A new article by Bungie's security team for Marathon states that there will be no second chancers for players caught cheating. If you are caught cheating in Marathon, you will be permanently banned.
Sure, it sounds super great but Bungie already says that there may be some unexpected flaws. No system is foolproof and that includes the anti-cheat for literally any game. To that end, Bungie will have an appeals process that can be utilized if you believe you were unfairly banned.
Tau Ceti IV is a dangerous world where death is certain. That said, we want you to know your deaths are due to your own mistakes or enemy outplays – not because your run was compromised by network issues, cheaters, or the hardware hosting your connection to the world.
No network or security model can guarantee perfection, but we are committed to protecting the Marathon competitive experience and ensuring everyone has their fair chance at exfiltrating with a backpack full of sweet loot.
No network or security model can guarantee perfection, but we are committed to protecting the Marathon competitive experience and ensuring everyone has their fair chance at exfiltrating with a backpack full of sweet loot.
Overview
Before we get too deep into the weeds, here’s an overview of how we’re protecting your experience:
Before we get too deep into the weeds, here’s an overview of how we’re protecting your experience:
- 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.
