The fireteam leader in my 8 person BTB fireteam lagged out causing for the whole fireteam to do the same. We all received a 30 minute ban
Youâre foolproof system, is not foolproof. I was just banned for quitting one game earlier today. I have never quit a game before in my entire game history on Halo 5 with the exception of disconnects. You people need to listen to whatâs going on here and stop thinking your system is infallible because it has been proven that (as it is in my case) it does ban people without justification. Stop being so arrogant and unable to accept that your system is flawed and fix the problem or discontinue the ban hammer system. If a human designed it then it is susceptible to error, you must be willing to accept that fact.
Banned two days in a rowâŚ2 hrs yesterday/6 hours today. Never quit. Never intentionally betrayed. It didnât even take 4 games to get banned ⌠Itâs ridiculous this issue hasnât been even acknowledged yet, let alone addressed. They clearly dropped the griffballâŚ
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Iâve just got my first ban in HALO history due to disconnects. Which I thought was a campfire story as many times as Iâve been dropped by the server this last week but now Iâm a believerâŚand scared.
I have been banned because I keep getting kicked out of games for a fireteam has changed message and I literally havenât done anything but play. I donât understand why Iâm receiving the fireteam as changed message as well as this ban.
Now its starting to get ridiculousâŚI just went through my history and I had a DNF about 2 hours agoâŚwent back to the 19/4. Thatâs 4 days agoâŚnow I got a freaking ban. I get that Bungie is trying to sort multiplayer out but thatâs just dumb. I didnât spend good money to get a ban for having toâŚyou know have a life that sometimes interferes.
I think itâs time that Bungie really needs to relook at how itâs applied. Most of your players are not kidsâŚwere parents who have to do crap at home and some even have to get on when they can. I try to finish every game I play and itâs not often I have to DNF but Iâm starting to think that Halo multplayer is starting to be centered around certain players.
I spend money on REQs but I think that Iâm not going to bother spending anymore money on this game.
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> Youâre foolproof system, is not foolproof. I was just banned for quitting one game earlier today. I have never quit a game before in my entire game history on Halo 5 with the exception of disconnects. You people need to listen to whatâs going on here and stop thinking your system is infallible because it has been proven that (as it is in my case) it does ban people without justification. Stop being so arrogant and unable to accept that your system is flawed and fix the problem or discontinue the ban hammer system. If a human designed it then it is susceptible to error, you must be willing to accept that fact.
Here here. The ban system robs the innocent far too much. Some people need to realise that we will admit if we are wrong. I can tell you every time i have quit and each time its because of lag and unplayable conditions. But the number of times i have lost csr due to a phantom ban or a disconnect due to being put on a server 3000+ miles away is not on. The banhammer is a pile of uselessness and 343 dont give a monkeys.
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Often when a match is over and the screen says that you won/lost the game I get a âdisconnectâ -.- . This is so f****** FRUSTRATING because then I get the message "The bannhammer strikes -.-.
Hello, my name is Sommer and I just bought an Xbox 1 to play Halo 5 with my boyfriend 2 weeks ago. I only play grifball right now because he says itâs the easiest first person shooter game to learn the basics of the controls. Iâve been banned a couple times for team killing but only for about 5 minute increments. However as of 2 days ago I got a 7 hour ban and I barely played! Then today I log on and I have another huge ban for NO REASON. Maybe I get a couple betrayals but my party never reports me and I wasnât even playing before I got these HUGE bans. Iâve been on Xbox Tech Support three different times today for 5 hours. They told me the only way is through here but not before transferring me back and forth between a maze of other technicians of Microsoft Studios, Xbox, and even a 3rd party tech support company(which offered no help) who only kept me on the line to try and sell me their stuff. Any assistance from 343 would be extremely helpful. -Sommer
I got lagged out of a game because someone on my friend list spammed me with 26 game invites; my Xbox froze at the end of the game then it kicked me out. Sometimes I wish that spammers would get banned.
