Painkiller Activating cheat mode in higher difficulty setting
Cheat codes are normally only available in games on the insomnia or daydream difficulty setting. Use the following trick to use them on the nightmare or trauma difficulty setting. First, enable the desired codes in a game on the insomnia or daydream difficulty setting. Then, load a game in the menu that was played on a higher difficulty setting. The codes will remain active.
Extra money
Equip the Painkiller, then hit an enemy with its second attack. Then, quickly do it three or four times while he is in the air; the enemy should not fall on ground. You will then see something like a jewel pop out. Collect it and it will add about 30 to your money. Note: You cannot use the extra amount to get a Black Tarrot Card in Chapter 1.
Cheat Codes
While playing the game, press ~ to display the console window on the insomnia or daydream difficulty setting. Then, enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:
| Result | Cheat Code |
| Toggle God mode | pkgod |
| All weapons | pkweapons |
| Full ammunition | pkammo |
| Full ammunition and health | pkpower |
| Extra gold | pkgold |
| Toggle haste | pkhaste |
| Toggle disappearing bodies | pkkeepbodies |
| Toggle disappearing decals | pkkeepdecals |
| Toggle demon morph | pkdemon |
| Toggle weak enemies | pkweakenemies |
| Toggle excessive gibs | pkalwaysgib |
| Toggle weapon modifier mode | pkweaponmodifier |
| Toggle weapon specular | weaponspecular [0 or 1] |
| Toggle smooth mouse | msmooth [0 or 1] |
| Toggle weapon rendering | showweapon [0 or 1] |
| Toggle camera interpolation for multi-player clients | camerainterpolation [0 or 1] |
| Toggle player movement prediction | playerprediction [0 or 1] |
| Toggle running speedmeter | speedmeter [0 or 1] |
| Show position in level | pos |
| Change crosshair | crosshair [1-32] |
| Change player name | name [nickname] |
| Set field of view (zoom) | fov [0-255] |
| Set HUD size | hudsize [0-3] |
| Set mouse sensitivity | msensitivity [0-200] |
| Set multi-player frag limit | fraglimit [number] |
| Set multi-player time limit | timelimit [number] |
| Change maximum UDP packet size, as multi-player admin | maxpacketsize [20-1400] |
| Change setting for actions send per ms, as multi-player admin | actionsendperiod [number] |
| Change team in multi-player mode | team [1 or 2] |
| Changes settings for my player synchro, as multi-player admin | updateparams_myplayer |
| Changes settings for physics items synchro, as multi-player admin | updateparams_physicsitems |
| Changes settings for player synchro, as multi-player admin | updateparams_players |
| Changes settings for projectiles synchro, as multi-player admin | updateparams_projectiles |
| Load map in multi-player mode | map [map name] |
| Show channel packet stats, as multi-player admin | netstats |
| Tell everyone that you are not ready in multi-player mode | notready |
| Tell everyone that you want to break match in multi-player mode | break |
| Exit game to desktop | exit |
| Quit game to desktop | quit |
| Benchmarking test in single player [Note] | benchmark C5L1 |
| FPS display in single player [Note] | showfps [0 or 1] |
| Kick player from server, as multi-player admin [Note] | kick [name] |
| Kick and ban player from server, as multi-player admin [Note] | bankick [name] |
| Set max number of players on server, as multi-player admin [Note] | maxplayers [value] |
| Set max number of spectators on server, as multi-player admin [Note] | maxspectators [value] |
| Toggle power-up dropping after map change, as multi-player admin [Note] | powerupdrop [0 or 1] |
| Toggle power-ups, as multi-player admin [Note] | powerups [0 or 1] |
| Toggle weapons stay if collected, as multi-player admin [Note] | weaponsstay [0 or 1] |
| Toggle damage to teammates, as multi-player admin [Note] | teamdamage [0 or 1] |
| Toggle bunny hopping, as multi-player admin [Note] | allowbunnyhopping [0 or 1] |
| Toggle bright player skins, as multi-player admin [Note] | allowbrightskins [0 or 1] |
| Toggle forward rocket jump, as multi-player admin [Note] | allowforwardrj [0 or 1] |
| Change game mode on server, as multi-player admin [Note] | gamemode <ffa/tdm/pcf/tlb/voosh> |
| Reload current map, as multi-player admin [Note] | reloadmap |
| Toggle spectator mode for multi-player clients [Note] | spectator [0 or 1] |
| Startsvoting for multi-player clients; for example callvote maxplayers 2 [Note] | callvote [command command_params] |
| Agree or not agree to callvote for multi-player clients [Note] | vote [yes or no] |
| Play indicated movie file for multi-player clients [Note] | demoplay [filename] |
| Record indicated movie file for multi-player clients [Note] | demorecord [filename] |
| Stop playback of current demo for multi-player clients [Note] | demostop |
| Player commits suicide for multi-player clients [Note] | kill |
| Connect to specified server for multi-player clients [Note] | connect [ip:port] |
| disables/enables client prediction in multi-player mode [Note] | prediction [0 or 1] |
| Latency in milliseconds, can be negative, in multi-player mode [Note] | pushlatency [value] |
| Set number of milliseconds to pass between sending your action packets to server in multi-player mode [Note] | actionsendperiod <value> |
| Show network info from the start of the connection in multi-player mode [Note] | netstats overall |
| Show help for the command in multi-player mode [Note] | netstats help |
| Unknown | pkcards |
| Unknown | join |
| Unknown | rot |
| Unknown | ready |
| Unknown | demo |
| Unknown | stresstest |
| Unknown | server |
Note: Requires v.1.15 patch.
Map names
Use one of the following values with the ” map [map name]” code:
- DM_Fragenstein
- DM_Illuminati
- DM_Mine
- DM_Psycho
- DM_Sacred
- DM_Unseen
- DMPCF_Tower
- DMPCF_Warehouse
- DM_Cursed (requires v1.15 patch)
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