As we get to the first round of beta tests for Battlefield 6 later this week, EA, along with developers Ripple Effect, DICE and Criterion, have revealed the details of what kind of anti-cheat system the games will be using. Rather than an off-the-shelf solution like Easy Anti-Cheat, Battlefield 6 will instead be making use of its own in-house tool, dubbed Javelin. While this may come as no surprise to Battlefield fans, since the anti-cheat solution has been around for a bit, EA has also outlined how the anti-cheat will make use of Secure Boot on PC.
According to a blog post outlining the details, Secure Boot is required for “enhanced security” that will also power new anti-cheat features in Battlefield 6. Secure Boot, along with TPM (Trusted Platform Module), allows for EA Javelin Anticheat to block cheats that might start infiltrating the game during the boot process for Windows. Along with this, EA’s own internal team – the Battlefield Positive Play team – will be implementing its own features to combat cheating.
Some of the cheating that Javelin is hoping to prevent includes kernel-level chats and rootkits, memory manipulation and injection, spoofing and hardware ID manipulation, virtual machines and emulation, and tampering with the anti-cheat systems. Secure Boot is such a hard-coded requirement for Battlefield 6 that any attempt to start the game with the feature disabled in a player’s UEFI/BIOS settings will lead to an error prompt that will let players know that they need to turn it back on.
The beta build of Battlefield 6 became available for pre-load earlier today. This is in preparation for the first beta test for the game that will be kicking off as a closed beta on August 7, before opening up to everyone on August 9. This first beta test will only be open until August 10. As for the closed beta, players can get access to it by watching affiliated streamers. Subscribing to EA Play Pro is also one of the ways to get into the closed beta of the game.
Interestingly, since the beta pre-load has begun and players have been able to get into the game’s menus to make sure that various options are set to their liking, this has led to the game hitting an all-time peak of more than 9,000 concurrent players before the first beta even went live. According to SteamDB, even at the time of publishing right now, 5,600 players are in-game, likely tinkering around with the menus since there isn’t really much else to do at the moment.
Since the major multiplayer reveal for Battlefield 6 last week, quite a few more details about the online shooter have been revealed. Among other things, DICE has confirmed that, at launch, the game will feature more than 40 weapons across various categories. The Steam version of Battlefield 6 will also not need the EA App. However, players will still need a valid EA account.
Battlefield 6 is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 10.
