So with the latest community update, we’ve seen an apparent sweep of people utilizing afk boosting to earn Req points / xp without actually playing the game. Now I follow the Xp leaderboards on Halotracker to see how I stack up against other high level players (currently level 93). After this supposed strike of the banhammer, I’ve noticed that many players who’ve abused this exploit are still playing, including arguably the players who’ve used it the most in the community.
Now what baffles me is that in the update there’s little to no mention of the methodology used to determine what players have been using this method of boosting. I don’t want to go on a witch hunt, but seeing a friend of mine receive a week ban while others at the top of the Xp charts are afk boosting right now as I type this is kind of ridiculous.
How can you tell whether or not they’ve been banned and for how long? Other than the one you indicated having no recent games. That doesn’t seem like much proof to me.
I mean the guy you claim to have been banned doesn’t even have many Warzone games on his recent played list, and most games he plays he averages a 1.5+ K/D. I don’t think that is afking, I think he is just a no lifer.
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> How can you tell whether or not they’ve been banned and for how long? Other than the one you indicated having no recent games. That doesn’t seem like much proof to me.
Well I know the guy who has been banned, and you can spectate the people currently Xp boosting. Also you can refresh their pages on Halotracker, and see that they have new games played and see their experience increasing.
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> I mean the guy you claim to have been banned doesn’t even have many Warzone games on his recent played list, and most games he plays he averages a 1.5+ K/D. I don’t think that is afking, I think he is just a no lifer.
On Halotracker, you can check separately for recent games in Warzone and Arena. Everyone boosting does so in Warzone Assault because it has the highest Xp / hour payout of any playlist. I know my friend who was banned has boosted a portion of his games a few days ago to keep in the race with the current 2nd ranked player on the leaderboards. However, the portion of his total Xp earned from boosting is much lower than other players in the top 20 on Halotracker. One thing I might do is list their last 200 games, and put what percentage of their games have been boosted.
The question here isn’t that my friend who was banned was done so unfairly, but that many other extreme boosters are free from ban.
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> > How can you tell whether or not they’ve been banned and for how long? Other than the one you indicated having no recent games. That doesn’t seem like much proof to me.
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> Well I know the guy who has been banned, and you can spectate the people currently Xp boosting. Also you can refresh their pages on Halotracker, and see that they have new games played and see their experience increasing.
Must really have no life to be HaloTracker stalking and F5-ing constantly.
SR93… Suspicions confirmed. I thought I was high up the rank list. Holy hell.
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> Must really have no life to be HaloTracker stalking and F5-ing constantly.
Perhaps that is true, but I was simply providing a method of checking to see if my claims are valid. I’m not saying I sit there refreshing Halotracker
what does afk stand for? and how are they cheating? Not saying you are wrong. I’m just trying to understand how it works. As a side note. it sounds more like the game needs fixing/patching as based on what you are saying the game is allowing them to do whatever is they are doing.
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> Whats with freebroken? You are asking for the others to be banned for doing the same thing? How does that free him from the ban?
I’m saying #freeBroken mostly as a joke, but it’s asking for consistency. If the other players doing the cheating more aren’t banned, then why should Broken? It’s unfair. I personally believe everyone boosting should either be banned or nobody should be banned.
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> what does afk stand for? and how are they cheating? Not saying you are wrong. I’m just trying to understand how it works. As a side note. it sounds more like the game needs fixing/patching as based on what you are saying the game is allowing them to do whatever is they are doing.
It means Away From keyboard, or in this case controller. People are boosting by going into Warzone Assault and abusing a loophole in the auto-boot system by using a turbo controller or game stream to spam the weapon switch. It’s not really something that can be patched easily, if at all. I just think a more sensible way to handle the situation wouldv’e been to look into the Xp leaderboards to see who the boosters are, and first messaging them giving a warning. From what it seems, all that’s happened is the highest ranked player has been banned for xp boosting to set an example to other players. This isn’t fair.
They need to look into the situation and actually have a thorough ban of players boosting, #freeBroken, or perhaps have a dialogue about how they’re deciding who gets banned and why. Any of those solutions would be wonderful.
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> a week ban is kind of a slap on the wrist. According to the community update they are resetting ranks and removing all their REQ unlocks.
For people trying to reach lvl 152 first, a week ban already completely destroys a person’s chances of that. Completely resetting someone’s ranks who has boosted 5% of their games would in my opinion be completely jumping the shark and probably turn every one of those people off from playing Halo 5 again. I don’t remember seeing this in the update, I’d love for you to quote it down below. I’ll read through it again and look.
