Battlefield 6 was a massive launch for EA. It has already broken franchise records, and the company has begun calling it the "Best Selling Shooter of 2025." Considering that the multiplayer is the main draw of the game, its anti-cheat measures have been a big focus even prior to launch. Today, Battlefield Studios gave an update on how the new Javalin Anti-Cheat tech has been performing.
According to the company, the chance that a player can meet a cheater in a match has improved from 6.9% during the open beta to an impressive 2% currently. "We’re proud to share that ~98% of all matches were fair and free of cheater impacts during the week following launch," announced EA today.
"The Open Beta was invaluable for tuning our detection systems, operations workflows, and compatibility processes," said the anti-cheat team. "We took those learnings and enhanced them for launch, directly contributing to the stability and strength you’ve all experienced so far."
When the launch weekend rolled around, EA"s Javelin Anti-Cheat had managed to thwart over 367,000 cheat attempts. Now, that number sits at 2.39 million. The company also had good things to say about Battlefield 6"s Secure Boot requirement on Windows, which had some pushback from fans and developers at first. Per EA, only 1.5% of Battlefield 6 players are currently having issues with activating the security measure.
"It helps enhance our detections to make each one just that extra bit harder for cheat developers," explains the team regarding Secure Boot. "It can be circumvented, everything can, but sometimes even experts forget that those circumventions also light up lots of indicators; just getting around a barrier doesn’t mean we didn’t watch them the whole time as they dripped paint back to their nest for us to hammer drop their whole community."
Other than blocking, kicking, suspending, and banning active cheaters, EA says it is also tracking a large number of cheat providers. It revealed that most of these communities have not been successful with their usual methods of cheating inside Battlefield 6 and continue to be frustrated with it. "Since launch, 183 of them (96.3%) have announced feature failures, detection notices, downtime, and/or taken their cheats offline entirely," the company adds.
Looking forward, the team says that it is looking into requiring more security options in the operating system, taking down cheaters using specific hardware to gain advantages without affecting accessibility-focused peripherals, improving the reporting system from players, as well as more anti-cheat methods it will keep under wraps to keep cheat developers guessing.