DUKE NUKEM 3D Cheats, Tips Version 2.0 What follows are hints, tips, secrets and cheats I have gathered from this newsgroup. I've probably missed quite a bit, and I invite everyone to contribute to this help file to make it more complete. There are some repetitions, so bear with me. I've cut-and-pasted a whole lot of messages into one big file. I've now removed more repetitions from the file and added new material. Enjoy! Cheats ------ Here's what you do: PAUSE (pause key) the game, then type in the cheats. You don't have to pause the game to type in the cheats, sometimes typing them right in the game works. However, for some unguessed-at reason, sometimes they don't work at all and when you get to type the "N" after the "D", the night goggles are activated. One solution is to redefine the night goggle key from "N" to another letter not used in the cheat codes. Also, some codes don't seem to work for me. DNGODLY doesn't work, I have to type in DNCORNHOLIO. A few others, too, but there's usually an equivalent. DNGODLY: GOD MODE ON DNUNGODLY: GOD MODE OFF DNCORNHOLIO: God mode (toggles) DNKROZ: God mode (toggles) DNWARP: jump to other episode and level DNSCOTTY: jump to other episode and level DNAMMO: all ammo full DNVIEW: "follow" mode.. watch duke from a few feet behind, like key DNWEAPONS: all available weapons.. usually 1-6 DNUNLOCK: when in front of a lock door.. unlocks it DNITEMS: keys... items...etc. DNSTUFF: keys, weapons, ammo DNRATE: shows rate (2 numbers top left of screen) DNSKILL: Re-start level with skill # DNCLIP: walk-through-walls DNHYPER: steroids! DNENDING: ends the episode DNCASHMAN: Duke throws out some cash w/ DNMONSTERS: what does this do? Remove all monsters? Tips ---- I agree with the posts which say that it seems like cheating to be able to pee and pee and pee and pee (or drink, drink, drink to get our health back up. Funny thing is, after drinking 60 times, Duke didn't need to pee!!! You can drink the water from the toilets, hydrants, etc. to get health. Shoot the toilet then press to "use" the resulting fountain. Security cameras: press to go cycle through the views, until you get back to the "static" screen, or to exit. Neat stuff and Stupid Duke Tricks --------------------------------- If you shoot underwater (esp. with the chain gun) notice that the spent shell casings are suspended in the water at first, before they slowly sink to the bottom. Nice touch. Most metal trashcans hold a goodie, kick them or shoot them. The plastic trashcans will "dent" (good old Rubbermaid) but bounce back into shape with normal shots, but the RPG or pipe bomb will torch them. Play pool in the nightclub. Love the bloody footprints after Duke steps on a body. Wet footprints left by Duke when he gets out of water/sludge A pipe bomb will reduce dead bodies to just puddles of blood. Try opening a door while looking at the detailed map (after pressing twice)... if there's a light source nearby, you'll see the floor lightening up. The first time I played, I was looking around on the first level for secret doors, and was jumping up in a corner. All of a sudden I was rising higher and higher. Great, I thought, a secret elevator! I turned around to see how high i was going, and suddenly I fell to my screaming death, seeing a monster flash by on the way down :-) If running DN3D at 640X480 is just a bit jerky, try 640X400 (edit DUKE3d.CFG). This mode uses 17% less data per screen than 640X480, and does not look noticeably different. If you set your shotgun damage to 150, it kills everybody but the boss in one shot and kicks your victim backwards about ten feet (except for the "chokers" and the flying tigers). If you set the shotgun to 1500, it turns your hapless victims into billiard balls (they bounce all over the place). I don't know if this is a "bug" or intentional, but... the Troopers that can teleport don't always reappear. Or if they do, it's only if you move to another room or sector. If a Trooper disappears, you can stand there for 5 minutes and he won't come back. Then as soon as you walk into another room, he pops in. But sometimes, they just disappear forever. You'll get to the end of the level and you'll see one or two enemies not killed, which are the troopers that never came back. Annoying. (BTW: Notice in the demo for Level 1 that a Green Trooper teleports out! According to the help file, only the Red/Orange ones are supposed to be able to do this.) 3) You can flip a light switch through a wall! Try this: In the movie theater on the first level, where the concession stand is and the elevator to the arcade, there's a lit poster on the wall beside doors that lead you to the ticket booth at the front of the theater. Stand between the doors and the poster, and