Finally I've finished I-War 1 and the Defiance missions. All but three missions I had to solely rely on making the most of the brilliant variety of useful cheats that I-War 1's "darkgoat" and Defiance's "dethweezul" cheats allow!

But I-War 2 : EOC is a different story altogether.

It's cheats are PATHETIC.

I'm only at the second mission where you have to steal some "stolen antiques" from a Tug called the "Belrano" or something - and I'm finding it impossible.

The following is the only cheat advice I can find for IW2

Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the "defaults.ini" file in the game folder. Change the "developer_mode = 0" entry to "developer_mode = 1". Save the file, then enter the "/configs" folder. Use a text editor to edit the "default.ini" file. Locate the cheat key section towards the end of the file and add the following entries:

[icPlayerPilot.DevIndestructable]
Keyboard, I, CTRL, ALT

[icPlayerPilot.DevKillCurrentTarget]
Keyboard, X, CTRL, ALT

[icPlayerPilot.DevJumpToCurrentTarget]
Keyboard, G, CTRL, ALT

[icPlayerPilot.DevDamageSelf]
Keyboard, K, CTRL, ALT

Begin a game, then press all three keys as previously defined to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Using the cheats may cause the game's story line to fail.

First off - WHAT THE HELL USE IS "DAMAGE SELF"? There's only four cheat options this time - and this wastes 25% of them from the off!!!!!!!

Secondly - THE definitive ONE. The ONE you WILL need. Invulnerablity - IT SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK! Pressing CTRL/ALT and I does nothing.

Now - I KNOW the cheats HAVE "activated" because "Jump to Target" by pressing CTRL/ALT/G DOES WORK.

As for "Kill Current Target" - I still actually have yet to give that a go! If that doesn't work neither then I'm afraid this game is dump into the shitpile right from the word "go".
At least I-War 1 was playable through - with the cheats - you could at least go through the storyline..... just without the satisfaction of doing the missions properly.
With I-War 2 it's looking like you CAN DO NOTHING.

Just like I-War 1, I-War 2 also does not react well to ALT/TABing - so I can't even use programs such as "Cheat Engine" to try and make my own custom cheats.

So - the questions are:-

1) Have you ever actually managed to make Invulnerability work?
2) And if so..... HOW?