TF2 console commands

Sets how many minutes a map is played before the server moves to the next map. 0 means no time limit.

Sets the maximum number of rounds played before the server changes map. 0 means no round limit.

Controls automatic team balancing: off, force-switch players, or ask for volunteers.

Sets how many TFBots the server keeps in the game.

Adds one or more TFBots, optionally choosing class, team, difficulty and name.

Toggles cheat commands like noclip, god and thirdperson on the server.

Toggles tournament mode, where teams must ready up and the match starts on command, as used in competitive play.

Ends the waiting for players warm up immediately when set to 1.

Sets the field of view for your weapon model, which changes how big and where your weapon appears.

Toggles damage numbers that pop up when you hit enemies.

Toggles all talk, letting both teams hear each other's voice chat.

Restarts the game after the given number of seconds, resetting scores and the round.

Sets the humiliation time after a round is won, in seconds, before the next round starts.

Sets how many seconds players can chat on the scoreboard after the map ends before the next map loads.

Toggles instant respawn so players come back as soon as they die.

Forces a team to win the current round. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles whether the match ends the moment the time limit runs out instead of waiting for the current round to finish.

Sets the base time between respawn waves in seconds.

Restarts the game right away without a countdown when set to 1.

Toggles Sudden Death, the no-respawn round that starts when the round timer runs out without a winner.

Toggles melee-only weapons during Sudden Death rounds.

Sets the time limit of a Sudden Death round in seconds.

Toggles per-player ready status in tournament mode instead of a single ready button per team.

Sets the minimum number of players on the server before ready status can be toggled in ready mode.

Restarts tournament mode on the current map, sending both teams back to the ready-up stage.

Toggles stopwatch mode in tournament play, where teams swap sides and race each other's capture times.

Sets the item whitelist file that decides which weapons and cosmetics are allowed in tournament mode.

Sets how many seconds the waiting for players period lasts at the start of a map.

Sets a score lead that ends the map early when one team gets that far ahead. 0 turns it off.

Sets how many round wins a team needs before the server changes map. 0 means no win limit.

Joins whichever team the game picks for you, usually the one with fewer players.

Switches you to a class by name without opening the class menu.

Joins a team: red, blue, auto or spectate.

Toggles whether players are allowed to join spectator.

Toggles Highlander mode, which allows only one of each class per team.

Restricts human players to a single team: any, red, blue or spectator.

Sets what happens to idle players: nothing, move to spectator then kick, or kick right away.

Sets how many minutes a player can be idle before the idle action is taken.

Scrambles the teams and restarts the game.

Toggles automatic team scrambles when one team keeps winning by a wide margin.

Swaps RED and BLU and restarts the game.

Sets how many more players one team can have than the other before teams count as unbalanced.

Limits how many players can play each class per team on public servers. 0 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Demomen per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Engineers per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Heavies per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Medics per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Pyros per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Scouts per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Snipers per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Soldiers per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Sets the maximum number of Spies per team in tournament mode. -1 means no limit.

Generates a navigation mesh for the current map so bots can move around it. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles whether bots leave automatically to make room for joining humans.

Sets the skill level of newly joining bots, from 0 easy to 3 expert.

Forces every TFBot to respawn as the given class. Empty means bots pick their own class.

Toggles whether bots wait for a human to join before entering the game.

Removes a TFBot by name, or every bot with all.

Toggles melee-only mode for TFBots.

Sets how tf_bot_quota is used: normal, fill or match.

Changes the server to another map while keeping connected players.

Starts a map, loading it fresh. Also used to start a local server from your own game.

Sets which text file the server reads its map rotation from.

Lists the maps installed on the server, optionally filtered by name.

Sets the map the server will change to at the end of the current round.

Toggles the First Blood reward in Arena mode, a short crit boost for the first kill of the round.

Sets the length of the Arena pre-round, when players are frozen before the fight, in seconds.

Toggles the Arena spectator queue that rotates waiting players into the next round.

Toggles TF2 birthday mode, with party hats and confetti effects on hits.

Sets how many seconds of crits a team gets after capturing the flag.

Sets how many flag captures win a round on Capture the Flag and PASS Time maps.

Forces a holiday event on the server, such as Birthday or Halloween.

Toggles the grappling hook for all players.

Toggles Medieval Mode, where only melee and medieval weapons can be used.

Toggles Mannpower mode with powerup runes and grappling hooks.

Toggles friendly fire, letting players damage their own teammates.

Toggles whether players can use the +use key to interact with map entities.

