Bungie uses analytics to monitor gameplay for unusual patterns that may indicate cheating in Destiny 2 and Marathon, including a dedicated Data Scientist (Anti-Cheat) role that builds algorithms to detect anomalous player behavior.

A Bungie job listing for a Data Scientist (Anti-Cheat) role described designing and developing analyses and algorithms to help the security team identify cheaters, including 'developing new methods of detecting anomalous player behavior and environment data.' Bungie also integrates BattlEye, a third-party anti-cheat service described on Bungie's official help pages as using 'an intelligent, dynamic, and on-the-fly detection system.' In a February 2026 pre-launch article about Marathon, Digital Trends reported Bungie is 'using analytics to monitor gameplay for unusual patterns and anomalies that could indicate cheating.' As of April 2026, Bungie's Product Security team confirmed it is actively expanding its telemetry and detection methods following cheating reports in Marathon. The extent to which Bungie's own ML-based detection is distinct from or supplemental to BattlEye's detection is not confirmed by available sources.