It didn’t even take 24 hours for clips of the first cheaters in the beta of Battlefield 6 to appear. Fans are annoyed, especially because they had to make a bothersome adjustment for this.
What kind of clips have appeared? As early as the evening, some users shared videos of obvious cheaters in the beta of Battlefield 6 on x.com.
For example, @ItsHapa shows in his post a so-called wallhack, where he can see not only his allies but also his enemies through walls. @WisdomAegis shares a video in his post, which also shows a wallhack. An aimbot might also be conceivable based on the video, unless the shooter is simply very good.
Players are upset that cheaters have managed to bypass EA’s anti-cheat protection so quickly. In particular, because they had to make a bothersome adjustment beforehand to even start the game.
Fast Cheaters Despite Secure Boot
Why are fans annoyed? To play Battlefield 6, players must enable the so-called Secure Boot of their PC, otherwise they cannot start the game. This applies to both the beta and the full release. This function is necessary so that Javelin Anticheat, EA’s anti-cheat program, can prevent cheaters from entering the game.
Setting up the function can sometimes turn out to be very annoying and cumbersome, which is why players have questioned the benefit relative to the effort.
In the comments under the users’ clips, many people are now venting their frustration that it didn’t even take 24 hours for the first cheaters to bypass the protection. Others think it’s good that EA can now use the beta to gather data and thereby take stronger action against cheaters:
- @Himjamin777 writes via X: “Good, I want all the cheaters in the beta so that they can figure out how to stop them by the time the game releases.”
- @JPSlazzik also reassures via X: “Many cheat data will also be collected.”
- @JohTha complains via X: “So I went through all that BIOS crap for nothing?”
- @CeoofTrigun adds via X: “It doesn’t matter what security protocols they implement; cheaters will always find a way to create cheats for them.”
Producer Alexia Christofi, who works on Battlefield 6, personally responds to the post of @ItsHapa and writes that the team is aware that cheaters have made it into the game and that the specific player is likely already banned.
The community hopes that the problem does not spread and that the effort with Secure Boot was worth it so that the cheater problem will be manageable by the release.
Meanwhile, the beta is well-received content-wise by players. Many fans are happy to be able to play the game before its release. However, there are 3 aspects that are not so well received and are particularly frustrating: The beta of Battlefield 6 makes many fans happy, but some players hate 3 big aspects of the game.
