{"id":571134,"date":"2026-04-08T04:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:10","slug":"cheaters-are-plaguing-marathon-according-to-some-top-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571134\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaters Are Plaguing Marathon, According To Some Top Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of Marathon\u2018s most devoted players<\/a> are convinced it has a major cheating problem. While most players might never notice anything amiss, those in ranked matches or the end-game Cryo Archive map might see their best gear lost to unfair matchups against people employing paid cheat tools to gain unfair advantages. Bungie\u2019s now responded with promises to do more.<\/p>\n

\u201cTried to play some ranked marathon tonight, played 7 games and got off after being blatantly cheated on in 3 of the 7 matches I played,\u201d popular streamer AlbralelieVT wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cAs much as I enjoy the game, I don\u2019t care enough to deal with cheaters plaguing a game again and will probably stop making content on it and go back to focusing on Apex.\u201d<\/p>\n

He accused players of using cheats to pre-fire through walls, hitting unrealistic shots across maps obscured by fog and signal jammers, and also claimed that some of the perpetrators were players he\u2019d died to in the past, suggesting they weren\u2019t getting banned the first time around. \u201cMost of the time they\u2019ll streamsnipe you while just letting slurs fly (mostly the N word) and literally tell you they\u2019re cheating (Makima and 2 others literally said \u2018Were 6 manning cheating fuck you and bungie\u2019) bc bungie wont do shit about it,\u201d AlbralelieVT wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I think the best part about showing clips that obviously display people cheating is the people who have the game IQ of bricks trying to explain how the people obviously cheating aren\u2019t cheating.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Diffizzle (@TooDiffizzle) April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The fact that streamers are sometimes targeted by cheaters means that certain top players might feel the effects of cheating more directly than the average Marathon player. Coming out of the extraction shooter\u2019s second weekend of ranked play, there was more chatter than usual about a growing problem.<\/p>\n

Streamlining player reporting <\/p>\n

\u201cApparently, high ranked lobbies are just filled with blatant cheaters,\u201d wrote streamer GJake on X<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s almost a guarantee you\u2019ll match them. How is Bungie so quick with all the nerfs and changes, but they are just silently allowing these cheaters to go crazy week after week?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMarathon DESPERATELY needs a gear refund system when you run into cheaters + a more intuitive report system,\u201d wrote<\/a> another player who goes by Kruzer. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to go back to main menu, open up recent players, find the person that cheated and then report. There should be a report option as soon as you die. These accounts are level 150+ just cheating the whole day.\u201d<\/p>\n

.@MarathonDevTeam<\/a> hire me to watch streams and ban blatant cheaters please ill make ranked playable \ud83e\udd7a<\/p>\n

\u2014 avihra (@avihraa) April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Bungie responded to the uproar<\/a> with a handful of ways it plans to ramp up its cheat monitoring. The studio already made a show of force back before Marathon launched by announcing a zero-tolerance policy for anyone deemed to be cheating, but it now says it will be \u201cexpanding our telemetry and detection methods to better catch the aforementioned cheaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The development team said it\u2019s iterating on streamlining the reporting process to make it easier to flag suspected cheaters and toxic chat abusers. Longer-term, Bungie plans to invest in better voice chat moderation and explore in-game protections for stream sniping, including name privacy options.<\/p>\n

Avoiding the Cycle: Frontier cheating spiral <\/p>\n

The studio continued, \u201cSome of this work is live already, and more improvements will roll out over the coming weeks. Anti-cheat is a continuous cycle of monitoring, improving, and responding. This is an area that we will continue to invest in to protect the integrity of your runs.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of that sounds like it will do much to dramatically curb any existing cheating in the near future, but it at least proves to Marathon\u2018s most hardcore players that Bungie is aware of the issue and working on improving things. In the meantime, some fans are already pointing to the specter of The Cycle: Frontier, a 2022 extraction shooter that was so plagued with cheating it effectively killed the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marathon has way bigger problems<\/a> when it comes to retention and maintaining a healthy player count, but an out-of-control cheating situation in the endgame certainly won\u2019t help matters.<\/p>\n