Late last week, EA published new numbers and updated Battlefield 6 fans on the state of its anticheat and just how many cheaters are in games, along with information about the steps it’s taking to counter cheaters in the near future.
To start with, it’s important to know the state of cheaters in Battlefield 6. To do so, EA uses a metric called Match Infection Rate (MRI) to check how many matches are being impacted by cheaters.
The MRI during the week following Battlefield 6’s launch was roughly 2%, which means 98% of matches were cheater-free.
At the start of the open beta, this number was between 6 and 7%. Through the first month of Battlefield 6’s release, this number has been roughly the same, dropping under 2% and getting up to roughly 3%.
The EA Javelin anticheat has blocked 2.39 million cheat attempts to date, which EA attributes to a variety of things. For example, the Secure Boot feature for PC players has played a significant role in blocking cheaters, with only 1.5% of players not using the feature.
Out of 190 cheat programs, hardware, vendors, and resellers, 183 of them have been taken down (either through feature failures, detection notices, downtime, or even taking cheats offline).
Despite the successes, there’s still more work to be done, since there are still cheaters in Battlefield 6 and more cheats will be made as time goes on. While EA isn’t revealing everything they’re doing (as it would just give cheaters more time to workaround fixes), there are a few things coming in the future:
- More OS security features
- Continue working with partners to enforce against cheating hardware
- Improve reporting flows from players
- Improve internal operations tools
