Syndicate Wars Syndicate Wars Cheat Codes -------------------------- Type in POOSLICE as your name to enable the cheats. When your done typing it in a weird sound will start playing. That's telling you that the cheats are on. Then you can delete the name and type in whatever you want. At the research screen: 0 Add more options to research menu U Finish a days worth of research During the game: ALT-C Complete the level ALT-T Teleport active agent to cursor location SHIFT-Q Full weapons and health Command line parameters: /m Allows you to hit the . key at the menus to get 10,000 credits /mx Skip to that mission (where x is a number between 1 and 108) To use the command line parameters, start the game with main /w /g and add them to the end of the line or add them on that line in the PLAY.BAT file.The Syndicate Wars FAQ Written by: Matt Rogers; rogersj@pathcom.com Latest updates available at: http://www.pathcom.com/~rogersj/synd2.html http://www.getnet.com/~pandora UPDATED 11/02/96 This FAQ won't include any tips, so if that's what you need then go to either of the above links for a walkthough/strategy guide. First I have to start off with saying the reference card that came with SW is missing a whole bunch of commands for the keyboard. The following is the REAL keyboard commands. Better print this out kids. :) ---------------------------------------- |Action | Command| ---------------------------------------- Walk to Point -> CTRL Fire Weapon <- CTRL Select Agent Agent # Zoom to Lead Agent Press Agent # twice quickly Group Agents \ Change Agent Tab Up Up Down Down Left Left Right Right Self Destruct ALT+D Zoom In End Zoom Out Home Tilt View Down Insert Tilt View Up Page Up Spin View Left (clockwise) Delete Spin View Right (c-clockwise) Page Down Drop Weapon Z Key Control K Restart Level R Select Weapon ALT <- Deselect Weapon ALT -> Change Mood of Agents ALT up/down Exit Multiplayer Mission Shift+Esc Pause P Remove buildings from screen B (press and hold) Draw less/more screen area Shift E for less, E for more Toggle Scanner beep S Toggle deep radar on and off CTRL F6 Stop the panel being drawn CTRL F10 SAVE A SCREENSHOT!! M (note: they save to c:\tmp) Stop the ingame action CTRL F3 Stop game being dispalyed CTRL F2 Change deep radar colors CTRL G&H Speed up/slow down game +/- Q&A's ----- Q. HELP! I can't quit the mission. :( A. Pause the game and then you'll have the quit option Q. How many people can play locally at one time, and how do I set it up? A. Up to four people can play at one time on one computer. To set this up go under "Interface" in the bottom left hand corner. You can choose the number of players and how each player will control their character. Q. What's with the PEOPLE.TXT file on the CD and my hard drive? A. It's probably something to get to know the programmers. Q. I get no background music and my sound card is 100% compatible with SW! A. Try hooking up a pair of speakers directly to your CD-ROM. This game uses tracks like you'll find on a regular CD. You can even play the SW tracks on a music CD player. Q. How come REO Speedwagon didn't do the SW music? A. Unknown. Q. When I go into the game it's still in 320x200 mode, even though I remember changing it. A. Press F8 during gameplay to alternate between the two graphic modes. Q. I really hate my teams color. A. Try pressing F10 to toggle through the uniform colors. F9 will toggle through the different border colors. Q. I can't do any research!!! A. You have to pass the first level. :) READ THE MANUAL... :) Q. What's with the zoom? I just don't get it! A. Zoom depends on your weapon range. At max. zoom out you should be able to see just beyond how far you can shoot with your selected weapon. Bombs and other non-shoot weapons have a pre-determined zoom level and home/end are useless when you have these weapons selected. Q. How the hell do I get money? A. The best way to get money is to rob banks. How do you do this? Banks are usually VERY heavily guarded buildings. If you blow up the guarded building a briefcase will appear. This briefcase is your ticket to millions... well maybe not millions, but a lot of money. Q. Are there any hot dog vendors? If so do they sell sausages? A. No and no. Q. What's this hidden game I keep hearing about? A. It's that classic game BREAKOUT (or something like that). Stare at a billboard for a really really long time and it'll come up. Q. I just don't understand how I persuade some people!! :( A. Here's a chart of persuation: -------------------------------------------------- |Type | Points given | Points need to persuade| -------------------------------------------------- Civilians 1 0 Unguided 2 10 Zealots 5 20* Scientist 1 0 Police 2 6 Govs 3 15 *Zealots can only be persuaded with the persuadertron 2 NOTE: Brain mods increase the range of the Persuaditron, but don't decrease the points need to persuade someone. Special thanks goes out to Mike Diskett for helping me out with this FAQ. If you have any other questions that aren't answered (I know there's lots) email me at rogersj@pathcom.com See ya. More Syndicate War cheats When you login, Input your Name as POOSLICE. Then, when you hear a sound effect, immediatly erase POOSLICE and Input the name you want. This will Now allow you to access several features in the game. If you hit the "." key while NOT in the battle screen, you raise your cash by $10,000 or so. if you hold it down, you can make LOTS of Cash. Also, If you hit the "0" key (Zero) while in the Equiptment screen, new weapons are automatically researched. Just keep hitting "0" till you're done researching everything. Another is, when in the research screen, you hit the "U" key and a day of research passes by. While in the battle screen, Hit Alt-C and the level is automatically completed. Hit Alt-T and you can teleport your agent wherever the pointer lies. Shift-Q Will bring back your agents from the dead with full Power and tons of weapons. It's rumoured that this MAY mess up your save game. However, I have had no problems with this.