The vast majority of groups within the high 100 for Future 2's newest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO participant, I’m neither shocked nor stunned
It’s with grim solemnity that I have to share some horrible information: Future 2 has cheaters in it. Numerous cheaters, truly—actually, nearly all of gamers in a high 100 rating for the competition mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin’, filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta.
As noticed by @aquativityy on X (thanks, Forbes), RaidHub’s high 100 leaderboard has narced tremendously on the highest percentile of the Future 2 playerbase. You may see a full Google doc being assembled in real-time right here, which has noticed some blatant indicators of skullduggery.
Clears rinsed in 10-20 minutes (for comparability’s sake, the confirmed world first accomplished it in over 15 hours), utilizing the weapons Duality and Lorentz Driver (a combo of weapons used with ‘web limiting’ to do boss-melting injury), contemporary accounts with only a few clears, one participant having over 300 kills whereas their teammates have solely a handful, and so forth. Principally, nearly no-one on this high 100 record did it legit.
This is able to make an already-exclusive membership considerably even extra unique—seeing because it’s estimated beneath 500 groups cleared it in any respect, dishonest or not, within the 48 hours that the competition mode was out there.
None of those cheaters truly impacted the World First Race, as a result of, as you may think, entrants are closely-monitored by Bungie. And as our personal resident Future 2 participant (there are literally a number of) Phil Savage tells me, The Desert Perpetual had some extremely hardcore DPS checks, far outstripping earlier contest modes. In different phrases, you are both the most effective of the most effective, otherwise you most likely fibbed your means right into a problem emblem.
Whereas this can be a little bit of a humiliation for previous Bungie, it isn’t one thing restricted to their sport alone. It is downright preferable to Remaining Fantasy 14, the place we have had our world first raids ruined a number of instances over by gamers utilizing plugins beneath Sq. Enix’s nostril. Even beneath the all-seeing eye of a livestream or two, individuals will attempt to get an edge any means they will.
Monster Hunter Wilds endured one thing related, too. The second it launched its leaderboards for timed expeditions, gamers had been posting 10 second completion instances.
Heck, even World of Warcraft had an issue with this not too long ago, with a guild of hooligan hackers that cheated their option to a world-first rank in a brand new raid, had been banned, reversed their guild title, did it once more, and then posted the proof to YouTube. It is one thing of a sport for these individuals.
I suppose the amount right here is telling—I counted round 60 “confirmed” groups from that doc, and the quantity’s nonetheless ticking up. One factor’s for sure, Bungie’s obtained a brand new cheat-maker to go a-huntin’.
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