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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: There is usually something to make me quit playing a game after a
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:54:23 -0700
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On 6/29/2025 8:03 PM, PW wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:59:47 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/28/2025 6:16 PM, PW wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:44:25 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/28/2025 8:12 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>> On 6/28/2025 1:07 AM, JAB wrote:
>>>>>> On 27/06/2025 19:08, PW wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Why God mode for that? I would think that playing a game on easy or
>>>>>>>>> story mode would be better for just exploring.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When I say exploring I mean doing things like just walking through
>>>>>>>> walls
>>>>>>>> in FPS
>>>>>>> *--
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh - a cheat mode. That stuff is still going on? ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did a bit of googlefoo and the answer seems to be yes. Personally I
>>>>>> never quite understood why people would use them as what do you
>>>>>> actually get out of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> A feeling of Godly power!  "You don't control me game makers!  I'll do
>>>>> whatever I want with your world!!!"
>>>>
>>>> Also to explore without having to worry about dying, find hidden rooms
>>>> with no entrance, or all the secret areas.  Not having to come back
>>>> later with key x to open a door (personally I hate that, but haven't
>>>> gone that far.)
>>>
>>> *--
>>>
>>> That sounds great sometimes.  Which game and cheat do I need? :-)
>>
>> I'm sure you can look up which, I never used it, it seemed like it took
>> too much challenge out of games.  I did briefly use wizard mode which
>> lets you save your game in Nethack, except it didn't help that much
>> other than with experimenting.  I think sometimes the walking through
>> walls part is called wall-hack?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure a lot of console ports have things like that.  I think
>> at least some of the earlier Doom, and other FPS games did too
>>
>> Bethesda has a lot of console commands you can use without even using
>> mods.  Apparently tgm is the command in console to turn on god mode.
>> hit ~ to open the console.  Then type: tgm<enter> and ~ again to exit
>> console mode.
>>
>> I remember infinite ammo/no reloading is a popular cheat/mod in a lot of
>> FPSs as well.
>>
>> Cheat Engine often has tables for any offline games, or you can set up
>> invulnerability pretty easy.  I mostly use Cheat Engine to speed up
>> games that have tedious parts or slow them down when they're too fast
>> paced for my old reflexes (but yet I'm somehow reasonably good at souls
>> games without any cheats. Oh yes, I did cheat past some very tedius
>> farming for materials in DS1 on my SL1 character, after I'd already
>> finished the game a couple times, and proved I could farm them, it was
>> just would have been many many hours of farming.)  Also auto-pickup
>> armor & weapon boxes in EDF as it's too tedious to farm in
>> hardest/inferno otherwise, really it's too tedious in inferno even doing
>> that.
> 
> *--
> 
> I wonder if there is one for Elden Ring so I can finish the game.  Or
> maybe just to frollic around without worrying about dying :-)

Due to the anti-cheat you have to disable that first and play offline. 
And of course, there's thousands of mods for ER.

https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/6481

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