Steam Achievement Ideas

[Valguris]

I can't hear you through my shields! Equip a 75% effective shield.
I am the storm! Fire a storm weapon.
The biggest shield Equip the Vortex Field Projector. <-- Sorry, I can't think of a better name now
The perfect crime Take an item from a sealed barrier without breaking into it.

There's a lot of unique/rare items: Q, T, Z-heroes, other Z items, other NPC uniques, W army loot. Which ones are achievement-worthy?

EDIT:

For Zion! Get Zionite allies from Cave Seals.
Warlord Forever! Get Warlord allies from Cave Seals.
I don't have names for Assembled allies nor for hostile Derelicts

[Valguris]

Hackwars Intercept hostile hacking attempt.

I was wondering about some RIF related achievements. Some of these can teach new players that there are multiple "levels" of robot hacking system: basic, RIF required, RIF + coupler required. But using all these would be an overkill?
Join the dark side Install RIF
Mindtrick Use a coupler hack
Basic hack Hack a robot without RIF
Freebies Use a free RIF hack

Versatile Use 10 different robot hacks
Robot hacking tour Hack 10 different robot types

There are already achievements for assimilation hacks. I thought about achievements for each type of hack, but for some hacks there is no easy way to tell which group it belongs to.
Knowledge is power Gain information through a robot hack

[Kyzrati]

Good choices and names, Valguris, thanks! Definitely going to have a big backlog of achievements to add going into future Betas. All will most likely be done as just one more big batch before 1.0.

[Valguris]

Deadly precision Destroy 50 hostiles via critical hits.
Well done, please! or simply Well done (hidden) Reach critical temperature (500 units).
Just one more minute! or Just one more turn! or Just one more level! Have 10 hours of cumulative play time (excludes AFK time).

I thought to put 100h in the latter achievement, but then people might want to AFK to get it out of the way... And completionists will be put off by such an achievement, even though it will be obtained by the time they obtain many other achievements. I feel like people who spent <10h don't aim for specific achievements yet, or at least are very close to 10h mark. Or maybe just make it hidden? But there might be more "one more minute!" feel for players around 10h mark than ~100h mark. It probably needs to be obtained mid-run, not on score summary. Or maybe add one for 10h and then a hidden one for 100h (I have a life! I swear!)? Needs to state that it excludes AFK time, otherwise people will look at steam.

Man, I really like all those achievements. More than I expected. And have suprising fun coming up with more Going for 512 now! 

[Kyzrati]

Yeah time-wise we can always use the game's own data for that, since it excludes idling so that wouldn't be a way to achieve it, and as you say by the time you get other achievements you'll have earned these. I mean, when it comes to completionists this is really nothing, because getting all of those harder ones takes hundreds of hours anyway!

512 xD. I seriously doubt we're going to actually hit that, at least not unless Cogmind is developed for several more years. I'm sure we could get together another 100 or so by 1.0, but adding a whole new set of 256 is just... crazy. (And then where do we go from there?! )

[Valguris]

I meant to do that! Miss your target, hit and destroy another combat hostile instead.
Survival is optional Get caught in a Sigix Terminator blast.

[Kyzrati]

I like these names and ideas

[bugsniper]

Three Stooges Syndrome: Have an enemy stay in the doorway, preventing at least 2 other enemies from entering

[muxecoid]

The achievement for successfully using Trojan(Assimilate) must be called "operand type does not match operator"

[SHADOWELITE7]

* Loot boxes
play the game only using loot boxes

[Kyzrati]

* Loot boxes
play the game only using loot boxes

It's funny you mention because after it was brought up twice on Discord, I immediately liked the idea of a loot-box-only run and added to the list of potential challenge modes! So as a challenge mode it would naturally get an achievement associated with it (well, winning like that, anyway ). It does sound like a fun type of run, and challenging, too, although it'd be unprecedented to add a challenge mode that also requires having another special mode active at the same time. Not that that's too important here--I think we can make an exception for something like this when it comes to challenge modes, which are already outside the "normal" scope of the game

[SHADOWELITE7]

* Loot boxes
play the game only using loot boxes

It's funny you mention because after it was brought up twice on Discord, I immediately liked the idea of a loot-box-only run and added to the list of potential challenge modes! So as a challenge mode it would naturally get an achievement associated with it (well, winning like that, anyway ). It does sound like a fun type of run, and challenging, too, although it'd be unprecedented to add a challenge mode that also requires having another special mode active at the same time. Not that that's too important here--I think we can make an exception for something like this when it comes to challenge modes, which are already outside the "normal" scope of the game

hmm alright. I already found out that afd 2019 wasn't available but I did have this one Idea.


* Melee Party
finish the game using only melee weapons

[Kyzrati]

I already found out that afd 2019 wasn't available

Not sure what you mean by this comment, could you explain?

[SHADOWELITE7]

Like AFD 2019 mode was only temporary for April 1st. I restarted my run because I spent everything on loot boxes. So the out come I got was that the mode wasn't available like not there or disabled even though I didn't disable it.

[Kyzrati]

Like AFD 2019 mode was only temporary for April 1st. I restarted my run because I spent everything on loot boxes. So the out come I got was that the mode wasn't available like not there or disabled even though I didn't disable it.

Right, it's a one day event, but if you read the announcement, it's possible to play on other days, too, if you set it manually. (As an automatic special event it's certainly not going to continue on its own indefinitely!)

[SHADOWELITE7]

ah I see. I wonder how I missed that 

[SHADOWELITE7]

I only have a few Achievement ideas
* DieH@rd - Die a total of 1000 deaths
* Melee Party - finish cogmind using only melee weapons

[Kyzrati]

We do have relevant melee achievements already, essentially the same as you mention since it takes almost an entire run from start to finish to achieve them (and by the end melee is actually one of the more powerful late-game builds anyway!).

1,000 deaths is... a bit much! Though more importantly, as per the achievement specifications achievements shouldn't require the player to do anything bad for themselves, and requiring deaths would be bad for the players who almost never die (there are a small handful of achievements celebrating negative effects, but these were all chosen to be events that eventually occur through natural play anyway)

[seanawesomness]

I got a achievement

Dumbest robot ever : die on floor -10

[SHADOWELITE7]

I think that is already an achievement

[Kyzrati]

Essentially yes, since there's an achievement for your first death, and everyone dies early on at some point or another.

[bugsniper]

There should be an achievement for getting the rocket launcher or hover unit at -10, if there isn't one already.

[Kyzrati]

Well there is indirectly, for simply discovering that encounter.

[seanawesomness]

I got one: I didn't fabricate the thug life, the thug life fabricated me
Break into a outpost

[SHADOWELITE7]

Hackathon
Hack all terminals and robots in 1 run