Battlefield 6 Dev Apologizes for Requiring Secure Boot to Power Anti-Cheat Tools

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b_e_n_t_o_n · 10h ago

I really feel for the anticheat devs because it feels like it's an almost unwinnable battle they're fighting. The only thing I've seen truely prevent cheating is social factors, like tight knit communities and competitive frameworks that have admins manually viewing demos to catch subtle cheaters - and even then, there is controversy. I still remember the Flusha drama from CSGO way back in 2014 [0]. It's still unknown if he cheated at the highest level of counterstrike. Professional players were even caught cheating at LAN events.

I understand the privacy and security concerns of kernel level anticheats, but if I already trust Microsoft with my privacy (I don't, but that's another story) I don't see the game dev companies as being worse in that regard. But they're fighting a losing battle on PC and if they don't pull out all the stops, it could ruin gaming.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flusha#Cheating_Allegations

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Battlefield 6 Dev Apologizes for Requiring Secure Boot to Power Anti-Cheat Tools

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