Battlefield 6 only recently went into open beta and like moths to a fire, its developer, Battlefield Studios, is already having a field day blocking and banning cheaters.
Players have been finding evidence of cheaters using wall hacks, allowing them to easily track enemies in virtually every match they enter. What makes the situation even worse is that the cheating is still occurring in spite of the kernel-level anti-cheat system, Javelin, being in place.
Battlefield Studios’ and EA’s anti-cheat team say that Javelin “is not, and was not intended to be a silver bullet” for Battlefield 6, and that the system still needs a constant supply of data, in order to keep up with the different hacks players deploy. “Anti-Cheat isn’t one and done, it’s an ever-evolving battlefield, and what has worked for us previously or in different games doesn’t always work in all of them,” the anti-cheat team said, urging players to keep reporting anyone they suspect is playing unfairly.
In the past couple of days, since the open beta launched, Javelin reportedly stopped 330,000 players who attempted to “cheat or tamper with anti-cheat controls”. These players and their accounts have since been removed and banned from the beta.
Some of these cheaters appear to be unrepentant about their actions. Several videos of them using wall hacks to dominate the battlefield (no pun intended), have been posted, with one particular video having already received more than eight million views.
EA has since published an update regarding its Secure Boot and Cheat In Battlefield 6. You can check out its response there.
