Battlefield Studios has released an update on Battlefield 6’s anticheat, now that we’re one month into the popular shooter’s first season. The statistics look highly impressive for the studio’s campaign against cheaters, claiming that only 2% of total matches were likely to have been impacted by cheating.
Instead of reporting on anticheat by the number of cheaters caught or banned, Battlefield Studios uses a metric it calls “Match Infection Rate,” or MIR, calculated around the likelihood that at least one cheater impacted the results of a given match. The studio reports a MIR of just 2% in the week following launch, which means an impressive 98% of matches were cheat-free.
In the month following BF6’s launch, the MIR has fluctuated a little, but has stayed mostly between 2% and 3%. The studio reports that EA’s Javelin Anticheat has blocked more then 2.39 million cheat attempts to date since release–comparably less than the open beta, which saw over 1.2 million cheats blocked in under 10 days.
Much of Battlefield Studios’ war on cheats appears to have been fought during the open beta, with a Match Infection Rate of almost 7% at the start of the beta dropping to 2% by the final day. The studio also reports that 92.5% of players had adopted Secure Boot by the end of the beta, and now only 1.5% of PC players are unable to activate Secure Boot.
The secret to its success against cheaters, the report says, is monitoring the creators and distributors of cheat programs, as well as the communities around them. Of 190 such entities being monitored, Battlefield Studios says 183 of them “have announced feature failures, detection notices, downtime, and/or taken their cheats offline entirely.”
Of course, the studio acknowledges that the battle against cheaters is never over, as cheat makers will continually push to find ways around new anticheat software. “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,” the post reads.
Though its current anticheat statistics seem impressive enough already, the Battlefield Studios anticheat team has more upgrades to its defense system coming soon, including new OS security features, Javelin updates, and more. The article does note that its protections against cheating hardware may impact players who use such hardware for accessibility reasons, and encourages players to instead use official peripherals like Xbox’s Adaptive Controller or PlayStation’s Access Controller.
Despite only releasing in October, Battlefield 6 quickly became 2025’s best-selling game in the US by dollar value. BF6 sales also quickly became the fastest-selling game within the Battlefield franchise, as well as posting the highest first-month sales of any game since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in 2022.
