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Reverse boosting in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will get you banned

Players who “reverse boost” during Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be on the receiving end of a more vigilant banning policy, according to developer Sledgehammer Games.

GarrusVakarian3799d ago (Edited 3799d ago )

It's when people kill themselves over and over again so their K/D ratio and SPM are lowered. The skill-based matchmaking system will them put them into lobbies with people who also have bad stats (but these people wiull most likely be genuinely bad at the game), allowing the reverse boosters to own everyone and show their YouTube subscribers how "beat" they are at the game.

Sad, I know.

BC_Master_Haze3798d ago

Unfortunately I am a sad victim of their banning policies, and this article just connected the dots for me big time.

I suck, and I mean suck, at CoD so I'm down there with the noobs, but occasionally my baby bro (22 YO, not a minor SJW's) comes to hangout and we have a good old fashion pass the controller game because CRAPtivision took out split screen MP.

He's good, not great though and hardly capable of consistent 10+ streaks, rocks a solid 10+ K/D on my account consistently and I go on this morning to find that I am banned -_-

Thank you Activision, for attempting to retain fairness in both the skill gap and cheaters, boosters, and screen peakers, but you dun f***** up in the process and I'll be returning the game.

XboxOneX3798d ago

The problem is that putting bad players against bad player is not going to make them get better at the game. To get better at the game you need to play against better players. SBMM should not be in the game when there is a Ranked mode if you want to play against try hards that play in parties then go play that.

The issue I have right now with the game is all my stats are based on me playing in a party full of players all running UAV with threat detection on and other streaks to help the team so because of the score based match making and us playing in a party we have high stats and mostly always come up against other full parties. I have no problem with that but when I try to play the game solo I just thrown in against full teams and end up just getting wrecked every time. Makes the game impossible to play solo now when other friends are not on.

JamesBondage3798d ago

wow, i thought it was what i sounds like.. boosting backwards.. but thats pretty ridiculous

rbluetank3798d ago

I hope Sledgehammer Games take out or adjust the rocket launcher to not fire on players not inside a Goliath from area objective base game. this is a bigger crime then people not playing. there is nothing more unfriendly then waiting to gun battle for an objective area. (BOOM) a rocket launcher killing 3 or 4 of your teammates from a roof top outside of the objective area zone. Fix or adjust that. in this new cod duty game everybody gets handle sooner or later. I dropped 43 straight kills on a mix of newbie and veteran this morning. later on today some newbie will drop 60 straight kills on me. I am just going bite my tongue and get ready to play the next game. end of story.

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Modern Warfare 3 SBMM Questions Ignored by Sledgehammer in Reddit AMA

In a recent AMA, Sledgehammer Games painstakingly ignored every single one of the dozens of Modern Warfare 3 SBMM comments and questions,

thorstein571d ago (Edited 571d ago )

SBMM = Skill Based Match Making for anyone who didn't know.

gigoran8570d ago

So what's the problem? Are streamers being matched with actual competent players and getting destroyed without their cheats?

Sephiroushin570d ago (Edited 570d ago )

No, the problem is a player get matched with all other below average team mates and another team is 1 average player the rest players above average ... its like having a team of pro vs a team of newbies this was all leaked through patents you can play with friends and it get more balanced, but then everyone is just camping and the only way to win is well camping which in turn is well not anything close to fun.

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Third-Person Call Of Duty-Meets-Uncharted Vietnam Game Never Got Very Far In Development

Years ago, Sledgehammer Games was working on a third-person Call of Duty game set during the Vietnam War. But it never came to be.

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jznrpg648d ago

That’s too bad. I enjoy TPS games and the idea could work if done well.

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Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare 2 Was In Development Before Being Canned For WWII

Former director at Activision, Bret Robbins, revealed that Advanced Warfare 2 had a working prototype, but it was eventually shelved for COD WWII.

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chicken_in_the_corn798d ago

That is a shame. AW is my favourite CoD. I hope they do a sequel one day.

LordoftheCritics797d ago

Thoroughly enjoyed AW.

Good campaign and everything.

LOGICWINS797d ago

Same. Fantastic campaign, but I wasn't crazy about the jetpacks in multiplayer.

RaidenBlack797d ago

I still prefer CoD based on historical settings or in near future settings(like CoD: Ghost) ... even though I liked infinite Warfare's campaign ... it was top notch

CobraKai797d ago

I felt it was a good time to revisit WW2

porkChop797d ago

I actually really enjoyed WWII. I never understood the hate it got.

JEECE797d ago

A lot of people who never played a shooter prior to like 2012 get really mad about anything that isn't a modern combat game.

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