hit the open/use key (space bar). The poster should go dark. Do it again, the poster is lit. If you go through the doors to the other side, you'll find a light switch right behind where you were. 4) On the second level, if you manage to kill a Pig Cop so his body drops where the sidewalk and street meet; depending on the angle, the sidewalk will cover him up partially. Same sort of thing happens on the third level. If a Pig Cop is standing beside one of the slopes at the bottom (where the door is that takes you outside to the turrets) as you walk on it, his body will appear through the slope. There are several small rooms and teleports that appear when in multi-player mode. They just aren't accessible solo. Go to level one, clear out the street area. Cheat with DNKROZ (invincibility), DNSTUFF (items), and DNCASHMAN (money flies w/ space bar). Use the jet pack to fly up as far as the game will permit, and rapidly hit the space bar a dozen times; you should see money flying away from you. Hit ENTER to shut off the jet pack; you'll live only if you remembered DNKROZ. Now step back a bit, and look up. You should be able to see a huge cloud of cash that can take well over a minute to land. It's especially nice in 640x480 or better. Hey, I did say this was a "stupid" trick, didn't I? P.S. When playing death match, Level 6 (launch facility) makes for some excellent gambits using long elevators and holodukes. Anywho, another Stupid Duke Trick[tm, pat. pend] is to fly up as high as you can in the street in level one (or two), turn on God Mode, hit F7 and turn off your jet pack. After you hit the ground (and the blood flies), Duke will be thrashing in a spastic fit-o-death until you crouch, turn on the jet pack, etc. Quite funny. This one is hard to do deliberately, but it happens by accident once in a while. We all know that if you directly shotgun a "red alien" as he's teleporting, he'll reappear seconds later, and collapse. I found that if you launch an RPG at him, and it connects as he fades out, you'll soon hear (and see, if you're fast) the alien reappear, and spontaneously burst, sending innards everywhere. Also, in level one, we've all found the alien sitting on the can in the bathroom. Instead of opening the stall, try lobbing one or two pipe bombs over the door. Neat effect. Also, in level two, in the "peep show" area, two or more of the doors have aliens behind them. Open each, toss a pipe bomb in, then shut it quickly. Detonate 'em all at once. On level 3... type DNKROZ and enter behind the grinding machines. See yourself squish. the one on level 4? will crash the game On the final level (1-5) if you give yourself a jet pack and fly up to the shrink ray that you use to cross under the wall you'll find a secret message written on the wall. "You're not supposed to be here. Levelord" I found a message similar to this on level 4 where right above the sunken sub I made a very difficult jump to where a turret gun was shooting at me from and found a secret door in there, and there was a message saying "How did you get here?" When you get to the end of E1M2, you know, where the cage come up and traps you. Instead, use the jet pack and fly across to the self-destruct switch. You still get your ass fried. Many things are like this. Teleporters don't work when you're flying. That bit on level 2 when the pig cops drop through the ceiling doesn't activate unless you're walking. Level 1 - Hollywood Holocaust ----------------------------- Secrets/Tips for Level One. (*) = official secret. 1(*)There is an RPG on the ledge below the "Innocent?" sign. Jump up on top of the crate and jump onto the slanted ledge to the left. From the slanted ledge jump onto the ledge underneath the "Innocent?" sign. The RPG will raise up on a platform. (you don't have to get the RPG to get the secret. 2(*)There are RPG shells in a secret apartment above the slanted ledge. Either drop down on this ledge from the ledge under the "Innocent?" sign or else jump up here from the crate. [There is another way to get here, see #4 below]. Then place yourself under either the left or the center window and jump + move forward. Watch out for the ugly around the corner in the apartment (you can see him on the security monitor). Grab the RPG shells to get the official secret. (You could exit the apartment through one of the windows you didn't come in through, but I'm not sure if you'd get tangled up with the guy in flaming box (#4)) 3(*)There are steroids behind a poster in the apartment. Press while standing in front of the "Attack of the Bleached Blonde Biker Bimbos" sign. 4 Out in front of the theater off to the right is a burning box. There's an ugly, a clip, a health, and another way in the secret apartment. As you go