Hey, so here we are, right? Battlefield 6—finally out there in the open. EA went all out with a big reveal, streaming all kinds of gameplay from heaps of content creators. It was like a digital carnival or something.
Anyway, here’s the scoop: most of it’s out in the wild now. There are some spicy tidbits about the PC version though, and not everyone’s thrilled about it. Can you hear the grumbling already?
So, Battlefield Studios tossed us a curveball (is it really one?) by saying Battlefield 6 will roll out with Javelin Anticheat on PC. I know, I know—what even is Javelin, right? It’s EA’s own thing, like a watchdog snooping around behind the scenes to catch those pesky cheats. They slapped a name on it back in April, but it’s been lurking around since 2022, more or less.
This tech’s already lurking in some other games like EA FC, Madden, y’know, that whole crew. It first popped up in Battlefield 2042’s Season 6. Feels kinda inevitable they’d keep using it, doesn’t it?
Oh, and heads up! Javelin’s gonna be in the beta too, so it’s like a test drive, but for tech. Plus, you’ve gotta switch on Secure Boot if you’re on Windows. Secure Boot relies on TPM 2.0, and most modern PCs are cool with that. So maybe no biggie—or maybe it’s the biggest.
Kernel-level anticheat stuff isn’t exactly the new kid on the block. Tons of games do this now—Call of Duty’s got Ricochet, and a bunch of others are using things like BattlEye, Easy Anti-Cheat, all those funky names.
Bit controversial though, right? Letting something poke around that deep in your operating system feels kinda… personal. Linux users especially have a bone to pick with this stuff. But hey, it’s like the lesser of evils if we want to squash cheaters in the big online playground.
Anyway, Battlefield 6 hits PCs, PS5s, and Xbox Series X/S on October 10. Feels like the wait took forever and no time at all, doesn’t it?
