If you have dipped in to the Iron Banner competition this week then you may have encountered players teleporting from location to location and seemingly taking no damage. This is due to lag, and Bungie are now cracking down on those who intentionally cheat the system.
If you’re manipulating network traffic, or if your connection is so bad that you’re unintentionally compromising the experience of other players, we’ll issue a temporary restriction from all Crucible activity. The first round of these restrictions went live yesterday. The second wave is happening as we speak. As always, we start small to ensure our tools are properly calibrated, and widen the net as we become more confident that we’re ensnaring the actual perpetrators of shenanigans. Fair Warning: We will also permanently ban repeat offenders!
There is also a “particularity nasty bug” in one of the Hunter subclasses that could be used as an exploit, so Bungie are delaying The Trials of Osiris until this is patched.
In better news, the King’s Fall Hard mode was meant to launch on October 30th, but will now go live a week earlier.
Community manager David “Deej” Dague also refuted claims that Bungie are to sell in game boosts via the new real-money Eververse Trading Co.
We’re not doing that. The files in question were actually first uncovered some time ago, well before the launch of Eververse Trading Company. They weren’t ever intended to be sold in exchange for Silver. What you’re seeing are remnant files for Three of Coins or Moldering Shard like items that would have been available from Xûr. Ultimately, the team decided that they didn’t have a place in the game, and cut them from the experience. You’re seeing some dust and echoes from the cutting room floor.
Files that get datamined aren’t official sources of news, though we understand why they are intriguing.
Finally, Nightfall rewards will also be fixed as they are rather underwhelming at present. An update, which could be as soon as next week, will deliver more frequent and more powerful Legendary rewards.
Source: Bungie
