As early as 2023, EA decided to enable third-party EAC (Little Blue Bear) in the in-game anti-cheating system, and instead use EA Anticheating technology developed internally by EA.Then "Battlefield 2042", "Battlefield 1", and "Battlefield 5" will gradually adapt to the system, and the upcoming "Battlefield 6" will continue to use EA Anticheat.
However, EA Anticheat requires players to perform "safe start" before entering the game. As the B-test of "Battlefield 6", EA officially introduced its own anti-cheating system and how to enable "safe start".
Safe startup information
When playing "Battlefield 6", safe start is a hard requirement. Players must enable it. Any attempt to access "Battlefield 6" without safe start is enabled will prompt pop up to inform you of the need to enable safe start.Secure Boot is available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices.
EA Anticheat features:
Kernel-level cheating system and rootkits
Memory manipulation and injection
Disguise and hardware ID tampering
Virtual Machines and Simulation
Tampering with anti-cheating system
In addition to using secure boot to help EA's anti-cheat system, EA Javelin anti-cheat system is also customizable and provides unique and modified solutions for Battlefield and other EA shooters.Javelin is built from scratch by a team of experienced engineers and analysts who are specifically hired to solve cheating problems in every EA's game and design unique features to deal with them.The team works closely with our Battlefield Active Games team to refine data, insights and tools to ensure that all players have a fair gaming experience in the Battlefield Studios game.
Screenshot of popular comments on Bilibili: A user's science is popularized and the necessity of safe start-up
"Unless you are a developer who needs to turn off secure boot to debug the driver, most of them will turn off this for cheating. It has no effect on ordinary people turning on this, so there is no need to worry. Although this cannot completely eliminate plug-ins, it can increase the cost because you cannot directly obtain a legal digital signature.
Anyway, cheating is not an easy task, and there is no need to watch game manufacturers everywhere every day without anti-checking and inaction.The reason for posting this is that the battlefield official sent a tutorial to enable secure startup, but many people in the comment area scolded them. What they really should be scolded is those who hide in the dark and make plug-ins, rather than those who work hard to counter plug-ins.”
EA officially released guide on how to enable "Safe Boot" on Windows 10/11:
