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Let's limit the cheat function to game crashing issues like I've stated before such as killing an NPC because it got in the way and you will probably restart the whole game because of that issue. Also, with the instant kill, you can focus on hunting bug issues outside of battle (doing quests, getting combinations, bugged UI, bugged skills such as the sixth sense) as most bugs can be found outside of battle and with Turn based system, it could take a while to explore everything.

What you've said could be a bug IMO if death is substituted by faint as what the game system does. Since a character "faints" when dying, and the enemies does not recognize a "resurrected" character, it's a bug. If you also accounted for the story, one of the protagonist got resurrected from the dead. It is possible that a resurrection spell is available in the game, and probably, the resurrection cheat got the same attribute with the skill.

I don't know about logs, but it should tell whether or not the player did some cheats so they could narrow it down if the player's claim is true or not.

It is usually pretty clear what issues are bugs, and what are the result of cheating. If you teleport past a cutscene at the start of an area, and a later cutscene doesn't proceed normally, I think most people would realize skipping the first cutscene was the issue (unless they were just trying to skip a fight, and didn't realize there was a cutscene) and not report it as a bug.

There wouldn't be a problem with resurrecting a character, since there is a mechanism in game to do that. Having a cheat which lets you do so instantly and/or without a cost could effect game balance, but the game itself would be fine.

Well, only if the cheat code is properly implemented. In one of David's playthroughs they had exactly the case I mentioned: David resurrected his character with a cheat and after that the sceletons didn't attack him because they didn't recognize his correct "state".

Skipping a cutscene is not cheating, it should be possible from the beginning.

Character resurrection was not implemented yet in the pre-alpha builds, but should be before the alpha, so a similar situation shouldn't happen then.

By skipping a cutscene, I meant bypassing it entirely (it never gets started, so could potentially not update something that is checked by a later event). For a slightly different example, in Divine Divinity it is possible to get into the castle before getting an invitation and entering that way (though the way people address you should warn you that that was not a planned option). If you do so, talk to the Duke in his room and accept a quest, you will be unable to complete it since a cutscene doesn't get triggered, because you have not officially entered the castle. If you do enter later by invitation, the quest log gets updated, overwriting some of the information about the quest gotten too early, so the cutscene still will not trigger and you can not get the quest again, forcing you to reload a save before entering the castle and getting that quest.