towards the box a flying ugly will pop up out of it (maybe if you came out of the other windows in the apartment you could pick this guy off?) Anyway, remember to jump just inside the box to get a clip of ammo. In order to get the health (and another way into the apartment in #2) jump onto the "No Parking" sign. To do this get right next to the sign and tap jump and forward in quick succession. To jump from the sign onto the ledge tap forward, tap jump and then hold down forward in quick succession. Either of the two rightmost windows will take you into the apartment. The health is sitting on the ledge in front of you. (I tried initially entering the apartment this way and took more damage from the ugly inside than I did with the other approach to the apartment). 5 Entering the theater. Either you can go through the back entrance, or else you can blow a hole through the ticket booth with the RPG. To do this aim the RPG through the window of the ticket booth and at a 45 degree (or so) angle aimed at the wall inside the ticket booth with all the cracks on it. You cannot blow this wall up from the outside. Don't get too close and don't miss the window and blow the RPG shell up in your face. (cracks in a wall generally mean that an RPG shell or pipe bomb will take the wall out). 6(*)There is a full armor and a medkit in a hidden room in the main lobby. First, go to the cash register in the main lobby and press , this will open up a section of the wall up and to your right. To get up there you need to use the hidden lift. It is off to the left of the "Attack of the Bleached Blonde Biker Bimbos" poster below the room, and you can't see it. Just press there and it'll take you up. 7 There is a medkit, pipe bomb and night vision goggles behind a secret door above the trashcan outside of the arcade. Jump on the trashcan, press , then jump up and go forwards to get inside the room. 8 The bathroom (100% medkit) and the ventilation shaft (holoduke). Remember to snag the clip that is sitting behind the couch in the bathroom. (And notice that a urinal has "867-5309" next to it which is the name of an early 80's song by Tommy Tutone). Jump on top of the stalls to get a 100% medkit. Kick in the cover to the ventilation shaft. Get in front of it, stand back and send an RPG into it. Provided you didn't do something silly like miss and blow the RPG up in your face you will have blown away the far inside corner wall of the ventilation shaft and will be able to snag the holoduke -- done right you don't lose any health. If you really want to try to blow the wall from inside the ventilation shaft, use a pipe bomb. 9(*)through the ventilation shaft there's a secret room with shotgun shells and an entrance into the projector room. (alternatively, you could have gone up the spiral staircase into the projector room and then hit on the wall directly to the left of the fire extinguisher, then down the ventilation shaft and into the bathroom...). 10(*)The projector room has the keycard and there's also a secret room with an RPG. It's accessed by jumping on top of the projector. There's also another ugly inside of this room. It is possible to simply jump up without landing on top of the projector to get the health bonus on top of it without opening up the secret room. 11(*)RPGing the movie babe and getting the jet pack. Hit the switch in the projector room to dim the lights, draw back the curtain and start the movie. Go down into the theater and fire an RPG at the babe. This should open up a hole in the screen. On your way to the hole, make sure you've picked up the ammo in the seats, near the exit and hidden in the curtains. Through the hole you'll find a couple box of shotgun shells and the jet pack. Blowing out the window here will get you back the rear entrance to the theater. 12. If you want to you can fly upwards from the rear entrance to the theater past the bridge near the ending. There's a room to the left with a jet pack and two shotgun shells. There's also two automatic laser gun emplacements which make this something to usually pass up if you're not in God mode. 13. When you take the lift up to the arcade, stay on the lift, fire a shot at the tanks go back down and wait for the dust to clear. This blows a hole from the arcade into the theater. It also should take out anyone or anything inside this room. You don't want to be inside the room when the tanks let go. It is unhealthy. :-) 14. If you play the Duke Nukem game in the arcade (press in front of it) a panel will open up for a few moments in the wall to the right of the game containing a holoduke. 