I need help with cheats

[frustrated]

Hi,

I've joined the forum for help with this. I love the game but that timer is after frustrating the hell out of me and I've wasted 4 hours today on mission 11, only to have the timer run out when I was close to completion, lol. Anyway, I started looking for cheats to bypass the timer and have been frustrated once again. I started running version 3.1.1, oblivious to what version I was even running. My first search gave me cheats which I had to type after pressing 't'. 't' does nothing. I read that I need patch 1.01b which does not seem to exist. Next search threw up "shift + backspace" to activate cheat mode, enter the cheat, hit return. Doesn't work.

I downloaded v3.1.0 portable and v2.3.9. Shift+backspace activated cheat mode in 2.3.9, great, happy days. I type something out and hit return and I get a message back on whether a cheat has been activated or not. But when trying to type out a cheat, such as 'get off my land', the keys are doing things like bringing up a list of hotkey commands or selecting a unit and activating a 3rd person cam specific to that unit and even activating a 3rd person cam that jumps from one hostile unit to the next, and so the cheats are not working. I believe I got biffer baker to work at one point.

I have UTFSE and gotten old threads where members have provided several useful links that describe how to get cheats working and which were all dead. Sorry if this has been dealt with before, but I can't find a decent, clear, version specific explanation of what I need to do.

So;

Is it possible to activate cheats in version 3.1.1? That would be ideal for me. If not, can I temporarily disable those hotkeys so I can cheat in 2.3.9? I am about to give 3.1.0 portable a go and see if I can get that working, although I'm having a little difficulty getting it to run in full screen mode.

Thanks for any help you can give, guys

[NoQ]

that timer is after frustrating the hell out of me

Most missions can be beaten in under 1/3 of the given time, see my old walkthrough [1].
Otherwise, see wiki [2].

[montetank]

Try this mod-sorry i`m joking NoQ is right. Never give up.
http://addons.wz2100.net/238

[oldParadigm]

Hello frustrated,

I recently had to use cheats because of the bug in the last mission -- this was sad, but the game is great so I dont care. I think you have to:

press ENTER
type: cheat on
press ENTER

press ENTER
type <cheat code>
press ENTER

I think it would be relevant for the veteran members to confirm since you might need this for the last mission anyways. Also, in the future, you may use the web archive to get to dead links: https://archive.org/web/web.php

Have fun!

[technician]

You can just go into debug mode (shift_backspace) and then open the debug menu (ctrl_o) and you can cheat (you can pause the game too).

[montetank]

I recently had to use cheats because of the bug in the last mission !

??? Bug in the last mission???
explain please

I must repeat: It is possible to solve the campaign without cheating and without a walkthrough. Be patient.

[NoQ]

??? Bug in the last mission???

There's a known bug that game doesn't end if you blow up some enemy structures in different order, or something like that. Nobody figured out why yet.

[themac]

Activate the cheat mode via SHIFT + BACKSPACE. After that hit ENTER to get into the text line. Type in TIME TOGGLE and press RETURN to stop the timer.