems. And yes I do lag out of games at times but I never quit them.

I just got banned for 24 hours for Griefing my Teamates. WTF?!?!?!? I’ve been banned 48 hours out of the last 3 days. Ban System definitely needs to be fix. And now with the Major Server issues Xbox has been having. I’m thinking of switching to Playstation if they don’t get resolved. I LOVE HALO AND XBOX BUT THIS IS BECOMING UNBEARABLE

Howdy Spartans,

Over the past few days I keep getting kicked from matches and I get the error ā€œYour Fireteam has changedā€ or something along those lines. Sadly I am playing by myself and I haven’t been in a Fireteam. I don’t know why it is doing it but it is happening about every third or fourth game and now I am starting to get bans from it because it says I leave to much. This is happening in both Warzones and Arena. Is there anywhere I can fix this? Someone suggested setting my Fireteam options to ā€œinvite onlyā€ but it doesn’t seem to stay that way, it will just switch back to friends. Any help would be greatly appreciated…I may just unstill the game and reinstall it if this keeps up, it’s getting old pretty quick.

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> I just got banned for 24 hours for Griefing my Teamates. WTF?!?!?!? I’ve been banned 48 hours out of the last 3 days. Ban System definitely needs to be fix. And now with the Major Server issues Xbox has been having. I’m thinking of switching to Playstation if they don’t get resolved. I LOVE HALO AND XBOX BUT THIS IS BECOMING UNBEARABLE

SAME PROBLEM WITH ME! Im guessing yours was for Grifball as well? I got mine last night and I dont understand why 343 thinks its a good idea to add a damn mark the betrayer option inside a gamemode where betrayals are part of the game. 23 hour ban give me a freaking break… Gotten banned daily now for betrayals and service issues and its -Yoink!- me off to the maximum

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I FIXED IT!!
Thanks to Xbox Support we figured out if you go to Halo 5>Manage Game>Saved Game Data>Delete from Consol.
The issue was resolved.
anything past that is reinstalling your account or game

I am complaining about the ban hammer I have been playing this game all week and due to the fact that the servers were down Saturday i was going to play this Sunday. I was playing and had to go so i was kicked due to inactivity, that is my fault. When I played another game about thirty minuets later and finished the game, but as the final image of the wining team was playing it said connection to server lost then i was banned for 22 hours. this has happened to me all week I like the banning rule to prevent quitting but if it is going to be so harsh make sure it is the players fault not the player getting punished for the bad server.

Just got my first ban ever, and Ive been playing online since xbox live beta. I was playing griffball and got kicked out of one match, despite being the only scoring player and heavily team killed myself. Second match and again same scenario, and I get sent to the menu with a five minute ban.
Crazy idea 343i, how about friendly fire off in griffball? Or, even better, don’t have a pop up option mid match where a commonly used button implies ban consent? If players feel someone is griefing they should just bring up the player menu and select that option.

I have a huge issue this time with 343 I want a legit answer from a 343 employee this forum looks like -Yoink- where do I go to talk about this. It’s regarding a ban I got today. I want to talk to someone with answers

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> I FIXED IT!!
> Thanks to Xbox Support we figured out if you go to Halo 5>Manage Game>Saved Game Data>Delete from Consol.
> The issue was resolved.
> anything past that is reinstalling your account or game

Does it delete all of your game data though?

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> I have a huge issue this time with 343 I want a legit answer from a 343 employee this forum looks like -Yoink- where do I go to talk about this. It’s regarding a ban I got today. I want to talk to someone with answers

Good luck with that lol I got a 24 hour ban and nobody is doing anything for me

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> Just got my first ban ever, and Ive been playing online since xbox live beta. I was playing griffball and got kicked out of one match, despite being the only scoring player and heavily team killed myself. Second match and again same scenario, and I get sent to the menu with a five minute ban.
> Crazy idea 343i, how about friendly fire off in griffball? Or, even better, don’t have a pop up option mid match where a commonly used button implies ban consent? If players feel someone is griefing they should just bring up the player menu and select that option.

I feel you banned 24 hours because of Grifball. All because of the mark the betrayer option

Never thought I’d end up here.

