Half-Life
- November 24, 2000 14:47 PM PST
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Here's a recast version of our Half-Life cheat that lays out in greater detail how to twist this pre-eminent first-person shooter to your will.
1) First off, you'll need to enable the console interface within the single-player game. To do this, you'll first need to find the HL.exe file. It's in the C:\Sierra\Half-Life directory, and it looks like a little red Half-Life symbol with the filename "hl."
2) Highlight the file and right-click on it with the mouse to summon the command menu.
3) In that menu, left-click on "Create shortcut." This will create a small file in the Half-Life directory called "Shortcut to hl".
4) Drag this file out of the Half-Life directory and onto your desktop and drop it there. The shortcut should now appear on your Windows 9x desktop.
5) Now, right-click on the shortcut itself to summon the command menu and, this time, left-click on the "Properties" command.
6) This will call up a window labeled "Shortcut to hl Properties." Left-click on the "Shortcut" tab at the top of the screen. (You shouldn't need to, but do it anyway just to make sure it's active.) In this new window, you'll see four command lines labeled Target, Start in, Shortcut key, and Run.
7) The top one, Target, is the one we want. It should currently read: C:\Sierra\Half-Life\hl.exe. The text in the white area to the right of "Target:" is highlighted in blue. Left-click in the blank area to the right of the text to de-highlight it.
8) Now here comes the delicate part. We're going to alter the command that appears in the Target line. After the "hl.exe," add the following parameters: "-dev -toconsole".
9) Be sure to type that exactly as it appears here. Don't use the quotes. Be certain to use hyphens instead of dashes. And insert a space between hl.exe and -dev, and another between -dev and -toconsole.
10) Your Target line should now read: C:\Sierra\Half-Life\hl.exe -dev -toconsole
11) All set? Then left-click on "OK" to save your work.
12) Double-left-click on the shortcut to start Half-Life.
13) Half-Life should bypass the opening screens and load directly to the console interface. If you already have a quick-save game, hit the F7 key to load it now. If you are starting a new game, type "map c0a0" (again, with no quotes) into the console to start with the train ride introduction, or "map c1a0" (still no quotes) to start after the introduction.
14) If you did everything right, the console is now enabled. You just need to hit the "tilde" key--the one with the squiggly little symbol (~) to the left of the "1" key--to call up the console.
15) Once the console is on screen, type in "/give" (no quotes), then a space and then the cheat you want to invoke from the list below. Press "Enter."
16) Example: /give weapon_shotgun.
17) And away we go:
item_airtank
ammo_357
weapon_357
You want more? We got more. We've just received from one Jesse McMillen a way to add monsters to the single-player game. (Personally, we think Half-Life has enough monsters already, but to each his own.)
1) Travel to the room where you want to insert the monster, hit the "~" key to call up the console, type in "noclip" (sans quotes) and hit "Enter." This will allow you to float through walls and ceilings.
2) Here's the tricky part: You'll want to position yourself so you're hovering above the room's ceiling without being in it.
3) Once in position, bring down the console again and type "/give monster_xxxxxx" (minus the quotes, and with the Xs representing the name of the monster from the list below) and hit "Enter."
4) Note that the monster you add must be in that particular level of the game, or Half-Life will shut down.
5) Should the game appear to freeze, hit "Enter" again. The monster you added may be too far above the ground or stuck in a wall.
6) Finally, note that you can only add one monster to a given area. Attempts to add additional monsters will result in error messages.
Here's the list of monster names. Bon app?tit. Me, I'm getting the hell out of Dodge.
monster_barney
item_antidote
item_battery
item_healthkit
item_longjump
item_security
item_sodacan
item_suit
ammo_9mmAR
ammo_9mmbox
ammo_9mmclip
ammo_ARgrenades
ammo_buckshot
ammo_crossbow
ammo_egonclip
ammo_gaussclip
ammo_glockclip
ammo_mp5clip
ammo_mp5grenades
ammo_rpgclip
weapon_9mmAR
weapon_9mmhandgun
weapon_crossbow
weapon_crowbar
weapon_egon
weapon_gauss
weapon_glock
weapon_handgrenade
weapon_hornetgun
weapon_mp5
weapon_python
weapon_rpg
weapon_satchel
weapon_shotgun
weapon_snark
weapon_tripmine
monster_scientist
monster_human_grunt
monster_human_assassin
monster_alien_slave
monster_alien_grunt
monster_alien_controller
monster_gargantua
monster_headcrad
monster_zombie
