The Battlefield team has revealed that more than 2.4 million cheat attempts have been blocked by Electronic Arts’ javelin anti-cheat system since the launch of Battlefield 6 on October 10, 2025. A recent publication from the team also highlighted that 98% of matches in the launch week were “fair and free of cheater impacts”.
Cheating is one of the biggest problems that online game developers have had to deal with over the years. From Call of Duty to Palworld, virtually all major online multiplayer games have had a fair share of cheaters. However, EA appears to be winning the war on Battlefield 6 with Javelin.
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This is the beginning for Javelin as EA has lined up evolutionary steps to win the “war on cheating” and penalize wrongdoers. During the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, a mammoth 1.2 million cheat attempts were blocked.
The Battlefield 6 team said they “banned some over-confident cheaters who were live-streaming their cheats in real time”. According to the team, their anti-cheat system led to an increase in fair matches from 93.1% at the start of the Open Beta to “nearly 98% by the end of the final day”.
Excepts from the Battlefield 6 team’s November 28 anticheat update
On November 28, 2025, the Battlefield 6 team provided an update to the game’s anticheat system for season 1. The article published on X contained graphs showing the tracking of Match Infection Rate (MIR), a metric that the developer uses to measure cheating.
“We’re proud to share that ~98% of all matches were fair and free of cheater impacts during the week following launch — meaning our average Match Infection Rate (MIR) was ~2%,” the developer disclosed. “That means almost every player who jumped into the Battlefield enjoyed a level playing field.”
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“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.
“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.”
The Battlefield 6 team acknowledged that cheaters continue to evolve in their activities, and so will Javelin Anticheat. To achieve a fair gameplay experience for all, EA is calling on the community to help report players who are suspected of cheating through the in-game cheat reporting.
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