Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare-utvikleren Sledgehammer Games skal fra og med nå begynne å banne spillere som forsøker å booste seg gjennom ved å ta selvmord. Det kalles reverse boosting og pleier å skje ved at spilleren gjentatte ganger sprenger seg selv i luften med egen granat.
Resultatet for spilleren er at vedkommende for enklere motstand senere og kan klatre raskere i rankingen. For lagkameratene betyr det at man har en eller flere på laget som bidrar ekstremt lite. I et innlegg på den offisielle bloggen skriver Michael Condrey fra Sledgehammer:
"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... 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."