15(*)Getting the chain gun, pipe bombs and shotgun from the hidden room behind the neon sign above the palm tree. Easiest way to do this is by using the jet pack. The hidden room is on the level right above the palm tree and the windows to either side of the palm tree open into it. You *can* get here without the jet pack it just isn't easy. First of all you've got to find the bridge to the final exit and jump off (or just walk off) it and onto the ledge that runs around the theater. Walk around this ledge to the palm tree (NB there's a health on this ledge). Stand directly in front of the palm tree. Line yourself up with the map so that you are exactly perpendicular to the building. Slide left/right until you're directly in front of the tree, and put your back against the wall. Gently tap forward once. If you're still looking at the map and you suddenly get *big* you've gone forwards too far and have almost stepped off, try it again. Now take the map off and *tap* forward, jump, forward in rapid succession. If you did it right, you're now on top of the tree (don't be surprised if it takes you at least half a dozen tries to get this right). Now turn around. If you jump straight forwards you'll hit a wall. Angle off at about 30 degrees to your left (use the map). Do the same tap forwards, tap jump, hold forwards in rapid succession and if you're lucky you should wind up in the apartment. Other neat things: - You can toss a pipe bomb on the bridge to the exit and blow it up. - You can fly up the ventilator shaft you came down from if you've got a jet pack. May be useful in death match if you want to hole up. Level 2 - Red Light District ---------------------------- There are night vision goggles in the book store bathroom. Press on the bathroom hand dryer and a panel opens up. You can also blast open the wall from this bathroom which leads to the peep show booths If you shoot wall with RPG in peep show room, it will open a hole to the bathroom. After blowing up building toss a pipe bomb on the manhole cover, and you can drop into the sewer and get mind warped by the flying squid thingy. After you get into nightclub you can get to the sewer by blowing up the toilet and the word "unlocked" will appear. Push on wall and get shot by pigs. You will find night vision, holoduke, steroids. Make sure to watch OJ Bronco chase on TV in bar on 2nd level. Push space bar when you come up to women. Duke says "Wanna Dance?" or "Shake it, Baby" The strippers will wiggle and show their tassels. Phones give busy signal when you push space bar. 1. In the porn shop, one of the bookcases along the wall will swing out, revealing a small cache of weapons. 2. Behind the counter and near the security monitor, there is another set of bookcases. Jump up on them for a health atom, and open the corner panel to reveal a Holoduke. 3. Down the dark hallway, there is a pitch black corridor off to the right of the elevator. Work your way down to a dimly lit passageway. There, you will get a health atom and possibly a shotgun, depending on how cordial the welcoming committee is. 4. The well-known sewer is considered a secret area. If you enter through the bathroom, you must actually go down into the sewer to get credit for finding a secret. 5. In the actual dance area of the strip joint, stand on the couch in the corner. This will cause the panel behind two of the strippers to open. RUN as fast as you can to this, as it will close fairly rapidly. Besides some ammo, there is a switch that will allow you to open or close this panel. 6. Strangely, the air duct leading back stage is considered a secret, though I personally know no alternative way to get back there. 7. At the very end section of the level, there is an illuminated wall panel right near the two crates. Open this for a health kit. 8. The last secret is the RPG on the platform on the stage. It is to the upper right of the switch which opens the curtains. You can jump to it from the platform which leads to the last room with the two crates. For the record, these actions do NOT count toward the secret count: 1. Finding the RPG in the peep show booth. 2. Finding the keycards anywhere, including under the bar. 3. Entering the air duct that leads from the bar entrance into the bathroom. 