Console (video Game CLI) - Common Commands

Common Commands

• sv_cheats 1: Used to activate cheats in Quake engine or Source engine based games.
• god: Used to toggle God mode.
  • buddha: Similar to god mode in Source games, where the player can take damage down to a health of 1 but not die.
• noclip or ghost: Used to toggle Noclip mode.
• fly: Similar to Noclip mode, the player is only constrained to the walls and boundaries of the map.
• impulse 101: Used to spawn all items in a game at the player's exact position for a moment to give the player every item in Half-Life based games. Similar to "giveall".
• giveall or give all Gives every item in the game.
• addbots (number): When AI bots are available, this will add a number of bots equal to the number inputted by the player.
• allammo: Gives the player maximum ammo.
• kill or suicide: Causes the player to die, used when a player gets stuck during a game.
  • explode: In Source games, this will cause the player to explode.
    • Left 4 Dead being a notable exception, where the explode command was used to trigger the Boomer's on-death attack prematurely.
• give or summon: When used with the name of an entity, spawns that entity at the players location.
• quit: Quits the game immediately