Lower player population means there are proportionally more cheaters/ complete tryhards than there were back in Heresy and before that. And considering how slow bungie is to take action, they've basically permitted cheating. Hell, a couple weeks ago I faced a guy in Red Rumble who in the past 5 seasons alone consistently had a win rate of around 10-15% and a KD of no higher than like 0.7 across thousands of matches. But somehow when I checked this season at that time, they had won 44 of their last 50 matches (they played 104 at that time) with BEYOND unreasonably high performances in most of them, had achieved long enough win streaks to go flawless multiple times, and despite barely having a 40% win rate in comp and still a negative kd, somehow grinded to adept 1. So the only possible explanations are cheating, a recovery, or they threw so many matches that the game essentially forced every win because the algorithm tries to enforce roughly a 50% win rate (matchmaking manipulation/ boosting). All are bannable btw, and there's no way they haven't been banned nor any reason they haven't been permabanned by now for the hundreds of times they should've been suspended. I reported in game and on here, and I'd gladly point him out to a moderator or someone if I thought it would speed up the process. Still nothing happened to him when the stats alone are proof enough he's doing something he's not supposed to. Edit: checked again just for the sake of it. The guy has now grinded to Ascendent 1 with a win rate of 38.8% (19 wins 30 losses) and a kd of 1.04, has won almost 50% of his matches in Trials with a 1.17 kd, and a 28.5% win rate in QP with a 1.24 kd. As for his current ELOs: * Top 13% in trials * Top 1.1% in elimination * Top 2.6% in rumble * Top 23% in clash * Top 41% in IB * Top 45% in zone control * Top 42% in control * Bottom 36% in Rift * Bottom 7% in competitive clash You can't tell me something isn't adding up right when this guy who's consistently across the past several seasons if not his entire time playing Destiny has played as if he was the definition of a liability with stats like that but is now magically playing as if he just got every enhancement from Cyberpunk. It's simply not possible. If he's somehow legit, then that's proof enough I'm facing a cheater in most if not every match I lose this season, especially matches I go negative in because I should be way higher than someone like him with my stats.