Bungie will permanently ban anyone caught cheating in Marathon

After recent exploits in extraction shooters such as Arc Raiders exposed how cheating can break in-game economies, Bungie published a blog outlining how it will handle cheating and networking in Marathon. It says: "We want you to know your deaths are due to your own mistakes or enemy outplays—not because your run was compromised by network issues, cheaters, or the hardware hosting your connection to the world." The company adds "No network or security model can guarantee perfection" but is "committed to protecting the Marathon competitive experience." Marathon will use dedicated servers with server-side authority over key combat and looting actions to reduce exploits.

A Fog of War system "limits the regions of a map that individual player clients have knowledge of" to counter wall hacks, ESP cheats, and loot revealers. If you lose connection mid-match you can reconnect and continue playing, and if you fail to reconnect due to an issue on Bungie's end it will attempt to return starting gear to all affected players.

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