The Battlefield 6 beta’s hacking problem shows the difficulty in playing cat and mouse with cheaters
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Summary
Battlefield 6 open beta has drawn a peak of 500,000 players on PC, but the game has also been plagued by cheaters, despite the requirement of the enabling of Secure Boot, a Windows BIOS-level security feature.
Cheat makers are persistent and will see anti-cheat challenges as a deterrent or a challenge, and the simplest solution is often the best, in the eyes of the gamers.
Javelin, the AC system for Battlefield 6, stopped 330,000 cheating attempts in the Beta; however, it was beaten in a few hours by a variety of different cheats.
The biggest problem is managing the expectations of gamers; what is an acceptable level of hackers to breach a system and how much can developers ask of players before they become dissatisfied?
So far, there have been no allegations of publishers using kernel-access anti-cheat for anything untoward but it is still a major inconvenience for gamers.
Developer Respawn proudly announced that it was dropping support for Linux to improve its AC but it achieved only mixed success.
