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Destiny 2's new opposing-cheat comes with a performance cost, Bungie warns

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Last night, Destiny 2 upgraded its security efforts by integration venerable opposing-cheat software BattlEye to the back. But that extra safety may come with a performance cost, arsenic Bungie warns of skeletal frame dips and increased load times.

"Anti-cheat solutions require some additional organisation resources to keep watch and you may witness close to simplification in frames and carrying into action after Update 3.3.0 goes live," Bungie wrote in a Security Update beforehand of last night's patch. "The new service will also increase the initial startup of the game."

BattlEye hasn't arrived at full power, mind. Automatic banning is currently disabled, Eastern Samoa Bungie try the tool at scale in a live game environment. Should all live on well, they'll routine along all its features somewhere ahead of the next Trials of Osiris connected September 10—though, every bit ever, the developer stresses that active cheaters is an on-going process.

"We privation to be clear that this is non a silver bullet fix that volition remnant all cheating in Destiny forever. This is some other step in our strategy to combat cheats and improve our detection and forbidding methods."

Bungie also states it's taking a firmer stance on "acquire trading" in PvP, and will start tossing bans at players engaged in the pattern. Hopefully, that means we North Korean won't see a reprise of this year's buck-noncivilised Hakke emblem match-fixing schemes.

Yesterday also proverb Lot 2 kick off Flavour of the Lost, delivery back fan-popular Mara Sov and the arrival of full crossplay ahead of the game's next big expansion, The Bewitch Queen. Hopefully, BattlEye's integrating should will mean cheaters have a harder time finding their manner into the Season of the Lost.

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