However, past Bethesda games are offline, so there's no problem there. So basically, modding is indeed cheating because it can give you various advantages depending on the mods you choose to install.

Most mods fall into this category, including the most popular ones such as Unofficial Patch, adding/modifying textures (character, weapon, armor, environment), special effects, animation, and more. The more convenient way is to install them using Mod Manager. All you need is to download the mod files and put them in your game's folder, and that's it. Most of the time, this kind of modding doesn't require you to inject something (except script extenders). This is generally exclusive to Bethesda games because of their unique engine and modding tools from Bethesda (Creation Kit) and other tools created by the community. When people say 'modding Bethesda games', they're referring to this. This is NOT what people mean by modding when talking about Bethesda games. Some games running in certain engines also enable you to 'mod' the game by modifying the files (usually called. There's very limited use of this kind of modding, people mostly mod their games this way, whether to improve the visuals with Reshade/ENB, autohotkey, Widescreen fix, or cheat with Cheat Engine, trainer, or some other programs. Most of the time, you'll need a 3rd party program to set it up or running in the background in some other cases, modifying the game's executable file. This is modding that can be done in basically every PC game ever.

What's the difference between general PC game modding, Bethesda modding, and cheating?

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