I disagree :-) (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, October 15, 2015, 20:21 (3422 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I don't consider this "cheating". A glitch, a bug, sure. But it is not the players who are "breaking the game". This isn't like yanking your ethernet cable out of the wall or lag-switching. This is players using a button combination to achieve results that Bungie didn't intend. It should absolutely be fixed, but I don't blame players for using it.

Technically, yanking your Ethernet cable or lag-switching isn't "breaking the game" either. all three cases are players giving Destiny and its servers input that Destiny tries to interpret and fails to do so. These are just cases where Destiny failing to correctly handle it results in the player getting an advantage.

You are manipulating your network stream. That's cheating. If you need something more than just a controller, it's cheating.

They're both cheating. If you do something the software doesn't expect which results in you gaining an advantage, that's cheating. Pulling the network cable and accessing your menu mid-super with a specific perk active both result in situations the code wasn't designed to handle. Bungie should fix them both, but in the mean time, they are both still cheating.