Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is BungiePublisherBungieBungie is the developer of Destiny 2 and the original creator of Halo. It self-publishes Destiny across PC and consoles and added BattlEye kernel-mode anti-cheat to the game in 2021. Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired Bungie in 2022.1 game in this family →'s online looter-shooter, first released on PC on October 24, 2017. Its PC home has moved twice: it launched exclusively on Blizzard's Battle.net, moved to Steam on October 1, 2019 (the same day the base game became free-to-play as New Light), and added an Epic Games Store version on August 23, 2022. It runs on Bungie's proprietary Tiger EngineEngineTiger Engine (Bungie)The Tiger Engine is Bungie's proprietary engine, an evolution of the blam! engine that powered Halo. It powers Destiny and Destiny 2 and is built and maintained entirely in-house, not Unreal or Unity.1 game in this family →, an evolution of the blam! engine from the Halo era, and shares progression across PC and consoles through cross-play.

Running Destiny 2 on PC means BattlEyeAnti-cheatBattlEyeBattlEye is the kernel anti-cheat from BattlEye Innovations GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany), founded 2004. One of the longest-running kernel anti-cheats in PC gaming. The kernel driver (bedaisy.sys) and user-mode service (BEService.exe) are both catalogued in the Field Guide.5 games in this family →'s kernel driver loads while the game is open and unloads when you close it. If launches fail with a BattlEye error, repair the BattlEye install from the game folder rather than disabling it. Because Destiny 2 is free-to-play, it is an easy title to install on a whim; the kernel anti-cheat comes with it either way.

Destiny 2 added BattlEye, a kernel-mode anti-cheat, in August 2021 (game update 3.3.0). The BattlEye kernel driver (bedaisy.sysDriverbedaisy.sysBattlEye kernel-mode minifilter driverOpen plate →, catalogued in the drivers section) loads when the game launches and unloads when it exits, so it is not resident at boot. The user-mode pieces, BEService.exe and BEClient, are catalogued in the processes section, and the broader picture lives under the battleye anti-cheat family entry. Before August 2021 Destiny 2 had no kernel anti-cheat on PC, so longtime players experienced the change as an added trust ask layered onto a game they already had installed.

Bungie's most distinctive anti-cheat posture is in the courts, not just the client. The studio has filed and won a series of lawsuits against commercial cheat sellers, including a landmark jury verdict against the makers of the AimJunkies cheats and multimillion-dollar judgments against several others; TorrentFreak and gaming press have followed these cases closely. On the client side, BattlEye has had occasional false-positive reports, as kernel anti-cheats generally do. Bungie was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2022 and has continued to self-publish Destiny across PC and consoles, though Sony indicated in 2025 that Bungie's independent-studio status is being wound down.