LogFAQs > #966132115

Way I see it: Save cheats and mods of any kind til playthrough two with rare exceptions like if the start of the game is just too needlessly hard or quality of life improvements. I think the game I most heavily cheated on was the original Sims and that was just to start out with a nice house for the family I wanted to use in the game.

Never cheat in Multiplayer, even with exploits. It kills the point for yourself and others if you got to cheat to get anywhere in the game. The very very rare exception is if it's an exploit the devs never fixed or punished for and everyone's done it while the game's late into it's cycle. Which best example of that I can think of was Conker's Bad Fur Day's xbox Multiplayer. A bug let you copy the stats of the top players and thus have all the Multiplayer unlocks that otherwise took you forever to grind for and gave you a big disadvantage until you did.

Even then you shouldn't be using cheats that just make you win the fight, like auto aim or out of the map exploits cause come on? What's the point if you turn Multiplayer into Singleplayer for yourself?