No Damage cheat code

[Beed28]

Something I'd like to see is a NODAMAGE and a corresponding NODAMAGE2 cheat code, named after the actor flag. It's basically a cross between God Mode and Buddha Mode in that your health and armour can't be reduced like in God Mode, but the player will still react to pain (screen flash, pain grunt) as if he didn't have God Mode on; kinda like using an infinite health Action Replay code on those games of old.

[NeuralStunner]

Unsure how this is an improvement over Buddha mode. Health wouldn't change but that's the only real difference.

(Probably the best analogue is Wolfenstein 3D's initial god mode, which blocks damage but still shows pain flashes.)

kinda like using an infinite health Action Replay code on those games of old.

What I like are the ones that set your health to max every frame, so anything that does enough damage in a single frame can still kill you.

[Gez]

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alias infinitehealth "give megasphere; wait; infinitehealth"
infinitehealth

[Beed28]

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alias infinitehealth "give megasphere; wait; infinitehealth"
infinitehealth

Only problem is that it doesn't keep between levels, not to mention Heretic, Hexen, and Strife have no easy alternatives.

[wildweasel]

Except you can give yourself a Megasphere in any game that ZDoom supports, because the actor exists regardless of the game type.

[Beed28]

(facepalm)

How could I forget.

Still, it's sorta hacky and it doesn't keep for each level.

[Snarboo]

It also won't protect you from more than 200 points of damage in a single tic, at least if I'm reading this right.

[Gez]

It does what NS said:

What I like are the ones that set your health to max every frame, so anything that does enough damage in a single frame can still kill you.

But if you go for the megasphere, you'll need to receive more than 200 damage in a single tic to die, since the blue armor absorbs 50% damage. You'll be instakilled if you get 400+ damage in a single tic.

Nothing prevents you, however, from using buddha first.

[Major Cooke]

Something I'd like to see is a NODAMAGE and a corresponding NODAMAGE2 cheat code, named after the actor flag. It's basically a cross between God Mode and Buddha Mode in that your health and armour can't be reduced like in God Mode, but the player will still react to pain (screen flash, pain grunt) as if he didn't have God Mode on; kinda like using an infinite health Action Replay code on those games of old.

Or whenever you enter the pain state, have the player actor immediately give a megasphere if you have a special token, and assuming you have buddha enabled.

(Also dont forget there's god2 cheat. Just note the only difference between it and god is that telefrag damage amounts won't kill you anymore. True invulnerability there.)

(Also also the buddha2 cheat, same thing with god2: absorbs telefrag damage.)

[HeXaGoN]

I see this working:

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alias nodamage "buddha; nodamageh"
alias nodamageh "give megasphere; wait; nodamageh"

alias nodamage2 "buddha2; nodamage2h"
alias nodamage2h "give megasphere; wait; nodamage2h"

I'm also only saying what's below if you don't want to use buddha.
Buddha should be used in cases such as these, not to just test the player's pain state, but also how much damage stuff does.
One problem with this is, if you have sv_cheats set to 0, be prepared for console spam.
Plus, a map restart is necessary to stop this cheat, so it's hard to undo.

Fun fact! The most health you can give yourself (via "give health") at one point seems to be 32767.
So I'm gonna go ahead and take what Gez said and some what "enhance" it (or make it worse, however you view it. I find it to do both )
So, if you want to go down the route of an infinite console command loop, maybe use this:

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alias infinitehealth "give health 32767; wait; infinitehealth"
infinitehealth

I've tried it, and letting it go off for a few ticks, I can't even kill myself with the kill command.
You also need to restart the map to stop this one.

[Graf Zahl]

Ok, all this discussion hasn't answered the important question yet: What need does this serve that the other cheats do not?

[Gez]

You also need to restart the map to stop this one.

You can stop such looping cheats by redefining them:

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alias infinitehealth ""

So you can go as far as having commands that redefine them:

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alias setinfinitehealth "alias infinitehealth \"give health 32767; wait; infinitehealth\"; infinitehealth"
alias unsetinfinitehealth "alias infinitehealth \"\""

Then bind keys to setinfinitehealth and unsetinfinitehealth.

Ok, all this discussion hasn't answered the important question yet: What need does this serve that the other cheats do not?

Nothing, IMO.

[Graf Zahl]

OK, then...