Overview
This guide will teach you most if not all cheats and/or commands for Half-Life. This guide applies to the following games: Half-Life non-steam, Half-Life, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Getting started:
First off, this will not work on any Half-Life server unless the cheats are enabled. So, if you are using this guide to try to hack or something, its most likely not going to work. This section will go over the things you need to do to enable cheats on your game.
Half-Life Non-Steam config:
DON’T read this part if you don’t own a copy of Half-Life on CD! This part only applies to people who have installed Half-Life through CD and not Steam.
First, go to your desktop and find your Half-Life exe icon. If you don’t see it on your desktop, look in the directory where your game is installed. It should be in this directory or some place similar. C:SIERRAHalf-Lifehl.exe
Once you have found the file, right click it and select properties and a window should pop up. Next, go down to where it says Target and after is says C:SIERRAHalf-Lifehl.exe, put -console -dev -sv_cheats 1. So it will look like this: C:SIERRAHalf-Lifehl.exe -console -dev -sv_cheats 1.
Start up your
game and you should see a new button that says “Console”.
Half-Life and Half-Life: Source:
Activating cheats through steam games is a lot easier than a separate install. All you have to do is go into your Steam library, click on Half-Life or Half-Life: Source, and type -console -dev -sv_cheats 1 in the set launch options tab.
List of cheats/commands:
Now that you have enabled cheats on your Half-Life game, its time to start using them! Please note that if some commands aren’t working, you might have to type “sv_cheats 1” into the console.
Map codes are the names of the maps for the campaign. When you want to load a specific map, open the console using the ~ button (the button under Esc) and type “map MAPNAMEHERE” All map names start with the letter “c”. Some chapters might not be in order.
Black Mesa Inbound (game start): c0a0
Anomalous Materials: c1a0
Unforseen Consequences: c1a0c
Office Complex: c1a2
We’ve got hostiles!: c1a3
Blast Pit: c1a4
Power Up: c2a1
On a Rail: c2a2
Apprehension: c2a3
Residue Processing: c2a4
Questionable Ethics: c2a4d
Surface Tension: c2a5
Forget About Freeman!: c3a1
Lambda Core: c3a2e
Xen c4a1
Interloper c4a1a
Gonarch’s Lair: c4a2
Nihilanth: c4a3
Gman’s Talk/Credits: c5a1
These commands are the main general commands that most people use.
Get the crowbar: give weapon_crowbar
Get the Pistol: give weapon_glock
Get the HEV suit: give item_suit
Get the SMG: give weapon_mp5
Get the Shotgun: give weapon_shotgun
Get grenades for the SMG: give ammo_ARgrenades
Get the 357 Magnum: give weapon_357
Get the Crossbow: give weapon_crossbow
Get a grenade: give weapon_handgrenade
Get health: give item_healthkit
Get Snarks: give weapon_snark
Get a tripmine: give weapon_tripmine
Get the Gauss Rifle: give weapon_gauss
Get the Hivehand: give weapon_hornetgun
Activate godmode: god
Activate Noclip: noclip
Get Pistol ammo: give ammo_9mmbox
Get crossbow ammo: give ammo_crossbow
Get 357 Magnum ammo: give ammo_357
Get the RPG: give weapon_rpg
Get shotgun ammo: give ammo_buckshot
Go into thirdperson view: chase_active 1
Go back to firstperson view: chase_active 0
Get Gluon gun ammo: give ammo_Egonclip
Get SMG ammo: give ammo_9mmAR
Get RPG rockets: give ammo_RPGclip
Change gravity: sv_gravity ### (800 is default)
Get Satchel charge: give weapon_satchel
Get long jump module: give item_longjump
These commands aren’t used very often but i’ll include them anyway.
Disable shadows: r_fullbright 1
Enable shadows: r_fullbright 0
Alternate thirdperson mode: thirdperson
Alternate firstperson mode: firstperson
Disables NPCs: notarget
Disable HUD: cl_drawhud 0
Enable HUD: cl_drawhud 1
Hide weapon: r_drawviewmodel 0
See weapon: r_drawviewmodel 1
These commands can be very useful or useless, depending on which ones you use.
Deletes the NPC you are looking at: impulse 203
Get all weapons, some ammo, and some armor: impulse 101
Spawns gibs (bones, skulls, blood, etc): impulse 102
Spawn Marine NPCs (this will most likely crash the game): impulse 76
Take control of NPCs (only works in some versions of Half-life): impulse 109
Spray blood: impusle 202
Look at map AI node info: impulse 195
See NPC info: impulse 103
See info about the texture you are looking at: impulse 107
See info about the model you are looking at: impulse 106
Well, thats it for now. If I missed any commands that you want to be added to this, leave a comment and I will probably add it. If you have any other questions or comments please leave one!