Console Commands

Let's try to understand how the console works ; I have not that much to say about it, it's just that I'm willing to find out how the game is made, and to do so I try acces its informations via the console.
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CHEATCODES

There are a lot of cheatcodes implemented in the game, of course we don't use it for the run (or maybe for a fun-run), but they can be really helpful for training or exploring the game. To use cheatcodes open the console with $ or ² depending on your keyboard, then type the code and press enter

Brace yourself for the huge list (not exhaustive):

darman : skip the current level

lamasu : unlocks every level (in the campaign section), you use this when creating a new profile without the will to redo the whole game.

thematulaaklives : god mode (you take no damage). Useful when testing tricky things

smiteevil : despawn every enemy in the area, when you want to be tranquil

killpawns : the same but for the squad

suicide : suicide

revive : when your are in coma, type this in the console (even if text doesn't display) to revive, without the help of your comrads. This is for training

hog : will deal a massive ammount of damage to what's under your crosshair, resulting in killing. This is usefull to know what object has a health bar 

teleport : teleports you where you were aiming at

ghost : avoid your solidity, allows you to fly and clip across walls. Useful when you want to have a global view of the level (that's how I found the Critical Strike OOB)

fly : same as ghost but allows collision

walk : reverse the ghost/fly mode. Be sure your feet don't clip with the ground or you will fall

setjumpz # : (with a value instead of #, default 800 ? I think) set the height of your jump. May be useful to know if you can actually jump over something or if there's an invisible wall blocking you.

fierfek : set your ammo to the maximum

loaded : will load certain weapons (if the weapons are not in the level the engine doesn't take them in account, and you have to import them this way). By typing this you will have in your possession the rocketlauncher, the crossbow, the elitebeam, the shotgun, the trando riffle (light), and the concussion gun.

playersonly : breaks the game engine, you the last thing living on the map. Useful when searching for triggers. But you have to restart the game after you use this

freezeframe # : will freeze the frame after # second. Unfreeze by pressing 'jump'. If you replace # by 1/fps you could play frame by frame. Maybe useful to show someone something live, by pausing the game this way without the menu showing up.

viewbot : will cycle the camera, focusing on the bots loaded in the zone. This is useful to know their positions, and to know at which condition (timer/trigger) they are loaded

behindview OR freecamera : toggles 3rd person mode

viewself : get the camera to focus back on you

togglefullscreen : toggle full screen (you can also open the System.ini file, and set StartUpFullScreen to False)

stat OR stat fps OR stat game : display different stats and values, maybe useful. stat FPS is the built-in fps-meter.

slomo # : change the speed of the game depending on the value # ; when you ar bored to listen to dialogues or watch a timer flow

I advice to bind a key to "slomo 10 | onrelease slomo 1" to accelerate the empty moments.
Generally speaking, I advice to set up your config file and bind to keys the following commands : quicksave(via the menu), quickload (via the menu), thematulaaklives, ghost, slomo10/slomo1, hog. 

# If you want to bind something in-game :
set input #1 #2 : bind the action #2 to the key #1 (you can put any command in #2 ; you can find the names of keys and actions in the User.ini file, or directly assign commands in this file)

# if you want to get a value :
get #1 #2 : will show the value of the property #2 of the object (class) #1

# if you want to set a value :
set #1 #2 #3 : will set the value #3 of the property #2 of the object (class) #1 (leaving the #3 blank will set the value to "none")

# if you want to have a specific amount of health :
set playercommando health #
(default 200)

# if you want to bind use a whole script in game :
you can write the command lines in a text file and put it in gamedata/system/, then the in game command is :
exec myfile.extension

this one is useful for binding a 'toggle' command to a single key, like turning on and off the hud.
write two exec files, one to turn the hud on and to rebind the key to turning it off, the other to turn it off and rebind the key ti turning it on.

... more to come if I find useful command lines

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Understanding the game

There are many things to do with it, many command lines which I don't know the effect. On a first time, I want to use the 'get' command and obtain as much as possible information about the different classes. For the begining, I'll do with weapons. So here are my first results, and I will update them regulary ("regulary", lol) : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/139AlLJktxKSFF-kOvOI_LiNw7qAXGe7bKjGk9jE-YvE/edit?usp=sharing

You are free to modify and broaden it, but please once you have modified it make a copy, so we could restore the latest version if corruption occurs. 

part from weapons there are many classes to investigate :

core
engine
input
player
playercommando
playercontroller
inventory
pawn
droid
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for the weapons some properties seem not relevant, therefore they are not in the file ; take the blaster for example :

