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Starship Troopers

Hint:
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Submitted by: Nighthawk
lt_nighthawk@yahoo.com
Make a fully utilize of the MST (stealth and sniper),
kill all brainbug first before you make an attack.
Whatever you do, make sure the brainbug is dead, else
the worrior bugs will track you where ever you go !

Do Not jump if the hoppers is above you! Always do the
formation if you encounter the hoppers

How to use the novabomb - click at the novabomb and
click on the ground (where you want to place it)

Sometimes you cannot ambush the bughole if the is many
worriorbugs petroling around. Use the sniper and shoot
at the bughole (some of the bughole can be shoot !!)

Extra experience:
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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a
backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor
to edit the "st_db_attr" file in the "stta\units" folder.Change
this portion of line 26 from "1 0 0 15 0 0 1" to "1 0 0 200 0 0 1".

Extra equipment:
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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup
copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the
"interface.txt" files in the "mission" folder. Change the various
equipment values from 3 to 12 or 18. The values in all the files must
be changed for each mission.

Extra storage depot ammunition:
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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup
copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the
"st_db_attr" file in the "stta\units" folder. Change the "10000" in
position 6 of line 29 to "100000".

Unlock weapons and tech soldiers:
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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup
copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the
"interface.txt" file in the "mission" folder. Locate the "Excluded"
heading in the file and remove all the lines in that area. This will
unlock all the weapons and all the tech soldiers (MIST, psychic) in
that particular mission. 1

Gain More Experience:
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To have your troopers gain more experience after each
battle, go to the "stta\units" directory and open the
st_db_attr file in notepad. Go to line 26. It should
start out as:

26 1 0 0 15 0 0 1...
Change this line to
26 1 0 0 200 0 0 1...

You can try other values besides 200 to tweak the
experience growth of your troopers.

Early Weapon Availability:
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Just go to Starship Troopers directory and then the mission
directory. Go to the mission directory and look for the
interface.txt files, open the file and you should see a
whole bunch of items in the "Excluded" area, just delete
all these lines. Do this for each interface.txt file and
you'll get all the weapons and all the tech soldiers (MIST,
psychic) before they would have been given in the actual game.

After making it to the last level you can't get through cause
the Royal Warrior Bugs don't let you? Here’s a cheat that will
get the job done.
Enter the Missions folder that you can find in the main directory.
Look for another folder named " c3m7 ". Open it and you will see
a score of text file in a sequential order from
" bh_1_1" to " bh_b6_3 ". These are instructions for the bug
holes and they decide which bug will come out of a specific bug
hole. All of these files contain instructions for the Royal
Warrior Bug apparent by the line "bug_type = royalwarrior 100 ".
Edit the line to " bug_type = warrior 100 " and you won't
face these scary bugs anymore.
Once this is taken care of, you can handle anything since most
of your troops are in 1st Class Marauder suits armed with double
chaincannons. Make sure all the lines in the files
(bh_1_1" to " bh_b6_3 ) are edited. I recommend that you copy
the folder " c3m7 " somewhere else before tampering with it.

Hints:
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Submitted by: rickHH

Ammunition is a scarce commodity. However, using the right
bullet for the job helps. Use the small arms for the in your
face bug work. Save the missiles, grenades, and nukes for the
bug holes and Tankers.

Heavy nerve gas is a gutsy way to ruin a bug hole's day.
Make sure that you have a squad covering the poor soul hoping
to drop the gas down the hole.

Ambush Arachnids whenever possible. Use three squads to form
a U. Run a couple of Mobile Infantry under the bug's nose and
lead it back to your trap. Rinse and repeat for the large bug
swarms.

Cheats:
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Submitted by: subha_joydeep2rediff.com

Find the Starship Troopers shortcut in the Start Menu or your desktop (if you
made one during installation). Click on it once to gray it, then open the
context menu through your keyboard or the secondary mouse key (right for right-
handed, left for left-handed). Open the shortcut's properties and locate
the "Target" box. Don't change the command in the quotation marks and just add

-devuser

outside of the quotation marks. OK the change and run the game using that
changed shortcut. While playing, you have the option now to press the tilde
key (this key is next to the number 1 on the numeric row) to lower the
developer's console. Type in these codes for cheats you can do:

help (lists all codes for your version of SST)
god (invulnerability on and off)
ammo (maximum ammo for all weapons, even non-equipped ones)
gun (weapon is show or hidden)
hud (HUD is shown or hidden)
speed <#> (speed goes to this number, the default number is 1)
evileye (your targeting reticle kills enemies instantly)
banzai (combines god, evileye, and gives speed of 3)


Unlock All Extras
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Find the profile you want to be changed in the directory "\My Documents\Empire
Interactive\SST\Profiles\". This is for an XP installation. For Windows 2000
or NT users, this may be different. It's not known if SST runs on Windows 98ME
or not. In any case, you can find that profile file (and the directory
incidentally) by searching for your profile using Window's internal search
function. The file name of your profile is exactly as you named it. Once you
find your profile you want to have all the extras, open it using Notepad.

Find the line "UnlockedItemIDs" in the profile file and replace the quoted
numbers in between the brackets with the following:

[ "1" , "2" , "3" , "4" , "5" , "6" , "7" , "8" , "9" , "10" , "11" , "12" , "1
3" , "14" , "15" , "16" , "17" , "18" , "19" , "20" , "21" , "22" , "23" , "24"
, "25" , "26" , "27" , "28" , "29" , "30" , "31" , "32" , "33" , "34" , "35" ,
"36" , "37" , "38" , "39" , "40" , "41" , "42" , "43" , "44" , "45" , "46" , "
47" , "48" , "49" , "50" , "51" , "52" , "53" , "54" , "55" , "56" , "57" , "58
" , "59" , "60" , "61" , "62" , "63" , "64" , "65" , "66" , "67" , "68" , "69"
, "70" , "71" , "72" , "73" , "74" , "75" , "76" , "77" , "78" , "79" , "80" ,
"81" , "82" , "83" , "84" , "85" , "86" , "87" , "88" , "89" , "90" , "91" , "9
2" , "93" , "94" , "95" , "96" , "97" , "98" , "99" ]

Save the profile file (there is no file extension, if you have that option
on). Now when you play SST, your new profile will have all the extra files
unlocked of all the weapons, ships, and enemies. Also are five bonus movies
with Casper Van Dien (Johnny Rico) for his bit part in the game.


Royal Guard and X-Bug Tip
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If you're like me and you played this game cheating quickly through, you will
notice that you can't just hammer away at the royal guard bug and win. The
same goes with the X-bug. Both boss bugs are invincible except for their red
eyes. For the Royal Guard bug, shoot out both eyes, expose the vulnerable
nerve stem in the head and shoot it.

The X-Bug is the same thing, but instead of just shooting the nerve stem after
both eyes are gone, you also need to shoot the spot on the underside to hurt
it. It's only exposed briefly, so you may need to burst fire the nerve stem
and hose down the weak spot with the rest of the magazine. Don't know if the
MK4's bullets work -- if they do, it's probably very weak.