A lot of PC gamers were frustrated when EA and DICE announced that Battlefield 6 would require Secure Boot State. This is a BIOS setting that pretty much everyone can enable. Moreover, the game uses EA’s Javelin anti-cheat system. And, despite all of these, there are already cheaters in Battlefield 6’s Open Beta.
So, below you can find a video that shows a wall hack and an auto-aim cheat. And let me tell you. This is a bummer as BF6 looks like a fun game. The fact that we got these cheats so early is alarming, to say the least.
Now I know some will use this video to say something like: “See, what’s the point of enabling Secure Boot?” And, to a point, they are right. Because, right now, BF6 feels like every other shooter out there (when it comes to its cheats and hacks). Every shooter has wall hacks and auto-aim cheats. But these other games don’t require Secure Boot.
So, what is Secure Boot? Secure Boot is a safety feature found in most modern computers. When it’s turned on, it makes sure that only trusted programs (like Windows and important drivers) can run when your computer starts up. Its main job is to stop dangerous software, like rootkits or viruses, from loading before your system is ready. It checks that everything is safe and approved before letting it run. So no, Secure Boot isn’t some kind of spyware from EA or Activision. It’s actually a helpful feature that can protect your PC.
What I mean is that turning on Secure Boot will not “break” your PC. The real problem is if your motherboard doesn’t support it. That’s something EA and DICE will need to solve. In reality, almost every motherboard that came out in the last 5–6 years already supports Secure Boot. So, this feels like a nothing-burger. At least in my opinion.
And I know. Sometimes it can be tricky to enable Secure Boot. However, there are already guides on how you can do it. The guide I shared in my previous article works. So, make sure to follow it. If, on the other hand, you don’t want to enable it, you can skip playing BF6.
EA will open the beta for BF6 to everyone tomorrow. And, since there are already hacks, you can be sure that some people will use them. It sucks, but that’s how things are in 2025. Every game has them. Even Tekken 8 had them.
All in all, you’d expect Battlefield 6 to be safer from hacks and cheats. The combination of Secure Boot with the Javelin anti-cheat should be enough to stop most of them. Well, that’s not happening right now. So, you can’t really blame PC gamers for being frustrated by this. DICE should up its game. Otherwise, what’s the point of using all these protections?
Stay tuned for more!
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I'll never understand the stupidity of people who just refuse to accept reality, and continually think, "This time, it's gonna be different."
its r*tarded, its never gonna change people just have to accept that idea, secure boot, punkbuster, whatever the f*ck they come up, hackers will always find a way.
By that (il)logic we should all stop locking our doors and autos because "They are going to find a way to break in anyway" ……
Yes. 5 blacks with guns and pipes won't matter if you lock your doors.
A better comparison is that people should stop buying chihuahuas as guard dogs. We already had a perfectly functional way of detecting cheaters decades ago and it was by having a dedicated server admin that either owned (or knew the owner) of the PC hosting the server. Along with spectator options that often make cheaters (especially rage hackers) stick out like a sore thumb these were perfectly functional solutions we have now left in the dust.
It's still easily possible to provide these files and some still do, but companies like EA deliberately chose to remove that option because they wanted to lock the ability to host a server behind a subscription you would pay to them and then eventually removing it completely so they had complete control.
100%. The best possible solution to hacking. Was live moderators from that community that actually cared about the server and wanted to make sure it was a great place to play so that it stayed populated.
Bad analogy because a lot of these "security" measures have huge performance drawbacks and can also introduce risk and a loss of control. It's more like trusting EA which is a corporation run by imbeciles, with a key to your house and hoping nothing ever happens internally there with employees they pay as low as possible.
Security leaks happen at the largest corporations all over the world and a lot of them are a lot better run than EA and treat their employees better lol. Just look at the Health Care security fiascos in the last few years.
Imagine thinking Secure Boot has any relevance for Anti-Cheat.
The best way to get by a kernel based anti-cheat (or any kernel security for that matter) is a rootkit. If you can grab Root on boot then you can bypass all security on the system and can also access Protected Memory
Keep telling yourself that, imagine claiming best way to cheat is to use a kernel driver.
Is clear you have no understanding of the work required to get a signed driver, there a reason cheats are working regardless of Secure Boot.
There a reason cheats are working regardless of Secure Boot. Secure Boot was not created as an Anti-Cheat measure.
It very obvious both this game and cod requiring it at the same time is suspicious. Probably installing some CIA spyware
Why are you always wrong lol. Like you couldn't be more wrong most of the time if your a@% was screwed on backwards. I do like that confidence though. I also like how you always push secureboot as all the other things this game requires as capable, which means they could require later. TPM and HVIC. HVIC is not required atm apparently but that could change at release or later. Valorant now also requires IOMMU.
