StarCraft 2 Cheat Codes Officially Revealed
Blizzard cleared the air in regards to using official StarCraft 2 cheat codes in the single-player campaign.
Friday Blizzard cleared the air in regards to using the official cheat codes in StarCraft 2's single-player campaign. Previously gamers received conflicting messages from Blizzard, with Customer Services admitting that it's banning players using cheat codes in the single-player mode while another representative claimed that players can use them safely.
The problem with using cheats-- whether they're programmed by Blizzard or offered by a 3rd-party application-- is that they affect the user's achievements and overall score. Blizzard wants gamers to earn their scores and achievements honestly, however there seems to be some understanding that sometimes players need God Mode or Instant Victory. With that said, Blizzard has released a list of official cheat codes sanctioned for use in StarCraft 2.
But there's a catch.
"Before using cheat codes it’s important to understand that using them will prevent additional achievement gains you might have earned through normal play until either a new campaign is started or a prior save is loaded (one from before the use of the first cheat)," the company said Friday. "All of these cheat codes have been added deliberately to the game and unlike third-party hacks or cheats won’t flag an account for suspension."
So there you have it: official Blizzard cheat codes can be used "safely," but they can't be used to officially move the campaign forward. According to Blizzard, cheat codes can only be used in single-player mode by pressing the enter key within the game and typing in the codes within the console. To access the entire list, head here.
As you'll see, the list contains 16 major cheat codes, 5 story mode cheat codes, a custom maps cheat code, and an Easter egg cheat code. The actual codes bounce everywhere in the entertainment industry, referring to Star Wars, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings and even Star Trek. Fun stuff.
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There's hardly any reason for them to even bother turning off achievements when you use cheat codes, the people that want to "cheat" for their achievements will do so anyway, whether you call it farming or playing cheap, either way they'll get their achievements without actually learning to play the game.
It's not hard for someone to just look up the exact build process/strategy needed to get a given achievement, or to look up exactly how a given map is layed out and what enemies spawn when/where when thats applicable, and doing these kinds of things is just as bad as cheating, even worse in my opinion because it makes the cheater think he did something when he just used the equivalent of an undetectable cheat. Nothing can be done about it though, thats just how people work. Theres always a lot of people that don't actually want to play the games they own and instead just want to sit around winning and never actually try to play. (reminds me of d2 where no one plays the game anymore either, they just get rushed, but its obvious this applies to nearly every game out there right now).