After some reports from users, suggesting that they’ve received Destiny 2 PC bans due to using popular tools such as Discord or MSI Afterburner, Bungie issued an official statement. According to it, Bungie does not ban players using overlay or performance tools.
The team claimed that it has banned approximately 400 players on the PC yesterday. However, these bans were applied to those who were using tools that pose a threat to the shared ecosystem of the game. Destiny 2 does not automatically ban those using overlay or performance tools. Bungie is not also banning those using them (even though they do not work in-game).
This is something we’ve experienced too. As we’ve said in our previous article, we’ve been testing Destiny 2 these past days with Shadowplay and ReLive. Both of these programs worked perfectly. Futhermore, we used Shadowplay for capturing the screenshots that are in our PC Performance Analysis article. Moreover, we were able to capture video for a potential video feature (though we decided against it as pretty much everyone has seen the game’s first minutes).
In conclusion, Bungie claims that it is not banning those using overlay or performance tools. So if you are using one of them, you are in the safe zone. However, we strongly suggest scanning your PCs before running Destiny 2. A malware may cause issues and lead to a potential ban so yeah, you’ve been warned!
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From what I could find after some light searching there are no cheats even out for destiny 2 yet. 0 results on Se7ensins, MPGH, and Unknown Cheats other than 1 thread saying that there was no known cheat out.
Have to checked the dark web?
Players were probably banned for having used Cheat Engine for something else (you usually use it to change money values in GTA V, for example) but not for Destiny 2, but for forgetting to restart their PC after using it, so it’s still loaded into memory (just closing the program is not enough) and so Bungie just detects it as a ban reason.
So it’s “Smite scanning your PC” all over again?