[3.1] Achievements System

[Shockwave508]

After seeing what the SWWM GZ mod had done with its Achievements system, I've wondered if the BOA team plans on implementing something similar one day?

Examples of possible Achievements would have to do with mission/episode completion, getting 100% kills/secrets/treasure in every playable mission, certain in-game actions (what kind, I don't know), or even tackling the game on Blazkowicz Job/Mein Lieben difficulties.

EDIT by AFADoomer: List of current achievements (those in bold are planned but not yet implemented; need more supporting work, 🔴 still need icons, 🟡 are incomplete or need re-work, 🟢 are complete):

• Gunslinger! 🟢 Fired 1000 rounds with a pistol.
• Perfectionist 🟢 Finished a level with 100% kills, secrets and treasure!
• Speedrunner 🟢 Finished a level in half its par time!
• Trickster 🟢 Finished a level without collecting all of the keys!
• Impenetrable! 🟢 Finished a level without taking damage!
• Disgrace! 🟢 Finished off a boss with a kick!
• Pacifist 🟢 Finished a level without killing any Nazis!
• Clear Shot 🟢 Sniped an enemy from across the map!
• Watch your step 🟢 Destroyed three enemies with the same placed mine.
• Chevalier 🟢 Defeated a magical skeleton in a fair fight.
• How it was in 1915 🟢 Finished the level with no gas mask!
• Assassin 🟢 Stealthily took out 10 Nazis with the knife!
• Naughty, Naughty... 🟢 It's OK, just a little help... No one will ever know, right? (Player used 'give' cheat - also resets weapon collection and coint collection achievement counts)
• Stingy 🟢 Finished a level with less than 25 weapon reloads.
• Automatic Weapons 🟢 Let the system do the work. Finished a level with no manual weapon reloads.
• A Peaceful Solution? 🟢 Allowed more than 5 enemies to surrender!
• Blast-resistant 🟢 Finished a level without using any grenades.
• Demolition Man 🟢 Used 40 grenades!
• Spam, spam, spam, quicksaves, and spam 🟢 Manually saved over 100 times!
• Feel the burn! 🟢 Exhausted your stamina bar 50 times.
• Liquid Death 🟢 Died by drowning in water, burning to death in lava, and dunking yourself in strange purple poison.
• Pesky Problems 🟢 Died to a minor pest... They are more afraid of you than you are of them, you know?
• Sharpshooter 🟢 Maintained 75% accuracy or higher after firing more than 100 rounds!
• Zombies 🟢 Kill 500 Zombies
• I am Iron Man 🟢 Collected all Eisenmann files.
• Beam me up? Timey-Wimey? 🟢 Collected all Mayan artifacts.
• Fully Armed 🟢 Collect all weapons (doesn't include Astrostein or Keen weapons)
• Combat Medic 🟢 Used 20 field kits
• Treasure Hunter 🟢 Opened 20 supply chests
• Gold Digger 🟢 Picked up 1000 coins worth of gold
• Stay Dead 🟢 Killed 50 enemies that were wounded
• Gib 'Em All 🟢 Gib 100 Nazis
• Neat 🟢 Collect all 3 Commander Keen cartridges (Note: This achievement draws with a CK4-style border, background and font)
• Go outside 🟢 Play BoA for more than 10 hours
• Trophy Hunter 🟢 https://github.com/Realm667/WolfenDoom/commit/35711da6c95ba6390d9910c619697ae34bd8f9c6 Collect all three trophy awards (Cacoward, Naziward, Keenaward)
• Dig Deep 🟢 Kill 100 Nazis with the shovel

[AFADoomer]

@Shockwave508 - I just tested all of these with the current build, and they work for me... Do they behave differently from a fresh game?

The individual trophy pickups are tracked in the fourth achievements CVar, which isn't cleared automatically (this CVar is also used to track play time and number of saves). You can clear it manually by entering set boa_achievementrecord3 "" in the console, or by entering netevent achievement 50 -1; netevent achievement 51 -1; netevent achievement 52 -1 to clear the specific trophy records.

[Shockwave508]

Just started a fresh run, and it's all working now. Note to self: Always start a fresh playthrough after updating to the newest GitHub build, if any code is edited in the commits.

[Tormentor667]

Awesome. Thanks for testing it yet another time :)

[Shockwave508]

Side note: It seems that Assassin and Gunslinger progress doesn't save between missions/sessions. Gold Digger and Treasure Hunter remain stuck at their current values, post-C1M1, yet I've been very diligent with the treasure hoarding, both with gold and supply keys. Screenshot attached, post-C1M3. Regarding Trophy Hunter, only the Cacoward is sitting on my table at the moment, yet the Keenaward and Naziward icons are still lit up.

[AFADoomer]

From my previous post: The individual trophy pickups are tracked in the fourth achievements CVar, which isn't cleared automatically (this CVar is also used to track play time and number of saves). You can clear it manually by entering set boa_achievementrecord3 "" in the console, or by entering netevent achievement 50 -1; netevent achievement 51 -1; netevent achievement 52 -1 to clear the specific trophy records.

[Shockwave508]

Followed AFADoomer's instructions to-the-letter, yet all three Trophy Hunter icons still ping as "acquired", despite only having the Cacoward (which should therefore only light up the "C" icon). I suspect it may be an issue with the achievement list itself. As proof, I had set boa_achievementrecord 3 to "" as directed, as the Go Outside achievement shows a playtime of 26 seconds.

