ArmA: Armed Assault: Cheats

Overview

All of the following cheats require you to hold Left Shift down and then press the Numpad - (minus) key. Then let go and type the appropriate cheat code (capitalization doesn't matter). Nothing is displayed while you are typing, however the key strokes are being recorded and a quick confirmation might shortly flash on the screen upon successful entry.

Example procedure entering GETALLGEAR cheat

Cheats

ENDMISSION

Ends the mission.

CAMPAIGN

Unlocks all campaign missions (This must be entered in the appropriate campaign screen you want unlocked. Unlocking one campaign will result in other campaigns that are unlocked to be re-locked.)

MISSIONS

Unlocks all single player missions (This must be entered in the appropriate single missions screen.)

SAVEGAME

Saves the game in your current mission. Can be useful as a quicksave function.

TOPOGRAPHY

Generates a map in EMF vector format. The file is (not) always created at the root directory of the C: drive (Windows 7 with UAC might put the file in Virtualstore, "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Virtualstore" ). The output file is generated when the map is next viewed in game. German Users: Enter TOPOGRAPHZ instead.

EXPORTNOGRID

(Available from Arma 3 v1.43.129765) Just like TOPOGRAPHY, but generates a grid-less map in EMF format XXNAMEXX_nogrid.emf. More on topography export [1]

GETALLGEAR

Entering this cheat will execute statement defined by onCheat property in description.ext. For example:

// description.ext
onCheat = "hint str _this";

_this variable will contain "GETALLGEAR" text. Currently this is the only cheat that can activate onCheat event handler.

FLUSH

Flush all video memory to cure performance issue caused by textures being placed in the AGP memory

FREEZE

Instantaneous "freezing" the game. For debugging of freeze dump creation process.

CRASH

Forced game crash. For debugging of crash dump creation process.

FPS

Allows to artificially limit FPS for testing. In Arma 3 every time FPS cheat is entered, it cycles through the following list (message shown):

• Limit FPS 60 - 1st time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 40 - 2nd time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 20 - 3rd time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 10 - 4th time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 5 - 5th time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 2 - 6th time cheat entered
• Limit FPS Random 10-60 - 7th time cheat entered
• Limit FPS 0 - 8th time cheat entered (FPS and counter reset)

MISSIONS

Unlocks all missions.

Alternatively, to unlock stand-alone mission (older games), locate your ArmA profile first (it will be named (username).ArmAProfile, and will be either in My Documents\ArmA or in My Documents\ArmA Other Profiles. Open it in a text editor and change the section:

activeKeys[] = {};

to:

activeKeys[] = {"M00","M01","M02","M03","M04","M05","M06","M07","M08","M09","M10","TT01","TT02","TT03","TT04","TT05","TT06"};