In Destiny 2, a severe problem with strike scoring has been discovered, allowing players to farm a lot of points. Bungie will need to respond.
Currently, a new farming method is spreading online, showing how to gain massive points in Nightfall scoring. This method is referred to as “points cheese”.
This is not really a bug or a glitch that tricks any game mechanics. Instead, it reflects a fundamental design flaw by Bungie that has been overlooked and needs to be fixed soon.
What kind of cheese is this?
In the new Nightfall scoring, the goal is to accumulate as many points as possible through kills and generating Orbs of Light. Certain point targets must be reached to unlock the Nightfall aura or to have a higher chance of badge variants.
The cheese simply consists of repeatedly clearing Lost Sectors during the Nightfall strike. While two guardians progress normally through the Nightfall, one guardian can go to a Lost Sector, defeat all enemies there, collect points, leave the sector, and repeat the process.
In the current Nightfall “Tree of Probabilities,” there is a Lost Sector near the entrance of the Everbloom. However, this is not a problem limited to this strike. In other strikes as well, players start in the “Open World,” allowing them to search for a Lost Sector nearby.
Farming Lost Sectors poses another “problem”: The enemies in the sector are not affected by the handicap, but the points they grant upon kill are. Thus, with a high handicap, these enemies provide many points per kill, yet they don’t pose a significant challenge.
Bungie will need to respond
Currently, this problem does not seem to be too severe. The necessary 60,000 points to unlock the aura can also be reasonably earned via “normal” methods. Here are tips on how to easily obtain the 60,000 points.
However, future target values in scoring will adjust to the current high scores among guardians. This means that they will be calculated based on current community scores, which in turn means it may become extremely difficult to reach the necessary target value without the cheese.
Bungie will therefore need to address this problem promptly, as even current high scores are not very informative or comparable, since it is unclear which fireteam used the cheese and which did not.
Guardians thus reiterate the statement, that the new Nightfall was a step forward but also two steps back.
