Games Giant Electronic Arts launched an open beta over the weekend for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 6.
Soon after the game’s launch, countless players complained online about encountering a con man. In response, members of the anti-cheat team of electronic arts, AC attended, wrote on the official forum that they reported 104,000 “potential con man instances” in the first two days the game was online, and that 330,000 people “stop attempts to trick or tamper with anti-cheat control.”
Like many video games such as Valorant, Electronic Arts uses a kernel-level anti-cheat system called Javelin. This means that the system has the highest possible privileges on a computer. This allows you to monitor everything that happens on your machine with the aim of catching cheats that run in the background and often faked by other programs.
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In their post, AC admitted that the system is not a guarantee that there are no fraudsters. AC also mentioned the fact that the game implements Secure Boot, a Windows hardware-based security feature.
“I want to make it clear that with safe boots, safe boots are not intended to be silver bullets,” AC wrote. “Safe boots are a way that helps us build our arsenal. Another barrier that helps cheat developers make it difficult for cheat developers to create cheat programs and makes it easier to detect when they do so.”
“Anti-cheats are not just one, they’re an ever-evolving battlefield, and what worked for us in previous or in different games doesn’t always work in all of them,” AC added.
An electronic arts spokesperson told TechCrunch that it had no updates on the number of banned players.
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Scammers or game hackers are a problem for all online video games. More recently, companies like Riot Games, Makers of Valorant, and Activision have launched kernel-level anti-cheat systems, including the makers of the Call of Duty series.
Phillip Koskinas, director and head of anti-cheech at Riot Games, told TechCrunch earlier this year. His anti-cheat system has several ways to chase scammers as well as cheat makers and sellers. These include banning fraudsters, restricting where cheats can be performed using Windows’ proprietary security features, and restricting fingerprints on scammers’ hardware, so you cannot cheat and create new accounts.
