August 19, 2021 Bungie has confirmed that Destiny 2 is getting BattlEye next season.
Original story: It looks like cheating in Destiny 2 is about to get a lot harder to get away with. As spotted by The Verge's senior editor Tom Warren on Twitter (below), developer Bungie's German website features a support page for how BattlEye will be implemented in Destiny 2. The page has since been pulled, but we did manage to mull it over before it vanished.
The post, which you can catch here, essentially explains that BattlEye will be installed automatically when the space game updates and that players must agree to have BattlEye installed to play Destiny 2. The post also mentions that BattlEye will be introduced into Destiny 2's anti-cheat protection offering in update 3.2.0, though it's worth noting that update has been and gone, meaning that some of the text in the article could be a placeholder.
The post also explains that bans will be manually accessed and applied during the first few weeks of the anti-cheat's launch and that the system will automatically apply "locks" after a soft launch. We've reached out to Bungie and will update this story with more information if we hear back.
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