Destiny 2 players concerned about Bungie’s plans for PC and console cross-play

Bungie has left members of the Destiny 2 community worried after publicly targeting game changes ahead of the full crossplay addition later this year – possibly signaling that it will merge mouse and keyboard and controller players in matchmaking. “Writes community manager dmg04:” This season we’re making targeted changes to weapon builds that need a little love and we’re starting to prepare for cross play.

The major change is to increase the recoil of certain weapon types only for mouse and keyboard players, which brings the recoil level closer to that of the same weapons when used on the controller.

While this may seem like a relatively small change, the mention that the move is being made with cross-play in mind has left community members wondering if this means Destiny 2 PvP will match a mixed pool of PC players. and console by default, or even as the only option.

This poses long-standing issues for gamers on all platforms, with mouse and keyboard play seen to provide an innate advantage, especially among shooters (although Destiny 2’s strong aim assist for controller players complicates this theory a bit in this case). Cheating is also generally more prevalent on PC versions of games. Many current cross-games offer controller players the choice of playing only with other controller players, but Bungie has yet to specify Destiny 2’s approach.

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With cross-play due out later this year, but details still somewhat unclear, players are speculating what approach Bungie will take – and are even trying to change the developer’s course. At the time of writing, one of the most popular posts on the popular DestinyTheGame subreddit is titled “ Do NOT Mix Console and PC PvP Player Pool (Default) ”.

“These are exactly my thoughts too,” replies 1Soulbrotha, “I was really nervous reading the recoil changes for PC. If they choose to have everyone lumped into the same PVP queues, then this coming backward shift is just a lazy way to “balance” things out. “