Achievement Hunting |OT| Every point counts

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I think it was okay, the combat was pretty fun. I didn’t really pay attention to the story or talk to people in the fort. My play time was 44 hours. I was surprised that people were still playing the game too.

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Ok cool, 44 hours is alot less than the TA time but that’s never been reliable I guess lol.

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I think that time is inflated because on the guides they say to use free play to do world events to help with gear challenges but I found quick play to be way faster. Sometimes the game puts you into an mission that’s just about the end and you get progress. Also helps with the loyalty achievements.

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I actually had fun with this game. It’s definitely an “early access” game with a lot of areas to improve upon, but the core gameplay loop was satisfying enough and the game is overall pretty easy.

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Nevermind, they unlocked when I restarted the game, lol. How can this still happen in 2021?

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@CallMeCraig, Silly decisions from the Microsoft of that time.

They had entirely new teams for the Xbox One Achievements, that had not worked on the systems from the X360. Just like the Party Chat system was entirely rewritten for Xbox One by team that had not worked on the previous system. There’s stories and articles about this kind of thing but might be harder to find today close to a decade later.

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I understand this happened a lot 2013 after Microsoft changed the achievement APIs and OS part of it. But by now 7-8 years later they should have best practices handy to avoid stuff like that. Its super strange.

Edit: ok, i just read up on this stuff (why did i do this to myself?) and its worse than i expected. On 360 devs unlocked achievements by calling a OS entry point (reasonable). On Xbox One Microsoft changed this to some ‘cloud powered’ system. Which of course every dev hated, because now they have to manage http error codes, offline vs. online achievements and so on themselves. In 2016/2017 after lots of feedback Microsoft changed back to direct API calls.

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2534

Still think it’s crazy that achievements are server based, it’s not like people can access profiles from Xbox One or Xbox Series to hack them anymore.

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Oh, entirely. It shouldn’t happen at all now. At least it’s mostly “self healing” where all it takes is for a restart to get unlocked.

I recall in 2013-2014 how so much of the Xbox Support forums being packed with achievement unlock issues and how widespread the issues were.

I agree with Zonky, it’s crazy what they spent time on redoing when X360 was such a solid experience for the core. I am curious how much time was spent on these new systems and how much additional time was needed to productionize/ruggedized them. Imagine if they kept the prior systems in place and instead put efforts towards BC far earlier or refine the Snap to be PictureInPicture instead or anything else requiring development efforts.

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Seems like a really overengineered system to me what they did in 2013. The newer 2016/2017 system is more like everyone else does it. But we lost achievement challenges on the way.

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Here are the results for week 52:

# User Gamertag Initial GS Final GS Gains Points
1. @Zonky Zonky 73625 81870 8245 50
2. @ShadowlessEdge Shadowless Edge 625299 627829 2530 48
3. @brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 258948 261373 2425 46
4. @Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 864497 866837 2340 44
5. @Knottian Knottian 214441 216606 2165 42
6. @KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 644530 646505 1975 40
7. @MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 328889 330654 1765 38
8. @n0tjack n0tjack 178911 180636 1725 36
9. @Akosii Akosii 345390 346740 1350 34
10. @Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 129693 130938 1245 32
11. profjjj profjjj 113371 114607 1236 30
12. CallMeCraig matsze 228621 229691 1070 28
13. judge judge 407490 408490 1000 26
14. APOPHIS1989 APOPHIS1989 313732 314719 987 24
15. low187 ShadowArceus5 237320 238265 945 22
16. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 132166 132911 745 20
16. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 411370 412115 745 20
18. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 365395 366110 715 16
19. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 544715 545425 710 14
20. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 384490 385165 675 12
21. FunkyOne Sir Funkified 241110 241730 620 10
22. FairyEmpire baboy1337 418590 419105 515 8
23. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 336180 336600 420 6
24. BrigadiersBlue Brigadiers Blue 68478 68838 360 4
25. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 112072 112427 355 2
26. xJavontax xJavontax 48226 48546 320 1
27. PhantomFox PhantomFox75-460 64017 64297 280 1
28. Mort Mortaigne 156222 156482 260 1
29. Chyld989 Chyld989 386225 386460 235 1
29. DeusJabu DeusJabu 164354 164589 235 1
31. TheSego The Sego 151599 151779 180 1
32. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 53028 53193 165 1
33. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 109363 109513 150 1
34. BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 101705 101830 125 1
35. Xumbrega ctZz1 154990 155110 120 1
36. Foorbits Foorbits 50308 50398 90 1
36. dscharles dscharles 64336 64426 90 1
38. BadMoodJones Junglee91 118821 118856 35 1
39. supercommodore supercommodore 24572 24602 30 1
40. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 189085 189095 10 1
41. MMarfil MMarfil 104624 104624 0 0
41. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy-208 42300 42300 0 0
41. MrZweistein MrZweistein 131900 131900 0 0
41. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 112253 112253 0 0

