Skyrim...have you cheated?

[Alcamonic]

Only had to fix a bug once. I've considered looking up the alchemy effect for ingredients because mixing aimlessly is FUCKING FRUSTRATING, but I've refrained from cheating thus far and I plan to keep it that way.

You can devour the ingredients to check out the effects. Even with no talent in it you can still gain the first effect from it.

 

[krychek57]

~ FOV 80

Is the only command I feel the need to use. I prefer to play games as the developer built them.
Doom 3 I think is the last time I used a "God Mode" or No Clip.

 

[Aptspire]

Not intentionally... just once, after competing "The White Phial"(part 1) I was mostly skipping the thanks of the assistant, but then I got out and in again while the objective arrow was above his head, and he ended up giving me the reward (500 gold) twice...

 

[Hyper-space]

I got stuck once, and had to use the TLC command.

Also my game crashed right after a ridiculously long boss-fight against a dragon AND a dragon priest, upon which I just used a kill command when I reloaded it.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

No, I haven't.
Also, does using the console for buggy quests disable the achievements?

I believe achievements are only disabled until you restart the game, at least that's how it worked in FNV.

I haven't used console commands aside from tcl when I can't find a path up a mountain or I get stuck in some rocks. For the most part cheating ruins the game for me.

Restart the game as in starting a new character?
Also, do you lose your previously gained achievements?

Sorry, I mean quit the game and then launch it again. You won't lose achievements you've already gained.

I'm not entirely sure if this is how it works BTW, just guessing based on previous Bethesda games.

 

[White_Lama]

Playing on the Xbox 360 and have yet to encounter any major buggs apart from sometimes a tiny bit of water missing. So no need for cheats.

 

[pffh]

I've used noclip a couple of times for random exploring outside of zones but always loaded afterwards so I guess the only cheat I've used is having companions train me and then take my gold back from their inventory/pickpocket my gold back from non-companion trainers.

 

[killercyclist]

sadly yes, used the oghna infinium to level jump from 34 to 61, won't use it again, although still have the book........ hasn't broken the game for me, but i now get shit from friends.

 

[Sonicron]

Nope, only used the console commands to get past bugs/glitches.
I suppose cheating would take all of the fun out of this particular game for me, but then again this current generation of games has shaped me into an honest gamer by virtue of simply not containing a fuckton of possible cheats. I used to cheat like a bastard in all kinds of games (SP of course, not MP) for all the fun that was to be had, but nowadays I don't even think about using cheats any more.

 

[Nathan Dewar]

I added 10k to my carry capacity because the inventory management system is completely broken and ill be damned if im going scroll through all the loot ive picked up and dumped for half of my play time. I tried dl a mod to fix this but then they patched it and it didn't work, its definately cheating but I'm fine with it. I played oblivion without cheating but I followed this guide to make the ultimate character and then ended up quiting because it took to long.

 

[Lenin211]

I used the iron dagger exploit but that's it.

 

[Wolfram23]

I used the iron dagger exploit but that's it.

If you mean for leveling blacksmithing, that's not really an exploit just a bad design decision. Well, ok, I guess they are pretty much the same thing... but not quite!

After all, I leveled Enchanting to 100 with petty soul gems. Which I would use to enchant my iron daggers. And then sell for mad profits.

Yeah, maybe it is an exploit.

 

[Nathan Dewar]

Yes, increased carrying capacity. I thought it was annoying how you would deal with it and the annoying UI to work out what to drop (I didn't know of the steed stone). I also didn't want to stack stamina because I was a mage nor pickpocket a lot.

Open lock. The pick lock minigame annoys me. It would be sweet where if you broke a pick, your next pick was the sameish position as where the previous broke. Not, resets back to 12 o'clock. I thought picklocking was trial and error. Having to remember what precise angle you were to begin with is just a ball ache.

I cheat to get past retarded things (though now I don't need to cheat to increase capacity).

I honestly don't get the whole lock pick complaint, I mean i've played enough fallout3 to make it second nature. I actually enjoy the times when I guess perfectly the position on a master lock without breaking a pick, but I guess thats just me. But yeah absolutely the inventory management system needs to be fixed, alot of people are amazed that it wasn't implemented. The first time i ran through a dwarf ruin I picked up enough materials to make 99 dwarf ingots (i know but what the hell is a dwemer)there is just so much stuff and on your first play through you have no idea what to pick up and what to leave behind but you don't want to risk it so u just pick up everything which leads to a very painful back and forth 4 to 8 times to make sure u didn't miss anything important.

 

[Vuavu]

I used the console once to give my character's race a re-do cause I didn't like it. Don't change the race though or your health, stamina, and magicka will be redistributed evenly or something like that. never use it to help though, besides fixing bugs

 

[DarkShadow144]

I've taken advantage of the game to raise some skills. Like when joining the Companions, the guy you fight against is immune to magic damage so you can raise your magic with him. The problem is that because you level, it raises the level of everything else. I would get my ass kicked so hard that I had to create a new character.

 

[scw55]

Yes, increased carrying capacity. I thought it was annoying how you would deal with it and the annoying UI to work out what to drop (I didn't know of the steed stone). I also didn't want to stack stamina because I was a mage nor pickpocket a lot.

Open lock. The pick lock minigame annoys me. It would be sweet where if you broke a pick, your next pick was the sameish position as where the previous broke. Not, resets back to 12 o'clock. I thought picklocking was trial and error. Having to remember what precise angle you were to begin with is just a ball ache.

I cheat to get past retarded things (though now I don't need to cheat to increase capacity).

I honestly don't get the whole lock pick complaint, I mean i've played enough fallout3 to make it second nature. I actually enjoy the times when I guess perfectly the position on a master lock without breaking a pick, but I guess thats just me. But yeah absolutely the inventory management system needs to be fixed, alot of people are amazed that it wasn't implemented. The first time i ran through a dwarf ruin I picked up enough materials to make 99 dwarf ingots (i know but what the hell is a dwemer)there is just so much stuff and on your first play through you have no idea what to pick up and what to leave behind but you don't want to risk it so u just pick up everything which leads to a very painful back and forth 4 to 8 times to make sure u didn't miss anything important.

I just want the new lockpick to start in the sameish position as where the previous one was when it broke. The lockpick minigame is better than Oblivions', but I still want to hammer AUTO.

 

[xxcutesnakeyxx]

In all honesty Skyrim is pretty easy, I haven't felt the need to cheat at all, except for a couple of buggy quests.

I'll probably give myself perks soon (I'm level 50) to see what they're like, but other than that I'm invincible already.
100 sneak, 100 smithing, 90 archery, 90 one-handed and thieves guild/dark brotherhood armour. Ancient dragons are no threat

 

[mooncalf]

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There were inaccesible places in oblivion? I just jumped everywhere I needed to go!

Even though I spent many hours in oblivion, I never did get my acrobatics up to 100... Shame, I would have liked to hop across water...

 

[dmase]

I'm on consoles but yes, just today actually. I used the.... ogmar ohellma(not correct spelling) glitch which is actually still possible after the patch.

Basically at this point in the game almost all my skills that I use regularly are close to 100 and I can get all of the skills i'll ever want just leveling those up. I also have an armor rating that makes it so it takes a severe amount of physical damage to take me down and well before that happens i'll have taken out a small army with my enchanted axe. I have enough magic resistance in my enchanted armor to negate a good chunk of elemental damage so I'm near invincible. So i boosted my stealth and magic abilities which for the most part low and would never have any skill put in them and boosted some combat skill to get what I wanted now. I'm still increasing my combat levels normally though.