Turning all these things on without even knowing performance differences in all other games (HVIC is awful for some games) just to play a game that can't even stop the cheating is insane to me.
Instead of spending 400+ million on the game and marketing how about they hire some people who check things that get flagged like players doing exceptionally well. Then just IP ban them or flag their VPN. That might actually accomplish something. Shame them, since streaming is often partnered with the influencers and streamers have them do a show where they laugh at them, show people what cheating looks like and how to report it.
This game does not even require TPM nor Memory Integrity, played for 5h this Friday and don't have neither enabled in any shape or form.
Nice try though, must be nice to be wrong all the time. Secure Boot is used to make sure only signed drivers run.
As EA and I stated and well,
Feel free to keep embarassing yourself kid, you should really spend more time learning the basics before trying to act smart around me.
Beta is not launch or post launch. Requirements from their own site.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d83a686986b28ed78e9019b15a6880a33021f68d6f56fd231c3b41f1d69de841.png See the bottom? See TPM? See HVIC? The only thing that makes this different than Valorant so far is a lack of IOMMU and Valorant as a "live service game" just added hat post launch cus you can charge the TOS and no one ever reads the thing. Both games want to install a ROOT KIT that makes the pc you have less secure and trusting EA and China not to have security breaches. I wouldn't trust the clowns at EA to mow my lawn but you go ahead and give them a rootkit on that PC.
Again WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS WRONG? It would be one thing if you were just stupid, but you actually think you are smart. It's the most dangerous kind of stupid lol.
2025 and we actually have people out there parroting that INSTALLING A ROOT KIT ON A PC MAKES IT MORE SECURE.
So you also delusional and call Anti-Cheat Rookit, on top of dyslexic since capable =/= enabled.
TPM is also listed for compliance sake, something that is clearly beyond your comprehension, this game does not use nor require TPM.
Feel free to keep embarassing yourself, I don't even need to say anything.
ROFL at denying the requirements on the fu@^ing official game page. Legit sub 75 IQ or an EA shareholder/shill. Fu@% off. Make sure to go watch a streamer for drops like Timthetatman who EA is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to pretend to like this gamer per other EA influencers like Zipp.
Actual Millennial retards. Doesn't even know what a rootkit is.
There are places where you can seek professional help for your mental illness.
My first B350 MB I bought in 2017 had Secure Boot and so did the A320 board I put in my Mom's computer. So basically the last time I had a computer that did not support Secure Boot was for Bulldozer/Piledriver
As you watch the hype machine for this game remember that articles came out months ago stating that EA expected 100 Million Players (L O L) Amid Development Troubles and a $400 Million Budget (gonna be more with marketing).
Expect them to spend RECORD money on the influencers/shills and clankers (astroturfing/bots) to promote this thing.
If you do decide to play this game "HVCI capable" is listed as a requirement. That means Core Isolation Memory Integrity on in Windows, which no one should run outside this game and Valorant (people are saying BF6 plays without it at this time). It can harm performance pretty dramatically depending on how cpu bound a game is. Example with Starfield Ancient Gameplays showed a 63 to 51 FPS drop on Intel systems. It can also raise CPU temps.
Wait you need to have core isolation on? I wouldn’t play any game that requires that. I haven’t seen anyone mention it. Where’s you hear that?
It's listed as "HVIC capable" in the requirements, which is why articles like the Corsair one tell you to enable it for the game. That means core isolation memory integrity. I asked and people said it ran with it off in the beta. Capable may mean you may not need to run it now but they could demand that at any time or they simply aren't leveraging it in the BETA so that benchmarks look better. Valorant has since went a step further with IOMMU enabled in the BIOS.
HVIC is bad news. Even if I wanted to play this game I wouldn't have that on any time I wasn't playing Battlefield. Higher temps worse performance. The other stuff I really don't see changes on FPS with. Secureboot just makes some linux installs harder, TPM I see no changes with but my oldest CPU is AM5. Some AM4 people have complained about stutter and they usually fix that with a dedicated TPM chip on the MB.
Having power clicked on monitoring on MSI Afterburner can cause stuttering and far worse lows though even on a 9800x3D, so who knows. All I can say is I have never had a problem with just secureboot and TPM, other's may, others may not know the real culprit. I HAVE seen performance go down and temps up on HVCI on anything I ever tested it on. It sucks and should never be used on a gaming machine unless the game specifically needs its.
Maybe the Publishers hope these anti-cheat schemes will at least stop some cheaters but the determined ones will find a way to cheat. Maybe the Publishers also want to have something to show investors that they are doing something to cut down on cheaters that spoil the fun of the game even though the Publishers know it won't work.
Oh, and one more thing……..if you are a cheater you are a self-centered f*cking as*hole for ruining the fun for others.
There are 2 cases where I support cheating in games:
– Single Player games
– Pay To Win games
If I were a billionaire I’d literally invest money into creating hack and cheat tools to destroy all freemium games.