Toggles the random damage spread on all player damage. 1 removes the randomness.

Controls player gibbing: never, normal, or always.

Toggles fixed pellet spread for shotguns and scatterguns instead of a random pattern.

Toggles random critical hits.

Controls random crits for melee weapons separately from other weapons.

Sets how fast players can change speed and direction in the air.

Sets world gravity. Lower values make players jump higher and fall slower.

Controls whether players can switch weapons while taunting.

Toggles whether teammates push each other apart when they overlap.

Sets the server name shown in the server browser and scoreboard.

Turns server logging on or off.

Restricts what dead players can spectate: everyone, only their own team, or nothing.

Sets the password for remote console access to the server.

Toggles whether players can use the wait command in scripts on this server.

Toggles whether players can download missing files such as custom maps from the server.

Toggles whether players can upload custom files such as sprays to the server.

Sets a web address where players download custom maps and files, often called FastDL.

Toggles LAN-only mode, which hides the server from the internet browser and skips Steam authentication.

Toggles writing server events to log files.

Sets a password players must enter to join the server. Empty means no password.

Toggles whether the game can be paused.

Sets how strictly the server checks that players' game files match, which blocks custom models and materials.

Toggles kicking players whose files do not match the sv_pure rules, instead of only warning them.

Sets how many minutes to ban someone who fails RCON authentication too often. 0 means permanent.

Sets the region the server reports to the server browser so players can filter by location.

Logs the server in with a Game Server Login Token from Steam, giving it a persistent account.

Sets comma-separated tags that describe the server in the server browser.

Sets how many seconds the server waits for a silent client before dropping it.

Overrides the max player count shown to people browsing for servers. -1 shows the real slot count.

Toggles whether the server goes into low-CPU hibernation when nobody is connected.

Sets how many command packets per second your game sends to the server.

Sets your interpolation delay in seconds, how far behind real time other players are drawn to keep movement smooth.

Sets interpolation as a multiple of the update interval. The delay is cl_interp_ratio divided by cl_updaterate.

Toggles server-side lag compensation for your shots.

Sets how many world updates per second you request from the server.

Shows the network graph with your fps, ping, loss and choke.

Sets the most data per second your game will accept from the server, in bytes.

Sets the lowest cl_interp_ratio players may use while connected. -1 lets them use any value.

Sets the most command packets per second a player can send to the server.

Sets the maximum bandwidth per player in bytes per second. 0 means unlimited.

Sets the most world updates per second the server sends each player.

Shows or hides the demo playback controls.

Sets automatic demo recording: manual, competitive matches, all matches, or tournament matches.

Plays back a recorded demo file.

Starts recording a demo from your own point of view.

Ends the demo recording started with record and saves the file.

Toggles recording every game as a SourceTV demo automatically.

Sets the SourceTV broadcast delay in seconds.

Turns on SourceTV, the built-in spectator relay that can broadcast and record matches.

Sets the maximum number of spectators that can connect to SourceTV.

Sets the name SourceTV shows on the scoreboard and in the server browser for the relay.

Sets a password spectators need to join SourceTV.

Sets the network port SourceTV listens on.

Starts recording a SourceTV demo of the match to a file.

Sets how many snapshots per second SourceTV broadcasts and records.

Shows SourceTV status, including connected spectators and recording state.

Stops the current SourceTV demo recording.

Toggles sending every entity to SourceTV instead of only what the director camera sees.

Sends a chat message to everyone on the server.

Sends a chat message only to your own team.

Toggles voice chat on the server.

Toggles whether living players can hear and read chat from dead players.

Toggles voice chat in your game, both hearing and talking.

Sets the volume of other players' voice chat.

Plays a voice command, such as calling for a Medic, by menu and item number.

Starts a vote on an issue, such as kicking a player, changing the map or scrambling teams.

Toggles player voting on the server.

Toggles whether players can call votes to turn auto team balance on or off.

Toggles whether players can call votes to change the map right away.

Toggles whether players can call votes to extend the current map.

Toggles whether players can call votes to kick a player.

Toggles whether players can call votes to choose the next map.

Toggles whether players can call votes to restart the game.

Toggles whether players can call votes to scramble the teams.

Sets how many minutes a player removed by vote kick is banned from rejoining. 0 disables the ban.

Sets the share of eligible players who must vote yes for a vote to pass, from 0.1 to 1.

Sets how many seconds players have to vote once a vote starts.

Casts your choice in a running vote.

Bans an IP address for a number of minutes. 0 bans permanently.

