config

Sets the music volume, ranging from:

• 0 – No music (Mute), to
• 100 – Loudest

Sets the FX volume, ranging from:

• 0 – No sound (Mute), to
• 100 – Loudest

Is music enabled?

• false – Disabled
• true – Enabled

Automatically play audio CD if present?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, play audio CD if present

Should sound be played?

• 0 – No (Mute)
• 1 -- Yes, play sounds

Sets voice volume, between:

• 0 – No sound (Mute)
• 100 – Loudest

Not sure if this setting applies in recent versions.

Sets player colour for the single-player Campaign mode:

• 0 – Green
• 4 – Red
• 5 – Blue
• 6 – Pink
• 7 – Cyan

Sets the difficulty level for single-player Campaign mode:

• 0 – Easy
• 1 – Medium
• 2 – Hard

This value is not changed by difficulty-cheats.

Chooses fog type:

• 0 – Distance fog
• 1 – Fog of war

Does not appear to work (tested on Warzone 3.1 Beta 10)

Sets the frame rate limit.

Should shadows be displayed?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, show shadows

Older graphics cards may be unable to render the game at an acceptable speed while using shadows.

This value can be changed by config parameters "--shadows" (1) and "--noshadows" (0).

Should the camera shake when buildings are destroyed?

• 0 – Off
• 1 – On

This option is not affected by the shakey-cheat (whatever that is?)

Should FPS (Frames Per Second) be displayed?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, show FPS

Sets the texture size of terrain tiles in pixels:

• 128 – Small
• 256
• 512 – Medium
• 1024
• 2048 – Large

Lower values can increase the game's performance.

What should unexplored tiles look like?

• 0 – Dimmed tiles
• 1 – Black tiles

Does not appear to have any effect (tested on Warzone 3.1 Beta 10)

Should the font be bold?

• bold – yes, make the font bold
• ???

See also: Spatial anti-aliasing (wikipedia)

Sets the gamma value Warzone 2100 will use.

This will have an effect on the whole screen, so do not be surprised to see your whole screen getting brighter/darker when playing in windowed mode.

Minimum value is 10 and stands for 0.5 times the normal screen intensity, maximum value is 200 and stands for 10 times the normal screen intensity.

Does not appear to work (tested in Warzone 3.1 Beta 10 on a Mac - could see no noticeable difference between 10 and 200)

Use coloured mouse cursor?

• 0 - Use (faster) hardware accelerated monochrome cursors
• 1 – Use (slower) coloured cursors

Sets behaviour of camera movement when holding down right mouse button and moving mouse up/down:

• 0 – Tilt in same direction as mouse movement
• 1 – Tilt in opposite direction of mouse movement

Which mouse button to use for ordering units to attack, move, etc?

• 0 – Left click
• 1 – Right click

Right click is how most other RTS games work, such as StarCraft and WarCraft.

Should build menu re-open?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, re-open it

No idea what this means!

Defines the maximum scroll speed and scroll speed acceleration, between:

• 1 – unbearably slow, to
• 4000 – rather fast

Sane values range from 200 (slow) to 4000 (rather fast). If you specify 0, the game will default to 100.

The setting on the Game Options Menu ranges from 100 to 1600.

Should the mouse cursor be trapped in the game window?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, trap the cursor

Only applies when in windowed mode. It prevents accidentally clicking off the game window.

Stores alliance mode for Skirmish and Multiplayer games:

• 0 – No alliances (NO_ALLIANCES)
• 1 – Dynamic alliances (ALLIANCES)
• 2 – Fixed teams (ALLIANCES_TEAMS)

See also: alliancesType and allianceExistsBetween().

Stores the base type for Skirmish and Multiplayer games:

• 0 – No bases (CAMP_CLEAN)
• 1 – Bases (CAMP_BASE)
• 2 – Advanced bases (CAMP_WALLS)

See also: baseType. The base type effects are applied via rules.js.

What faction colour is preferred for Skirmish and Multiplayer games?

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Note that this colour cannot be guaranteed in multiplayer games as someone else might have already taken it.

Sets the game name for Multiplayer games.

Limited to 79 bytes, so beware when using multi-byte characters such as German umlaute or Japanese kanji.

Skirmish Game Setup Screen

Host Game Setup Screen

Sets the default map name of the map Warzone 2100 will use when starting skirmish or multi player games.

Does not appear to work on single-player Skirmish games (tested in Warzone 3.1 Beta 10)

See also: mapName.

Skirmish Game Setup Screen

Host Game Setup Screen

Sets the default power level to use:

• 100 – Low power
• 400 – Medium power
• 700 – High power

If you specify any other number, Warzone will default to the Medium Power setting.

See also: powerType

These values might be wrong (see powerType for what the JS API is reporting).

Sets the port Warzone 2100 will listen to when hosting games.

Make sure that you can communicate on the specified port.

Sets the lobby server Warzone 2100 will use when entering the lobby and for showing your hosted multiplayer games.

Sets the port used to communicate with the lobby server specified in 'masterserver_name'.

Should UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) be enabled?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, enable UPnP

When enabled, Warzone will try to automatically configure the port forwarding in your router, if your router supports UPnP.

Sets your name used in skirmish and multi player games.

There is a profile for every playername you ever played with in your warzone directory.

Show friend vs. foe colours on the mini map?

• 0 – No, show player colours
• 1 – Yes, limit colours to friend or foe

Note: The value is not affected by using Ctrl+Tab.

How should terrain be rendered on the mini map?

• 0 or 1 – Terrain only
• 2 – Heightmap only
• 3 – Terrain and heightmap combined
• 4 – Terrain and no heightmap

Any other value will default to Terrain only mode.

Looks like the above might be wrong (tested on Warzone 3.1 Beta 10 - see screenshots below, 0 = first, 4 = last).

Should radars/sensors rotate?

• false – Stationery
• true – Rotating

See also: Change direction of sensor spin? (wz forums)

Determines whether subtitles are shown for videos:

• 0 – No subtitles
• 1 – Show subtitles

No idea how this relates to the 'subtitles' option below!

Should subtitles be shown during video playback?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, show subtitles

Note: If enabled, subtitles will be shown even if the video does not exist.

Sets playback size for FMVs (full motion videos):

• 0 – Full screen, stretching video
• 1 – Normal size
• 2 – 2 x Normal size
• 3 – Full screen, preserving video's aspect ratio

Should video sequences be played?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, play videos

The default value is likely to be changed in future releases as the videos have been liberated.

Start in "debug mode" (aka "Cheat mode"):

• 0 – Normal mode
• 1 – Debug mode

The command line parameter "--cheat" sets this to 1. In order to unset to 0 the file has be to edited by hand.

Start the game in full screen mode?

• 0 – Windowed
• 1 – Full screen

In Warzone 3.1 and above the permitted values are:

• false – Windowed
• true – Full screen

Sets the height of the screen resolution Warzone 2100 will use.

Equivalent to the height value of command line parameter "--resolution".

Should the game automatically pause if it loses focus?

• false – No
• true – Yes, pause the game

Sets the width of the screen resolution Warzone 2100 will use.

Equivalent to the width value of command line parameter "--resolution".

phrase0

phrase1

phrase2

phrase3

phrase4

Sets five predefinable messages used for multi player mode to throw at your opponent.

Enter chat mode and then press F1 (phrase0) to F5 (phrase4) to send the corresponding phrase.

It is not recommended to use these as it may not always work as expected.

These are limited to 79 bytes, so beware if you are using multi-byte characters such as German umlaute or Japanese kanji.

Should build menu re-open?

• 0 – No
• 1 – Yes, re-open it