BattlEye

BattlEye is proprietary kernel–level anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game. It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam in 2004 and has since been officially implemented in numerous video games, primarily shooter games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds, Arma 3, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and DayZ.^[3][4]

BattlEye
Original author(s)	Bastian Suter
Developer(s)	BattlEye Innovations e.K.
Initial release	2004
Operating system	Windows, macOS, Linux[1][2]
Type	Anti-cheat software
License	Proprietary
Website	Official website

BattlEye is developed by German company BattlEye Innovations e. K., headquartered in Reutlingen.

BattlEye supports Valve Corporation's Proton compatibility layer and is usable on the Steam Deck.^[5][6]

Technology

BattlEye continuously updates in background processes and has its own infrastructure which is connected to the game servers. It interacts with the game at the kernel level. BattlEye is said to support a "global" ban system for cheaters using unique fingerprints that stop players switching accounts to defeat bans.^[7]

Games using BattlEye

• Battlefield Vietnam (2004)^[8]
• Battlefield 1942 (2005)
• Battlefield 2 (2005)
• Warsow (2006)
• ArmA: Armed Assault (2007)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2008)
• Arma 2 (2009)^[9]
• PlanetSide 2 (2012)^[5]
• Arma 3 (2013)^[5]
• Rainbow Six Siege (2015)^[10]
• Heroes & Generals (2016)
• Escape from Tarkov (2017)^[11]
• Ark: Survival Evolved (2017)^[5]
• Unturned (2017)^[5]
• Destiny 2 (2017)^[4]
• PUBG: Battlegrounds (2017)^[12][13]
• Ghost Recon: Wildlands (2017)
• Atlas (2018)^[5]
• Z1 Battle Royale (2018)
• DayZ (2018)^[5][14]
• SCUM (2018)
• PlanetSide Arena (2019)
• Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (2019)
• Path of Titans (2020)
• Watch Dogs: Legion (2020)
• Arma Reforger (2022)
• The Crew 2 (2018)
• The Cycle: Frontier (2022)^[15]
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (2022)^[5]
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction (2022)
• Tibia (2017)
• War Rock (2023)
• Ark: Survival Ascended (2023)
• Skull and Bones (2024)
• XDefiant (2024)
• Enlisted (2024)
• Grand Theft Auto Online (2024)^[16]
• War Thunder (2024)^[17]
• Dune: Awakening (2025)

See also

• nProtect GameGuard
• PunkBuster
• Valve Anti-Cheat