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Enabling cheats in Urge

By r4tb0y

A quick tutorial on how to enable Urge's built-in cheat menu, how to use cheats in game, and an overview of what the cheats are and what they do.

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Category: Achievements, Crafting, Loot, Modding or Configuration, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Foreword

Enabling cheats

Triggering the cheats

List of cheats + description

Video Demonstration

dnSpy Alternative (digital literacy required)

Comments

Foreword

As a preface to this guide, I should mention that using cheats will most likely spoil your enjoyment of the game (especially if you're going to fly around to all the areas). I would recommend trying these cheats out after a playthrough or two, or if you wanted to curve the difficulty of the game a bit by modifying your stats, spawning some items, etc.

Enabling cheats

To allow yourself to enter and activate cheats in Urge, you need to simply add a file called

cheats.txt

in the same directory as the exe.

The file does not need to contain anything, but you can enter the names of various cheats if you want them to be toggled on automatically when entering the game.

Triggering the cheats

To trigger a cheat, you first need to hit DEL (delete) on your keyboard to clear the input string. Imagine all of your inputs are going into an invisible notepad document: DEL clears this. Once you have cleared the input string, type the name of a cheat. For instance "fly". Then hit INS (insert) on your keyboard and the cheat will activate.

DEL: Clear cheat buffer
Type your command directly into the game using your keyboard (there is no input window)
INS: Activate the cheat

List of cheats + description

Cheat Name

Description

perc (previously perception)

Max out perception skill

sick

Max out sickness

guns

Max out guns skill

vehicl (previously vehicles)

Max out vehicles skill

fat

Max out fat

strong (previously strength)

Max out strength skill

endur (previously endurance)

Max out endurance skill

urge

Reduce contamination to 0

this cheat no longer exists.

contam

Max out contamination

addict

Max out addiction

-day

Rewind time back a day

day

Skip ahead a day

creative

No cost for build menu

fevnt (previously fevent)

Random fog event

time

Skip time by a small amount

-time

Skip backward in time by a small amount

time5

Skip time by a smaller amount

-time5

Skip backward in time by a smaller amount

kit

Spawn a kit at your position (assault rifle)

kits

Spawn a kit at your position (shotgun)

kitp

Spawn a kit at your position (pistol)

kith

Spawn a kit at your position (herbs)

fogdanger

Makes lightning strike if you are above ground, urid falls if you are below (needs a certain fog level)

peaceful

Peaceful mode - disable enemy spawns

stats0

Set all skills to 0

fog0

Set fog to 0

fog

Set fog to 10% (dubious)

-fog

Reduce fog by 10%

fog10

Set fog to 100%

fly

Fly, obviously

noc (previously noclip)

Fly, but through walls

urge1

Enable pee gain

urge0

Disable pee gain

hints0

Toggle hints

does not exist anymore - i believe there is an option for it now

sky (previously freezesky)

Stop fog progression

cin

Enables cinematic mode

animurd, animscd, animsrd

Triggers a specific animation on nearby enemies (separate commands)

zoom

Decreases FOV

-zoom

Increases FOV

def

Restores default settings

Enjoy!

Video Demonstration

dnSpy Alternative (digital literacy required)

If the cheats.txt method does not work for you (I'm still not sure why this is happening for some users) then you might want to opt for this alternative.

Download dnSpy, an open-source .NET debugger and assembly editor, here: https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy/releases

Open dnSpy and go to File > Open

Navigate to the directory your game is installed at and enter the Urge_Data > Managed subdirectory. Select Assembly-CSharp.dll

The .dll will appear in the leftmost panel. Open up the dropdowns like the image below.

Scroll down until you find 'GameStuff'. Open that, too. Inside should be the Start() function.

Select the Start() function by clicking on it. The right-side panel of dnSpy should show you the code of this function. We are looking at the underlined line of code specifically.

Right-click the line this.cheats = File.Exists(path);. Hit Edit Method (C#).

Change "File.Exists(path);" to "true;". Do not forget the semicolon.

Click 'compile' in the bottom right of the window.

Go to File > Save All

Change no settings and hit OK.

All done. Now you can close dnSpy and open Urge. Your cheats should be working regardless of the text file's existence.

PSA: Your changes will be reverted the next time the game updates/patches. You can repeat this same process again if you need to. This method works in most Unity games (read: ones not using il2cpp) and you can modify and recompile whatever code you want, assuming it's syntactically correct.

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r4tb0y [author] 3 hours ago

I don't think that should change anything, Unity is looking at the game's directory, it doesn't do anything through your file manager. Ticking the box for "Show known file extensions" is purely cosmetic and doesn't affect something like this.

j 3 hours ago

if some of you don't have "file name extensions" enabled in file manager, removing the .txt could solve your issue. don't know if the author already said that or not

rfharp 5 Sep @ 4:15pm

"def" works! Thanks! I thought about trying it earlier, was afraid it would reset my hard-earned stats. It doesn't. So "cin" and "def" are the pair to turn cinematic mode on and off.

r4tb0y [author] 5 Sep @ 3:13pm

also, if you're having trouble enabling 'def', remember you can put 'def' into the cheats.txt file in the game directory.

r4tb0y [author] 5 Sep @ 2:10pm

I'm looking at the source. "cin" does this:

this.volumeMusic = 0f;
this.winMode = 0;
this.fov = 0f;
this.MouseSmoothing = 1f;
this.ScaleHUD = 0.001927f;
this.showHUD = false;
this.EnemyBuildDestruct = false;
this.saveSettings();
this.loadSettings(false);

You want to use the "def" cheat code to restore it.

rfharp 5 Sep @ 10:12am

I forgot to hold down the use "E" key to sleep, save and light a fire. I still want to know how to toggle cinematic. Quitting doesn't turn it off, neither does restarting Windows.

rfharp 5 Sep @ 8:56am

Cinematic mode blocks sleeping and saving

rfharp 5 Sep @ 3:18am

How do I turn off "cin" cinematic mode?

rfharp 19 Aug @ 11:25pm

noc works! Be careful you can hit the killwalls at speed!

r4tb0y [author] 19 Aug @ 3:42pm

You probably messed something up. Verify the integrity of your game files and try again. Make sure you aren't deleting or modifying anything you're not supposed to.

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