The new Battlefield 6 is rumoured to stand against some big competition. The chief of the Battlefield franchise, Vince Zampella, has let the bombshell drop: built-in anti-cheat for the new shooter. Zampella would rather go to war with half-baked solutions, meaning they will actively be seeking cheaters. So, we hope no more invisible snipers or aimbot gods ruining your matches.
This has exploded the gaming community. Some players are very excited, and some are less-than-enthusiastic, the other group is coming up with their jokes on how this will stack up against Call of Duty’s infamous Ricochet anti-cheat. One thing is certain; when it comes to cheating and fair play, Battlefield 6 goes full throttle.
But let’s get serious: a promise means just so much talk. The gamer community has heard this cliché before and that one. Every big-time multiplayers game keeps the geste of finger-last cheater promise only to allow hackers to pop up even weeks after launch. So what is going to be different this time around? Zampella claims that the anti-cheat will be kernel-level and that it will break into your system to catch cheats in the act-the same measures being employed by big dogs like R6 Siege, who, for better or for worse, have kept rather tight leashes on this whole cheating problem.
Still, the discontent persists with the same lot grumbling about the anti-cheat slowing performance down (5 to 10 percent, to be exact, as they allege). Still, most will take that over the rage-induced kill streak of some teleporting jerk.
Call of Duty comparison sort of ends the discussion there, with the Battlefield fans quick to declare that their game would never go for cartoonish skins, not to mention that Minaj lady frolicking around (ahem, Warzone). But now the real bragging rights: Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot, while CoD’s Ricochet does not; so the insiders are pretty much saying that this hook-up spells victory for Battlefield.
However, many hold a contrary view. One cynic tweets, “Battlefield this, Battlefield that-game will be dead by December,” which is truly some cold hard reality to take. Others are just happy that someone is finally taking the matter of cheating seriously. “It’s sad we even have to ask if a game has anti-cheat,” one player said with some laughter.
Was this the wild card-the return of community servers? Some members of the community hope Battlefield 6 will bring back player-hosted matches in which a player admin can boot the cheats manually. In other words, let’s put it simply: no anti-cheat is perfect.
Which leads us to the verdict: Okay, good things are awaiting Battlefield 6, so people should be cautiously optimistic. If Zampella delivers, it might be the game that has finally gotten around to putting a stop to cheating. But if he doesn’t release the game in the spirit it was intended, uproarious memes and videos are awaiting.
The hype train is rolling. Now, the only thing left for us to do is to see if Battlefield 6 is capable of walking the walk.
