Battlefield 6's open beta makes enabling secure boot on your PC mandatory, because cheaters

Following successful the combat footwear tracks of 2042 and Valorant

If you're readying to hop into Battlefield 6's unfastened beta aboriginal this week, you mightiness person to bash immoderate digging astir successful your PC's settings successful bid to get in. EA person elected to marque enabling unafraid footwear connected your hardware mandatory, arsenic portion of an effort to bounds cheating.

It's not that astonishing a move, fixed the publishers opted to marque it a hard request for Battlefield 2042 earlier this year. EA's not unsocial either, with the likes of Riot having already done the aforesaid with chap online shooter Valorant. You see, the existent warfare isn't astir nations, resources, oregon petty rulers' idiosyncratic grievances - it's to guarantee you don't get sniped by a Terminator with imperishable x-ray imaginativeness oregon auto-aim.

"To play connected PC, you indispensable person Secure Boot turned on," the EA Help relationship announced connected the socials past night, "It’s a strategy mounting that’s connected by default connected astir PCs and keeps gameplay fair." Basically, it's being utilized arsenic an other measurement alongside EA's Javelin anticheat software, stopping your instrumentality from loading up immoderate bundle not flagged arsenic 'safe' erstwhile you commencement it up.

The institution has astatine slightest provided some written and video instructions to travel if you request to delve into your BIOS settings and either cheque whether you've got unafraid footwear enabled already, oregon crook it on.

As with a batch of anti-cheat related debates, the question is whether the imaginable elimination of immoderate hacking oregon different exploitation you mightiness tally into successful a crippled that's aiming for just fights is worthy the other palavaer and publisher-exerted power implicit what you bash with your hardware.

For folks moving Windows 10 and 11, it hopefully shouldn't beryllium excessively overmuch of a applicable inconvenience if you travel the instructions, but different setups mightiness beryllium successful for a much analyzable time.

If you've yet to double-check which modes, maps and changes from erstwhile Battlefield Labs investigating you'll beryllium successful for if you bash leap into the unfastened beta erstwhile it opens its doors from August 7th (early access) oregon August 9th (general), EA's besides shared each of that info this week.