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Figaro123
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Noob question...

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Loving the game, it's great, I played the original back in the day and always thought it was a very underappreciated game. Now I've switched my computer to Linux I was dead pleased to find I could play this on it! However, I have a dumb n00b question, namely, how do I activate the cheats? I've read the FAQ on the subject but it's not very clear, apparently I need to find a config file but I can't seem to find it anywhere (I'm using Ubuntu 8.04). There's a whole lot about Command Line flags but I've no idea what they are or how to make them work. Anyone able to help?
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Re: Noob question...

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Figaro123 wrote:Loving the game, it's great, I played the original back in the day and always thought it was a very underappreciated game. Now I've switched my computer to Linux I was dead pleased to find I could play this on it! However, I have a dumb n00b question, namely, how do I activate the cheats? I've read the FAQ on the subject but it's not very clear, apparently I need to find a config file but I can't seem to find it anywhere (I'm using Ubuntu 8.04). There's a whole lot about Command Line flags but I've no idea what they are or how to make them work. Anyone able to help?
Which version of warzone are you using ? I hope it isn't the really old one in the repo they got?

Anyway, after you specify the command line argument to enable cheats, (or edit the config file which is in ~/.warzone2100-2.1 (hidden from normal view)), you then hit the key combo to enable cheats/debug mode in game, and then type whatever cheat you want.

Just which part of the FAQ / wikki isn't clear about cheats?
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Re: Noob question...

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Hmm, ok, I guess my confusion was more with my Ubuntu-n00bness than WZ - I found the config file, I needed to press Shift-H to reveal hidden files...

I knew how to activate the cheats once I've turned cheat mode on (Shift-BKSP and all that), just I'm not yet certain of how the file systems work in Linux.

Thanks v.much!
Fig.