Skipping cutscenes in MSQ Roulette

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Exploit's are usually bugs in the code that result in significant unfair advantage like Ungarmax, this one doesn't as it's hard to justify calling something an exploit when its something that literally involves turning your internet off and on again.

It's an exploit because it takes advantage of the way the game works, allowing you to break out of a cutscene that is clearly intended to lock you in place for its entire duration.

Within the game itself, there is no way to get out early. The cutscene has been made unskippable for the exact purpose of locking everyone down for the same period of time.

In normal gameplay you arrive at the trigger point, which tells the game to start playing the cutscene. It ticks off that progress flag. You have been shown the cutscene.

By disconnecting your Internet or closing the program, you've gone outside of the game in a way that the devs cannot control or prevent. When you log back in, you are exploiting the fact that the game does not recognise that you should still be watching the cutscene at a fixed pace, and thus is not able to hold you in place - because the "watching cutscene" status is itself the method of holding you.

You can get technical about whether you're exploiting a bug within the game itself or the way it interacts with other programs/network connections, but you are undoubtably taking advantage of a flaw somewhere to do something that the creators of the game did not intend to be possible.

And my dictionary, which I didn't look at until just now, defines 'exploit' as to "take advantage of for one's own purposes".

Argue the definition of a computer exploit if you like, but it's certainly exploiting the programming in a broader sense.