Battlefield 6 closes its first beta with 520,000 simultaneous players in Steam and avoiding 330,000 traps

During the last weekend Battlefield 6 celebrated the one that according to Electronic Arts was the biggest beta open in the history of shooter In the first person. The company has not offered official figures on the number of players, perhaps this information is reserved for when the second open beta has completed that will take place from August 14 to 17, but Steam is more transparent. The figure that Electronic Arts has given is 330,000, which are the attempts to cheat that have been avoided.

We start with the popularity of the Battlefield 6 open beta in Steam. In the course of early access that took place from August 7 to 9, the Beta registered more than 330,000 concurrent users, and when the figure was opened to the whole world, it exceeded 521,000 players. Although Electronic Arts warned of queues during peak hours, the truth is that the servers endured the players' tsunami very well. To this peak user we should add that of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, but these platforms do not reveal their figures as Steam does, either officially or by Steam.DB.

Propina, Battlefield 6 beta managed to overcome Call of Duty. More than two years ago the hub of the shooter Activision reached 491,000 simultaneous users, 29,000 less than those recorded by the open beta of the Electronic Arts game. We will see what happens when there is a direct confrontation between Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6. For now Mike Ybarra, former president of Blizzard Entertainment, predicts that this year Battlefield will surpass Call of Duty, but adds that the positive part is that Activision will put the batteries.

Regarding the cheats, in the official forums of Battlefield 6 one of the team members ensures that Javelin, the antitrampas system of the game, has blocked 330,000 attempts to cheat or manipulate the controls used to avoid them. In addition, he adds that during the first two days of early access, players reported more than 100,000 cases of possible traps. The development team not only used the open beta to test the game, but also underwent Javelin exam and the rest of available tools.

One of the systems used by Battlefield 6 to avoid PC traps is Secure Boot. As Electronic Arts recognizes, this requirement is not even intended to be the panacea, but it is a way to contribute to «strengthen our arsenal» against the traps. For the development team it is another barrier that helps to hinder the work of programs developers to cheat and also facilitate their detection. Secure Boot is also useful for preventing the game from working on a team with drivers Vulnerable. This tool adds to TPM 2.0. Call of Duty will also require its players to activate both systems.