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Quake III Arena (PC)

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Hints & cheats

for Quake III Arena (PC)
Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
Review date: 12/16/99
Release date: 12/02/99

Codes

The Give Cheat

The give cheat has many uses, and can get you any item in the game. These are some useful codes, but there are more for you to find. In order to use this code, you must activate sv_cheats and use a devmap.

Code Result
/give ammo Gives 999 of all ammo.
/give rockets Gives you a pack of rockets, replace with ammo of your choice.
/give quad damage Gives Quad Damage. Use again to lengthen time.
/give battle suit Gives Battle Suit. Use again to lengthen time.
/give haste Gives Haste. Use again to lengthen time.
/give flight Gives Flight. Use again to lengthen time.
/give regeneration Gives Regeneration. Use again to lengthen time.
/give invisibility Gives Invisibility. Use again to lengthen time.
/give personal teleporter Gives Personal Teleporter.
/give medkit Gives a medkit.
/give health Refills health.
/give mega health Gives Mega Health.
/give 50 health Gives 50 health pack.
/give 25 health Gives 25 health pack
/give armor Refills armor
/give heavy armor Gives Heavy Armor
/give grappling hook Gives grappling hook, which doesn't come with /give all.
/give weapons Gives all weapons except grappling hook.
/give rocket launcher Gives you a rocket launcher, replace with weapon of your choice.
/give all Gives all weapons (except grappling hook) and full ammo, health, and armor.

Third Person View

With cheats enabled press ~ to bring up the cheat console, then enter the following code:

Code Result
/cg_thirdperson 1 Third Person View

Mess with the bots in SP

Start up a SP game on any Tier and any map. You should then go into the console by using the tilde key. ~ or `. This works because Q3 treats SP games as a listen server.

Code Result
/timelimit or /fraglimit You can change the preset limit in SP games to a shorter (or longer) amount of frags.
/addbot botname You can add in any bot.
/kick botname This kicks off a bot from the game.

Secrets

DopeFish

The dopefish is back (and a lot different looking too).
Go to Q3DM11 (death match level 11), and find the shotgun infront of the teleporter. Face the teleporter then turn around 180 degrees, now walk up to the wall, and suprise, it's DopeFish!

Cheat Mode

To be able to use codes in single-player mode, in the console, type: /sv_cheats 1, then, /devmap<name of map>.
Ex. q3dm11 for cheats enabled for that level.
Then, the level will load with cheats enabled.

Here are some cheats you can put in to the console after you have cheats enabled:

All skills unlocked at level 1: iamacheater

All skills unlocked at level 100: iamamonkey

God mode: /god

No clip (walk through walls): /noclip

Give all: /give all

Note on all weapons: The grenade launcher and BFG 10K weapons are unlocked by this code, but the graphics are incomplete. It will appear that your character in to holding any weapon when they are selected.

Change the head of your model.

To change the head of your character, in the console, type this: /headmodel <character name>.

Ex. /headmodel sarge/red

Hope you can have fun with this little code.

Change Map In Game

Type ''/Map '' followed by a map name (eg ''/Map Q3DM6'') to change the arena during play.

Unlock all FMV Sequences

Begin a game with the quake3.exe +seta g_spVideos "\tier1\1\tier2\2\tier3\3\tier4\4\tier5\5\tier6\6\tier7\7\tier8\8" command line.