Battlefield 6 Is Almost Cheater-Free, Studio Claims

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Battlefield Studios recently shared an update on its anti-cheat system for Battlefield 6, now that the game’s first season has been live for a month. The results are promising, with the studio reporting that cheating likely affected only 2% of all matches.

Battlefield Studios measures the success of its anti-cheat system differently than most. Instead of focusing on how many cheaters they catch, they track the ‘Match Infection Rate,’ or MIR – which estimates the chance that a match was affected by a cheater. After launch, they reported a MIR of only 2%, meaning a remarkable 98% of matches weren’t impacted by cheating.

Okay, so it’s been about a month since BF6 came out, and the matchmaking (MIR) has been pretty stable, mostly hanging around 2% to 3%. What’s really cool is that the anti-cheat system, Javelin, is working! They’ve already blocked over 2.39 million attempts at cheating, which is awesome. Interestingly, that’s less than what they blocked during the open beta – they stopped over 1.2 million cheaters in less than ten days back then, so it seems like the system is really helping to keep things fair now.

Battlefield Studios made significant progress against cheaters during the game’s open beta. At the beginning, around 7% of matches were affected by cheaters, but this number dropped to just 2% by the beta’s end. The studio also found that most players—92.5%—enabled Secure Boot, a security feature, and now only a small percentage—1.5%—of PC players are unable to use it.

According to the report, the game’s success in fighting cheaters comes from tracking not just the cheaters themselves, but also the people who create and share cheat programs, and the online communities where they operate. Battlefield Studios says they’ve been monitoring 190 of these groups, and 183 of them have either reported problems with their cheats, announced they’ve been detected, experienced outages, or completely shut down their cheating services.

The studio recognizes that fighting cheaters is an ongoing process, as cheat developers will always try to bypass anti-cheat systems. They stated they’re actively tracking these new threats and prepared to address them, but initial findings suggest their current security measures are successfully creating a fairer gameplay experience for everyone.

Battlefield’s anti-cheat system is already performing well, but the team is planning further improvements, including enhanced security features and updates to its Javelin system. They acknowledge these protections could affect players who rely on unofficial hardware for accessibility, and recommend using official accessibility controllers like the Xbox Adaptive Controller or PlayStation Access Controller instead.

Released in October, Battlefield 6 rapidly became the top-selling game in the US for 2025, based on revenue. It also achieved the fastest sales numbers of any Battlefield game to date, and had the biggest first month of sales for any title since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in 2022.

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2025-12-01 14:10