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Useful/Funny Commands

By D R i c k r a f t [ᚨ] [ᚦ] and 1 collaborators

HOW TO USE:
First of all go to Keyboard Settings and enable the game console.
With some of them you may need to put the command: " sv_cheats 1 ".
(Remember that enabling sv_cheats will disable achievents until you restart the game)

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Category: Game Modes, Modding or Configuration

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Guide Index

Overview

Place Portals Anywhere

SlowMotion/ Custom game time

Screenshot Mode

Hide/ Show Crosshair

NoClip/ Fly without collision

Immortal/ God mode

Custom Gravity

Fast Close the game

Potato Glados on Portal Gun

Third Person View

Kill yourself/ Suicide

Restart the Level

Partner View without holding TAB

Hide Portal Gun

Enable/Disable Flashlight

Spawn a Companion Cube

Spawn a Reflector Cube

Spawn a Sphere Ball

Spawn a Turret

Friendly Turrents

Fire a Rocket

Spawn Gel

Close all portals

Bind/ Unbind commands

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Place Portals Anywhere

This allows you to shoot portals at any position.
And as always, 0 disables it and 1 enables it.

• sv_portal_placement_never_fail 1 • sv_portal_placement_never_fail 0

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SlowMotion/ Custom game time

Change the timescale value⁣ (2 is double the speed, 0.5 is half of the speed, 1 is the default speed, etc.).

• host_timescale 0.5 • host_timescale 2 • host_timescale 1

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Screenshot Mode

Use these commands to Hide your Viewmodel and Crosshair.

• crosshair 0 • impulse 200

And these to have them back:

• crosshair 1 • impulse 200

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Hide/ Show Crosshair

As always, 0 disables it and 1 enables it.

• crosshair 0 • crosshair 1

For the Bind version (by pressing the "v" key):

BindToggle v crosshair

NoClip/ Fly without collision

Enable/ disable noclip by pressing the "M" key.

bind m noclip

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Immortal/ God mode

Enable/ Disable god mode.⁣

god

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Custom Gravity

Change the number to whatever you want, 600 is the Default one.
Lower value means lower gravity and vice versa.⁣

sv_gravity 600

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Fast Close the game

Instantly Close the Game by pressing F10.

Bind F10 quit

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Potato Glados on Portal Gun

It's good to have a best friend on your portal device, right?

upgrade_potatogun

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Third Person View

This one doesn't need explanations.

• thirdperson • firstperson

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Kill yourself/ Suicide

Your life matters, but anyway... there's the command.

kill

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Restart the Level

Restart the level by pressing the "Z" key.

• bind z restart_level

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Partner View without holding TAB

⁣First of all, you need to create an autoconfig, to do it, you must go into the game's cfg folder (usually located under C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Portal 2\portal2\cfg), than create a txt document, open it and paste the commands below, after this, save with name: autoexec.cfg (the file must be a cfg file, don't save it as a txt document). Use the command " exec autoexec " and you will be able to show the partner view by pressing TAB without holding it: press TAB again to disable it.

alias remote-view remote-view-on alias remote-view-on "+remote_view; alias remote-view remote-view-off" alias remote-view-off "-remote_view; alias remote-view remote-view-on" bind "tab" "remote-view"

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Hide Portal Gun

With this command you can hide/show your viewmodel for better screenshots by pressing the "M" key.

bind m "impulse 200"

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Enable/Disable Flashlight

Enable/ Disable Flashlight by pressing the "F" key.

bind f "impulse 100"

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Spawn a Companion Cube

Spawn your best friend by pressing the "C" key.

bind c ent_create_portal_companion_cube

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Spawn a Reflector Cube

Spawn a Reflector Cube by pressing the "V" key.

bind v ent_create_portal_reflector_cube

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Spawn a Sphere Ball

Spawn a Sphere Ball by pressing the "B" key.

bind b ent_create_portal_weighted_sphere

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Spawn a Turret

Spawn a Turret by pressing the "N" key⁣.

bind n "npc_create npc_portal_turret_floor"

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Friendly Turrents

Turrets won't shoot you.

notarget

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Fire a Rocket

Fire a Rocket by pressing the "R" key.

bind r fire_rocket_projectile

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Spawn Gel

Spawn Gel by pressing the keys:

"O" for the Blue one.
"I" for the White one.
"U" for the Orange one.

• bind o ent_create_paint_bomb_jump • bind i ent_create_paint_bomb_portal • bind u ent_create_paint_bomb_speed

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Close all portals

Close opened portals by pressing the "P" key.

bind "p" "ent_fire prop_portal fizzle"

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Bind/ Unbind commands

The first command let you bind commands to keys on your keyboard and the second one removes them.
REMEMBER that unbinding keys DOES NOT bring the default commands back.
You will need to bind them again (for example "bind w +forward").

• bind "key" "command" • unbind "key"

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