Electronic Arts totally rose up and addressed cheating within the new Battlefield 6 beta. Within 48 hours of it being released, their anti-cheat team kicked out more than 330,000 cheaters or those attempting to cheat the system. Cheating began pouring in the moment the beta dropped, and more than 104,000 users thought something odd was happening within their game.
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you won't believe this! EA just went and dropped some massive news that they're developin’ this thing called "Javelin" that they’re labeling their serious anti-cheat system. It's sorta like Riot's Vanguard for Valorant, but it reaches all the way into the operating system itself to monitor those pesky background processes where cheaters tend to lurk. With so much access, it can pick up on suspicious things very easily, but EA is downright admitting it's not totally perfect. "Anti-cheat isn't one and done—it's an ever evolving battlefield," AC of EA's security team said on the official forum.
Battlefield 6's beta also implements Secure Boot, a Windows security feature that authenticates the integrity of system initialization components. Although EA was quick to explain that Secure Boot isn't a "silver bullet," it slows the development of cheats and simplifies their detection. As cheat developers quickly adapt, more barriers—in both software and hardware—are part of a larger effort to keep their influence under wraps ahead of launch. So the company hasn't dropped any new figures on bans yet, so they're likely still processing all the material from this initial phase. This beta launch is indicating that those studios are seriously ramping up enforcement, layering in additional security features and getting much faster at determining what the community needs. EA's crazy numbers—more than 300,000 blocked attempts in just a few days—indicate that there’s an all-out war being waged between game makers and cheaters, and that kernel-level monitoring and community reporting are the new battlefields.