Battlefield 6 Javelin Anticheat Prevented More Than 2.39 Million Cheat Attempts to Date
While cheaters will never go away in multiplayer games, it’s not that big of a problem in Battlefield 6. Even if the game was invaded by cheaters within a day of its release, that flow was stopped rather quickly, which was surprising to see.
Publisher credits its Javelin Anticheat program for preventing idiots from ruining the game for everyone.
According to EA, 98% of all matches were fair and free of cheater impacts during the week following launch, which is just insane to see in this day.
Battlefield 6 Anticheat Has Blocked Millions of Cheaters Already
Not only that, as while EA managed to block over 1.2 million cheat attempts during the Open Beta, Javelin Anticheat managed to prove reliable, as it blocked over 367,000 cheat attempts over the launch weekend. EA notes, “less than during comparable Open Beta weekends but in line with the current number of cheat developers we are tracking.”
In total, EA has blocked over 2.39 million (!) cheat attempts to date.
EA states they are presently aware of and have multiple detections for 190 cheat-related programs, hardware, vendors, and resellers. Since launch, EA claims “183 of them (96.3%) have announced feature failures, detection notices, downtime, and/or taken their cheats offline entirely.”
Even if people are seeing videos of people cheating in Battlefield 6, EA states, “it’s far more likely than not that when you see gameplay of someone claiming to cheat undetected, they are already banned or have a hammer incoming.”
As for what’s next, the publisher outlined it.
What’s Next for Battlefield 6 Anticheat
- Explore Additional OS Security Features.
- You may have noticed security features beyond Secure Boot like TPM 2.0, HVCI and VBS are part of the Battlefield 6 system requirements. It’s important to note that these are operating system security features, and in general are good security posture to have enabled for your machine and will help avoid any disruptions in playing BF6 when enforcing that requirement becomes necessary.
- Enforce against Cheating Hardware.
- Some of you might have seen various articles and screenshots of EA communications about users being banned because of use of cheating hardware. While most of these are humorous fan creations and not official, there is a shred of truth to them. Cheating, regardless of the how, is prohibited and using known cheating hardware is no exception.
- We are also working to enhance this with not only our own methods of detection, but through collaboration with our platform partners to ensure these devices do not impact our playerbases anywhere, regardless of platform.
- For players that have previously relied on such devices for accessibility, we recommend using first party official peripherals like the Xbox Adaptive Controller | Xbox and Access controller from PlayStation (US).
- Improving reporting flows.
- We’ve heard feedback from players that depending on the mode, have trouble effectively reporting violations or suspected cheating in-game. We are working on new flows and updates to the reporting UI to make this more seamless and allow users to provide more context to the team so we can act on accurate reports faster and with better context.
- Improving internal operations tools.
- Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our internal tools enables our analysts to work faster and with greater accuracy in validating detections, investigating your cheat reports, and keeping tabs on what cheaters are doing. Our tooling is how we can react so quickly to the plethora of new cheat developers and ensure we have ways to detect them and keep them from impacting your matches.
- Classified.
- We have multiple teams working on various new anti-cheat features and detections across our multi-layered suite of tools across Javelin, the game client, server, and beyond coming online as fast as we can get them ready. As soon as any of these new ways of delivering ban hammers are fully tested and ready we’ll share more but for now we don’t want to tip our hand to any bad-actors looking to ruin your game experience.
This is definitely good news for Battlefield 6 and RedSec players.
It’s not just with the anti-cheat that EA is doing well with Battlefield 6. DICE has been very open in communicating some of the fixes they have planend for the game, and this includes infantry visibility when prone and more.
In other Battlefield 6 news, Season 2 and S3 early info have been unearthed, and it gives us a glimpse at the new content incoming for free.
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