Development tools

Testing the mod or custom scenarios by normal playing is extremely time-consuming. For that reason FF has a lot of built-in utilities to quickly reproduce or provoke specific states, which can be accessed both in Workbench (diag menu) or in the regular game (chat commands).

Warning

Using development tools may cause your world state or the game mode to enter an incorrect state, or even break your save data. Ensure you know what you are doing if you intend to use them in a regular playthrough.

Chat commands

See here for a detailed description of chat commands.

The intended mechanism for debugging tools in Arma Reforger is the diag menu, which is only available in Workbench. You can read more about it here.

The diag menu can be accessed by pressing Win + Alt. By default this conflicts with built-in Windows shortcuts, so it is suggested to use left Win + right Alt. The Freedom Fighters submenu will be visible at the end of the list.

Diag menu gives access to data panels and other, specialized types of panels.

Actions panel

The submenu allows you to enable the Actions panel, which is shown below. While the exact layout and available buttons in your version may differ, the panel consists of 3 elements:

the argument section: allows you to specify extra args used by specific actions, i.e. name of the quest to start, or number of hours to skip. The target player is relevant to actions that target a specific player - i.e. givedogtags, but also applies to many seemingly unrelated actions. For example, battlestart will search for the closest battle subject from the target player.
action selectors: buttons that execute various development actions upon clicking.
the teleport tool: teleports target player between places of selected type.