Cheating to save time

[Nuuu]

I rarely do, as I don't often play the types of games that give reason to.

The one time I can remember doing this was in Starbound.
I like making a giant farm on a home planet with all the plant types. This also meant that I'd occasionally need to hunt for specific seeds I didn't have yet.
Maybe it was the mods I had installed, or maybe I was just unlucky, but I could not find Feathercrown seeds at all. I went to at least 10 different planets and found several of the biomes they supposedly grew in, but consistantly found nothing.
Eventually I broke and just spawned them in. I just wanted a nice farm, not 6 hours of denied hope.
Did the same with Wartweed seeds, because whoever though to have plants spawn in specific underground biomes that have only a small chance to exist among several other types with no indication... I think one of the mod I had accidentally overrides that biome.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

In relation to something that's come up recently, DRIV3R.

There's a mission, 3rd from last, where you have to chase a villain through the streets of Istanbul. It is fucking impossible since one minor slip-up means you'll lose them. This is also in a game that is known to be of poor quality from every standpoint. So I entered a cheat that let me play all the levels. Played the last two missions. Wasn't anything special.

On a side note, what happened to mission select screens? Why can't I do that in GTA or Far Cry? It would be especially useful in games with such long campaigns so you don't have to go through the whole thing again to get to a part you like.

 

[Gergar12_v1legacy]

In Fallout 4 I downloaded the modern weapons mod, and the weapons happen to do more damage-per-second then the the most OP-weapon in the game, the enemies had them too which made them bosses in mook clothing so the game became more difficult all-around, but almost anything was killable.

Does that count?

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

I don't cheat when I play a game the first time, but if I'm on my 8th playthrough, I'll happily use cheats/mods to bypass tedious parts. A good example is the "Skip the Fade" mod for Dragon Age Origins; I've played that game about 17 times, but I just can't be assed playing that sequence (since it has little narrative consequence) every time I want to explore a different set of story choices.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Not 'cheating' per se but if I play Ark: Survival Evolved it's always on a private server with the Exp gain and taming speed set to like 1000% of normal. Cos fuck me is that game grindy with the standard settings.

 

[Pseudonym]

I remember using an inbuilt instawin cheat to get past a level of an age of empires campaign that broke for me. I had to destroy a specific building but after destroying that building, the town around it, all the units of the AI and it's dog as well and still hadn't won I concluded the game was probably broken so I used the cheat to win. I could have played the level again but I didn't feel like it.

I sometimes cheat just for the fun of running around with an unreasonable amount of strength or resources or whatever makes you overpowered in the game.

As for cheating to get around grinding, no. Some games I have just accepted the grind and others I've just stopped playing.