Battlefield 6 Devs Hope Console Players Keep Crossplay on Even If 'We Can Never Win' Against PC Cheaters

The developers down Battlefield 6 are encouraging players connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S to support crossplay on, adjacent if they “can’t committedness that determination volition beryllium zero cheaters” connected PC.

Ripple Effect method manager Christian Buhl and elder console combat decorator Matthew Nickerson talked astir the ever-present menace of cheaters successful Battlefield during a caller interrogation with IGN. During our chat, we learned astir however the squad is supporting console players with everything from crossplay to show and fidelity modes.

We besides learned astir however the workplace has implemented anti-cheat measures for adjacent month’s Battlefield sequel. The speech saw Buhl admit that, portion it volition beryllium hard to warrant a cheat-free situation for those playing with the Battlefield 6 PC pool, Ripple Effect and the remainder of the BF Studios squad person gone to large lengths to combat disconnected cheaters.

“So, we're doing a batch connected the PC broadside to clamp down connected cheating arsenic overmuch arsenic possible,” Buhl said. “We person a full squad wrong Battlefield dedicated to anti-cheat, which includes engineers, analysts who are reviewing things and banning players, and figuring retired what the latest cheats are. We person different full dedicated squad astatine EA to anti-cheat that we enactment intimately with.”

Buhl besides highlights the caller Battlefield 6 anti-cheat system, Javelin, arsenic good arsenic the divisive unafraid boot, arsenic different important components successful their strategy. Still, arsenic cheaters proceed to tally amok crossed the astir fashionable multiplayer games connected the market, Ripple Effect knows immoderate volition gaffe done the cracks, particularly connected PC.

“Now, we tin ne'er triumph against cheaters, right?” Buhl added. “Cheaters volition ever beryllium there. It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game. I can't committedness that determination volition beryllium zero cheaters if you're playing against PC players. That's conscionable simply not possible, but I tin accidental that we are being highly aggressive. We spot this arsenic captious to the occurrence of — to the wellness of — the game.”

Battlefield 6 has a merchandise day of October 10, 2025, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, but cheaters were capable to infiltrate servers months early. EA held unfastened beta periods passim August, allowing players to get a pre-release sensation of the Battlefield acquisition BF Studios has been cooking up for the past fewer years. It besides saw players travel face-to-face with cheaters contempt the improvement team’s efforts, with EA reporting it prevented 330,000 cheat attempts by August 8, conscionable 1 time aft unfastened beta aboriginal entree began.

Nickerson said crossplay volition beryllium connected by default erstwhile a subordinate loads into Battlefield 6 for the archetypal time, thing players should cognize if they’re particularly disquieted astir encountering cheaters connected PC. Console users who crook disconnected crossplay volition bounds their pools to the PlayStation and Xbox communities, but Ripple Effect is hoping it won’t travel to that.

“You don't privation to play a crippled and consciousness similar a clump of radical connected the different broadside are cheating,” Buhl added. “I anticipation console players consciousness assured capable successful what we're doing for cheating connected the PC broadside that they don't consciousness similar they privation to crook crossplay disconnected conscionable for that reason. If they bash privation to, that is an disposable enactment for them, but we deliberation it's ace important for PC and console players to beryllium assured that astir of the radical that they're playing with oregon against are not cheating, and we're putting a immense magnitude of effort into that.”

You tin spot Buhl and Nickerson explicate immoderate of the different ways BF Studios is prepping for the motorboat of Battlefield 6 successful our afloat interview. You tin besides work up connected what the remainder of the Battlefield squad learned from the beta and what benignant of fixes players tin expect to spot astatine launch.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).