4. Entering the sewer from the bathroom. The last secret is: Go into the bathroom, use space bar on hand dryer.. a small door will open on the wall in between the sink and the toilet. Get the night vision glasses in there. When you get to the end of E1M2, you know, where the cage come up and traps you. Instead, use the jet pack and fly across to the self destruct switch. >I am on the 2nd lvl of Duke 3d and I am in the Dance/Disco room. >Killed everything, including the dancers, and can not figure out >where to go from here. Look up one the wall to the right of the door. There is an air duct up there. Go through it, and you should be on your way. Boxes aren't for opening, they're for jumping on to get elsewhere. In the bookstore open the big red door by finding the right sequence of numbers, and go from there down the long dark hallway to a lift to an apartment. In the apartment is the blue key, go from there to right beside the bar and use the blue key and some button codes to blow up the building across the street. Go over there and get the yellow key, enter the bar. In the bar inside the bar, crouch down and look for a cabinet and open it to get the red key. It's pretty obvious from there. Level 3 - Death Row ------------------- 1) The place at the top of the prayer room (with the hanging monk) 2) Inside the prayer room (with the DOOMed character) 3) Behind the bed in a prison cell 4) and 5) 2 Small rooms next to the map 6) Above the entrance to the room with water and submarine (healing) 7) Connection between the yard and the corridor (shootable from outside) 8) Reactor room inside sub 9) The ledge besides the "machinery" (night vision goggles) 10) ? Try standing at the back of the room and looking up to shoot that button. Then shoot the monk hanging from the roof to get +50 health. There is also another +50 and some armour where the floor rises. Press on the monster's face at the front of the altar. It's not a monster, it's a Christ icon: specifically, Christ's supposed "impression" on the Shroud of Turin. (see, another cultural reference!) >Been there, done that, but I still can't get to that button above >the chapel. Any advice? Take your pistol, look up with and shoot the button. There is a slime river (with two octabrains on skill 2) that takes you to the normal exit to level 4 (toxic waste facility) At the end of the slime river is a teleporter (why?) that will take you back to the waterfall area. I couldn't look around too much as to why, because I ran out of air (used that extra tank too early, I guess) Anyway, the regular exit is at the end of that fast moving slime river. >I was wondering if you could tell me how to open the large steel >door that you come to in the prison courtyard? It is the one with >the flashing red light above it. I have been everywhere on this >level except for beyond this door. >Can you help me exit level 3. I've found the map and taken >down the force fields. Noticed what looked like an arrow on the >map but can't find anything in that area. What do I do next? You have to be on the other side of the door to unlock, then open it. Check the prison cells, go through the picture of the girl in that one cell. That map you found points out a tunnel there. step into the poster; it's not a door, just walk right into it. Level 4 - Toxic Waste Facility ------------------------------ At the end of Level 4 there's a tunnel with running slime... while you're going thru the tunnel, use the RPG on the Octabrains. When I was doing this, a part of the wall blew off and inside was the secret level entrance. There is a crack on the left side just before you reach the actual exit. If you blow it open there is another couple of rooms in there (baddies too!) and the secret exit.. The secret level (which I'm stuck in...) is found in the middle of that slime river. However, you have to get into it going down there, because the river moves too fast to go back up... Not true. Yes, the river is fast, but you can get back by using the Jump key! While going down the river, blow a hole in the wall. It's on the left side about half way down. If you just drift, you should get stuck there anyway. However, don't try to get in then, 'cause you'll blow yourself up! Watch where it is, and try to shoot it with the RPG on the way down. It's tricky! (Especially if you're trying to kill the two octabrains!) >Can anyone help? The last access card I used just opened up a window >for something that keeps shooting green globs at me. The nearby >door won't open. I have no idea what to do. The green globs are apparently a shrink ray. let one hit you and run through the little vent to the right, and stay to the right (hurry because you wouldn't want to return to your normal size in that little tunnel). There is a switch in that room that will open something, anyhow that door opened for me. ahh the underwater gears.. watch them closely... and you'll see a blue/grey area... those are the gaps in the gears, time it and swim into em and you are on the other side of them. But if you are feeling brave ride the gears all the way around and pick up some goodies. Walk up to the gears. Turn on your automap . You will notice two teeth are missing from the gears. Time your steps right, and you should slip thru the gap made by the missing teeth! Level 5 (last) -------------- - If you turn on God Mode, and