Bungie: Cheaters Get "No Second Chances" | Permanent Ban Forever in Marathon

Cheaters will be gone forever with no second chances, says Bungie, as they are taking an unprecedented stance against those who cheat in their upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon.

Bungie shared the news on their website, providing new details about Marathon’s networking and security. They stated:

“We are taking a strong stance against cheating and anyone found to be cheating or developing cheats will be permanently banned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances. That said, no system is perfect so we will have an appeals system to monitor for any issues in detection.”

This is certainly a very strong stance, and one that many developers continue to struggle with. Cheating is always an ongoing issue in competitive games. Players strive to be the best, but some cheat their way to the top, often ruining the experience for others. PC is the most noticeable platform for cheating; however, cheaters have managed to infiltrate consoles as well. Hopefully, this strong stance from Bungie will help prevent cheaters from entering the game.

Bungie also shared additional notes, outlining their focus:

• Marathon dedicated servers are fully authoritative on key combat and looting actions, providing a layer of protection against cheating.
• New networking systems allow your movement and actions to feel responsive while the server carefully tracks each bullet to its target even with high packet loss.
• Fog of War limits the regions of a map that individual player clients have knowledge of, limiting the effectiveness of “wall hacks,” “ESP cheats,” and “loot revealers.”
• We’ve rebuilt our game security stack from the ground up for Marathon, in addition to our extra layer of security provided by BattlEye.
• If you lose connection mid-run, you can reconnect and continue playing the run.
• If connection recovery fails due to an issue with Bungie’s server or network infrastructure, we will attempt to return the starting gear to all impacted players.
• Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances.
• Product security is never fully solved and we’ll continue to invest in our game security systems.

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