Battlefield 6 Anti-Cheat Report: September MIR Holds Near 3.4%
EA put out its monthly anti-cheat rundown for Battlefield 6 on October 30, covering what happened in September while Season 4 was still running. The short version: things stayed roughly where they were in August, and the team used the month to roll out new ways of spotting cheat developers who keep shifting their approach to dodge detection.
According to EA, those new detection methods are meant to keep match quality from sliding backward while bigger anti-cheat changes get built for future updates. September itself didn’t bring a dramatic shift one way or the other, which the studio frames as a sign that the current measures are doing their job for now.
What the numbers actually show
Match Infection Rate (MIR) tracks the share of matches where at least one cheater was present, counting every report players sent in even when EA couldn’t gather enough proof to take action.
August closed out at 3.24%, then MIR climbed to 3.51% right as September began. From there it stayed fairly flat: it peaked at 3.64% on September 2nd, dropped to its best point of the month at 3.27% on the 10th, and settled at 3.41% by the time this report was written. EA points back to its January update for a fuller explanation of why MIR moves around the way it does.
On the enforcement side, EA Javelin Anti-Cheat stopped roughly 440,000 attempts in September to break the game’s rules or mess with its systems before any of them could actually affect a live match. EA also says it’s currently keeping tabs on 111 active cheat programs, along with the hardware tools, sellers, resellers, and communities tied to them, which is one more than last time. Of those 111, 107 are now dealing with broken features, detection flags, service outages, or have shut down completely, putting roughly 96.4% of tracked operations in some kind of trouble.
What this means if you’re playing right now
None of this changes anything you need to do before logging in. There’s no patch tied to this report, no file to update, nothing to reinstall. It’s purely a status check on how the anti-cheat side of the game is performing.
Since Battlefield 6 runs on a tight anti-cheat system rather than an open setup built around community mods, there isn’t a modding angle to flag here. The practical takeaway is just that reporting suspected cheaters still factors into these numbers, so keeping that habit up continues to matter even when the headline figures stay steady.
Looking at the bigger picture
EA frames September as a stabilizing month rather than a turning point, with the real changes still ahead in upcoming updates. For now, expect MIR to keep bouncing in a similar range until those larger anti-cheat improvements actually land.
Based on the developer's announcement on Steam, 30 October 2026.
