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You could color code chat messages and your name in Call of Duty 2 in the following way:

^1Red

Everything after the "^1" were red.

The game removed these color codes when it showed your name, but you could do ^^11Red to bypass that (it only removed color codes for one pass)



Coloring names with escape codes sounds like a John Carmack feature


CoD 2 used a modified Quake engine :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IW_(game_engine)


Makes sense since Call of Duty traces it's engine lineage to Quake 3.


Yup, Quake had something similar that allowed players to have fancy looking names in multiplayer games.


Indeed, this was one of those undocumented but everyone sort of knew features in Quake-engine based games.

Everyone just learned it through asking usually in the multiplayer chat.




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