Tribes 2 had in-game scripting. You could open a console and enter commands or run script files. I was young and just beginning to learn programming. I noticed

Tribes 2 had in-game scripting. You could open a console and enter commands or run script files. I was young and just beginning to learn programming. I noticed that if you malformed a certain command, a mere syntax error, it would crash the game clients of everyone else you were in a chat room with (the game had in-game chatrooms). I was apparently one of the few who knew this because the game didn't immediately become a crash fest as it would have if word had spread. There was a game mode where players would begin the game frozen with the clock stopped. This allowed serious games to be organized where all players were ready before the match began. I found a command that allowed me to unfreeze my character, and I could move about while everyone else was frozen. There was a debug command that would dump the location of all players and deployable items. I wrote a script to dump this data, parse it, and update my hud with the data, several times per second. This was cheating, but it did serve as one of of my first experiences with programming. It was a hack I made myself and did not share, although I know others were aware of this cheating technique. This was later in patched out of the game.