Got job 343. I’ve been checking this forum daily since my ban in hopes of a reversal. Not only did that not happen, you guys didn’t even comment to help anyone. Again, why do you even have a thread? You created a failure of a game with a poor story line just as bad as your support. Your product will always be inferior to bungie and you have lost my utmost respect as a consumer.
Give me crap all you want people, but 343 sucks to me. I’m out.
so are they at any point going to fix there ban system? because it sucks, by now i am banned for killing teammates in griffball you know that game type were everybody is swinging gravity hammers around and team killing happens every 10 seconds
Take Grifball boot option out I have gotten a 24 hour ban from accidental betrayals as the ban kept rising due to me being banned multiple times for accidental betrayals. Take it out completely cause Grifball is a gametype where betrayals are bound to happen and some people on your team tend to boot people just for the sheer pleasure of being a jerk and now they are down a teammate. It also affects many players being put into the losing team of a game already started which is very annoying and has happened to me multiple times
Randomly kicked out of a game because ‘[my] fire team changed’ apparently, and I was then greeted with a ban for ‘quitting too many times’?! -_-
B& for a DNF of a game I was never in. It says game 5 min ago which I was never in and one 2 min ago that I was in.
I’ve been banned several times.
I understand why. I’m not stupid.
Now - I love playing this game. I want to keep playing it. I do not go around swinging at team mates - they are more valuable alive than dead.
This banhammer algorithm has got to change. I’ve been locked out now for almost 24 hours. I have a life, work to do and exercise to participate in. But 24 hours?
Here’s my genuine complaint.
In grifball - where I have been banned - there is zero allowance for an incident where two team-mates rush the same opponent and one dies due to a betrayal. Without the benefit of peripheral vision in a 2D environment, a rush from a teammate who boosts or thrusts from behind or above as you swing your hammer is completely unavoidable. To be banned for it just doesn’t make sense. Why isn’t the team mate banned for running under my hammer?
I have marked a betrayer before. I get that others will mark me if there’s an accidental betrayal and they feel aggrieved.
The most recent one came when a message came up asking me to mark a betrayer - the screen instantaneously changed to me being banned for betrayal. So, in that game, I was betrayed at least once, twice I recall, then in a rush at an opponent, a team-mate rushed from the side (unseen of course because it’s 2D environment and players can rush with boosts), kills me as I kill an opponent. Obviously all three of us got hit. I get banned. For 24 hours.
This is an algorithm that does not reflect the rushing team mate who comes into the same space you swing at an opponent, without you knowing they are rushing from behind.
Each time this happens - I’ve been banned about 6 times - the ban is longer. I have changed how I play the game. I have to stay out of multiple contests and chase the loners - you know what happens then? I chase a solo opponent, hammer them only to have a team mate rush from behind or above to get under my hammer. Banned. This is proper bollocks. This algorithm has to change.
The banhammer likes to hit me when i’ve finished the game…For leaving; So my internal network can be…unreliable. My Router will slowly die, giving me 820ms ping (yeah that actually happens) which makes playing matches literally impossible. But nonetheless i try to stay in, maybe just run around trying to punch people while i’m lagging all over the place. When the match ends, I back out of the lobby to the main menu and go and reboot my router and remove the Ethernet cable from the console. Once i’ve reset everything and i hop back online. “THE BANHAMMER STRIKES”. Currently i’m not too bother about the situation as the time i have to wait is like 5-30 minutes, i’ll just go grab a snack and some coffee, but i dont want to be banned for a couple of days because of this.
Anyone else had this issue?
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> I’ve been banned several times.
> I understand why. I’m not stupid.
> Now - I love playing this game. I want to keep playing it. I do not go around swinging at team mates - they are more valuable alive than dead.
> This banhammer algorithm has got to change. I’ve been locked out now for almost 24 hours. I have a life, work to do and exercise to participate in. But 24 hours?
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> Here’s my genuine complaint.
> In grifball - where I have been banned - there is zero allowance for an incident where two team-mates rush the same opponent and one dies due to a betrayal. Without the benefit of peripheral vision in a 2D environment, a rush from a teammate who boosts or thrusts from behind or above as you swing your hammer is completely unavoidable. To be banned for it just doesn’t make sense. Why isn’t the team mate banned for running under my hammer?
