Tuesday, August 5th 2025
No Secure Boot? No Battlefield 6 — EA Faces Backlash
As part of our ongoing commitment to Positive Play in Battlefield, Secure Boot is a requirement to play Battlefield 6 on PC. This supports the need for enhanced security while playing and utilizing new anti-cheat features in Battlefield. As cheat developers continue to evolve their tactics, we're stepping up our game too.
Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM to combat other forms of cheating, the most relevant of which include:
Any attempt to access Battlefield 6 without Secure Boot enabled will result in a prompt indicating its necessity.
Secure Boot is available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. For more information on enabling this feature, refer to this EA Help article.
In addition to utilizing Secure Boot to help us, our Anticheat system, EA Javelin Anticheat, is customizable and offers a unique and modified approach for Battlefield and other EA FPS games. Javelin has been built from the ground up by a team of veteran engineers and analysts who were specifically hired to focus on cheating problems for each game under EA's umbrella and design unique features to address those issues. They work alongside our Battlefield Positive Play team to refine the data, insight, and tools necessary to ensure equitable play for all our players across our Battlefield Studios titles.
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Electronic Arts
Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM to combat other forms of cheating, the most relevant of which include:
- Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
- Memory Manipulation and Injection
- Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
- Virtual Machines and Emulation
- Tampering with Anti-Cheat Systems
Secure Boot is available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. For more information on enabling this feature, refer to this EA Help article.
In addition to utilizing Secure Boot to help us, our Anticheat system, EA Javelin Anticheat, is customizable and offers a unique and modified approach for Battlefield and other EA FPS games. Javelin has been built from the ground up by a team of veteran engineers and analysts who were specifically hired to focus on cheating problems for each game under EA's umbrella and design unique features to address those issues. They work alongside our Battlefield Positive Play team to refine the data, insight, and tools necessary to ensure equitable play for all our players across our Battlefield Studios titles.
103 Comments on No Secure Boot? No Battlefield 6 — EA Faces Backlash
(Take a damn hint EA)
Also, eff SecureBoot.
EA needs to do detection on the server side and have a admin team checking their servers for abnormal play, as well as allow dedicated server renting. But a server sided anticheat would cost money, and server renting would keep the game alive longer than the corpo execs want.
Also we already had a 2 page thread discussing the anti-cheat used as EA isn't supporting the Steam Deck & Linux because of the anticheat and secure boot.
By itself it is not an issue.
Disabling secure boot and TPM are very popular things being done when installing W11 with a USB format tool like Rufus.
This would also largely stop people gaining a "hardware advantage" which shouldn't be in the spirit of the game anyway.
Also any cheating protection is not going to be 100% effective, how is that still surprising? From the very little I read, the kernel anti cheat protection seems to at least have a higher chance to be effective vs what we had before, no?
I don't see the point in handing over $80 for EA to put spyware on my PC when there will probably be cheaters in less than a week after launch.
I think so too. Just not others? Just like TPM 2.0, which is now explicitly required!?
Security Requirements on BF6 on PCs!
Greetings, Fred.