This command does not work on Witches or Common Infected. This also works on your fellow survivors - type kick Francis to see the biker dude disappear, with only his weapons and whatever other items he was carrying as the only evidence as to his existence. For example, if a Jockey was riding you and you're a lone player, type kick Jockey and it'll magically disappear. To remove Specials, use the kick command, followed by the name of the special in question.
Z_spawn mob (Mobs last a LOT longer than the usual horde) Z_spawn common, z_spawn, z_spawn horde (the first two commands spawn a single common infected the latter spawns a horde.) These commands can be used to spawn in additional enemies. It is possible also to do this when in mid-play, you just need to change your view to spectator:
Cheats must be enabled in the main menu, before starting a game, and even then you must use the map command to load a game with cheats enabled - starting a local server via any of the lobbies will disable cheats. Unfortunately, enabling cheats in Left 4 Dead 2 is more complicated than in the previous game. Achievements can still be earned through an online game as long as cheats were never enabled on that server. Only restarting the particular game will allow achievements. Even when turned off, achievements are still disabled. Collect 10 Boomer Bile Bombs off Dead CEDA Agents) as well, so any Infected killed with cheats enabled will not count towards Zombie Genocides or any similar achievement. killing 5,359 Zombies in Crash Course) and any other Achievement that uses a Counter-based system to acquire (i.e. This includes Grind Achievements, which are achievements based on your lifetime performance (i.e. It is with sv_cheats 1 that most of the exploits were found by users in the demo during its pre-order era.Įnabling cheats disallows unlocking achievements. In the Left 4 Dead series, by setting sv_cheats to 1, most commands are then recognized by the game.
The sv_cheats console variable is a prerequisite command to many of the game-altering commands found in the Left 4 Dead series (including other Valve games, such as Half-Life).
The console is a feature of many games that can be used to change certain elements of a game.