In a recent article published by the Electronic Arts teams behind Battlefield 6, it was revealed that a staggering 2.4 million cheat attempts have been blocked by EA’s Javelin anti-cheat system since the game came out on October 10. It was additionally noted that, in the week after launch, 98% of matches were ‘fair and free of cheater impacts.’
This is only just the beginning for Javelin. It was stressed that Electronic Arts is shaping up to deal with this ‘war on cheating’ in an evolutionary way, and has several steps lined up to combat wrongdoers.
Battlefield 6’s Anti-Cheat is Making Waves
In a post on social media, it was revealed that 2.4 million cheat attempts were actively blocked by EA’s Javelin engine, an anti-cheat solution that keeps Battlefield 6 free from abusive operators. To put some numbers into perspective, it was also noted that, during the open beta alone, a whopping 1.2 million cheat attempts were closed down.
People just won’t give up.
The team wrote:
We are presently aware of, and have multiple detections for, 190 cheat related programs, hardware, vendors, and resellers and their communities. Since launch 183 of them (96.3%) have announced feature failures, detection notices, downtime, and/or taken their cheats offline entirely.
This phenomenal effort by Electronic Arts is set to expand with several key initiatives being lined up:
- Explore Additional OS Security Features
- Enforce Against Cheating Hardware
- Improving Reporting Flows
- Improving Internal Operations Tools
- ‘Classified’
That final note is legitimately taken from the document. Some things are being kept under wraps to avoid ‘tipping off’ the cheat manufacturers as to what’s coming next:
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.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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