EA exposes staggering Battlefield 6 cheating attempts during beta weekend

The Battlefield 6 open beta has reached the mainstream with the first weekend attracting more players than the all-time player record for the Call of Duty franchise on Steam. With that intense popularity, EA has revealed how many players have attempted to cheat and have now been banned.

In a recent forums post, EA has shared a message from its SPEAR Anti-Cheat Team where it said that since the launch of the Open Beta its Javelin software has prevented a staggering 330,000 attempts to cheat or tamper with anti-cheat controls. Moreover, the Anti-Cheat team has said Open Beta players have filed 44,000 claims of potential cheaters in their lobbies just on the first day, while another 60,000 reports were lodged on the following day.

330,000 attempts at cheating are a staggering number of attempts, and that number is likely higher as the message from AntiCheatWard was from a few days ago and before the Open Beta reached its new height of 500,000+ concurrent players on Steam. Notably, Battlefield 6's anti-cheat software on PC requires Secure Boot, which provides the anti-cheat team with deep access to a machine and what the team says are the necessary tools to leverage against the various cheating techniques.

Examples

• Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
• Memory Manipulation and Injection
• Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
• Virtual Machines and Emulation
• Tampering with Anticheat Systems

"Any attempt to access Battlefield 6 without Secure Boot enabled will result in a prompt indicating its necessity and being unable to launch the game. Without Secure Boot Battlefield 6 will not be playable on PC," states the security team