Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat works

Battlefield Studios continues to update players on its EA Javelin anticheat, and the latest report says more than 580,000 attempts to cheat were stopped. Some players have questioned how the team can estimate what share of cheaters were foiled when the most evasive perpetrators remain hard to find.

Match infection rate (MIR) counts both confirmed cheaters—who are banned—and suspected ones identified from a growing set of detections and signals. The studio calculates MIR by dividing confirmed and suspected infections by the total number of matches, which helps explain why the rate rose from 2.28% to 3.09% in January as detection of 'stealth' cheats improved; a new ban acceleration method tested on the 18th and deployed on the 26th also affected the figure.

Developers say MIR is meant as a retrospective tool that needs time to stabilise, so they look at the previous month when reporting. Javelin also prevented a further 384,918 attempts to tamper with the game before those could impact matches.

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