False Tweaks
Unfortunately there's a whole lot of inaccurate information floating around when it comes to tweaking... Most of the tweaking sites for ET I've seen reference cvars that don't even exist! This is probably due to cvars that used to be in RTCW but got scrapped... So, here's a short list of "false tweaks" that don't really exist... It's not meant to be 100% complete, but at least here are some of the more popular false tweaks:
cg_impactvibration
sv_screenshake
com_blood
cg_reticlebrightness (wtf is a reticle anyways?)
cg_reticletype
cg_instanttapout
cg_drawattacker
cg_uselessnostalgia
cg_draw3dicons
cg_drawallweaps
cg_drawammowarning
cg_drawfpgun
cg_drawfrags
cg_drawicons
cg_drawrewards
cg_emptyswitch
cg_hudalpha
Networking tweaks
If you're having trouble with laggy/slow connections... Well, honestly there's not much you can do! You're pretty much fucked! But, tweaking these settings might help a little:
set rate <n> Can be from 2500 to 25000. The faster your connection is, the higher you should set your rate. So for example, a modem might use a rate of 5000, whereas for LAN you would use 25000.
Ex: set rate 15000
set snaps <n> Can be from 20-40. Determines how many times the server sends you updates of the game state. I would suggest leaving it at 20 or so if you have a slow connection. If you have a good connection, set it to 30-40.
Ex: set snaps 30
set cl_timenudge <n> This is a very odd tweak: if you have a lot of lag, then setting this to a negative number will cause some crazy calculations to occur to take your lag into account when determining stuff like where your bullet went. Most people should leave this at 0. If you have serious ping problems, try setting this lower, but no lower than -50. (-50 is the lowest allowed value on most servers). In fact though, in most competitions, cl_timenudge must be zero. So if you play in a clan, don't tweak this...
Ex: set cl_timenudge -25
set cl_maxpackets <n> The bigger n is, the more information your computer sends to the server, so basically your actions will be more accurate. I think the default for this is 20, you can raise it higher if you want but no higher than 100 since this is the max allowed value. Be careful when tweaking this setting, if you set it to high, it may actually make your connection worse.
Ex: set cl_maxpackets 50
Fixing the resolution resetting problem
There's a really annoying bug in ET that happens for some people. Say you set your resolution to 1600x1200 in the options menu. Then you go and play on a shrub or etpro server. Then, you exit the game. Then, you run the game again. When the game loads up, it will be reset to 800x600 resolution!
If you are a victim of this bug, just add these three lines into your autoexec.cfg:
set r_mode -1
set r_customwidth 1600
set r_customheight 1200 Enabling cheats
Cheats are very useful if you just want to play a map by yourself. For example, if you are practicing your jumping skills and you want to be able to sprint forever without running out of stamina, there's actually a cheat that lets you do that.
The first thing you have to do is start your own server, so go to "Host Game" and start up a server on some map (doesn't matter which map). Then once it loads, go to the console and type:
/devmap <mapname>
For <mapname>, it's whatever map you want to play. For example if the name of the map you want to play is goldrush, then you will say:
/devmap goldrush
This loads the goldrush map, with cheats enabled. If you get some error message saying it can't load the map because of g_gametype or something like that, then try running these 2 commands before you run the devmap command:
/sv_pure 0
/g_gametype 2
So once the map is loaded with devmap, you can start going into the console and enabling some cheats. Here is a list of some cheats you can do:
/give ammo
-Gives you a shitload of ammo, like 9999 rounds + 15 grenades.
/give skill X
-Increases a specific skill by 20 XP. The values you can use for X are:
0- Battle sense
1- Engineering
2- First aid
3- Signals
4- Light weapons
5- Heavy weapons
6- Covert ops
/give skill
-If you use the give skill command without a number after it, it will just add 1 skill point to all of your skills areas (heavy weapons, first aid, etc.)
/give health
-Pops you back to full health
/god
-Toggles god mode. In god mode, you can't get hurt.
/nofatigue
-Toggles nofatigue. If you enable nofatigue, then you can sprint as much as you want without ever running out of stamina. Your stamina bar will drain as if you've run out of stamina, but don't worry, you actually still have full stamina.
