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

Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to ‘just trust me bro’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Third Person Shooter The latest Arc Raiders patch makes Rocketeers way more important Hardware Valve owns up to inaccurate Steam hardware survey findings, saying ‘VRAM on some graphics cards was not reported correctly’ Third Person Shooter Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because ‘they’re not intended for the full server to go up against’ and ‘we gave players too effective abilities’ Third Person Shooter Congrats, you played yourself, Arc Raiders’ machines aren’t actually learning: ‘That’s just the way we author them’ FPS DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are ‘death traps’ and is planning a Labs test dedicated to ‘vehicle improvements’ Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders promises severe repercussions for cheating after Marathon twisted the knife on its recent woes: ‘Serious infractions now carry stricter consequences’ FPS Marathon briefly censors ‘Arc Raiders’ in chat, just like Activision and EA did, and it was probably another accident because it was quickly and quietly fixed FPS The best FPS games on PC FPS Overwatch’s second weekend of Conquest ‘had a higher daily player count’ than its opening weekend as Blizzard’s FPS gains momentum Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders’ wall-breaking exploits took so long to fix because they were ‘intrinsic to the way the game is built’: ‘Those things are very risky to patch rapidly’ FPS The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now FPS ‘Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances’: Bungie’s doubling down on security following Arc Raiders’ recent struggles Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders’ matchmaking isn’t ‘binary’, says design lead: ‘There’s no such thing as a friendly lobby or an aggressive lobby’ FPS DICE has ‘heard the message very clear’ and is now prioritizing larger maps for Battlefield 6, but ‘it takes a really long time’ Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders’ contentious ‘aggression-based matchmaking’ isn’t just smart, but absolutely necessary PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Games FPS Battlefield 6 Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to ‘just trust me bro’ News By Elie Gould published 2 March 2026 EA Javelin anticheat is reporting a 94% success rate. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter 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.” (Image credit: EA / Battlefield Studios)The gist of it is that MIR includes even suspected cheaters, “we then calculate all the confirmed and suspected infections versus the total number of matches to determine the MIR”. This also explains why the MIR went up over the course of January, from 2.28% to 3.09%. As the system gets better at detecting cheaters, especially ‘stealth’ cheats which purposefully avoid being “high impact” the MIR goes up. There was also “a new ban acceleration method” which was tested on the 18th and then deployed on 26th which would impact MIR. Related articles Battlefield 6’s Javelin anti-cheat stopped over 580,000 cheating attempts over the course of just one month Rust devs surveil cheaters like they’re ‘playing an RTS game’: ‘Every gun shot, every message, every dropped item, every kind of