Destiny 2 players are repeatedly killing themselves in a 4-year-old raid for clout

pcgamer.com:

It's a tale as old as time: Bungie releases a new system designed to be a long term commitment in Destiny 2, and players find a way to exploit the rules of the game to 'complete' it instantly. It's happened before, and now it's happened again.

This time cheesemongers are turning their attention to the new commendations system, introduced with last week's Lightfall expansion. Here's how it's supposed to work: you complete an activity with players, and, at the end screen, you give out little awards to people who did well. The collective sum of the rewards you receive are collected on a new commendations page, which comes with an attached score.

It's all very innocuous, except Bungie has made the decision to tie other forms of progression into commendations. Clan vendor Hawthorne is offering a pinnacle reward for handing out 20 commendations—a fairly benign way to persuade people to be generous with their praise. More relevantly, Bungie has also tied the new Guardian Rank system into commendations. Progressing through the ranks requires not just raising your commendations score but, at higher levels, you'll need to earn a certain number of a particular category of commendation.

For Bungie's part, Guardian Ranks are designed as an at-a-glance summary of a player's experience and investment. They're not really meant to be something you go out of your way to grind—just a signal to other players that, if you're at a relatively high rank, you probably know what you're doing. But Destiny players have never met a progression system they don't want to be the best at, and so the question became: What is the most efficient way to earn a lot of commendation score, fast?

The answer is Last Wish, the raid that launched back in 2018 with