Overview
- Bungie, which posted an update Tuesday, said it is permanently banning confirmed cheaters and expanding telemetry to catch them faster.
- Players and streamers report frequent cheating in Ranked matches and the Cryo Archive endgame, including pre-firing through walls and shots that ignore fog and signal jammers.
- Some high-profile creators, including AlbralelieVT, say they may stop making Marathon content after running into blatant cheaters in multiple matches.
- The studio says it will streamline in-game and web reporting, add stronger voice-chat moderation, and explore tools to curb stream sniping such as name privacy.
- Fans warn that unchecked cheating can hollow out an extraction shooter, citing The Cycle: Frontier as a cautionary tale.