On PC you can sometimes get banned for running certain programs that the game considers cheat bots in the background.
Follow up the appeal. Get rid of any programs you don’t use. Get rid of any cheats or mods you may be using on any single player games. Scan your hard drive to make sure you didn’t pick up any viruses or malware along the way.
Avoid freeware and opening any attachments that aren’t from a [i]highly[/i] trusted source.
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But when I got banned there was nothing running apart from Discord, Spotify, Chrome. There was a C# coding application running but that was just my college work and I'm definitely sure that didn't do anything. Apart from that nothing else. Coming to the next thing I've never installed any hacks or any such software in my laptop for any game so there i nothing that could interfere. There are no viruses or anything as such, I've scanned it right now. Welp I feel really bad coz i was so invested in the game and all of a sudden I have nothing to play. I just hope Bungie looks into my case and they themselves will find out my ban was wrong. Thanks for the response.
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Yeah coding is a grey area in online games. If you’re skilled enough you could inject code into any online game. That’s why you always need to check all your background processes if you want some development tools on your machine. Best way to prevent getting banned is not using it on your gaming device:). There was another thread this week with the same issue. He or she never coded but used C# for a college project and got banned for it.
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Running C# in the background could easily be triggering an anti cheat alarm depending on the scenario. Many cheats are written in C# and I don't have a lot of faith that their anti-cheat software being smart enough to know what is running and what it does at this point, Just complete the appeal process and if you're not cheating, I hope it turns out OK. And if you are cheating, well, then it did turn out OK. :)
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Well, programmatically speaking, a hack or cheat is much of the time, actually pretty basic coding. It's usually injecting actions into the gameplay or something similar. An anti-cheat probably can't tell exactly what you are running, it just sees an outside program running and potentially interacting with the system while the game is running. I could see that being mistaken for a cheat. Or if you have EVER had a cheat installed. Or, could also be if you played in the same fireteam as a cheater. But, that's what the appeals process is for, I guess.
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I would not hold my breath on even getting a response from bungie. Whenever they moved to steam and banning players they would rarely and I mean rarely get a very vague reason as to why they were banned. Either make a new account or looks for a different game but don’t hold out hopes for your current account.