Some Destiny 2 players are hosting a tournament with prize money that is supposed to spoil the fun of the game for one of the most well-known streamers in the community.
In Destiny 2 there are Trials of Osiris every week from Friday to Tuesday, in which the PvP players of the loot shooter compete to see who has it right.
This is of particular interest to seasoned players and PvP veterans, but some players are clearly looking for an extra incentive and are pursuing a nasty plan – a tournament designed to spoil the fun of a well-known Destiny streamer.
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What is the tournament about? As gaming journalist Jake Lucky shared on Twitter / X.com, there is a private Discord server within the Destiny 2 community that hosted a Streamsnipe tournament.
By stream sniping, players hope to have an unfair advantage when confronting the streamer, since they can follow their actions live on a second screen and thus know their perspective.
The unfair advantage makes it easier for them to win the game and possibly rise in the ranking (if there is a ranking system in the game in question). Often such players just want to troll the streamer.
As a streamer, a match against a stream sniper has a negative impact on gameplay. A subcategory of stream sniping is queue sniping, in which a targeted attempt is made to get into the streamer’s lobby during matchmaking.
Although the competition did not clearly call for stream sniping, the process of the challenge is clear from a screenshot attached by Jake Lucky: Whoever defeats the streamer “Gernader Jake” the most in matches of the Trials of Osiris wins prize money of $120.
GernaderJake is one of the best-known Destiny 2 streamers, has over 500,000 subscribers on Twitch and has streamed to an average of 2,700 viewers over the past 90 days (via Sullygnome).
Gaming journalist Jake Lucky shares the Streamsnipe tournament announcement on Twitter/X.com
Why is the tournament based on stream sniping? Since the players competing against each other in the Trials of Osiris are drawn via normal matchmaking, it is not possible for GernaderJake himself, for example, to invite the players he then competes against.
The whole tournament is based around joining his lobby via random matchmaking and then defeating him in-game – of course, the most effective way to do this is to have GernaderJake’s stream running during the process.
“I was targeted and harassed”
What does the streamer say about this? GernaderJake himself commented on the “bounty” on his head on August 22, 2023 on Twitter. It was streamed by many people, some of whom were even able to use aim cheats or fly over the map.
Additionally, GernaderJake notes that he experiences situations like this every weekend, which tires him and many of his viewers.
I was streamsniped by a lot of people in the stream, many of whom were obviously using aim hacks and hacks to fly around the map. Even if it’s not that blatant and common, I deal with it every weekend and I and many of my viewers are tired of it.
After seeing how many teams of cheaters were up against me, some of my viewers wanted to lighten the mood. They put together some teams that tried to take on the rogue stream snipers and acted as “shields” to protect my team.
GernaderJake via Twitter
His viewers then wanted to set up a kind of “shield” in which they also formed teams and tried to get into the Streamsniper lobbies, the streamer wrote. That also worked well 10 times, but in four other cases the “Shield” teams themselves met the streamer.
According to GernaderJake, these matches were fair, but since his team was able to clearly win two of these matches 4-0, the narrative arose on Twitter, according to him, that GernaderJake would get wins as gifts from his viewers.
With all of this, he himself couldn’t understand how the whole situation ultimately led to him being accused of playing unfairly:
I was targeted and harassed, so my community did something stupid to defuse a pretty horrible situation. The idea that this could be used against me, to convince nearly a million people that I’m doing something terribly wrong, just lurks in my head.
GernaderJake via Twitter
Why is stream sniping ruining Trials of Osiris gameplay? First and foremost, it’s not fun to play against players who have an unfair advantage – whether it’s looking at my monitor or rogue third-party software.
In addition, however, every defeat in the Trials of Osiris prevents a flawless run and thus top loot in the lighthouse.
In Trials of Osiris, the first team to kill all opposing Guardians wins. The first team to win 5 rounds wins the match and records a win on the Trials Pass. If you manage 7 wins without a loss, you have put down a flawless (flawless) run. For this it goes to the lighthouse, where there is then top loot.
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