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How to Enable Cheats on Your Insurgency: Sandstorm Server

How to Enable Cheats on Your Insurgency: Sandstorm Server

Enable cheats on an Insurgency: Sandstorm server

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Jun 23, 2026

Cheats provide testing and diagnostic commands – for example to give yourself weapons, enable infinite ammo or slow motion. They are useful for testing server settings but should not be enabled during normal gameplay, as some commands provide a gameplay advantage.

  1. Open dashboard
    Open the dashboard of your server and navigate to the Settings.

  2. Enter the parameter
    Enter the following parameter in the Additional Parameters field:

    -EnableCheats
    
  3. Restart the server
    Save the setting and restart your server.

Written byEmeraldHost Team
Last updated on Jun 23, 2026 Edit on GitHub

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