And here is the General Points Ranking for Season 2 including the above results:

# User Gamertag Points
1. ShadowlessEdge Shadowless Edge 336
2. Zonky Zonky 330
3. profjjj profjjj 264
4. brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 246
5. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 235
6. Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 226
7. BadMoodJones Junglee91 223
8. BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 219
9. KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 215
10. n0tjack n0tjack 213
11. FairyEmpire baboy1337 208
12. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 205
13. CallMeCraig matsze 201
14. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 184
15. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 176
16. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 170
17. low187 ShadowArceus5 131
18. Akosii Akosii 127
19. Chyld989 Chyld989 126
20. Mort Mortaigne 123
21. judge judge 114
22. PhantomFox PhantomFox75-460 106
23. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 93
24. Knottian Knottian 90
25. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 87
26. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 76
27. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 70
28. DeusJabu DeusJabu 61
29. supercommodore supercommodore 60
30. APOPHIS1989 APOPHIS1989 59
31. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 52
32. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 49
33. xJavontax xJavontax 48
34. Foorbits Foorbits 40
35. BrigadiersBlue Brigadiers Blue 33
36. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy-208 31
37. FunkyOne Sir Funkified 27
38. MMarfil MMarfil 26
39. Xumbrega ctZz1 22
40. dscharles dscharles 14
41. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 7
42. TheSego The Sego 4
43. MrZweistein MrZweistein 3
43. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 3

Every GamerScore earned from now until next Monday 06:20 AM (UTC) will count towards week 53’s ranking. Every GamerScore earned until Oktober 1, 2021 06:20 AM (UTC) will also count towards Septembers Ranking.

Don’t forget that this topic is first and foremost destined to talk about all your achievements and trophies, discuss completions and even try to gather people for a boosting session! The ranking is just a side activity to take part in.

Good luck everyone and happy hunting!

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Life is Strange: True Colors completed. Very easy completion and a great game.

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I think it seems like a pretty fair change.

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Mods are still allowed if they are fully in-game. I think that makes sense.

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Minecraft game save sharing community in the mud.

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So… as someone who hasn’t used any cheats, which games are now ok to use the “fast” methods? Are there any lists somewhere? Not sure I want to even step into this minefield lol.

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Lol. Basically anything that doesn’t require use of external tools or scripts is fine. So Surviving Mars is fine as mods can be accessed in game. I think that Starbound game is an example of what isn’t allowed. If a game mod isn’t allowed, the game’s page will have a warning.

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Ah ok, good. Since this discussion started I have found a few games I am not interested in playing at all where I wouldn’t say no to free GS :wink: I’ll just have to check carefully first.

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You’re fine as long as you only interact with the game itself. Console commands accessed within the game and mod browsers within the game are still good.

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It’s only an issue if you plan to be included on their TrueAchievements website. It’s not like Xbox is policing GamerScore as long as you’re not abusing their API or Profile systems.

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