Currently, an Olympic competition is taking place in Destiny 2, but players suspect that things are not quite fair in the Guardian Games – the Titans have been winning everything for a week. Bungie is now clarifying and laying out the facts.
This is the competitive situation: Currently, the Guardian Games are underway in Destiny 2. It is a kind of Olympic contest – complete with medals and laurels. However, since the second day of the tournament, the underdog class Titans have continuously and seemingly uncatchably occupied the winner’s podium.
Therefore, players smell fraud: In advance, developer Bungie announced that a weighting should ensure that all classes have the same chances of victory in the event. Because in Destiny, there are significantly more Hunters than Titans or Warlocks.
However, since the Titans have been snatching all the gold medals and reaping all the glory for over a week now, players suspect that there is something fishy going on in the Guardian Games.
The accusations include:
- The medal weighting favors Titans
- one can quickly earn medals as a Titan
- Titans collect laurels faster than other classes
It simply cannot be explained otherwise that the Titan banner is raised so quickly, so high, and so uncatchably every event day. Because the flags in the Tower indicate which class currently has the lead in the competition.
Additionally, there are videos circulating online that show Titans seemingly handing over endless medals to the competition judge Eva Levante. The former underdogs are throwing these things into the scale at a rapid pace. This is referred to as “Net Limiting”:
Bungie Provides Clarity and Restores Titan Honor
This is what Bungie says about the accusations: In the TWaB from April 29, Bungie gave a clear answer to the allegations: Titans are not cheating, everything is fair in the event.
According to Bungie, deleting and creating new characters statistically does not matter, and the seemingly endless medals are only visually impressive, but count for nothing. The Titans’ lead can be explained by diligence and dedication: “Titans are currently putting in the most effort.”
They took their time with the definitive answer because they didn’t want to rush to judgment:
We have double-checked everything behind the scenes and are digging through the data to get a better picture of what is happening.
Bungie
These statements are accompanied by Senior Designer Peter Sarrett with statistics and a look behind the curtain. He explains how the weighting and the event flags work.
This is how the weighting works: At Bungie, the weighting was oriented based on the pool of all potential event participants: “For each class, we counted every character that played at least one activity in the 30 days before the start of the event and then divided the result by the total number of all three classes.”
Now, when you hand in a medal in the tower, this weighting factor comes into play, and a medal from Hunters is worth slightly less than one from less popular classes. They decided against only considering active participants as a weighting factor.
This method counts the percentage of participants, not the sheer manpower:
The more members of your class show up to play, the better your class will perform. It also means we don’t have to worry about players creating a bunch of dummy accounts when the event starts to try to improve a team’s chances.
Bungie
For those who want to see the full statistics, here’s how the ratio of potential player pool to medals handed out per head looks:
This is how the event flags work: A feature of the event that is generally well received by players are the event flags. They serve as an indicator for all counted medals and show the competition progress visibly to every Guardian.
In past events, players often had to refer to external sites or Bungie’s Twitter channel for this information.
At each daily reset (7:00 PM German time), the flag status for each class is reset – all flags hang in the middle. If all flags are in the middle, this corresponds to a distribution of 33% of all daily medals for each class.
If a class achieves a lead of at least 5%, the corresponding flag is raised to the top of the mast (the same applies in reverse for a 5% deficit). This makes leads or deficits appear relatively larger than they actually are.
Data also show that the lead of the former underdogs is not as large or uncatchable as it seems.
So dive in with full enthusiasm into the Guardian Games and earn the powerful event exotic. Because the weapon scored a gold medal in the MeinMMO test: Erebos’ Appearance in Test – New Top Exotic or Dust Magnet?
