When playing the Freedom Guard the skirmish tanks always seem so
fragile compared to the enemies plasma tanks. Well now you can
give your skirmish tanks the same characteristics as the plasma
tanks.
There is a file called 'units.txt' in ..\darkreign\dark\deftxt
dir.
You can edit this file, search for the Freedom Guard tank
settings. Look for the 'Setstrength' entry and set your units
strength to around 500. There is another field which sets the
price and buildtime set this to say '50 1'. This will give you
cheap tough tanks for around 50 credits and they will be built
really quickly.
Note: You can do the same for the spyder bikes and tank hunters.
Also there is a file called 'build.txt' which you can set the
cost and increase the toughness of your buildings in the same
way.
This works for all missions up to the 6th one. This is because
there is a dedicated dir and units.txt file for this scenario
which you have to also edit in the same way.
Dark Reign Secret Level
There's another level after the 12th one : Death Blow. To
activate it, go to the level selection screen and click on the
spiral after you've completed Level 12
In the game directory path 'Dark Reign\Dark\Shell', you'll find a
file called shellcfg.h. Right click on it and select properties
and the un-check the 'read only' box. In this text file you'll
find a section called 'menu mission buttons' under which you will
see the line'#define BTN_MISSION_COEFFICIENT 150'.
Change the value 150 for thevalue 157 so that the line reads '#define
BTN_MISSION_COEFFICIENT 157'.Now when you run the game,
you'll be able to select any mission fromthe dial in the shell by
pressing the new 'Cheat' button in the bottomleft corner. Click
and you'll hear 'Wsoosh' sound.
To skip a stage that is a bit hard, press Ctrl+Q to go to the
editor. Choose yes, then make a map with only your units on it.
Launch the new map and you will win instantly. Then you can
select the next mission in the game.
IN THE GAME MENU PRESS SS AND THEN TYPE:
DARKPOWER= MAXIMUM POWER
DARKINV= INVULNERABILITY
DARK20000= MONEY VALUE 20000
This is probably a fault in the game but it is useful if
you don't have many credits when you're getting attacked
by enemy infantry units. If you are playing with
"Imperium"
and you are able to build "Shredders", click on decoy
and
build a decoy shredder. Once built, move the decoy shredder
up to an enemy infantry unit then click on the opposite
side of the unit. The decoy shredder couldn't be bothered
to go around the unit so it'll just move through the unit.
There may also may be more faults in decoy units but I
haven't tried them all yet.
Money Cheat for Dark Reign!!!
Note: This cheat a HEX EDITOR!!
1/ -Write down how much money you have eg 12000
2/ -Save Game and exit
3/ -Start up a Dec - Hex calculator
4/ -In Dec mode input amount of money
5/ -Convert to Hex, if for example you had 12000 credits
the resultant Hex figure would be 2EE0
6/ -Swap the last two characters with the first two ie.
2EE0 would become E02E, write this number down
7/ -Repeat steps 4 - 6 replacing current money with money
you want, eg if you want 50000 credits the
resulting Hex figure would be C350 and upon swapping
chracters the result would be 50C3
8/ -Open a Hex editing program (like Hex Editor) and open
the saved game. Do a search and replace,
searing for (in this case E02E and replacing with 50C3)
save and backup saved game file.
9/ -YAY!!!! instant money
10/ -Remember FFFF is the maximum you can input, but be
warned it can cause problems, my advice is to be
conservative.