How I got the Wolf:ET Panzer (a rocket launcher) nerfed (as compared to the Return to Castle Wolfenstein version) Back when Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory (RTCW sequel) was being worked on there was a powerful server browser for games. It was called "All  Seeing Eye". All Seeing Eye (ASE) would scan all quake servers for the basic things. ping/score what mods if any were playing. So those of us who were playing the original Return To Castle Wolfenstein noticed we could see the Splash Damage developers playing the new Wolf:ET game. WOLF:ET used the same modified Quake 3 engine as the original RTCW. So if you set it up properly, you could watch in realtime the developers playing the game and see their scores, etc Obviously the game hadn't been released yet, so nobody could actually join the server.

ASE also had a new function introduced in 2001, called a "friends list" while they are common today it wasn't a very common thing then so generally when you joined a game you felt pretty anonymous. The quake naming system was unique, ^1D^3imension was different than ^0Dimension so while it wasn't account specific, you could tell the same people by how they formatted their name. With the paid version of All Seeing Eye you could save these unique names to a rudimentary friends list. And since it followed the format of their name, it didn't give any information to the persons you were stalking .ahem. FRIENDS with.

So of course I added all the Splash Damage employees ingame name to my friends list. ASE would scan all the servers and whenever a friend would join a server it would let you know.

So time went on and the first ET test was announced.  Fuel Dump was the map where you pushed a tank along a path and then Blew up the fuel dump. The 2nd half of the map  after the gate was blown up the allies would spawn in the basement of the previous Axis spawn. This became my personal playground. I was an accomplished RTCW player so I was a lot better than people new to the game. The trap was set. I was going to teach these developers, what they get for making such an unbalanced abomination map mp_tram in my beloved RTCW game.

I followed them, using All Seeing Eye to the public server the developers played on. I built up my experience and level with the panzer weapon. A notoriously difficult, but rewarding weapon from RTCW. You could kill 6 men at once if they were close enough together.  I followed them to the server in which they thought they were anonymously playing on. They had no idea I knew who they were. I then preceeded to spawncamp the hell out of them with the Panzer weapon. I would sit above their spawn and panzer their entire team wave after wave.  Obviously people would quit and my team would join in and spawn camp the crap out of them. So I thought this was hilarious so I followed them around. They had no idea I was stalking them. I just proceeded to make their public gaming experience as poor as possible.

Thus between Wolf:ET test 1 and Wolf:ET  release he panzer weapon was significantly nerfed from its more punishing Return to Castle Wolfenstein version. I swear this story is true, and if you found the  patch notes you would find the panzer weapon nerf. And I probably had most to do with that.

but then again Splash Damager made mp_marketgarden so I'll call it even.