Call of Duty Activates TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot

[Pete Dero]

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2025/08/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-ricochet-anti-cheat-season-05

With Season 05, Call of Duty will begin a phased rollout of two PC-based security features: TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot.

TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) is an industry-standard, hardware-based security feature built onto CPUs or motherboards that verifies the PC's boot process has not been tampered with. Secure Boot makes sure a PC can only load trusted software when Windows starts.

Together, these features help #TeamRICOCHET ensure that players are starting the game from a secure, cheat-free foundation.

RICOCHET Anti-Cheat will focus on activating both features in the background with the upcoming season launch. We won't be enforcing against or requiring the use of either setting during Season 05, but these features will be foundational for even stronger protections in the future.

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 releases later this year, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot will be required to play on PC. These hardware-level protections are a key part of our anti-cheat efforts, and we're asking all players to get compliant now.


Worth a Buy talks about the requirement of enabling secure boot for Battlefield 6 :

[Redwolf]

Crazy.

Won't do it for me.

[Destraex]

I think it's a good move. I am sick of cheaters and this will set the game apart from the gazillion other shooters on the market. Not that I will buy it. I am over the light action shooter genre.

[Pete Dero]

Battlefield 6 PC Specs also requires TPM 2 and Secure Boot.

[Skoop]

So battlefield 6 out and normally I'd ignore it after the last couple iterations being dogshit.  But the beta got overwhelmingly good reviews as they went back to much of the old formula. 

The main thing that seems intriguing to me is the new portal feature. 

It seems that EA have took notice of games like squad or arma and added a full sdk editor.  Now you can make your own levels game modes.....what ever.  You can even edit all the settings and host your own game that has arma level realism.  You can even play all the levels with bots.  It does come with an SP campaign but it's usually mid with these games really. 

The portal part is the thing that has me taking a serious look at it.