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StarCraft Online Strategy Guide

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Cheat: Free Technology Upgrades
To instantly upgrade your technology press ENTER then type "medieval man" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Free Unit Upgrades
To instantly upgrade all of your units press ENTER then type "something for nothing" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Infinite Energy
For infinite energy, press ENTER then type "the gathering" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Instant Loss
To instantly lose the current level press ENTER then type "game over man" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Instant Victory
To instantly win the current level press ENTER then type "there is no cow level" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Invincibility
To make all of the other teams unable to deal damage press ENTER then type "power overwhelming" and press ENTER again.
Submitted by De Coronida Ath
Cheat: Lift the Fog
To prevent the fog of war from coming back, press ENTER then type "war aint what it used to be" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Receive 500 Vespene Gas
Low on gas? Press ENTER and type "breathe deep" and press ENTER again. Remember kids, inhalants are bad so don't try this at home.
Cheat: Disable Food and Psi Requirements
To remove food and psi limits, press ENTER, type "food for thought" and then press ENTER again.
Submitted by adam brophy
Cheat: Build over supply limit as Protoss or Zerg
To build over the supply limit of 200, have your Dark Archons mind control any protoss unit, and you can do this just as much as you want! To build over the 200 supply limit of the zerg simply have at least 8 drones and a whole lot of minerals. Next mutate them into a cheap building like a creep colony and rush back to your Hatchery ( Lair or Hive) and find any larvae and mutate it into the unit that you want and then while it is mutating stop the drones from finishing and ta-da! Sadly, there is no way to build over the 200 supply limit as Terran.
Submitted by I'maPro
Cheat: Zerg Music
If you are playing as zerg, enter "radio free zerg" and zerg music will play. (This only works for zerg)
Submitted by Mark Kimigimi
Cheat: Extractor
Play as the zerg and get 9 drones. Tell 1 of them to build an extractor, then build another drone. Cancel the extractor and you have 11 drones and 1 overlord.
Submitted by Kyle Giese
Cheat: Build units beyond the supply limit
During game play press enter and type "food for thought" then press enter again. You will be able to build units past your supply limit.
Submitted by Jay
Cheat: Level Select
To choose your level do the following:

  1. Press ENTER
  2. Type "ophelia"
  3. Press ENTER
  4. Type the name of the desired level.
  5. Press ENTER again.

StarCraft level names consist of the race followed by the mission number. eg: terran1, terran2, zerg1, zerg2, protoss1, protoss2, etc.

Cheat: Disable Level Victory
To continue playing after achieving victory, press ENTER then type "staying alive" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Receive 500 Minerals
For another perk press ENTER then type "whats mine is mine" and press ENTER again. Please forgive Blizzard's awful puns.
Cheat: Receive 10,000 Minerals and Gas
For a helpful bonus press ENTER then type "show me the money" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Reveal Map
To reveal the entire map and remove the fog of war, press ENTER then type "black sheep wall" and press ENTER again.
Cheat: Get 1000 more of every resource
To get 1000 more of every resource hit enter and then type in SHOW ME THE MONEY and then hit enter again.
Submitted by Zach
Cheat: Disable Technology Tree
Press ENTER then type "modify the phase variance" and press ENTER again. This code lets you ignore prerequisites and build anything you can afford.
Cheat: Enemy Can't Use Psionics
To prevent the enemy from using Psionics, press ENTER, type "noglues", then press ENTER again.
Cheat: Fast Build Mode
To build units quicker, press ENTER, type "operation cwal" and then press ENTER again.
Submitted by adam brophy
Unlockable: Bonus Level
In order to play the bonus level 'Dark Origin', finish the Zerg Brood wars level 'The Reckoning' (level 8) within 25 minutes. This can easily be accomplished by using the invincibility cheat 'power overwhelming'.
Submitted by Alexandre Soufan
Hint: Shakespearean Idiocy
If you click on a Protoss or Terran unit repeatedly (alternately, assign it a grouping and hold the key for that grouping), it will say acknowledge your command, then proceed to other-worldy humour. Some remarks are wry Blizzard commentary on Warcraft and their other past projects (like Diablo).
Submitted by Brian Lewis
Hint: Extra supplies
Instead of playing a custom scenario, go to multiplayer and do direct connect. create a game on team melle and put all the same races in your team. for each time you put your race in, it's an extra 200 supplies! his means you can have 100 carriers if you play 2 teams and all protoss!
Submitted by Kyle Giese
Hint: Place Command Center Near Resources
First, Lift up your command center by pressing "L" after clicking it or by clicking the arrow pointing up. Then make it land by pressing "L" again but before it lands, press "SHIFT + S". Hold it until the terran command center lands. After it reach the ground, press Right Click near the Resources. You will notice that the command center flies and lands automatically near the resources
Submitted by Ianoo
Hint: Locate Burrowed Zergs
To locate burrowed Zergs,click on any of your units and move the green arrow cursor around the place you think is not safe. If your cursor turns red there are burrowed Zergs there.
Submitted by Maxell Wedir
Hint: Clone Broodlings
If you are Zerg and you have a Queen and you're able to use the abilaty "Spawn Broodlings", than use it on an enemy non-mechanical ground unit and when the two broodlings come out of that unit, hit one of the broodlings with "Spawn Broodlings", and two Broodlings will come out of that Broodling. If you do this reapeatedly than you can have an army of them.
Submitted by Mavrik

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Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Number of Players: 1-8
Release Date:
US: March 31, 1998
Japan: Released
Europe: Released
Australia: Released

ESRB Content Descriptors: Strong Language

Expansion Packs:
StarCraft: Brood War

Also Available On: Macintosh

Minimum Requirements:
P90
16MB RAM
2x CD-ROM
SVGA card
80MB hard drive space

Features: Online

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