Hidden "Cheat Mode"

[olivebranch2112]

Duskers has a hidden "cheat mode" which is accessible by manually editing the config file (found at "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Duskers\config.txt" on Windows) to include the line "AllowCheating=yes". Once this setting is set, you can press the C and X keys at the same time on either the system/galaxy map or during a mission to toggle cheats. This enables a few useful things:

• Unlimited propulsion/jump fuel
  
• Complete information on a derelict (infestation type, difficulty, etc)
  
• Access to any ship upgrade and unlimited scrap
  
• Install/create any drone upgrade during encounters
  
• Mission status (including a timer, ship resources, and distance to closest unexplored derelict)
  
• Enemies and their projectiles become visible in the overview
  
• Derelicts can be commandeered at any time, regardless of enemies or radiation
  
• A hidden "level editor" of sorts, accessible by pressing B and left/right shift at the same time inside a derelict. Seemingly used to make the tutorial level. I can't figure out how to use it.
  
• A number of unique console commands

Here's a list of every cheat-specific console command, along with the help text:

General Commands

• areasensorall - "turns on area sensors in every room"
  
• openall - "opens all doors, regardless of power"
  
• closeall - "closes all doors, regardless of power"
  
• powerall, pa - "powers entire dungeon"
  
• scanall, sa - "scans entire dungeon"
  
• nr - "refreshed the navigation points"
  
• tree - "write command tree to console"
  
• reloadalias - "reload alias file"
  
• wtf - "powers entire dungeon and turns on cheat mode"
  
• breakrooms - "break everything. in every rooms."
  
• listall - "lists all drone upgrades, regardless of if drone is."
  
• radiate - "radiate the specified room"
  
• killdoor - "kill a door with damager (like being chewed)"
  
• restart_same - "restarts the game with the same upgrades"
  
• dbf - "spawns in random room, unless room specified" (seemingly unused/test enemy, can't attack)
  
• brute- "spawns in random room, unless room specified"
  
• swarm - "spawns in random room, unless room specified"
  
• bot - "spawns in random room, unless room specified"
  
• slime - "spawns in random room, unless room specified"
  
• static - "degausses" "buzz buzz"

Drone Commands

• loot - "loot or swap upgrade with dead drone" (works on living drones)
  
• list - "list installed upgrades of other drones"
  
• discard - "discard upgrade item" "Discards the upgrade at the specified slot, leaving it on the ground" (the upgrade is removed and cannot be picked up again)
  
• drop - "drop item"
  
• die - "drone dies"
  
• breakall - "breaks all upgrades on the drone"
  
• damage - "does 50 damage to the drone"
  
• (with the shield upgrade) breakshield - "Acts as if shield broken by attack"

[Mustika]

Ooh, did you utilize this mode in today's Daily? Iirc the top score was 740 and you were the only one with 780.

I am pretty familiar with the way to cheat the game by editing save files like this, but I honestly haven't tried the one with the legit Cheat Mode like this.

[olivebranch2112]

Yeah, although that's not something I'd repeat or encourage. I was just excited to try it out and forgot that I could have tested in the tutorial level 😅.

[Mustika]

Ahh lmao. I won't blame ya for the excitement that Cheat mode brings. But true, doing this on drone operator training/campaign mode seems much better to clear out the assumption where folks could advantage outta this to get suspiciously top spot in leaderboards. 😉

[MsCounterMax]

This should be helpful in order to test out some underutilised upgrades in specific scenarios, thanks

[Crystal Sharrd]

Hopefully they patch the leaderboards to block illegitimate scores.

[Mr Sukhov]

don't forget to remove the line from the config; it influences fuel consumption even if you don't turn it on with c+x

[[FOR]mica]

Any idea where to find this on linux? I found a plain "config" file, but everything in it is in brackets so I'm not sure where exactly that line would fit