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EA says 98% of all #Battlefield6 matches were "fair and free of cheater impacts" during the week following launch. On the other hand, over 1.2 million cheat attempts were blocked during the Open Beta, droving a significant increase in fair matches — from 93.1% at the start to nearly 98% by the end of the final day - while Secure Boot adoption jumped from 62.5% to 92.5%. Since Launch: Results & Impact Month 1 "Over the launch weekend, EA Javelin Anticheat prevented more than 367,000 cheat attempts — less than during comparable Open Beta weekends but in line with the current number of cheat developers we are tracking. This has grown to 2.39 million cheat attempts blocked to date. Across all of our PC players so far, we are down to 1.5% of people not being able to activate Secure Boot on PC —  thanks to your feedback, efforts by our Fan Care team, and involvement of some key community contributors and will continue to sort through remaining edge cases. Secure Boot isn't a silver bullet to stop all cheating; but it is a barrier in of itself and enables other barriers. It helps enhance our detections to make each one just that extra bit harder for cheat developers. 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. We are presently aware of, and have multiple detections for, 190 cheat related programs, hardware, vendors, and resellers and their communities. Since launch 183 of them (96.3%) have announced feature failures, detection notices, downtime, and/or taken their cheats offline entirely. While there are still clips circulating of cheaters claiming to be undetected, it's far more likely than not that when you see gameplay of someone claiming to cheat undetected, they are already banned or have a hammer incoming. This successful disruption of the cheater community is encouraging. But, we know that bad actors will keep testing our defenses, trying new ways to break through. We are constantly monitoring these new threats and are ready to respond, but these early results show that our layered defense strategy is delivering the fair experience players deserve." Upcoming Improvements for Anti-Cheat System 🔹 Explore Additional OS Security Features You may have noticed security features beyond Secure Boot like TPM 2.0, HVCI and VBS are part of the Battlefield 6 system requirements. It's important to note that these are operating system security features, and in general are good security posture to have enabled for your machine and will help avoid any disruptions in playing BF6 when enforcing that requirement becomes necessary. 🔹 Enforce against Cheating Hardware Some of you might have seen various articles and screenshots of EA communications about users being banned because of use of cheating hardware. While most of these are humorous fan creations and not official, there is a shred of truth to them. Cheating, regardless of the how, is prohibited and using known cheating hardware is no exception. Battlefield Studios is also working to enhance this with not only their own methods of detection, but through collaboration with their platform partners to ensure these devices do not impact their playerbases anywhere, regardless of platform. For players that have previously relied on such devices for accessibility, they recommend using first party official peripherals like the Xbox Adaptive Controller | Xbox and Access controller from PlayStation (US). 🔹 Improving reporting flows They've heard feedback from players that depending on the mode, have trouble effectively reporting violations or suspected cheating in-game. They are working on new flows and updates to the reporting UI to make this more seamless and allow users to provide more context to the team so they can act on accurate reports faster and with better context. 🔹 Improving internal operations tools Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their internal tools enables their analysts to work faster and with greater accuracy in validating detections, investigating your cheat reports, and keeping tabs on what cheaters are doing. Their tooling is how they can react so quickly to the plethora of new cheat developers and ensure they have ways to detect them and keep them from impacting your matches. 👀 Classified EA has multiple teams working on various new anti-cheat features and detections across their multi-layered suite of tools across Javelin, the game client, server, and beyond coming online as fast as they can get them ready. As soon as any of these new ways of delivering ban hammers are fully tested and ready they'll share more but for now they don't want to tip our hand to any bad-actors looking to ruin your game experience.