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> Hello, my name is Sommer and I just bought an Xbox 1 to play Halo 5 with my boyfriend 2 weeks ago. I only play grifball right now because he says itâs the easiest first person shooter game to learn the basics of the controls. Iâve been banned a couple times for team killing but only for about 5 minute increments. However as of 2 days ago I got a 7 hour ban and I barely played! Then today I log on and I have another huge ban for NO REASON. Maybe I get a couple betrayals but my party never reports me and I wasnât even playing before I got these HUGE bans. Iâve been on Xbox Tech Support three different times today for 5 hours. They told me the only way is through here but not before transferring me back and forth between a maze of other technicians of Microsoft Studios, Xbox, and even a 3rd party tech support company(which offered no help) who only kept me on the line to try and sell me their stuff. Any assistance from 343 would be extremely helpful. -Sommer
Sucks donât it. Halo 5 isnât like Halo Reach; bans donât reset after a day or two. They stack up over a month. 
To not get banned, 343 wants you to be good at the game, which only professionals (those who play for money) can do well, and to have great internet, which most of the country is controlled by a handful of providers that lower quality and speed for more money.
Iâm done with Halo for a while. This is the second day in a row I have dedicated to getting in some hardcore Grif. I regularly do better than my team, and I NEVER kill them on purpose. Look, I understand thereâs a lot to do, and I understand the banhammer is necessary for certain reasons, but if you guys are going to have a gametype with a weapon LIKE THE GRAVITY HAMMER and throw us into CQC, either TURN OFF FRIENDLY FIRE or go back through and add a few lines of code to your banhammer algorithm.
I would understand if I was getting banned upon being booted because someone thinks the A button will help them spawn faster, but I am winning games, going to the post-game lobby, pressing B, and having the ban announced then. A few days ago it was for 15 minutes and whatnot. Yesterday, for an hour and a half (banned AFTER THE GAME WAS DONE). TODAY, on the other hand, is for six hours (again after the game was done).
I have been playing Halo religiously before we even had Live, back when CE LAN parties were the beesâ knees, and I had one every weekend. When people call your work, 343, trash, I attempt to defend you, especially in the monumental task of making MCC. But, seriously, it seems like every time I play I find myself with less and less reason to defend this garbage. Get it done, and stop prancing around. You have a team of veterans and fanatics and the backing of Microsoft.
If I could edit your banhammer algorithm, I would. Seeing as I canât, itâs up to you guys.
I would imagine this kind of banning is actually a prevalent issue in Grifball, and damn near impossible to miss (Iâm sure even a few of your employees have experienced it). Stop carpet bombing us with trash and hoping something is good. Start fine-tuning this stuff.
And, actually, I retract my original statement. Iâm done with Halo 5 for a while. MCC somehow still works fine and itâs playlists put 5 to shame.
I just really wanted to play a lot of Grifball, guys. Thatâs all.
1:40 Ban for quitting one game? Unreasonable don´t you think?
Why i am ban from playing Grifball for 1:45:00? I hope it was not from accidentally betraying my team for playing grifball. If that true i quit Halo 5 343i. I give up on you. I love playing Grifball,but you had to ban me from playing the one playlist i love most. 343i fix your game please remove the kick button from grifball or just add remove friendly fire on Grifball. It a new low in my eye on what 343i did to most beloved game type Grifball. I hope you happy 343i you just lost a customer that been playing Halo when first came out in 2001 and had play all Halo game until now. I will not be buying Halo 6 or any other game you make until you fix Halo 5.
So I was playing Halo 5 arena at 12 noon british time today but I left the game early, and got a notification saying I have been banned for eight hours. Fair enough. I went on it tonight (21:00) when the ban was supposed to have been lifted and I get another notification saying I have been banned for 21 hours??? Why???
