It was already a rough year for Destiny 2‘s competitive mode for high interests. Trials of Osiris have been plagued by fraud, failures and skewed matchmaking. Now it’s a hotspot of match-fixing, as players try to play the system to get its coveted rewards without actually putting in the work, and Bungie’s decided to take the whole matter offline for the third consecutive week. speak.
Problems surrounding match-fixing only came to light around 28 February. Trial report, a third-party website that analyzes player data, noted that the 23.66 players so far that weekend were flawless (meaning they had seven wins and no losses)) 16,300 had five murders or less had. 11 281 did not have one at all. The only way to record such numbers is when opponents kill themselves. Bungie continues to take Trials of Osiris offline. It’s then next weekend’s cancel Trial also. On March 11, the studio wrote on Twitter that it “solved this problem, ”And Trials would return the next day. And it did. And so does the match-fixing. And now it’s offline again.
How exactly does match fixing work in Trials of Osiris? YouTuber moon explained this in detail in a video a few weeks ago, but in essence it revolves around teams that indicate that they are willing to trade profits by equipping a certain piece of banking art (Heels) to their characters. When two of these teams randomly match, they throw virtual dice to see which side wins and from there continue with the fixed game. The whole process is made smoother by Steam having a built-in virtual dice feature in the messaging app, which makes it easier for random computer players to coordinate.
One of the complicating factors is passages, cards that record profits and losses, and which is a prerequisite for playing trials. If you lose three losses, you must turn on the corridor or repair your corridor, and erase all gains you earn. To circumvent this issue, players who have lost and had to lose a dice will simply withdraw their matches, report as a ‘dummy’ character and record the defeat there, saving all the victories for their main character. The ability to return from a match and rejoin is now at the heart of the controversy surrounding match-fixing, and the thing Bungie seems to be focusing on is trying to cling to.
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“Due to an issue with Fireteam Rejoin functionality, Trials of Osiris was shut down for the rest of the weekend,” Bungie wrote on Twitter. over the weekend. “We will provide updates if available.” The studio did not respond to a request for comment on what the problem was and whether it considered match-fixing to be fraud.
Initially reports at the time was that these matches first became popular among Steam users in China. But match-fixing quickly spread more than that. After all, a big part of playing Destiny 2 make use of the available means to grind as fast as possible for the best loot. Trial Adept rifles, reserved exclusively for those who can collect flawless winning streaks, are among the best in the game, so it’s not surprising that match-fixing falls into the category of SGA (Super Good Advice) on the subreddit of the game.
It also led to an in-depth soul search in the Destiny community as to whether match-fixing hurt the game and whether Bungie was too quick and serious to try to corral it. Although Trials of Osiris is intended for high-end finishers, it is not an esport and is not linked to any major competition. Its rewards cannot be traded or sold, and there is infinite stock of it. Someone who gets them from match-fixing does not take them away from those who normally compete.
The counter-argument, of course, is that players engaged in match-fixing impair the integrity of the mode, and the greater outdoors, and appreciate the significance of the exclusive guns earned there, by acquiring each player with a degree of patience possible. they. And so there is also long wires on the game’s subreddit to argue back and forth about whether trials correspond to a plague or a clever solution, and what Bungie should do about it or not. The studio has already committed to trials refurbished before the end of the year to improve the overall health of the mode.
Meanwhile, many players (myself included) will have missed another week of trial gear. After noticing the flaws in Trials last fall, Bungie has implemented a new app that will guarantee a weekly loot of the mod, whether you win or lose, or jump off a cliff to not play completely. Hopefully it is not banned either.