Do you cheat in video games?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨flamiera@kbin.melroy.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I don't find shame in cheating in video games. It was a stigma to hear about growing up, that cheating in video games meant you prefer the shortcuts in life or that you didn't know what earning anything was. When, that was all just bullshit talk.

I cheat in video games, when available to on some games, to give me a little kick of fun. Sometimes I don't have the patience to tediously go through the standard way. Other times, I feel I've earned it anyways, because of having undergone the stresses and frustrations or the time I've played of certain games to go through the normal way.

Like in Terraria, it's a game I've clocked in upwards of 900 hours. I felt like I had done everything in the game prior to the content that added the Moon Lord and many other things. At that time, it was 850 hours.

So the point of the matter is, yeah I don't find it that big of a deal to cheat in video games. If I cared to and want to, I'm decent enough to handle games without cheats, given enough time.

Multiplayer of course I never cheat in those.

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MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t mind cheating in video games as long as it’s never against other players. Single player games or PVE games go ahead and cheat your ass off. As long as everyone involved with it is cool with it. The moment there is another human player on the other side of things NEVER cheat. Video games or otherwise.

Many moons ago I would to cheat in payday 2. Not because I cared about getting super rich but because I thought it was funny to make it rain duffle bags of gold bars that instantly kill anyone who isn’t hiding under something. Or just watching the absurdity of the AI trying to fight hundreds of little turrets. The people I was playing with were just messing around for a laugh at this point. We had beaten all the maps on all the difficulties and now we just wanted to break the game.

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Ilixtze@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I play the game with john dark soul in easy mode, with unlimited health and the mod that plays a bonk sound every time my dual wielded greatswords hit an enemy

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Stupendous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
In single player games where there’s fall damage, I always mod out fall damage and carry weight limits. I don’t care about realism especially when it’s selective realism like in video games. So in that sense, in single player games I’m cheating all the time

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0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If a game setting or mod does not do what I want, sometimes cheats can do the trick to tweak the balance of hp, stamina, enemy health, etc.

For multiplayer games to, fuck anyone that does!

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Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only if I've already beaten the game legitimately before, and usually only to skip something that's tedious.

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SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The ways I cheat depends on the game. Sometimes to get rid of grind, others to obtain abilities that are mutually exclusive. EG: X-COM, where I had soldiers with all branches of their abilities active, rather than having to pick just one. Max stat spreads, without having to pick a specialty.

I pretty much play games for narrative or to simply keep my hands busy while listening to Behind the Bastards.

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mrmule@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
cheese steak jimmy’s

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DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
yep used to tp an spawn shit on random ppl in quite a few games an made a full menu for csgo

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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Why though. How is that fun?
  
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  - DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    hvh is quite fun in csgo and spawning stuff gets funny reactions withought actual damage and its fun to see how much you can break the game
    
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callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yes, but also not really? Not sure if enabling “Keep Inventory” counts as cheating in survival Minecraft or if it counts as a play style. Of course creative mode is only cheating when you use it in a world that was meant for survival, but I haven’t done that. Really unsure what counts as cheating in Minecraft singleplayer to be honest.

Other games: no, not really, I don’t even know how to cheat in Hollow Knight for example, Universe Sandbox is fully a sandbox game so you can’t cheat, and…

Oh wait, I guess I did use Assist Mode in Celeste once? I think that counts as cheating since I didn’t really need assist mode at all I was just frustrated and wanted to have fun. Yeah, sometimes I cheat actually. It’s fun in singleplayer and doesn’t ruin the game for anyone else.

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blue_skull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Porntipsguzzardo

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IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I cheat the fuck out of Skyrim. I add all my perk points bc I don’t feel like grinding for 200 hours to get my build.

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sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Cheating in first player games is perfectly fine.

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baconsunday@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
On my old Pokémon games, sometimes, but say I am doing it on Blue, then on red I will use none. Sometimes I wanna walk through walls on my gameboy games. That’s pretty much it. Unless you consider the old Halo 1 gernade jumps out of the map. Those were Hella fun

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CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I really find I can’t cheat on an ongoing save even when I think most people would consider it completely justified, an example being when the medusa enemy was first added to terraria it was pretty buggy and could turn you to stone from off screen and through walls (despite explicit patch notes saying it should not do this) so I ended up losing all my gear to an objective bug. Tried save editing it back in but it still ruined the feeling of the save to me.

The only time I can cheat and not ruin my own fun is for testing purposes in games without any kind of creative mode, particularly 4X games which tend to be pretty long and I don’t want to play a several hour game just to test a random theory about how 2 mechanics might interact in a lategame build.

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HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I used to be like you. Way back when, I would love to cheat currency into single player games with a little help from cheat engine. The biggest culprits were BTD5 and PvZ1/2, and it’d give me a kick just being able to go through and buy everything before using it all while feeling unstoppable

Since then, I’ve gone back and replayed the games without cheating, and I honestly regret using cheat engine. It felt way more rewarding getting everything at a more sustainable rate, like I really earned the item

You also talk about feeling like you earn the ability to cheat, but, looking back on my own experience, I can safely say that I was terrible at gauging whether or not I should use a hack. Turns out, when you have a shiny item in a shop that you could come back in a few hours for or get instantly now for free, more often than not we’ll choose the latter

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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Years ago - I did cheat in many single player games. For example, I am extremely bad at RTS. Couldn’t beat computer on easy in WC3, even today. I was cheating during campaign just to go thought the story of the game.

I did cheat in WoW pirate server but not in the way of malice. I only did use flight cheat to travel quickly and a small teleport 1m ahead because sometimes quests or dungeons were broken and this was the only way to deal with that. I never used cheats in BGs or against other players but one of my friends did and got banned many times for that.

I have never cheated in any PvP games like CSGO, LoL, HOTS, L4D2, PUBG, COD, Town of Salem. I hate when cheaters ruin my game. I would not want to ruin anyone else’s game.

General rule: single-player cheats are ok. Multiplayer cheats - not ok.

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ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?

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Monster96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Whenever Skyrim would randomly crash and send me back to the dungeon as soon as I get to the boss, I use console commands. Other than that, flying, lightsabers, killer mushrooms, turning zombies in l4d to fall guy bean people, those are all fare game.

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Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I have 2k hours in rimworld and I cheat like a motherfucker when my favorite pawn dies. I might go through a run having revived the same pawn 10+ times. I’ll do all kinds of weird copes like oh its fine because I will also delete this stack of 10k silver or i’ll delete another pawn as sacrific. However in multiplayer games nah no cheating, I can win fair and square.

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Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Not just games but in real life. I’ll do whatever it takes to succeed and reach my goal even if it’s steps on a few toes, even if it means the destruction of the planet.

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- Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What a horrible way to live life, I truly hope I never encounter you.
  
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orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only in the games where “victory” isn’t really the point, eg. Rimworld. I’m gonna turn a little bit of river into buildable land if it’d mean I have a better looking base.

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tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I cheat in single player games to remove the drudgery of farming or grinding past a certain point.

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inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I remember using cheatcodes to unlock cards in Yu Gi Oh Dark Duel Series, those were fun

Nowadays I dont feel the need to, games I play are fun enough out of the box, sometimes I might look up what to do if I’m stuck

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SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For my kids, just like mi papi put trainers on the ole c64 for me

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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I only cheat on games I’ve already completed without cheating

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