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Rare to see a sequel done well. All the beloved things of KCD1 are improved on, making this a masterpiece of a sequel.

its alright

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops6/comments/1goa3i4/limited_matchmaking_aka_the_shadow_ban_system/

What is the shadow ban system?

It has been on CoD for a few years since Ricochet became involved. However on Bo6 a huge influx of people are being shadow banned.

Shadow banning, is essentially where your account gets put into a blacklisted state for approx 7 days until Activison review your account to be innocent or guilty. During this, you can barley find any games, and when you do, you are only grouped with other 'shadow banned' players. In these occasions, every game has multiple blatant hackers and the game becomes literally unplayable for obvious reasons. Look at this discussion between innocent shadow banned players in the lobby i was in: https://imgur.com/rwXWvsH

How do you become Shadow Banned?

You become shadow banned when multiple people report your account. That is it. There is no process between that. You become shadow banned as soon as your account has been mass reported. On Black Ops 6, is a lot easier to be Shadow Banned and nobody knows why.

Why is this a problem?

It's a huge problem for the CoD community. There are thousands of innocent players who are unable to play the game they paid for, despite doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Have a standout game, drop a chopper gunner? This can be as easy as a lobby 'rage reporting' you because of a good game, and that is exactly how my account became Shadow Banned.

This is a FUNDAMENTALLY broken system. The CoD community as we know it is extremely toxic, and Ricochet/Activision are essentially giving people power to abuse this system. More and more players are beginning to crack on, and abuse this system in game, knowing what will likely happen. Literally everybody is at risk with this.



The cherry on top? Once you have been SB once, your account becomes flagged. So you only need 1-2 reports and you'll be back in that same loop. People are intentionally playing worse after being shadow banned to prevent it happening again.

Players and/or good players should not be punished for playing well. This system needs to be tweaked as innocent paying customers are losing the ability to play the game they paid for due to an imcompetent and lazy system that can easily be abused for the wrong reasons.

Pastebin of how the current system is failing us.
https://pastebin.com/MVkcPaEi

How to see if you are shadowbanned.
https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal

Devs abandoned game once they blew up, classic indie dev move. Mods are great though on ThunderStore.

good game, still maidenless

game deserves a recommend

EA could take some notes