I dont understand how the system works. I recently been kicked for accidentally betraying in Grifball. Oh well it happens. I then get a 20 minute ban. The reason I don’t like this is because my leaving games to not is so incredibly small, I feel the system is too damn sensitive. I believe I have been booted like 4 times in the time H5 has been out. Maybe 1 earlier this week but I can’t say for sure. The game randomly disconnects me and I have DVR proof of all recent DCs. And I haven’t rage quit in weeks. I don’t like how my bans are increasing even though I’m not a avid quitter/boot(ee??) So say im still playing a year later, over that time I get kicked and the odd rage quit happens, will I get my 20 minute to hour? It’s stupid. The system is flawed from what I see. It should say ā€œOh look, he’s played 50 games since the last kick, lets reset him to a minute ban because OBVIOUSLY the previous encounter AREN’T intentionalā€

I’m sorry I may sound a little feisty but cmon, betraying and odd quit happens. I’m just thinking well what happens a year later? Will my record still add up that lead to a forever ban? Now that is a joke

Edit: I went back and checked, I did get booted almost 50 games back from this one. DC proof -> go a little further and you will see a DNF on Viking which was a DC.

tl;dr: The system is hunting the wrong players.

Hello my console permanently gets disconnected from the Halo 5 guardians servers. As a result i get the bannhammer in the Face. First i thought it was maybe a mistake but After 4 Games i got banned for like 2 Hours. Please help me!!!

I’ve been banned 3 times within the last 24 hours. First time was completely out of no where and didn’t even bother making up an excuse for it. Second time was because I ā€œquit too many matchesā€ which was a total of one single match. Didn’t even get banned right away, got banned a few matches later when 343’s garbage servers disconnected me. Third time, again ā€œquit too many matchesā€ by quitting one match. Again wasn’t actually banned until 3 matches later. 343 fix your broken -Yoink-, this is unacceptable. People are paying good money for this game any you’re just -Yoink- slapping all of us, waving your ban hammer around like a 2 year old, trying to see how many people you can hit with it who don’t deserve it. I can’t believe you guys have the nerve to claim your ban system is ā€œflawlessā€ an ā€œonly bans those who have it coming to them.ā€ I’ve never seen a worse ban system in my life.
Edit: make that 4 times today. Screw this broken system. It needs to be scrapped and recoded from the ground up, without any trace of this original code. Because this current code runs on pure -Yoink-.

I keep getting banned due to accidental team killing in grifball, which happens all the time in that game type. Now I seem to be permanently banned from arena due to this. Im not going out of my way to kill people on my team but now I am permanently banned due to accidents. What the hell 343? Never had these issues when Halo was under bungie.

Near the end of many area games i get kicked like right before the winning team stands up and im getting banded for leaving matches what can i do to stop this

I just got banned from arena thanks to grifball accidental team killings. Please 343 make it so that team killings are off in grifball so nobody has to deal with this. it’s too hard NOT to kill a team member with a gravity hammer and is ruining my enjoyment of multiplayer as a whole!

Wwooooaaa I had to leave one game and I get a 8 min ban…not long but beside the point…now before all you Mods out there say I must have been afk or leaving other games…let me make it clear I do and did not. It is my first ban and I have read may posts about lenght, reasons and what not BUT this seems a like stupid and just annoys people who enjoy Halo as a game. If the ban hammer is going to fall this hard many people with start to get fed up with the game as a whole.

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> Wwooooaaa I had to leave one game and I get a 8 min ban…not long but beside the point…now before all you Mods out there say I must have been afk or leaving other games…let me make it clear I do and did not. It is my first ban and I have read may posts about lenght, reasons and what not BUT this seems a like stupid and just annoys people who enjoy Halo as a game. If the ban hammer is going to fall this hard many people with start to get fed up with the game as a whole.

I went back to the first of April and found four DNFs, which isn’t that horrible, I’ve had more in a shorter time span and not gotten banned.

So I checked the stats, all but the first ones had you at negative KD. Now bear in mind I do not say you rage quit, I just think it’d be logical for the banhammer to do so.

I do think the banhammer makes a difference between disconnects and quitting. Like, if you use the leace option it weighs more than a disconnect. After that I think it measures your score and team score relative to others at the time of you leaving the match. As we also have a delay on the actual sentence, it might even look at the end result of the match, that’s open for speculation though.