"Reverse boosting" can get you banned in Advance Warfare
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, we’ve also heard questions about our banning policy, particularly as we’ve 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, I’ve been randomly matched with players doing this and it’s incredibly frustrating to lose based largely on my team being down a contributing teammate. We’ve 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. It’s not right, and it hurts you and your team’s 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 team’s ability to compete fairly. It’s 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 don’t like seeing any of these happen, and we’re pushing to eliminate these behaviors from the game.”
So if you're using this method you should probably stop now, because Sledgehammer is watching.
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Source: http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/reverse-boosting-in-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-could-get-you-banned/
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CokesPosted:
Not surprising at all. All the pub stompers and twitch live streamers reverse boost. Banning for it is stupid. Honestly, let people play the way they want to play. How can you regulate someone killing themselves over and over again. Same thing goes for banning trickshotters. There are ways to cheat the system so why not make the skill based matchmaking system better? Base it off score per minute and recent KD over a period of 10 games. Makes for a better system in my opinion and harder to exploit. SPM is all the reverse boosters seem to rack up on so it's unavoidable. I swear, for me, I think the server thinks I'm some godly player because I always get paired up with players a whole lot better than me.
HovaPosted:
I have a better solution. Every death, every team loss lowers your rank. Fixed. The game would be played WICKEDLY different, and probably far more cutthroat if the players had something, even virtual, at stake.
16Posted:
Acetaminophen Kinda sad imo wjat happended to just playing the damn game?
I noticed a flaw as i know people who can get starter kills then die alot
So what happens if they go be a tank all the sudden a ban..
Tisk tisk microshaft is a bunch of money whores
xxRider702xxPosted:
I guess playing against complete noobs is the only way people feel good about themsedlves
HeiPosted:
I misread the part where it is referring to Suicide based deaths an not normal ones. I take back my ignorant complaint.
HeiPosted:
Sooo basically I can be banned for playing really bad and then miraculously becoming a tank via controller pass? Awesome just what I needed, There will no doubt be innocent casualties in this ridiculous enforcement.
RinPosted:
This is how people did "pub stomping" on Black Ops 2 when it used to match skilled players with each other. Good to see they're taking the initiative to enforce their rules.
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