Overview

• Battlefield Studios confirms Secure Boot will remain mandatory on Windows PCs at launch.
• Technical director Christian Buhl expresses regret over the friction and apologizes to players whose systems couldn’t run the beta.
• Secure Boot is paired with EA’s Javelin kernel-level anti-cheat to verify the boot chain and make cheat development and detection evasion harder.
• Developers report the beta’s anti-cheat performance was strong while acknowledging it is not a silver bullet against cheaters.
• The team plans walkthroughs and FAQs to help players enable the setting as rivals like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 adopt similar requirements.