purposely fall from one of the spires into the toxic sludge, swim around. There's a message on one of the rock faces! "Dopefish Lives!" :) The BOSS >I got stuck in this big room on level 5. It is in the big building >and there is a patch of lava or whatever going across it. How >do I get out of here? That's probably the boss room. You've got to beat him to get out. Is there a +-shaped window nearby? There's a ledge to jump up on and a switch that raises another platform... After falling down the pit into the Boss's lair, (don't forget the secret ammo on the way down), you land in the room adjacent to the Boss arena. Strategy: 1) For some reason, if you don't go across the pool of toxic waste in the center, he usually stays on the other side -- even if you shoot him. But eventually he'll come after you. I get in a few easy hits this way, with RPGs. Chain gun seems to be pretty useless, and shotgun is too slow. 2) Only direct hits seem to do damage. I tossed something like 50 pipe bombs over the pool and detonated -- the bastard lived! You have to put a pipe bomb right in his face in order for it to do damage. RPGs work well . . . if you can stay alive long enough. Takes about *42* of them to do him in! 3) When he opens up with his chain gun: RUN. There's nothing you can do while he's shooting this at you. But when he decides to toss his version of pipe bombs, this is your opportunity to attack. Fire RPGs or use pipe bombs . . . just make sure you avoid his. This strategy ALMOST works when I play legit, but I never quite make it. Another strategy: Normally, you would press the wall button to enter the arena, enter, the door closes behind you and you're trapped inside with the Boss who is probably going to blast you into bits! The trick, is to open the entrance door, step into the arena only briefly, then immediately back up (through the door). If you are successful at opening AND getting back out of the door before it closes, you can then open the door a second time, enter the arena and the door will not close on you anymore. Why is this important? THE BOSS IS TOO BIG TO FIT THROUGH THE DOOR! You can run into the arena, get the ammo, health and stuff, run like hell and exit into the adjoining chamber and blast away at the BOSS who will be sitting in the door like a duck! Pipe Bomb tricks and rocket launchers are so much fun this way! Secret Level - Launch Pad ------------------------- You can get there from level 4 (the legit way - a secret exit), use the cheat code "dnscotty16", or start Duke3D up with the level warp command line parameter (/L6). When you find the switch to open the big blue doors that let you go outside to the rocket (guarded by several pigs), if you look at one of the computer panels... Hmm, that looks familiar! "Stop, Duke. Please stop, Duke. I'm afraid... I'm a...fraid." :) Possible other level? --------------------- It's the seventh level I'm interested in - as the hype prior to Duke's release said there were 6 levels *plus* a secret level. I'm just not sure it's in there. BUGS & FIXES ------------ To those who have been having problems with their .CON files, what I discovered was this: Go into your Duke 3D folder, and edit the attributes of all three ..CON files to READ-ONLY. That will eliminate these errors. When I set these files to READ-ONLY, I haven't had a problem since! The command is: ATTRIB +R *.CON 3D Realms confirms this fix in an e-mail I received from Joe Siegler. This (.CON corruption) problem happens to me and what causes it on my system is if you exit windows into DOS and then run Duke3d. When I turn on my system and go directly into DOS and then run Duke3d it doesn't happen. Hope this helps. This isn't true in my case, as I ran Windows, exited, played Duke, went back to Windows, exited Windows and ran Duke without problems. I did get .CON corruption at one point. When I removed my saved games from the directory, the game worked properly. Coincidence? I solved the problem by getting fresh .CON files. The problem is (according to 3DR) smartdrive and disk caches. They corrupt saved games (as they are saving). Win 95 uses this by default but a DOS boot will fix this. Most 6.x DOS configs also use it. Disable and problems go away. *-<>-* Special thanks to Lamont Granquist for his great Level 1 summary. *-<>-* -------------------------------------------------------------- Claude Marcotte Astronomers moon the universe Montreal, Canada e-mail: leia@vir.com WWW: http://www.vir.com/~leia/caal.html (francais) WWW: http://www.vir.com/~leia/ecaal.html (english) -------------------------------------------------------------- The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. --------------------------------------------------------------------