The Battlefield 6 Open Beta is off to an explosive start with more than 300,000 players at peak on Steam alone in the first few days. Despite new hardware-level protections designed to keep games fair, cheaters have already infiltrated matches with clips of suspicious plays racking up views online.
Team are aware and I believe this player is already banned 🙏
— Alexia Christofi (@Lex_mate) August 7, 2025
EA confirmed that since the Open Beta Early Access launched, its Javelin anti-cheat system has already blocked 330,000 attempts to cheat or tamper with the game. Players have submitted over 100,000 reports of potential cheaters in just two days, with the company’s Gameplay Integrity team working to confirm and ban offenders.
If you’re like me and had some issues starting the Open Beta on PC, it’s likely due to these extra protections. One of EA’s most talked-about anti-cheat measures in Battlefield 6 is the requirement to enable Secure Boot, a PC security feature for only trusted software when Windows starts. Paired with TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module), this is designed to prevent certain cheats from loading.
While Secure Boot isn’t a magic cure-all, it gives EA’s SPEAR Anti-Cheat Team more ‘signals’ to detect bad actors, such as flagging PCs running with vulnerable drivers. In a direct media release from Activision this week as well, they are rolling out the exact same requirement for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 later this year, showing that first-person shooter publishers are increasingly leaning on hardware protections to keep hackers at bay.
EA’s anti-cheat team stressed that cheat detection is ‘an ever-evolving battlefield’ and that no single tool works for every game. ‘Reporting one actual cheater can often lead to new detection techniques, ‘ AC said, urging players to continue reporting suspicious behaviour via the in-game scoreboard.
For EA, Battlefield 6 is a shot at winning back fans after the mixed reception of 2021’s Battlefield 2042. Our hands-on preview found the fundamentals stronger than ever: crisp gunplay, vehicles that handle beautifully, and the standout feature of tactical destruction, which lets players reshape the battlefield in real time. No match ever feels quite the same, whether you’re smashing through walls with a sledgehammer or levelling entire buildings with a tank.
The hope is that the only thing being destroyed in Battlefield 6 will be in-game environments, not the competitive spirit. As the Beta proves, the war on cheaters is one battle that’s far from over.
