Skyrim...have you cheated?

[Badong]

I only use the console to help me roleplay better. For example: I set my character's magicka to 1000, but stunted her magicka regen to a tenth of the original, and her health to a fourth of the original, all three changes contributing to her backstory of being a living conduit to Aetherius (or something like that)

Aside from that, I never used the console to cheat. I probably will f I ever encounter a bugged quest, though.

 

[Insanity72]

only time i've cheated was i used TGM just after i bought my house in Windhelm and was transferring all my loot and junk, i really didn't want to make 5 trips back and forth.

Poor Lydia all alone in that house in Whiterun

 

[Joccaren]

Nope. Do I plan to? Very soon Frost has run off and disappeared during the quest, and I only have a marker on the guy I'm s'pposed to give 'im to. Meanwhile, he is likely halfway across Skyrim or dead by now. Either way, I plan to teleport myself to him, mount him, then teleport back. If that don't work, then I'll just spawn another. I kinda count this as a buggy quest, as it should at least fail me if Frost dies, or tell me where he is if I'm not mounted on him.

Once I'm done with the game, I'll have fun screwing around with it like I did with my friends. Spawn a 0.1 scale giant. Still gives a space program. Spawn a 0.01 scale Giant, or smaller so that you can't even see it. Randomly flying people everywhere. Spawn a 100 scale Alduin above Whiterun. Its on. Spawn a 0.01 or smaller scale elder dragon in random town. Watch as random fires appear and burn everything.
Once I'm done screwing around, I'll have me some massive Empire v Stormcloak battles. I'm thinking at least 20 soldiers per side for the test run, make sure Skyrim isn't odd and using a ton of resources for them for no reason. Preferably, I'd like to get up to 300 soldiers on each side, but that may be pushing things a bit.

 

[Dense_Electric]

I've had to TCL out of a few spots (Wolfskull Cave is one, the infamous cave with no exit), and made a duplicate of the Skeleton Key (not that it mattered much either, lockpicks are plentiful enough - now I just don't have to spend time picking them up). The only real "cheating" is that I've given myself several hundred thousand gold over my playthrough, mostly because I can't motivate myself to work very hard or long for virtual currency.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Yes, I cheat. I use the cheats to redistribute my levels and perk points (I only level up to my last earned level). I also like using [showracemenu] to make my ladies prettier after downloading face/body mods.

 

[xxcutesnakeyxx]

Once I'm done with the game, I'll have fun screwing around with it like I did with my friends. Spawn a 0.1 scale giant. Still gives a space program. Spawn a 0.01 scale Giant, or smaller so that you can't even see it. Randomly flying people everywhere. Spawn a 100 scale Alduin above Whiterun. Its on. Spawn a 0.01 or smaller scale elder dragon in random town. Watch as random fires appear and burn everything.
Once I'm done screwing around, I'll have me some massive Empire v Stormcloak battles. I'm thinking at least 20 soldiers per side for the test run, make sure Skyrim isn't odd and using a ton of resources for them for no reason. Preferably, I'd like to get up to 300 soldiers on each side, but that may be pushing things a bit.

This sounds beautiful. Will you make a video?

 

[GundamSentinel]

I'm on PS3, so no console for me. I have used some wall glitches to get past closed doors, or open barred doors from the wrong side.

 

[mexicola]

Yes I regularly use tcl when I encounter retarded terrain or glitch problems. Other that that, no I haven't done anything except force my way through one bugged up quest when I didn't feel like reloading the last hour of playtime without even a guarantee it won't happen all over again.

 

[Creator002]

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

No, they don't. I've gotten achievements with tgm activated.

That being said, I use tgm a lot. Now that I've done the main quest, I like to just stuff around doing the side quests with tgm on. It doesn't take away the enjoyment I have with the game and I can sprint for as long as I like.

EDIT - Oh, and sometimes I use tcl, but only when stuck and when I couldn't be arsed going around a huge mountain.

