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Destiny 2’s top-tier PVP activity was forced to go offline over the weekend after it was suggested that a popular method of fixing matches had hit about 50 percent of players in flawless races (where teams achieved the mode goal of a seven-game streak).
Through your help from Bungie Twitter Mind you, the Destiny 2 developer said it had pulled the mode last night for the rest of its weekly rotation due to an unspecified “issue,” though fans were quick to guess why.
Frustration over the state of Trials of Osiris, the most sweaty and competitive mode in the game, has been building for some time. Players have long complained about cheating, team management, bad matchmaking, and the sheer amount of effort (seven wins in a row) that it takes to get their best rewards.
So, as always, players have been searching for a path of least resistance, and that path indicates that you are ready to flip a coin to give away seven wins either way.
Known as the Hakke Emblem or Casino method, this community-organized effort is fully detailed below in a video from Destiny streamer Lunarated. Essentially, it involves signaling to the other team that you’re willing to use the method (via a specific combination of teammates wearing Hakke’s basic player emblem), and then privately messaging them on Steam. Both players roll a digital dice (Steam lets you choose a random number between 1 and 10) and the player with the highest number wins.
There is something else involved in changing the game cards, the registers in which you can record your runs, but that is the general essence.
Last night, Test report, a group of unofficial statistics analysts at Trials of Osiris, claimed that nearly half of all PC gamers came out flawless this week. This stat will include players who accomplished the feat on their own, but digging deeper into that stat suggests there is more at stake.
“It turns out that of the 23,661 flawless PC players so far, 11,281 (48 percent) have zero deaths this week,” wrote Trials Report. “16,300 (69 percent, well) have five or fewer.”
Any player who goes flawless and doesn’t get any kills at the same time certainly suggests they had a little help doing it. And that Hakke emblem? Test report too saying It was the second most used player emblem in the exclusive Lighthouse social space of the mode this week.
Bungie has yet to say how it will approach the Hakke method, or when Trials of Osiris will return.
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