Black & White 2 Cheats

PC - Black & White 2 Cheats

Cheat: Increase Impressiveness

Find the game folder and go to DataBalance. Open the file PlacementData.xml in Wordpad. Go to the third paragraph, which starts <object type="abode" name="greek_abode_c">:. Change the line <basevalue impressiveness="0.2" />: to <basevalue impressiveness="20" />:. Next, just load up on of your saved games and place several villas. With this, your town will be powerfully impressive and you will win the land you are in. This affect all of your saved games.

Cheat: More People

Be sure to make a backup copy of files before altering them. Sollow these steps to raise your population:

Hack - Artifacts For Nuthin'

This can be a complicated but nifty little trick that not everyone will know. This will not work on pre-saved games. You need to start a new game (or mission select to reload the campaign) to get the changes you want. Plan ahead.

Go to the game directory and find the file GameBalanceArtefact.txt in ...dataBalance.... Back it up in case you mess it up during the edit. Open the file using Notepad.exe. You will see the values for everything on the tribute menu.

Look for a string similar to ARTEFACT_EPIC_WONDER_NUMBER_VOLCANO 100000 and disregard the other numbers. Change the value directly to the right of any artefact and you will change its tribute cost in the game. Safe range of values are 1000 (or there abouts), but be sure that the new sum value is reflected in the total cost at the end of the file. Save it and you can start buying stuff you only dreamt about before.

Values less than 1000 may cause your game to crash.

Hack - Ore Hack

Edits the critical BWE files. Back them up or fail in life. That is all.

Go into ...Program FilesLionhead StudiosBlack & White 2DatalandscapeBW2 and Open one of the Land[numer].BWE files with notepad. Scroll down until you see something like:

CREATE_ORE_LODE("912.90,514.99", "Ore Lode Normal", 2914, 1000, 0.000000)

Change normal to infinite, and repeat in every Land file. Changes won't take effect until you move to the next land, however. You can also do this and start a new game.

Hint - Reduce Your Opponents Buildings

Purchase the Fireball miracle from the tribute menu, then have your Worshipers start getting you some mana points.

When you have enough mana to cast the fireball miracle, select it and find a very large tree. Cast the miracle so that the tree sets on fire.

Now pick up the tree and move over to a opposing town and hold the burning tree over a building. You should see that it starts to get damaged and that villagers have to start rebuilding it again.

This is very useful for getting rid of an opponent's Epic Miracles so that they cannot cast them. It can also cause similar chaos when used to remove Armouries, creature pens and other buildings.

Submitted by Ben Brown (bendragonbrown47)