Battlefield 6 Anticheat Achieves 98% Cheater-Free Matches in Launch Week

Electronic Arts and Battlefield Studios announced Thursday that their kernel-level anticheat software, Javelin, ensured 98 percent of online matches in Battlefield 6 remained free of cheater interference during the game's first week after launch. The report, detailed in an official blog post, highlights the system's effectiveness in protecting player experiences across platforms including PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.

The studio introduced the Match Infection Rate, or MIR, as a key metric to gauge success. This figure represents the percentage chance that a player encounters a cheater in a single match. During launch week, the MIR stood at approximately 2 percent, indicating that the vast majority of games proceeded without disruption. "We prefer using MIR to know whether we are being successful or not as opposed to just volumes of enforcement such as bans because even though we've been busy blocking, kicking, suspending and banning cheaters, it doesn't mean much if we haven't protected your play experience," Battlefield Studios stated in the post.

Supporting data from the open beta phase showed Javelin blocking more than 1.2 million cheat attempts, including...