 

[Panorama]

No, i have not yet not need to yet. when i have finished it once i might consider it.

 

[Brinnmilo]

I've only had to tcl, but I don't really consider that cheating. IRL I would be able to pull my self over or in between those rocks, I wouldn't be stuck hopping up and down hoping it will be come some thing more than an exercise in futility.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Sure have.

I suppose I got to about level 45 or so legitimately. But by then I'd already leveled up all the skills I was going to really use for the game. So yes, I did that bookshelf glitch with that ugly book whose name I forget to get everything to 100 and my overall level to 80 or 81. But I was also over 100 hours played and nearing the end when I did that.

The only other way I could be said to have "cheated" is I took advantage of that "Free house in Whiterun" exploit. But that was it.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I'm on the PS3 so I can't use console commands. But I did cheat. Kind of. Hadvar/Ralof are immortal, so I used them in Helgen Keep to level my sneak to 100, my one-handed to 45, and my two-handed to 40, for the extra levels and perks. Especially useful for the character I actually intended to sneak with, too.

 

[Wolfram23]

I have a confession. I cheated again.

I married Ysolda and used console commands to give her a pretty sexy outfit instead of her 1986 blue denim dress. I decided to use the "nocturnal" robes with an HD Aqua texture download lol. Also made her wear a nice circlet and her wedding ring so she looks pretty hot. Oh, it also helps I downloaded a "clean bodies" mod haha.

Although oddly enough the last time I visited her she was just in her underwear. I hope she remembers to wear her clothes in public next time! Also I need to find her some proper shoes rofl.

Anyway, that's just silliness on my part not really cheating.

 

[Zenkem]

After jumping against the mountain around Labyrintia for an unreasonably long time, I used tcl to just fly there. It STILL took a long while, so I am happy that I didn't spend even more time with 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.

What other useful way would you increase your enchantment and smithing? I don't see it as an exploit, unless you use it for power leveling and at that point I just have to go lol. Wait till you enter a dungeon or fight a dragon.

Well, I think it would be reasonable if you couldn't level past a certain point using the lowest level craftable item. Or at least have diminishing returns. Iron and leather is super easy to get a hold of either in the wild or off vendors, and by the time you make daggers and give them absorb health, you earn a nice profit and can do it until you run out of soul gems. I didn't even purchase materials until I got close to 90 in enchanting and blacksmithing, then spent a couple hours and just powered out those last few skill levels (had to do a hunting trip for soul gems).

But yeah after that I made myself Legendary Dragonscale armor and have 100% cost reduction on destruction magic, so I increased the difficulty to Master. It's definitely a lot harder against multiple baddies, but for example a single Dragon Priest is easy as pie because of the Impact perk and I just spam fireballs. Still, I do need to be careful most of the time so don't think I'm complaining. Merely discussing a somewhat... odd... system implemented by the game.

 

[Andrew_Waltfeld]

nope, I refuse to use console. Heck I never even fixed the buggy quests I had.

 

[Master Kuja]

Opened the dev console once on my ranger character because I really started getting bothered by his appearance. Popped open the showracemenu and after fixing things up, it dicked up all my skills, so I used the setav command to reset everything back to their prior values.

Not cheating, since I gave myself no buffs and just did it to change my appearance, but yeah, I've used the dev console.

 

[SuperCombustion]

Beat a boss character by hitting him so hard that he fell into the floor. He had a quest item in his inventory that I needed so naturally I was screaming FUUUUUUUUUUU-
and my last autosave was leaving the town to GO TO THE DUNGEON THAT WAS SEVERAL FLOORS DEEP.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*ERROR*
/me turns on console, toggles collision off and flys to the boss' corpse.

The only time I cheated...

 

[OceanRunner]

I used a trick I found online to raise my smithing level (make lots of Leather Braces and Iron Daggers). That's about as close as I've got to cheating.