How to enable cheats and console commands in Dishonored 1
In honor of switching to a new laptop and therefore having to reenable all my shit I have decided to finally sit down and write this post. Here is my quick startup guide to cheats and console commands in Dishonored 1 plus some other stuff I find useful. Start the game at least once first to create all the necessary files if you're doing this on a fresh install.
Turning off company splash screens that normally play upon startup: right click on the game in your Steam library, then go down to "Launch options" and simply type in the following: -nostartupmovies
Letting you alt-tab out of the game without the game automatically throwing up a pause screen:
open [your username]\Documents\My Games\Dishonored\DishonoredGame\Config\DishonoredEngine.ini
ctrl+F the following text: bPauseOnLossOfFocus=TRUE
Enabling cheats and console commands:
open [your username]\Documents\My Games\Dishonored\DishonoredGame\Config\DishonoredInput.ini
under [Engine.PlayerInput] add the following line: m_PCBindings=(Name="F1",Command="set Console ConsoleKey comma | set PlayerController CheatClass class'DishonoredCheatManager' | EnableCheats")
Press F1 to enable cheats, press comma to open the console. You can edit these key bindings to something you're more comfortable with obviously.
note that other people online will tell you to set both the key that opens the console and the key that enables cheats to the same key, however I found that this meant the console commands would break if you transitioned between levels or loaded a save. Assigning them to two different buttons fixes this, although you do have to press the EnableCheats button once evrey time you transition to/load a new map.
Upon opening the console, enter your command of choice. You can dump the full list of cheats theoretically available with the usual UE tools, however not all of the ones in the dumped list actually work. In fact most of them don't. So instead of giving you the entire - mostly useless - list, here are the ones I have confirmed to work and which you'll most likely actually want to know. Words in italics need to be replaced by numbers or phrases as seen in the examples. Bits in brackets are my added explanations.
Fly (no gravity for the player, however collision remains on)
Ghost (neither gravity nor collision applies to the player) (this will also make it so you don't trigger events that happen when you reach certain locations, which can break events and maps pretty badly)
Walk (undo either of the two above commands, reenable normal gravity and collision for the player) (sometimes if you're in a Fly/Ghost state while loading a different level your collision gets all fucked up, use this command to set your gravity and collision back to normal if that happens and then reenable Fly/Ghost if desired)
God (makes it so the player cannot get damaged or killed)
PlayersOnly (probably the most important command in this entire list for me, this essentially pauses the entire game except for the player. Note that this can break the game pretty badly, especially if you do things like attack enemies, kill people, go into locations that are usually loaded in after you hit a certain trigger spot and so on. Use with caution if you're intending to actually play the game.)
AddPower InsertYourPowerOfChoiceHere LevelAsAnInteger (all powers are simply their in-game names written without spaces, except for Agility which is Celerity instead. For example: AddPower Blink 2)
RemovePower InsertYourPowerOfChoiceHere (I find it useful to go MaxPowers -> RemovePower Shadowkill if I want to get somewhere, kill someone and then mess with their body lol)
GiveBoneCharm (gives one random bone charm)
GiveMoney NumberAsAnInteger
GiveRunes NumberAsAnInteger
DisSlomo TimeDilationAsAnInteger (Slows down the game if time dilation is set to between 0 and 1, speeds the game up if it is set above 1. Maximum is 10. Useful to quickly get through cutscenes.)
DisSlomoFull PlayerTimeDilationAsAnInteger WorldTimeDilationAsAnInteger (same as above but with individual settings for the player and the rest of the game world)
Console Events
Console Events are small scripts the developers preprogrammed that let you do things like skip to other maps, skip to specific cutscenes, sometimes add items or trigger certain events and so on. These are all called by the command "ce". There are global console events that function everywhere but notably each map has unique console events specific to that map. Not all of them work but just try the ones you see listed!
ce InsertConsoleEventNameHere (for example: ce SkiptoHubFromBoyle)
Loading maps
The "start" command lets you start any map at any time. Listing all of the available maps would take up a ton of space edit: I posted a full list of all the map names here. Note that some of the maps, like the intro Tower, don't function properly when started this way, some of them drop you off at 0,0,0 instead of your intended starting location, and in some (like the Pub) you have to perform a console event (see above) to start the necessary scripts upon loading the map to make NPCs etc. load in, so if you're trying to actually play the game you're better off just loading the individual level through the vanilla level select screen. You can load the base game main menu map with the command "start Dishonored_MainMenu_Env", however you need to enable cheats to explore it as it doesn't have any collision enabled. The DLC menu maps are unavailable through this command as they don't have spawning points for Corvo set in their data.
start InsertMapNameHere (for example: start L_Ovrsr_Back_P)
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