Cheaters are definitely sociopaths but society created a lot of them with esports and streaming. These people are no longer playing a game to have fun, they are playing it to get rich, even though they have less of a chance of that than being a professional athlete lol. Even the "pro" streamers often make less than fast food employees. It's why the female streamers also open an Onlyfans.
Just look at PC sales, influencer reviews etc. It's all about streaming with kids having completely unrealistic expectations. Ask a kid what he wants to do in the past and they might say Doctor, Engineer. Now? Influencer and streamer…
So what do these kids do? Target streamers, target them with cheating and often the streamers who made it are also cheaters and get busted.
It much more of a societal problem than a tech one and the people cheating are desperate to be something they idolize. They won't stop because of another hoop to jump through.
I know nothing about e-sports. I do know that anytime a game has a ranking/stats system then there will be cheaters.
My first experience was in a text based empire game back in the mid 1980s on BBS. It had a ranking/stats system. I quickly learned that having my kingdom wrecked might have been due to the skill and knowledge of the competition or it might have been because they knew BASIC and knew how to access program variables to cheat.
Then the late 1990s on Yahoo Games I played board games against other players. Mostly chess, backgammon and checkers. There was a ranking/stats system.There were cheaters using scripts to cheat and even laughing about it in the chat rooms. How pitiful is that?
While obviously neither was an MMO it illustrates my point. Whenever there is a ranking/stats system there will be cheaters. So, with 2 exceptions (because I stuck to PvE) I have avoided MMOs.
I had no idea people were cheating in yahoo games. That is hilarious. 🙂
I still remember when the aimbots hit. I went from playing FPS games heavily to not at all. I was an upper mid player nowhere near the best and overnight became lower mid against the same players I had destroyed. My best friend was the best in every FPS game he ever played, was a ranked Starcraft player and he became mid when the aimbots hit. I put them down and never really came back.
I simply moved to MMO's which have since become infested with kickbots and now literal bots that play for people.
I don't blame attempts to stop cheating but I just don't see them stopping it. The communities in online gaming are so bad on PC these days it's just accepted like piracy is in some Eastern European countries. It's simply the culture now and that culture isn't worth investing time in.
Even the most casual of competitive game modes, even in games barely alive like SWTOR that had so much cheating they removed ranked pvp, has people doing everything possible to cheat the system. People get limited to a 4 man queue so they queue sync on a discord to get 8. When they don't get 8 they afk. When they face another premade one of them lays down so they can get a new queue.
So yeah I will be right there with you as a PVE person or solo game person. Online communities don't want any real competition, don't want to actually have fun, don't want anything close an even playing field. They now accept pay to win mechanics, cheat any queue, and when forced to play against equal players resort to third party cheats. It's just over for online gaming imo. It will never be what it formerly was again and you will never get a lan party online because we weren't friends with sociopaths lol.
In free to play games it’s much harder to stop cheating. But in paid games it’s easier since the cost of re-entry after a ban being $70 vs $0 is effective. Server side movement/damage can also help mitigate it. But here’s where I’m shocked.
Why has nobody created “AI Admins” that monitor behavior in each match and flag suspicious out of bounds behavior to a real admin for live review/intervention?
All that aside, and not saying this is the case here, but it’s not uncommon for an open beta to have reduced anti-cheat mechanisms, allowing devs to view different attack vectors and how to tune for it without giving too much away before launch. In theory anti-cheat could even be active and flagging but not banning players since it’s a f2p open beta. Better to do the banning when it’s real $70 keys being Invalidated.
Because they would require competent coders. Also they would outsource the real admin reviews to indians.
Problem with that is region pricing, a lot of cheaters and cheat coders happen to come from poor countries where the game is cheaper anyway.
EA also put their games on sale for very low prices a LOT, every CoD title basically never drops below 50% of its original price but the Battlefield games have been on sale for like $5 each several times in the last 2 years.
VACNET is Valve's version of an AI Admin but it's still in the development phase.
More like 13 years. Since Win8 secure boot & UEFI has been a thing. Not trying to nitpick.
Oh my gosh, how could the magical Secure Boot have failed us? Inconceivable!
EA: hehe don't worry guys you don't need dedicated servers, because we will host the multiplayer and ban all the cheaters for you.
Cheaters: LOL the idiots made a game without admins again. They never learn.
Battlefield ensured an endless cycle of cheating would always be present when they stopped enabling player run servers. Players would religiously police their own servers on games like BF4 for the good of the whole community. Banning or kicking hackers in real time with live moderators to ensure that their servers retained a server population.
The moment EA prevented this, they destroyed communities, a USP they had, and put a massive target on their head in a battle that they can never win. The stupidity and arrogance of that move was absolutely staggering.