In Destiny 2, new cheats ensure that you are no longer safe from Titans anywhere on the map. Watch how the hackers make a streamer speechless and defenseless in the Trials with their mischief.
The Destiny streamer Luckyy 10P is known for dealing with cheaters in the Trials and showcasing the highlights, if you can call them that. But what he and his guardians encountered from cheaters in Season 14 is on a whole new level of nasty compared to known aimbots or other basic hacks.
This is how the match against the hackers goes:
- Even in the first round, it becomes clear quickly: the enemy team is not playing fair. Infinite ammunition and aimbots grant the cheaters a swift victory.
- But it doesn’t stop with dull aimbots for long: Just a few seconds later, a Warlock cheater appears in round 2. You can recognize him by the fact that he flies around the corner at full speed while endlessly firing his death laser.
- When the cheaters then start wildly teabagging, it’s enough for the streamer and his gang: they play passively and even manage to win a round for themselves. But when a cheater dies in the following round, the cheaters turn up the heat.
- In safety, Lucky’s and the whole team’s health points suddenly drop to 1. Moreover, they move as if in slow motion. One only hears “I got hit by something, no idea what it was.”
- This happens a few times, and all of a sudden, the HP drops and the guardians move at a snail’s pace. The cheaters storm in and win the match without further resistance. Oh, and rude teabagging crowns the malicious action.
Check out the video here to see what cheats Lucky had to deal with. From minute 5, you can see the damage going through walls and how aimbots seem like something fair.
What kind of cheat is this? One of the cheaters is a Titan who uses new hacks to spread his Titan Barricade across the entire map. This keeps Lucky and his team constantly in what is otherwise a defensive class ability.
The Titan Barricade cannot kill, but it reduces the life points to 1 and slows down enemies standing in it. Normally, the wall is small, and no one is foolish enough to stay in it forever. However, since the barricade is as large as the entire PvP map due to the hack, there is no escape – nasty.
“Cheaters are progressing in Destiny 2”
This is how players react: In the comments under the YouTube clip, some guardians take it with humor. They joke that cheaters in Destiny 2 are evolving and no longer just using hacks that have been known for a long time.
Others are amused that while Lucky is still struggling with words and is visibly confused by the cheats, his colleague dryly and analytically says: “That’s a Titan Barricade.” As if he sees that every day.
This frustrates the guardians: Many viewers do not understand how such people can cheat so openly, be filmed, and continue to exercise their terror reign of cheats in the Trials. Players shake their heads because Bungie does not seem to react here (or not visibly).
Others reference the prominent cheating incident from last week: Professional player Baken was caught cheating, but he “only” helped with aimbots and complained after his ban about how much more obvious cheaters cannot be caught. More on this interesting incident here on MeinMMO:
Especially on the PC, cheaters plague the PvP and hardly anyone can enjoy a Trials weekend without encountering a cheater. Guardians have expressed this criticism ever since Destiny 2 moved to Steam (late 2019). Especially the competitive Trials mode, in which you must win 7 matches in a row, is said to be virtually infested with cheaters on PC.
Therefore, many are already dreading the transition to crossplay, which is set to fully come to Destiny 2 in 2021. Although players will have to explicitly agree if they want to team up with a PC player as console users in the Crucible, the fear of cheaters is palpable in the community.
What do you think about the situation, is cheating in PvP getting worse? What nasty tricks have you had to deal with? Let us know in the comments if you will still give crossplay a chance – or if that’s only a good idea in PvE.
