Bethesda games, at least on PC, have always had easy access to a console where you could type in commands to alter the game on the fly. Fallout 4 is no different. And even though the big draw may be cheaty stuff like god mode and "give me all the weapons baby, plus ammo too", to those that have played a bunch of Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and others will know that the console commands are a godsend when the game glitches or bugs out. Which, happens more often than it should.

I remember in the Skyrim expansion Dragonborn there was a character that I needed to speak to for a quest, but they somehow managed to disappear from the game world entirely. Now it may not have been a quest essential to the main story, but it was annoying non the less. So instead of waiting for a patch that might have fixed the issue, or reloading an earlier save, all I had to do was hit the '~' key on my keyboard and type in a specific string to make the character appear. Problem solved.

I ran into a similar issue with Fallout New Vegas on console, but here the bug was game breaking. Now it could have been resolved with a simple command to fast travel to a location I couldn't get to (the bug was related to the artillery dudes on the north part of the map continuously bombarding areas they weren't supposed to), but the command feature was absent on consoles. Of the Xbox variety.

Okay, so that's a round about way of saying that even though the Fallout 4 console commands may read like a cheat code system, they can be invaluable when the game decides to glitch in weird and often confusing ways. Which, happens more often than it should.

Here's a few of the commands, and you can check out a bigger list here.

• tgm - "God mode", essentially making you invulnerable to radiation, bullet damage, and accidentally walking of the freeway overpass things you come across
  
• tmm 1 - Unlocks all the Pip Boy map markers, with the ability to fast travel anywhere in the game world.
  
• tcl - Toggles clipping, which lets you walk and fly through walls and into the sky, and through floors.
  
• fov - Allows you to change the Field Of View setting, which by default is set at 70. This is one for lovers of the fish-eye lens effect.
  
• tg; - Toggles grass. For fans of the '90s film The Lawnmower Man.
  
• setstage - Moves a particular quest to a particular moment. Handy for quests that get stuck and won't progress.
  
• placeatme <#######> - Another super handy one, allows you to make any item or NPC appear, like magic, right before your eyes.
  
• sexchange - Allows you to change the sex of any non-essential NPC. Also, player.sexchange allows you to do the same for yourself.
  
• player.addperk - Self explanatory really, allows you to add specific perks to your arsenal. Of perks.
  
• setgs fJumpHeightMin - This allows you to set the jump height of your character. And yes, this means being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
  
• coc qasmoke - This one transports you to a secret room that contains all items in the game.