Cheating in single player games

Using a cheat is about as much fun as playing a game on its easiest level. I personally don’t enjoy it as no challenge.

That said my life is incomplete as I still haven’t been able to complete the final level in Abes Oddesy :(
 
RedViking said:
So you peoples have never given your kids or little nephews a remote that is not plugged in and then play without them knowing you are actually controlling them so you can get your score up.


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No but let them play online as me. They get creamed but score me weapon upgrades. Kids think it’s hilarious to camp and plant C4 where the serious players run.
 
s0lar said:
No but let them play online as me. They get creamed but score me weapon upgrades. Kids think it’s hilarious to camp and plant C4 where the serious players run.
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Used to trap the bunks in Joint Operations; but kids today... I'd be really surprised if any of them actually played it.
 
s0lar said:
No but let them play online as me. They get creamed but score me weapon upgrades. Kids think it’s hilarious to camp and plant C4 where the serious players run.
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Not exactly a cheat but I got frustrated with the mosh pit in Storage town Warzone. So I did what I do best. I grabbed the nearest vehicle and bombed through the center of storage repeatedly. Racked up my PB of 7 kills. Laughed through all of it like a mad man, guns, pffffft.
 
Long ago while playing BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Inception I noticed that all the saved games were the same size. Using PC Tools and a dotmatrix printer I soon mapped out all the weapon slots and item IDs.

I think the largest human weapon was a rocket launcher and the largest mech gun was a PPC Cannon. I thought why not put a PPC cannon in my guy's gun slot?

It worked.

In battle when you attacked your sprite would change from a human to a mech (Wasp or Locust, randomly), blast the crap out of whatever you were aiming at, then change back to a human.

Quite possibly the coolest cheat that I can remember.
 
RedViking said:
So you peoples have never given your kids or little nephews a remote that is not plugged in and then play without them knowing you are actually controlling them so you can get your score up.
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This is a bit weird....
 
Some games had deliberate cheats that we're meant to be discovered (like easter eggs), eg "Need for Speed 3" had certain tracks and an extra car that could only be unlocked with those cheats codes.
 
I never felt the need to cheat in SP games, as it always felt like I was defeating the point/challenge of the game. But I have nothing against it either. That's entirely on you and your own enjoyment. I think I only ever used cheat codes in Mortal Kombat 1 or 3 (I forget) to see what they do, and it entertained me for like a few hours only IIRC.

Oh and I've needed the occasional walkthrough for getting unstuck in certain games.

SP cheats could be fun for a laugh sometimes I guess. But at that point I've likely moved to another game.

But cheating in MP games, well that's literally sociopathic behavior in my eyes so obviously not approved. I get the temptation when you're constantly losing or frustrated, but it's still not justified.
 
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Bobbin said:
But cheating in MP games, well that's literally sociopathic behavior in my eyes so obviously not approved. I get the temptation when you're constantly losing or frustrated, but it's still not justified.
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What if you can't beat them however?

On a more serious note, I find people that cheat in MP cowardly and pathetic, especially on South African servers. Our player base of players is already tiny compared to most other regions. Now someone cheats, people will just end up abandoning those games, essentially killing off the games local servers.
 
I learnt early on that cheating in SP games spoils the entire experience. Skyrim for example, once I cheated and had loads of gold etc. I lasted about a week before I reset and started again without cheats. Once the novelty wears off, so does the challenge.

Cheating in MP - never saw the point. COD got horrible, most people just quit the map once they see a cheater is on, I was the same. After a few pointed sweaty comments of course..
 
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