"Reverse boosting" can get you banned in Advance Warfare

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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, 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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ODSTPosted:

This would have never been a problem had SBMM not been so apparent in this game! It's not fun when somebody else can't just pick up your controller and take over the next round without being destroyed.
Connection and dedicated servers is what the CoD community has wanted forever, and so far, not any studio making a CoD has actually given what the player base desperately wants.

DeftonesPosted:

Don't really understand how that works, but I suppose if Sledgehammer are doing something about it then I don't have to worry.

IntPosted:

-Skittle At least they are doing something about it, they should just watch the boosting forum on here and ban the people who boost from there :)


Yeah but then they might mention TTG, and get legit users banned.

NotePosted:

-_-Nate-_-
Sims4
TSA Glad they caught this exploit and are banning people for cheating.


i know its so annoying. hopefully they can ban them all


Unfortunately, I don't think they'll catch everyone. It is nice to know that they are doing something about this, finally.


What terrible Pokmon masters.

-_-Nate-_-Posted:

Sims4
TSA Glad they caught this exploit and are banning people for cheating.


i know its so annoying. hopefully they can ban them all


Unfortunately, I don't think they'll catch everyone. It is nice to know that they are doing something about this, finally.

IntPosted:

Good and I'm glad it can, you shouldn't be able to make yourself come against noobs, to get gameplays.

DPMPosted:

I'm happy this is happening, it's so frustrating trying to play a game when someone continuously kills them-self with a Rocket launcher or jumps off the edge of the map.

XBL-ABPosted:

Acetaminophen
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


You have the intelligence of a 5 year old to think Microsoft has anything to do with this article..

VauxhallPosted:

TSA Glad they caught this exploit and are banning people for cheating.


i know its so annoying. hopefully they can ban them all

BlGPosted:

Glad they caught this exploit and are banning people for cheating.