Destiny 2 PvP is witnessing an uncommon surge in cheaters, and Bungie is getting aggressive.
In the weekly Destiny 2 blog post, Bungie talked an ideal deal about dishonest within the game’s PvP modes, and mentioned what it plans to do about it.
According to Bungie, dishonest in Destiny 2 has gone up by 50% since January, with a fair larger proportion on the highest talent degree lobbies. The majority of that’s on PC, after all, with Trials of Osiris being the obvious goal. The developer says weekly bans went up from 656 to 2133.
Destiny 2’s distinctive community mannequin makes it a goal for sure hacks, however the developer is engaged on implementing some protected guards with out altering the underlying tech. Outside of technical options, Bungie’s enforcement groups are being expanded to extra quickly reply to threats and be capable to course of studies at a a lot greater fee.
There’s additionally main coverage change that’s going to have an effect on everybody. Bungie will now ban gamers who benefited from dishonest, however didn’t cheat themselves. Examples of this embody becoming a member of a cheater’s celebration and getting a boosted-win, or giving your account particulars to “carry” providers that primarily play the game so that you can earn you a few of the rarest rewards.
The smartest thing to do for those who realise your teammates are dishonest is to depart the match and report them. If you stick it out for a straightforward win, you’re going to get banned.
Bungie can be contemplating one other massive change, particularly for Trials. The developer is trying into permitting gamers to enter Trials solely after assembly sure hours of play necessities. For occasion, you might not be capable to be a part of Trials except you could have over 100 of game time. This is meant to maintain new accounts (Destiny 2 is free-to-play, as a reminder) from simply exploiting the system.
The developer, nevertheless, is conscious that this will likely stop trustworthy gamers who haven’t put within the hours from becoming a member of their veteran associates, so it’s in search of suggestions on this earlier than it strikes ahead.
A distinct option to method this could be to gate entry to Trials, akin to locking it behind buying sure Season Passes and so forth. This as soon as once more may stop a large number of these hackers from trying to cheat there, because it’d price them cash every time. Bungie stated it might do that for future seasons.
