Sledgehammer Games, developer of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, has warned that players who resort to reverse boosting will ultimately face the ban hammer.
Reverse boosting is a tactic used by players who want to level up faster. Players connect to a match and then deliberately kill themselves in order to drop their own stats during multiplayer matches. As Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare matches players based on skill, this allows the players – who reverse boost – to be placed in a lobby with lower-level players. Once the game kicks off, the player then obliterates the lower level players in order to boost his/her stats.
Michael Condrey, Studio Head & Co-Founder of Sledgehammer Games, stated that: “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,” Condrey wrote.
“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… 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.”
Thinking of reverse boosting in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare? Well, the team at Sledgehammer Games are actively searching for players using the tactic.
Darryl Linington