/noclip
-Basically turns you into a spectator. The only difference with "actual" spectator mode is that now you can go through solid objects and walls. You can even float around underground and look up at the map, it's very freaky =^o
/cg_thirdperson 1
-This will let you play in 3rd person, so you can see yourself running around and stuff. It's kind of neat to watch, although it sucks because then you can't see your crosshair any longer
/cg_thirdpersonangle X
-Lets you view yourself from a different angle. X is in degrees. If you want to go back to the original angle, just use the reset command.
/cg_marktime 1000000
-Makes bullet marks take forever to disappear. Useful if you want to test the spread of weapons or something like that.
/g_debugbullets 1
-This one is pretty sweet. It draws red lines to indicate where all your bullets went. I tried doing this to test the accuracy of the FG42 at far range and it was pretty amazing to see how horrible the accuracy really is.
-Another thing you can use this is for shooting practice. As an example, I tried circle strafing around a palm tree on Oasis and tried to hit the tree as accurately as I could, firing all 20 rounds of my FG42 clip. As you can see in the picture below, g_debugbullets allowed me to see exactly how many bullets hit the tree and how many missed. From the picture, it looks like I missed about 5 shots.
I suppose another thing you could do for circle-strafing practice is launch 2 instances of ET, then make 2 players join- 1 axis, 1 ally. Make one of them go into /god mode (so he can't get hurt). Then practice circle-strafing around him and shooting him in the face and see how good of an accuracy you can get.
Bah. Or you could just strafe around a point on the wall
Here are some other commands which can be run on any server so aren't exactly cheat commands, but still pretty cool:
/set g_gravity X
-Lets you set gravity to some crazy value. Smaller gravity lets you jump around like you're on the moon.
-To reset, just use the reset command (/reset g_gravity).
/set g_speed X
-Lets you change the player movement speed.
/dir maps
-If you want to use the "devmap" command, but you're not sure what the official name of the map is, use this command to get a listing of the maps. For example, once I wanted to run the "Ice" map, but it turned out the actual pk3 file is called "et_ice".
/cmdlist
-Gets a list of all possible scripting commands in ET. Don't trust this list 100% though, I think it includes some leftovers from RTCW that actually don't work any more in ET.
Punkbuster
Punkbuster is software that prevents people from cheating in ET. It runs on practically all servers. Each server may tailor exactly what punkbuster allows and doesn't allow, so I can't tell you exactly what settings are allowed, but here is one possible config showing the bounds of all the variables:
; Affect brightness and level of detail
pb_sv_cvar r_picmip in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar r_picmip2 in 0 3
pb_sv_cvar r_rmse in 0.0
pb_sv_cvar r_subdivisions in 4 20
pb_sv_cvar r_lodbias in 0 2
pb_sv_cvar r_lodcurveerror in 250
pb_sv_cvar r_gamma in 0.500000 2.000000
pb_sv_cvar r_ignorehwgamma in 1
pb_sv_cvar r_ext_gamma_control in 1
pb_sv_cvar r_intensity in 1
pb_sv_cvar r_overbrightbits in 1
pb_sv_cvar r_mapoverbrightbits in 2
pb_sv_cvar r_ext_NV_fog_dist in 0
pb_sv_cvar cg_shadows in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar r_shownormals in 0
; Affect fog effects
pb_sv_cvar r_uifullscreen in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_wolffog in 1
; Affect field of view
pb_sv_cvar cg_fov in 90 110
pb_sv_cvar cg_zoomfov in 22.5
; Affect view perspective
pb_sv_cvar cg_thirdperson in 0
; Affect aim movement
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobroll in 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobpitch in 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobup in 0.005
pb_sv_cvar cg_runpitch in 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_runroll in 0.005
pb_sv_cvar cl_freelook in 1
; Affect mouse sensitivity
pb_sv_cvar m_pitch out -0.011 0.011
pb_sv_cvar m_yaw in 0.022
; Affect weapon knockback
pb_sv_cvar com_maxfps out 0.000001 40
pb_sv_cvar forcefps out 0.00001 40
; Affect ping and lag
pb_sv_cvar cl_maxpackets in 30 100
pb_sv_cvar cl_timenudge in -50 0
pb_sv_cvar rate in 2500 25000
pb_sv_cvar snaps in 20 40
Here are some links where you can get further information:
http://www.evenbalance.com/http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=support-et.phphttp://www.evenbalance.com/publications/et-pl/index.htm
Subject: Tweaks Part 2 
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