# My BZFlag Cheats · 2005-04-01

We started playing a great little multi player game called BZFlag in the office some time ago. It became quickly apparently that I sucked terribly at the game, despite my extensive efforts to shift blame to the fact that I was the only user playing on win32 and had older hardware. While I can't play BZFlag, I can code- and BZFlag is open source. Within a short time I was able to level the playing field. In the spirit of April fools, here are the list of changes I made:

• Stealth tanks appear on radar.
• Disabled color-blindess.

• Color bad flags black.
• Color laser flags red.
• Color guided missiles green.
• Color narrow/burrow flags blue.
• Color shockwave flags yellow.

• Disabled ability for other tanks to cloak on screen.

• Reduced laser reload time.

• Added 25% chance of a good shot missing me.
• Disabled burrow speed handicap.
  • This was detectable so I disabled it.
• Disabled my own shots from killing myself.

• Made my shot velocity slightly faster when packing the shot packet.
  • This appears to have broken my ability to kill others, so I disabled it.