The Arena Ban-Hammer Requires Rework: 23 April, A.D. 2016 -
At 3:00 PM central standard time, I was placed on a 10 minute suspension from Arena matchmaking. When I searched my Halo Waypoint game history for a basis of the online ban, I was perplexed to reason why the ban-hammer struck at only Arena matchmaking and did not include Warzone matchmaking. Below I have provided all of the matches I left prematurely during the month of April thus far:
In the last 24 hours (DNFs) -
23 April - (Arena) Breakout on Empire
23 April - (WZ) Warzone Assault on Summit > > Array > > Dispatch
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In the last week (DNFs) -
18 April - (Areana & WZ) Slayer on Fathom > > Warzone Firefight on Escape from A.R.C.
17 April - (Customs) Slayer on Dr. Timâs Spaceport Stop
16 April - (Arena) Griffball on Crowâs Court
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In the last two weeks (DNFs) -
14 April - (WZ) Warzone Assault on Summit
12 April - (WZ) Warzone Assault on Urban
11 April - (WZ & Arena) Warzone on Skirmish on Darkstar > > Warzone Assault on Summit > > Griffball on Crowâs Court
10 April - (WZ) Warzone Assault on Urban
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In the remainder of the month (DNFs) -
08 April - (WZ) Warzone on Raid on Apex 7 > > Warzone on Battle of Noctus
07 April - (WZ & Arena) 2x Warzone Assault on Urban > > Griball on Bloodsport > > Griffball on Crowâs Court > > Griffball on Red vs. Blue 2003
06 April - (WZ) Warzone on Escape from A.R.C. > > Warzone on Raid on Apex 7
04 April - (WZ) Warzone Assault on Dispatch
02 April - (WZ) Warzone on Raid on Apex 7 > > Warzone on Battle of Noctus
01 April - (Customs & Arena) Slayer on Simplexity > > Big Team CTF on Viking
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In the month of April alone, I have accumulated two custom game DNFs, eight Arena DNFs, and eighteen Warzone DNFs for a grand total of twenty-eight DNFs. I have been banned from Arena matchmaking thrice; and I have yet to be suspended from Warzone matchmaking. Does Halo 5 not have two separate systems to monitor, and dispense punishment for Arena and Warzone matchmaking player infractions? If this is the case, then do the two systems deal sentences on different scales, instead of an universal judgment? I would like these questions to be answered by the proper authorities for this matter.
Edit: the recent DNFs of Warzone Assault on Urban, and Slayer on Truth were caused by server disconnect (#H5DedicatedServers). I have the incidents recorded, and I will provide Xbox DVR links soon.
From what I have read a lot of people have been having problems with what seems unfair banning. So I think I have a solution to help with the fairness ( I donât know if anybody will actually read this). The bans increase with repeated offenses, so my solution is after about 20 games or so of no violations it decreases in the same intervals. Letâs say somebody is banned for 30 minutes, if they go 20 games with no problems then next time they are bad and it is 15. But if they do not go 20 games then the ban is bumped up to an hour.
What about when you and you fireteam are so fricken baller you beat the team 50-6 and then you each get banned from arena playlists for 30 min when no one did anything wrong
Just served a 40-minute ban after being booted from Grifball. I was 49-22. No one else on either team had >30 kills. Over the course of about 8 minutes, I accumulated 3 betrayals with the Gravity Hammer. That fact could lead us to a potential algorithm improvement.
Right now, the boot/ban system seems to look for >2 betrayals in one game. If we added to that â>2 betrayals AND betrayal:kill ratio > 0.2â, it would seem to help the system differentiate between honest (relatively infrequent) Grifball betrayals vs. someone who intentionally team-kills from the start of the match.
As a software programmer, I appreciate the challenge of crafting digital algorithms that sufficiently handle analog behavior. As a player, itâs frustrating to complete thousands of Arena/Warzone games with no issue and suddenly find myself serving a time-out in the corner after a (somewhat clumsy) MVP performance.
Limiting Grifball bans to Grifball matchmaking would also be excellent. That doesnât seem to give griefers a big advantage, but would have made my experience far less frustrating.