Has been a hard year per Destiny 2high-stakes competitive mode. Osiris’ trials have been plagued by cheating, failed gestures and uneven mating. It’s now a starting point for match-fixing, as players try to play the system to get their coveted rewards without putting it into practice, and Bungie has decided to disconnect it all for the third week in a row to address it. lo.
Problems related to the resolution of matches first appeared around 28 February. Trials Report, a third-party site that analyzes player data, noted that of the 23.66 players who had gone flawless over the weekend (i.e., got seven wins and no losses)), 16,300 had five deaths or less. 11,281 had none. The only way to record such numbers is if opponents kill each other. Bungie continued to take the Osiris tests offline. It was then canceled the following weekend Testing event as well. On March 11, the studio wrote on Twitter that it had “has solved this problem“And Trials would come back the next day. And he did. And so did the match repair. And now he’s back offline.
How exactly does the match solution work in Trials of Osiris? YouTuber Lunarated he set it out in detail in a video a couple of weeks ago, but basically revolves around teams that indicate their willingness to trade victories by equipping a certain piece of banner (Cage) to his characters. When two of these teams randomly match each other, they roll virtual dice to see which side will get the win and proceed from there with the match set. The whole process is made smoother by the fact that Steam has a virtual dice feature built into the messaging app, making it easy to coordinate random PC players.
A complicated factor are the passes, cards that record wins and losses and that are a prerequisite for playing tests. You get three losses and you will have to deliver or reset the pace, erasing the victories you have gained. To fix this problem, players who had lost a roll of the dice and had to lose would simply re-emerge from the matches, log in as a “fictional” character, and record the defeat there, saving all of their main character’s victories. The possibility of retiring from a party and rejoining now is at the center of the controversy surrounding party resolution, and it looks like Bungie is concentrating on trying to stop it.
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“Due to an issue with Fireteam Rejoin functionality, Trials of Osiris has been disabled for the rest of the weekend,” Bungie wrote on Twitter the weekend. “We will provide updates when they become available.” The study did not respond to any requests for comment on the problem that remains or whether it considers match-fixing to be a trap.
Initial reports at that time was that these match-fixing rings first exploded in popularity among Steam users in China. But the party’s solution quickly seemed to be more widespread than that. After all, an important part of playing Destiny 2 he takes advantage of all available means to shred the best booty as quickly as possible. The Adept trials, which are reserved exclusively for those who can rack up flawless victory streaks, are some of the best games, so it’s no surprise that the match solution has fallen into the category. SGA (Super Good Advice) to the subreddit of the game.
It has also sparked a deep soul search within the Destiny community on whether the game solution hurts the game and whether Bungie has been too quick and severe to try to coralize it. Although it is intended for high-end players, Trials of Osiris is not a sport and is not connected to any major competition. Their rewards cannot be negotiated or sold, and there is an infinite supply of them. Someone who manages to solve the matches does not take them away from those who compete normally.
The counter-argument, of course, is that players involved in match-fixing are undermining the integrity of the mode and the larger loot task and devaluing the significance of the unique weapons earned by allowing all players to with some patience they can acquire them. And so it is long threads on the subreddit of the game discussing back and forth about whether the test match solution is a scourge or a smart solution, and what or what Bungie should do about it. The study has already been committed test review before the end of the year to “improve overall health” mode.
In the meantime, many players (including myself) will have missed another week of testing. After acknowledging Trials ’flaws last fall, Bungie implemented a new engram that would guarantee a weekly bot booty, whether you win, if you lose, or jump off a cliff to avoid playing at all. Hopefully this is not outlawed either.