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Updated 1:17 pm pt: EA has Make a statement Acknowledges the cheating that took place in Battlefield 6 and emphasizes its efforts to fight it. In the post, the publisher said its existing technology has blocked 330,000 attempts to use anti-verb control of cheating or tampering. Additionally, so far, players have reported 44,000 cheating instances, and another 60,000 cheating. EA said it will continue to develop its efforts to combat cheating and encourage users to continue reporting issues.

The original story continues below:

Battlefield 6 Not out yet, but cheaters have penetrated into the open beta version on PC. Despite requiring players to enable secure boot to access Play Test, EA's own anti-cabinet system Javelin.

EA publishes user guide on how to enable secure boot on your PC Just yesterday, August 7th. As we reported at the timeit requires a certain level of confidence as it involves patching the BIOS, but it can work by checking the program running on the player only on the player's PC before the player plays. No, it's not just EA Diktat – coincidentally, Activision also announced this week that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will require the exact same thing: enable secure boot.

Still, players have started posting on social media, sharing video clips of numerous cheaters, such as the one below, which have been viewed 5.8 million times on X/Twitter.

Confirm: Cheating has been working on the battlefield 6.

This shot proves that cheating is fully functional on the 1st day of early visits to beta. pic.twitter.com/j9wsywpei1

– Strategy (@ITSHA) August 7, 2025

dice Producer Alexia Christofi responded quicklyconfirm that the team is aware of the problem and assured Beta testers that players identified as cheating in the clip above have been “has been banned.”

With Battlefield 6 Open Beta having more than 300,000 concurrent players on Steam alone, making it the third game on the Valve platform, behind Counter-Trike 2 and Dota 2, developer DICE said it is engaging in a “substantial” growth in server capacity.

Of course, it is impossible to stand out completely in competitive multiplayer, but given the established narrative surrounding cheating summoned by rival shooters, EA will be eager to deduct that narrative in Bud before October's Battlefield 6 launch.

For now, TPM 2.0 and secure boot seem to be the new reality for PC gamers. This is the explanation of Activision Blog Posts Posted yesterday:

TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) is a hardware-based industry standard built on a CPU or motherboard, hardware-based security features, and the boot process of verifying that the PC has not been tampered with. Secure boot ensures that only the PC can load trusted software when Windows boots.

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is released later this year, TPM 2.0 and secure boot will be required to play on your PC. Activision warns: “These hardware-level protections are a key part of our counter-statement efforts and we are asking all players to obtain immediate compliance.”

If you are looking for information on how to join the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, go to Our BF6 Open Beta Guideyou will find detailed information on how to get into the BF6 open beta, date and time, available maps, and more. If you are on how to get Twitch drops or how to link your EA account to Twitch, Our Open Beta Twitch Drop Guide Have all the Intel you need to set up.

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