"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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ZestPosted:
Its good there cracking down on stuff like this, they just need to sort the long lasting problem of the spawn system ;)
MissPosted:
If they didn't want boosting to happen, than they shouldn't have had things, or reasons, in the game to give people the incentive to boost.
ripgutPosted:
Hova 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.
That's how it was in Halo 3 if I remember correctly.
That's the only Halo I've played, but the way that system worked seemed pretty effective in producing legit gamers.
GT-RPosted:
Dr_Arkansas How about they make a game where you can actually not be "dominated" by people that spend their lives playing it... I've noticed in the last few COD's it really didn't matter... if you were versing someone of higher level on the opposite team you're done.
Oh well I'll never buy this Call of Duty, looked awful from announcement.
What your saying is theoretically impossible unless you want a Lego cod game that even the dumbest of 5 uear old can play. Which would probably be no fun at all and would be terribly boring. If they'd just stop cheaters and maybe add dedicated servers the gake would be inherently better compared to what it is now.
Dr_ArkansasPosted:
How about they make a game where you can actually not be "dominated" by people that spend their lives playing it... I've noticed in the last few COD's it really didn't matter... if you were versing someone of higher level on the opposite team you're done.
Oh well I'll never buy this Call of Duty, looked awful from announcement.
Oh well I'll never buy this Call of Duty, looked awful from announcement.
AVeryAverageGuyPosted:
DeluxeHazard How about they get rid of skill based matchmaking in the public playlist? It was fine in BO2 with a playlist for the general public and another playlist for people who wanted to be matched against other skilled players in league play.
I couldn't agree more. BO2 had it right.
bsmPosted:
VizorAcetaminophenAcetaminophen 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
What in the freaking world does this have to do with Microsoft?!
Probably saw it on the Xbox section and thought it only applied for Microsoft.
OT: It doesn't surprise me that there are players like this still..
DeluxeHazardPosted:
How about they get rid of skill based matchmaking in the public playlist? It was fine in BO2 with a playlist for the general public and another playlist for people who wanted to be matched against other skilled players in league play.
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