EA is now boasting that its Javelin anti-cheat system and growing secure-boot adoption have turned Battlefield 6 into a mostly clean battlefield, claiming that 96.3% of cheat-sellers trying to break the game have failed, more than 98% of matches are cheater-free, and the match infection rate has dropped below 2%, with the company promising that Javelin will keep evolving as cheat developers get smarter.

Since launch, Electronic Arts has treated keeping Battlefield 6 free of cheaters as a top-tier priority, building its protection around the Javelin anti-cheat system and encouraging players to run secure boot. EA now says the numbers prove that approach works: according to its internal tracking, 96.3% of cheat-sellers have not managed to deliver reliable hacks for the game. Out of 190 cheat providers being monitored, 183 have had to admit that their features broke, warn customers about detection, or shut their tools down entirely once they tried to support Battlefield 6. For EA, this is a big deal because cheating has always been one of the most stubborn problems in competitive multiplayer shooters, and the publisher believes that Javelin, backed by secure boot on more machines, is finally pushing the issue back instead of just reacting to it.

At the same time, EA warns that players will still see sites and sellers advertising supposedly “undetected” products for Battlefield 6, but insists that, by the time most people come across these offers, the associated accounts or tools are often already banned or broken. The company estimates that 98% of matches in the game are now played without any active cheaters, which in practice means that when you queue for a match, you are very likely to land in a lobby where everyone is playing on roughly equal terms instead of fighting obvious aimbots and wallhacks. EA says the current match infection rate – its metric for how many games are touched by cheating – has fallen under 2%, and it expects that figure to keep trending downward as the system is tuned.

Altogether, EA reports that Javelin has blocked around 2.39 million individual cheating attempts so far, a total it describes as staggering even by its own standards. The publisher stresses that this is an ongoing arms race and not a one-off fix, and it promises that as cheat authors move to more advanced methods, the Javelin anti-cheat technology will be updated alongside them so that Battlefield 6 players can stay focused on the firefights rather than worrying about hackers overwhelming the game again.

Source: tech4gamers