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Sledgehammer boss and co-founder Michael Condrey has warned that using a technique known as Reverse Boosting in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could result in your account being banned.

Reverse Boosting is where players intentionally commit suicide over and over again in a match to drop their skill level, securing weaker opposition in the next match so they can dominate. This enables the player to improve his/her ranking quicker than they would by playing fair.

On a separate topic, weve also heard questions about our banning policy, particularly as weve seen players using reverse boosting with excessive suicides in online matches driving a lot of frustration within the community, Condrey wrote in a blog post. Playing at home, Ive been randomly matched with players doing this and its incredibly frustrating to lose based largely on my team being down a contributing teammate. Weve also had a lot of players bring up their same concern about playing in matches with these players.

No one wants to lose an objective based match by effectively being outnumbered while their teammate shoots grenades into their own forehead 100 times in the corner. Its not right, and it hurts you and your teams online experience. Call of Duty is both social and competitive, and we respect and honor that. Part of the competition that is core to our values is that players do not adversely degrade their teams ability to compete fairly. Its not dissimilar from the bans that cheaters and boosters receive, and we have increased our focus on reverse boost banning to combat the growing issue.

No one is trying to restrict the fun factor of playing Advanced Warfare with this policy, nor are we actively banning against particular styles of play, like trick shots. However, we have a low tolerance approach to people who ruin the experience for others through cheating, boosting, reverse boosting or being caught with toxic emblems in game. We dont like seeing any of these happen, and were pushing to eliminate these behaviors from the game.

So if youre using this method you should probably stop now, because Sledgehammer is watching.