This is part of a broader effort to make the game better known, and to attract the attention of new players.
In my experience, those “hidden strategies” are mostly exploits of some game mechanic, so it’s better to bring these things out in the open.
In competitions, strategy and skill should be approximately equally important. A strategy on its own should not be sufficient to make an average player magically rise to the top (if that is the case, then it’s almost certainly an exploit, and it will be fixed).
Any kinf of tunelling/VPN will increase your ping, since you are increasing the number of hops.
Those already existed.
There are no special rules on the BETA server – you can get banned exactly the same way as on the live server.
Having said this, I will remove your ban.
The HUD reads the current wave.
Allowed.
Paratroopers are implemented as two separate enemies. The Absolver can’t kill anything that spawns/ejects a new enemy upon death (e.g. eggshells, saucers)