DC17MBLASTER

acceleration = (X=0,Y=0,Z=0)
ambientsound = none
ammoname = class'CTInventory.DC17mBlasterAmmo'
= (references the ammo bound to the weapon)
attachtag = none
bLightChanged = false
bLightingVisibility = true
bReceiveDynamicShadows = true
bUseDynamicLights = true
...
class = class'CTInventory.DC17mBlaster'
drawscale = 1
group = none
iconscale = 1
inventory = none
kparams = none
leaves = ()
lighttype = LT_none
lightbrightness = 0
lightradius = 0
lightradiusinner = 0
lighthue = 0
lightsaturation = 0
lightperiod = 0
lightphase = 0
lifespan = 0
location = (X=0,Y=0,Z=0)
maxkarmaspeed = 800
muzzleflash = none
name = none
physics = PHYS_none
reloadcount = 60
=(ammo in magazine, set to -1 for infinite magazine)
rotation = (pitch=0,yaw=0,roll=0)
scaleglow = 1
shotdelay = 0.1
=(fire rate of the weapon in seconds between each shot)
shakespeed = (X=50,Y=50,Z=50)
skins = ()
staticmesh = none
style = STY_Normal


... Overall my problem is that I always end up modifying superclasses parameters and not instances'. That leads to major faillures sooner or later along the cheated playthrough.

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All aboard the R&D ship !

Easy% Glitchless | Video Tutorials for each chapter

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdc9jZalVPO7ZkivRjNgA7ngK_PK807zc&si=fa0lKBaRGXREngSI

General guide for Geonosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmK09Oo_LQ8

General guide for Star Wars Republic Commando

Little notes on practicality

UPDATE : point (11)


Since they are a few more people running this game now, I don't want them to lose their time so here are some tricks to speed up the speedrunning process :
(it's mostly common sense)

1) - get rid of the intro videos

do you really want to see them each time you open the game ?
just go to the game path on windows, then into GameData, then into Movies and delete (or rename or move) LECIntro.avi and NVIDIAIntro.avi

2) - skip the introductive monologue between each campaign

these thing are about 1 minute long, and are unskippable, but there is a way to do it : once the actual game begins make a save asap. Then, if you are to begin the campaign just load the save, press echap, select 'restart the level' so to load the said level in no time

3) - make hard saves

If you are to practice some of the tricks, save them in hard. It's way more convenient than having to reach it throughout the level from the beginning
(how to rename it ? I'll search)

3b) - warp between levels

you can type ' open "GEO_01C" ' to load Strength Of Brothers. This is an example, you can actualy load any level in the game : Geonosis = GEO, Assault Ship = RAS, Kashyyyk = YYY, then 1 underscore (_), then the chapter number, and the mission letter. (this command isn't case sensitive) (exception for chapter numbers : chapter 02 of Kashyyk is in fact 35, and chapter 3 doesn't exist but skips to 04)

4) - make quicksaves

One hazardous passage to play ? quicksave ! even in live playing, because you don't want to lose time re-doing what has already been done
you can bind the quicksave/quickload fonctions to keys via the menu

5) - if somehow you lose your config/profile (messing with command lines often breaks the game)

have a backup. We are talking about all the hard saves done at (4) and your own customization. Don't reinstall the game again and again...
if you want a new profile, but don't want to redo all the game, the cheat code 'lamasu' will unlock every mission in the campaign menu

6) - while practicing : skip dead times

By doing this game over and over again, I really got tired of the counsellor speaking, and all the bomb-planting, console-slicing, door-breaching times. This represent a good third of the time spent on the game ! So I have bound the cheat 'slomo 10' to a key. This causes the game to process 10x faster when pressing the key. Thank me later
( set input thekeyuwant slomo 10 | onrelease slomo 1 )

7) - for research and developpement : use cheats

Wondering if you can jump over this or that ? in need to test something risky ? wanting all enemies dead to avoid hitboxes collison ? there are cheat codes for that, detailed in the Console Commands guide

8 ) - be above 30 FPS when recording

or many of the skips featuring jumps won't work

9) - use the directionnal arrows to naviguate through menus

that's really nothing, but I cringe every time I see someone using the cursor. The time taken to aim at items in the menu is wasted.

10) - stop bunnyhopping around

there is no gain of speed by doing this, neither bunnyhopping nor strafejumping exist in this game. You are only hurting your finger and your keyboard

11) - avoid some lags 

Upon passing certain triggers the game will autosave, causing a micro-lag. This lag might be extremely annoying, when it occurs when you are aiming or jumping, for example. To avoid that, you can open the gamepath, go in GameDate/Save/yourprofile_AutoSave, right click on the yourprofile_AutoSave.cts and enable the 'reading only' property. So that the game won't be able to overwrite it, and won't lag when autosaving occurs (not).

