Season 3 Anticheat Update Adds VAC Bans and Strict TPM Enforcement
The anticheat team has deployed new detection models for Season 3 , timed to Ranked Mode's arrival in REDSEC. New machine-learning models flag disruptive conduct such as stream-sniping, team sabotage, and collusion, while expanded botting detections target accounts hiding behind cloud-gaming services.
Battlefield Comms says the team spent the back half of Season 2 building and staging these systems — including infiltrating private cheat communities — then switched them on as Season 3 and Ranked Mode went live.
Behavioural ML models : new models identify stream-sniping, team sabotage, spawn-blocking, win-trading, and collusion.
Botting detections : target cloud-gaming services used to mask adverse input devices, plus accounts spamming cheat advertisements.
Faster enforcement : ban-wave queues now pair with secondary thresholds, so flagged accounts can be actioned immediately instead of waiting for a wave.
Strict TPM enforcement : 98.76% of players already comply; the remaining 1.24% are largely emulators or spoofed hardware.
HVCI and VBS : present since launch but not yet enforced, and may apply only to suspicious players or Ranked.
VAC bans : now applied additionally to confirmed cheaters for visibility.
A new BF_SledgeHammer account will engage on the official EA Forums and Steam Discussions, initially to address posts claiming false positives or sharing manipulated enforcement emails. The anticheat teams are also expanding across operations, engineering, and threat-intel.
"We have lots of hammers still in the forge, hot and looking forward to sharing more details just as soon as they are tempered and ready to strike." — Battlefield anticheat team