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> I have marked a betrayer before. I get that others will mark me if there’s an accidental betrayal and they feel aggrieved.
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> The most recent one came when a message came up asking me to mark a betrayer - the screen instantaneously changed to me being banned for betrayal. So, in that game, I was betrayed at least once, twice I recall, then in a rush at an opponent, a team-mate rushed from the side (unseen of course because it’s 2D environment and players can rush with boosts), kills me as I kill an opponent. Obviously all three of us got hit. I get banned. For 24 hours.
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> This is an algorithm that does not reflect the rushing team mate who comes into the same space you swing at an opponent, without you knowing they are rushing from behind.
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> Each time this happens - I’ve been banned about 6 times - the ban is longer. I have changed how I play the game. I have to stay out of multiple contests and chase the loners - you know what happens then? I chase a solo opponent, hammer them only to have a team mate rush from behind or above to get under my hammer. Banned. This is proper bollocks. This algorithm has to change.
It’s really annoying about Grifball. I haven’t played it since the last update because it’ll accumulate towards my ban length if I get booted, which is already accumulating purely because of server disconnects across all online playlists 
I got banned from a grifball game cause I accidentally betrayed somebody. Of course as Karma my friend booted that guy after he accidentally betrayed him. In which I was brought back into the game but after that game finished the ban hammer strikes.
girfball bans are so annoying. Turn friendly fire off. Or take out the booting option.
Also what is with the random message “your fireteam has changed” pulling me out of the game then banning me.
Something needs to change with Grifball. I keep getting banned for betraying my teammates by accident. It’s the only game mode where I get banned and the nature of Grifball makes betraying unavoidable. Someone needs to disable the ban rules for it. I feel like I can’t play it anymore cause I would be risking a large ban time. Any way someone can lift my current ban? And possibly my ban history?
reading that makes me laugh at how people will say just about anything to be not guilty
It shows me that i was disconnected after the game has ended and then it just bans me it makes no sense
These Grifball bans and “your fireteam has changed” bans are absolutely rediculous!! Microsoft wonders why they’re loosing players to Sony, honestly Halo has been one of the biggest reasons XBOX has been able to compete with Playstation over the years, but now with all this BS going on, they’re just going to go down the drain even faster.
Was winning a swat match then got disconnected cause my firefight team changed. Next thing I know it, I’m banned for quitting? WTF 343, I didn’t quit. Fix your damn banhammer so it can tell the difference between quitting and getting disconnected. Funny how I never get disconnected on losing matches, just winning ones.
Okay I keep getting randomly banned for no reason, I finish all my games and don’t teamkill or anything like that.
I was banned unjustly, And the community can check out my history to confirm or deny my claims. Please do check it out. I have never had a problem like this. Thank you for your time.
Been playing some arena and I quit one game, then played another till the end. Right after the game ended it threw me out and said that there was a problem with the connection, and then I got a ban. It’s for -Yoinking!- 22 hours. I get a ban for lost connection almost every day, but it usually lasts for 20-30 minutes. What the actual -Yoink-? Why the -Yoink- am I getting banned for poor connection, and why the -Yoink- is it for 22 -Yoinking!- hours?! this is a -Yoinking!- outrage, and I have no idea how to contact someone at 343 to lift this -Yoinking!- nonsense.
-Yoinking!- hell this is so aggravating.
Can you pls unban me. I finished and won the game and got a 3 hrs ban. I haven’t quite any games at all today so frustrating that the game still does this. When will you fix it and can you please understand ban me because this is getting seriously old and aggravating
I keep getting disconnected before the Lobby even finishes loading, due to ‘Dedicated Servers failing, please try again!’
I cant try again, because this banned me for 8 hours.
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> Can you pls unban me. I finished and won the game and got a 3 hrs ban. I haven’t quite any games at all today so frustrating that the game still does this. When will you fix it and can you please understand ban me because this is getting seriously old and aggravating
I also get warnes for Banhammer Strikes right after the round ends.
It seems to trigger when I open the REQ Packs I acquired for that round immediately after. Could this be a glitch?
My ban lasts 8 hours, and was triggered after a succesful match of Slayer.