Bans a player by user ID or Steam ID for a number of minutes. 0 bans permanently.

Runs a config file from the cfg folder.

Removes a player from the server by name. They can rejoin right away.

Kicks a player by user ID or Steam ID, with an optional message.

Lists the Steam IDs on the ban list.

Sends a command to a server you have the RCON password for.

Removes a Steam ID or user ID from the ban list.

Shows the map, server info and every connected player with user ID, Steam ID, ping and IP.

Saves permanent Steam ID bans to banned_user.cfg.

Saves the IP ban list to banned_ip.cfg.

Sets the blue part of your crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets which crosshair image is used. Empty uses each weapon's default crosshair.

Sets the green part of your crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the red part of your crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the size of your crosshair.

Sets how opaque your crosshair is, from 0 invisible to 255 solid.

Toggles drawing the whole HUD. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles the minimal HUD, a smaller and simpler version of the default HUD.

Shows an fps counter at the top of the screen.

Shows your position, angles and speed at the top of the screen.

Toggles your crosshair on or off.

Toggles dying automatically when you pick a new class outside the spawn room.

Sets the blue part of the damage number color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the green part of the damage number color, from 0 to 255.

Toggles showing health restored per second over the players you heal.

Sets the red part of the damage number color, from 0 to 255.

Toggles fast weapon switch, so number keys switch weapons right away without a confirm click.

Toggles showing hurt teammates to Medics automatically, as if they called for a Medic.

Sets the health percentage below which teammates show up as auto callers for Medics.

Toggles mirroring weapon models to the left side of the screen.

Sets your field of view in degrees, from 20 to 90.

Toggles drawing your weapon model on screen.

Toggles minimal viewmodels, which move weapons to a smaller, centered position on screen.

Creates a custom command name that runs one or more commands.

Assigns a command or a chain of commands to a key.

Places an Engineer building, or a Spy sapper, without the build menu.

Toggles reloading automatically whenever you are not firing.

Toggles the Sniper Rifle zooming back in after a scoped shot.

Joins a server directly by IP address and port.

Blows up one of your Engineer buildings without opening the destroy menu.

Leaves the current server and returns to the main menu.

Turns your Spy into a chosen class from the enemy or your own team.

Kills your character with an explosion, gibbing your body.

Makes your character die instantly, a suicide that respawns you on the next wave.

Puts your Spy back in the last disguise you used.

Toggles raw mouse input, which reads the mouse directly and ignores Windows pointer settings.

Reconnects to the last server you joined.

Sets your mouse sensitivity.

Performs the taunt for your active weapon.

Toggles making the Medi Gun's primary fire a toggle instead of a hold.

Removes the bind from one key.

Removes every key bind, including movement and the console key.

Sets a sensitivity multiplier used while zoomed in, such as with the Sniper Rifle scope.

Sets how many seconds ragdolls stay before they fade away.

Caps your frame rate. 0 removes the cap.

Sets the level of multisample anti-aliasing. 0 turns it off.

Sets texture quality. Higher values use blurrier, smaller textures for better performance.

Sets how the renderer uses CPU threads: default, single thread, or multithreaded.

Toggles vertical sync, which locks frame rate to your monitor refresh rate to avoid tearing.

Toggles rendering 3D skyboxes, the distant scenery outside the playable area.

Sets the music volume, from 0 to 1.

Restarts the sound system.

Sets the hit sound pitch for high-damage hits, 150 health or more.

Sets the hit sound pitch for low-damage hits, 10 health or less.

Sets the hit sound volume, from 0 to 1.

Toggles the hit sound that plays every time you damage an enemy.

Toggles the kill sound that plays when one of your attacks kills an enemy.

Toggles a bell sound when your Sniper Rifle reaches full charge.

Sets the master game volume, from 0 to 1.

Toggles buddha mode, where you take damage but cannot die. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Sends an input to map entities, for example opening doors. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Switches back to the normal first person camera.

Hands your player an item or weapon entity by class name.

Toggles god mode so you take no damage. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Sets game speed. 1 is normal, lower is slow motion, higher speeds the game up.

Sends an impulse command. impulse 101 refills health and ammo when cheats are on.

Toggles noclip, letting you fly through walls. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Switches to a third person camera. Requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles whether the developer console can be opened.

Lists console variables and commands, optionally filtered by a prefix.

Sets the developer message level, which prints extra debug info to the screen and console.

Prints text to the console.

Searches commands and settings for a word in their name or help text.

Shows the help text and current value of a command or setting.