SEGMENTED RUN (old) (june 2017) with details

SEGMENTED RUN (september 2017)

I deleted the segmented run as a category, it felt unnecessary and made little sense. The latest segmented run is now stocked here. (september 2017)
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GEONOSIS	 23:26
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https://youtu.be/MMtZ1Wz-7bA

=== What's new ? :
- double-loading some levels to skip the "levelstart" trigger in the game code, allowing different skips throughout the game.
- particularly, slicing a terminal earlier in Into The Hive
- skipping The Strength Of Brothers entirely
- moving earlier and posing the demo charge earlier in Infiltrate The Droid Foundry
- moving earlier in Canyons Of Death
- brand new To Own The Skies, it's now useful to knock one the door down from the lower floor and trigger the 'endability' of the lvl by doubleloading it + placing the 2nd demo charge only, so to reach the final trigger asap. This skips the slicing of terminals in the 2nd room, and breaching a door later.
- the barricade on the 3rd floor of Infiltration Of The Coreship desappear if it's pushed at a certain angle by some droid scrap.

=== Splits :
01:01 0:00 maximum prejudice
02:02 1:01 into the hive
00:29 3:03 strength of bros
02:45 3:32 infiltrate the droid foundry
01:24 6:17 heart of the machine
01:31 7:41 destroy the foundry
00:57 9:12 advance to the core ship
00:36 10:09 canyons of death
01:46 10:45 to own the skies
03:21 12:31 territory* (it was previously 3:14 idk what happened)
02:54 15:52 infiltration of the coreship
02:05 18:46 waking the giant
02:56 20:51 belly of the beast
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ASSAULT SHIP		 31:50
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https://youtu.be/cX99upkr548

=== What's new ? :
- double-loading some levels to skip the "levelstart" trigger in the game code, allowing different skips throughout the game.
- particularly, being allowed to pose a demo charge earlier in Alone (at the heavy trando encounter)
- also in Alone, skipping a door by blocking a trando inside it, and jumping over a barricade.
- being able to move earlier in Attack Of The Clone

nothing more unfortunately

=== Splits :
03:31 0:00 ghost ship reckon
02:16 3:31 delta down
01:49 5:47 unwelcome visitors
00:43 7:36 rescue the squad
02:20 8:19 alone
01:21 10:39 troika
01:37 12:00 jailbreak1:29
02:10 13:37 tactical supremacy
01:03 15:47 attack of the clones
02:30 16:50 lockdown
01:55 19:20 the wrath of the republic1:49
03:22 21:15 saving the ship
01:08 24:37 holding the line
02:56 25:45 overwhelming the odds
03:09 38:41 deus ex machina

(level marked * have worses time than previously, because of the squad behaviour, upon which I have very little to no control. I didn't have patience to play the levels over and over again.)
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KASHYYYK	 32:52
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https://youtu.be/KIFZGAx4vHA

=== What's new ? :
- double-loading some levels to skip the "levelstart" trigger in the game code, allowing different skips throughout the game.
- particularly, jumping earlier from the gunship in Rescue Tarfful
- skipping From The Shadows entirely with a semi out of bounds
- being able to move sooner in Critical Strike
- being able to end the level sooner in The Wookiee Resistance
- being able to move sooner in Behind Enemy Lines
- changing the strat for Saving Ammo and doing it without, as we can now pose the demo charge without fulfilling the normal condition for it to appear. There's another skip in top of that, preventing a door to close and therefore its breaching.
- Heart Of The Citadel is now completable without the squad and without fear, as it's possible to slice both generators' terminals whithout getting aggroed by elites.
- Once again a new setup for The Final Strike.

=== Splits :
01:06 rescue tarfful
00:58 hard contact
00:13 from the shadows
01:54 the bodyguards
01:13 obliterate the outpost
00:53 aim for the heart
01:05 critical strike
00:35 the bridge of kachirho
01:23 frontline
00:45 the gauntlet
00:28 detour
02:40 a bridge too far
00:50 the wookie resistance
01:16 behind enemy lines
01:05 very important wookie
01:11 saving ammo
00:38 live ordnance
01:49 fate of the resistance
03:00 search and destroy
04:19 heart of the citadel
02:18 moving upstream
03:09 the final strike
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TOTAL TIME 	1:28:28
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Name	Author
Console Commands	ISlide 8 years ago
Easy% Glitchless \| Video Tutorials for each chapter	tosksquad 1 year ago
General guide for Geonosis	kram1138 4 years ago
General guide for Star Wars Republic Commando	ISlide 8 years ago
Little notes on practicality	ISlide 8 years ago
SEGMENTED RUN (old) (june 2017) with details	ISlide 6 years ago
SEGMENTED RUN (september 2017)	ISlide 6 years ago