Battlefield 6's launch week was 98% cheater-free, EA reports

EA has announced that roughly 98% of online matches in Battlefield 6 were free of cheating incidents during the first week following the game's launch, highlighting the Javelin anti-cheat system.

The details:

• As announced on X, EA's Match Infection Rate (MIR), a metric the publisher uses to highlight games featuring at least one cheating player, stood at approximately 2% during launch week. The company confirmed that its new Javelin anti-cheat system blocked over 1.2 million cheat attempts during the game’s open beta phase, with the effectiveness improving significantly from 93.1% cheater-free matches at the beginning of the beta to 98%.
• EA added that since Battlefield 6’s October 10 launch, Javelin has prevented more than 2.39 million cheat attempts in total, with over 367,000 of those blocked during its opening weekend. The system also identified 190 cheat-related programs, hardware vendors, and resellers, with 183 of them being made unavailable or no longer working as intended.
• The massive anti-cheat improvements have been partially attributed to the mandatory Secure Boot requirement for PC players, a kernel-level security measure that has significantly raised the barrier for cheat developers and is used in several major titles. However, the feature has prevented some fans from accessing the game, either running into random issues when using Secure Boot or lacking the option entirely due to outdated hardware.