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Elie Gould

Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to 'just trust me bro'

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Battlefield Studios updates players on the success of Battlefield 6's anticheat EA Javelin every so often, with its last report revealing that over 580,000 attempts at cheating were stopped. But some players have queried how the devs would know what percentage of cheaters have been foiled when the most successful perpetrators can't be found.

It's a valid question, and one I've asked myself before. But it turns out that Battlefield 6's anticheat does know when someone's cheating, even if it's just an inkling. "We saw ongoing discussion on how match infection rate (MIR) could be effectively calculated when cheaters and cheat developers aim to avoid detection," an official blog post says. "MIR includes both confirmed cheaters—all of which are banned—and those we suspect based on the full set of detections and signals that are constantly growing and updating."

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