ET competition has a reduced amount of mines, a limited number of heavy weapons, some of which are banned altogether (MG and mortar) amongst other things, why? Because without them changes matches werenāt as fun as they could be, no one wants to play matches that result in endless double full holds that were present in the game early on, measures were taken to try and reduce this, some individual choices may have been questionable but on the whole the changes are there for a reason.
Skip to ET:QW, as stated before it was designed for 12v12, this presented a whole load of problems when trying to play the game with half the amount of players and maintain some sense of balance. As before matches werenāt as fun as they could be and something had to be done. Early on in the gameās life the top clans got together and came up with ways to try and improve the game, these ideas were tested in matches and over time became part of the rule sets that were used for competition purposes, leagues, cups and LANs.
There was a tonne of whine about ET:QW from the ET comp crowd, they wanted ET2 but believe it or not, this had little to none influence on the changes made to ET:QW, the clans mentioned before were from a selection of games and each had useful insight, while there was quite a bit of bickering at times eventually something all could agree on was finalised over time.
As for āso many things removed, banned and disabledā lets make a list:
Radar/third eye radar
Flying vehicles
Heavy Vehicles on last stage.
Unsuitable maps
I may have missed something there but the list of things āremoved, banned and disabledā outright are quite small. Either way, ET:QW competition was better for the changes, whilst it perhaps lost some the feeling of the core game it still maintained the overall mechanics of the game and wasnāt butchered as much as some folk seem to think to simply resemble ET.
I would have mention Wolfenstein also but itās competition community lasted only for 48 hours or soā¦
(Really need that āsomeone has made a post while you was typingā thing!)