Cheaters don’t stand much of a chance, so their presence in matches is essentially negligible.
The Battlefield 6 development team, Battlefield Studios (including DICE, Motive, Criterion, and Ripple Effect), has provided detailed information on the performance of the kernel-level Javelin anti-cheat system in the popular first-person military shooter game, Battlefield 6. According to data collected by the developers, Javelin ensured that approximately 98% of Battlefield 6 online matches were cheat-free during the game’s launch week. This means the “infection rate” of matches was only 2%. Developers describe this notoriously vague metric as the chance players will encounter cheaters in their matches.
The 98% rate was mainly attributed to improvements made during the open beta weekend. Initially, only 93.1% of matches were cheat-free, but this rate increased to nearly 98% by the end of the weekend after more than 1.2 million cheat attempts were blocked and tens of thousands of cheaters were removed. Use of Secure Boot increased from 62.5% to 92.5%. Over the weekend of Battlefield 6’s release, Javelin prevented over 367,000 cheating attempts.
This is fewer than during similar open beta weekends but consistent with the current number of cheaters tracked by developers. To date, that number has grown to 2.39 million blocked cheating attempts. Battlefield Studios is currently aware of 190 cheat programs, as well as the associated communities of their manufacturers and resellers. Since the game’s launch, 183 of them (96.3%) have reported malfunctioning features, detection notifications, and/or shutdowns, and have gone completely offline with their cheats.
This does not mean that the fight against Battlefield 6 cheats is over. Beyond the Secure Boot requirement, developers are exploring additional operating system features, such as HVCI (Hypervisor-Enforced Code Integrity) and VBS (Virtualization-Based Security). They are also working with Sony and Microsoft to ban cheating hardware, such as the Cronus Zen.
