Total Annihilation – Cheats & Tips

Here are some cheats and tips for the game Total Annihilation.

Campaign mode mission select:

Click on the “Single Player” icon. Type drdeath at the single player game
screen. A Cavedog Entertainment bone symbol will appear between the “Load
Game” and “Previous Menu” icons on the right side of the screen. Click on
the bone will to enter the mission select screen.

Ten player skirmish:

Type [Asterisk]X at the opponent/ally selection screen. To specify another
number of players substitute “X” with a roman numeral from 3 to 10. For
example, [Asterisk]III will result in a three player skirmish.

Cheat mode:

Begin a game in skirmish or multiplayer mode. Press [Enter] to display the
message box. Press [Plus] and enter one of the following codes. Press
[Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Enter the code
again to de-activate.

Effect Code

Increase metal and energy
by 1000 atm

Display game clock clock
Play CD music cdstart
Stop CD music cdstop
View 3D contour mesh contour
Control skirmish AI control

Dithering replaces gray line
of sight dither

Double weapon damage doubleshot
Half weapon damage halfshot
Lost game ilose
Win game iwin
Kill all units kill
Darker structures light 1000
Black structures light
Decrease energy noenergy
Decrease metal nometal

Disable explosion screen
effect noshake

Full map, disable line of
sight los

Full radar radar
Toggle object shadowing shadow
Units sing when highlighted sing
Toggle 3D sound sound3d

Press [Alt] + to
switch units switchalt

View opponent’s energy,
metal view

Share radar* share radar
Share metal* share metal
Share energy* share energy
Share all resources* share all
Also shoot buildings shootall

Traces unit/structures in
order that they were built bigbrother

Display data transfer in
multi-player mode bps

Change opponent color in
skirmish logo

Cover the screen in black mapping

Display ranges by holding
[Shift] when pointer is over
unit showranges

??? aimfromprimary
??? aimfromsecondary
??? aimfromtertiary
??? antialias
??? assert
??? assign
??? becarried
??? burnall
??? burnone
??? debugbreak
??? dprint
??? dr
??? drop
??? edge
??? feature
??? film
??? filmspeed
??? fshadow
??? give
??? iface
??? include
??? lostype
??? mem
??? memdump
??? move
??? musicmode
??? netstats
??? notoktobuild
??? numlines
??? numtables
??? oktobuild
??? profile
??? querynanopiece
??? queryprimary
??? querysecondary
??? querytertiary
??? rcache
??? reload
??? scrollspeed
??? screenchat
??? sealevel
??? search
??? selboxes
??? selectable
??? shot
??? sweetspot
??? tableinfo
??? treedeath
??? tshadow
??? zbuffer

* Only in Multi-player mode