Cheaters Already Spotted in Battlefield 6 Open Beta, Despite Secure Boot Requirement

Battlefield 6 isn't adjacent retired yet, but cheaters person already infiltrated the Open Beta connected PC. That's contempt requiring players to alteration Secure Boot to entree the playtest, and EA's ain anti-cheat system, Javelin.

EA published a idiosyncratic usher for however to alteration Secure Boot connected PC conscionable yesterday, August 7. As we reported astatine the time, it requires a grade of confidence, arsenic it involves tinkering with the BIOS, but it works by checking that lone trusted programs are moving connected a player's PC earlier they play. And no, this isn't conscionable an EA diktat — coincidentally, this week Activision besides announced the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 volition necessitate the nonstop aforesaid thing: Secure Boot enabled.

Despite this, players person begun posting connected societal media to stock video clips of purported cheaters, specified arsenic this 1 below, already viewed 5.8 cardinal times connected X / Twitter.

— ItsHapa (@ItsHapa) August 7, 2025

DICE shaper Alexia Christofi was speedy to respond, confirming that the squad was alert of the contented and assured beta testers that the subordinate identified arsenic cheating successful the clip supra was "already banned."

With the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta boasting implicit 300,000 concurrent players connected Steam alone, making it the 3rd most-played crippled connected Valve’s level down lone Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2, developer DICE has said it’s moving connected a "substantial" summation successful server capacity.

Of course, it is intolerable to stamp retired cheating successful competitory multiplayer games completely, but fixed the established communicative astir cheating successful rival shooter Call of Duty, EA volition beryllium keen to nip this 1 successful the bud up of Battlefield 6's motorboat successful October.

As it stands, it seems TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are the caller world for PC gamers. Here's Activision's explanation, from a blog station published yesterday:

TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) is an industry-standard, hardware-based information diagnostic built onto CPUs oregon motherboards that verifies the PC’s footwear process has not been tampered with. Secure Boot makes definite a PC tin lone load trusted bundle erstwhile Windows starts.

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 releases aboriginal this year, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot volition beryllium required to play connected PC. "These hardware-level protections are a cardinal portion of our anti-cheat efforts, and we’re asking each players to get compliant now," Activision warned.

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