Bungie announces major crackdown on third-party peripheral cheaters, bans incoming

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The PvP community in Destiny 2 is rarely a happy one, which is understandable given that at one point the mode had gone almost three years without a new map. These days Bungie seems more engaged with making improvements to the flagship Iron Banner and Trials PvP modes (we don't speak about the Competitive playlist), but until today hadn't really engaged with the complaint from top level players that cheaters are using third-party input devices such as XIM and Cronus to gain an unfair advantage. 

In the video below, Destiny 2 content creator Fallout Plays explains how these peripherals «plug into your PC or console and do really dumb things that should not be allowed in competitive PvP.» He cites turning off weapon recoil completely on the controller or adding extra aim assist as typical techniques the cheaters are employing.

Though there can be legitimate reasons related to accessibility for using these sorts of programmable controllers, it's also been apparent for some time that they're a major source of cheating across a wide variety of online multiplayer FPS games. Today, Bungie announced it's had enough, and punishment is on the way. From the studio's weekly blog post: «Bungie embraces the use of external accessibility aids that enable an experience the game designers intended but will take action, including bans, on people who abuse these tools specifically to gain an advantage over other players.»

The section dealing with cheating using input devices is titled «Bungie's stance on third-party peripherals entering their villain arc». It says: «Our community has grown increasingly frustrated by a form of cheating that uses third-party peripherals with the intent to manipulate the game client. These devices are plugged