[AFADoomer]

Did you start a new game, or restore from a save?

[Shockwave508]

Tried both, and the issue persisted. Started a fresh game from Chapter 1. Trophy Hunter icons were still lit when I got to the achievement board. Loaded my most-recent save, before C1M4. Same result.

[MuadDib90]

@AFADoomer @Tormentor667 @Username-N00b-is-not-available Achievements - I tested nearly all of them.

The picture is the old built - but also tested on the newest one, where the scroll is already available. Nice work btw. Are we planing some discription for at least some of them? Because for example nobody will know they have to fight Loper with only a sword to achieve this one.

• Back to the point. With the function that restores (some) achievements when cheating, I am unable to confirm Keen achievement. I am unable to go through all of it all over again only for this. Sorry guys, can we do something about it? (for testing at least)
• When trying to achieve "year 1915" I encountered this issue: #899
• About that 3 kinds of death. I was able to achieve only drowning in water. Not die in lava nor in purple stuff. (Tried C2M0_A; C2M6_C for lava, and C1M0 for purple water. It did nothing.)
• And finally, I am really concerned about "pacifist" achievement. I don't really think it is possible. I can't imagine any map, where this could be even slightly possible. Only maps, that come to (my) mind, are prison C2M1, docs C2M6_B and Poland C3M0_B. All stealth missions more or less; but in each of them there are choke point(s), where you just have to kill somebody to progress more further. (If I am not mistaken...) -- What dou you think guys?

[Shockwave508]

Just wanted to confirm that the new Achievement Menu works properly with Delta Touch and gamepads! 👍

[Username-N00b-is-not-available]

@MuadDib90

• Keen achievement: use summon Cartridge51 and the same with 52 or 53 to spawn Commander Keen cartridges near you. See also AktenEisenmann and ArtifactAstrostrein (sic, Astrostrein), but the achievements for them are awarded when you hand these to Gutenberg.
• C3M4: replied there.
• Three liquid types: it was possible for me, did you try C1M6 for lava? Maybe some textures still do not count towards it. Also, IIRC you do not have to drown in the purple liquid, but rather die while being damaged by it.
• Pacifist: a very reasonable concern, but I am sure some players will find a way to get it. We are developers, not the top speedrunners, and only they know their skills. Achievements constitute a list of optional tasks, they are not mandatory in any way, and players will be proud if they manage to crack a seemingly impossible one. By the way, it might be 'much less impossible' on skill 0 :-)

[Shockwave508]

Certain incremental achievements still aren't saving between sessions, and/or are stuck, whether they're embedded in savegames or CVARs. Affected achievements are as follows.

1) Gunslinger (resets between sessions) 2) Assassin (resets between sessions) 3) Spam, spam. spam. quicksaves and spam (resets between sessions) 4) Feel The Burn (resets between sessions) 5) Liquid Death (died from drowning in water in C1M2, yet I did not get credit for that?) 6) Treasure Hunter (only registered the supply chest that was opened in INTERMAP/Chapter 1; opened the ones in C1M1 and C1M2, yet did not get credit) 7) Gold Digger (got stuck after picking up all treasure in INTERMAP/Chapter 1 and C1M1; didn't increment after C1M2) 8) Trophy Hunter (only have Cacoward, icons for Keenaward and Naziward are lit up despite not having them)

[MuadDib90]

@Username-N00b-is-not-available

• Summoning Keen cartridges does not work for me. In a way I get all three of them using this console command, but achievement is not completed; although it shows I got all three of them. Strange.
• Also replied there.
• After you mentioned it, I tried. No positive result, unfortunatelly. - And regarding purple water, yes I know that and tried that. No result either. :(
• Well, the thing is, from a tester position I want to point at any incoherencies I can think of. And from my point of view it is undoable; even if I get your point. So I present it here; just to be heard, if for nothing. :)

[AFADoomer]

OK, I re-worked the liquid death means-of-death logic in c10ba7e18634fe45a57ef5ac350bc5e960a757f8, changed some things with how values are read (or not read) from the event handler on save load versus new level in 68059e0230b911ad54b03a7690ddc29b87cb6322, and made some tweaks to the summary screen UI, including fixing the check for trophy pick-ups in f0d49dbd440bfbe689c910cff0d4faf15346af68.

These should fix most of the functionality issues mentioned recently. Should. Please test 😄.

[MuadDib90]

Will do, thanks, AFA.

[Shockwave508]

Trophy Hunter achievement's working properly now.

May I suggest a tracker on one side of the screen, showing how many of the available achievements you've attained, something like "8/35 Achievements"?

[Shockwave508]

The Liquid Death achievement still doesn't store its criteria properly; I deliberately drowned myself in C1M2, yet the "blue" box wasn't lit up by the time I returned to INTERMAP.

[AFADoomer]

Does it show up immediately after you die and respawn? Use 'openmenu achievementsummary' in the console to see the board at any time.

[Shockwave508]

Had the menu open while drowning in C1M4. The first criteria box turns blue, but it isn't saved to the CVARs, as it returns to its locked-gray state upon loading from your latest save.

[AFADoomer]

03d06ac2991bd3d05f2faafaebdbc43a6d7dab44 should resolve this issue.

[MuadDib90]

OK, I re-worked the liquid death means-of-death logic in c10ba7e, changed some things with how values are read (or not read) from the event handler on save load versus new level in 68059e0, and made some tweaks to the summary screen UI, including fixing the check for trophy pick-ups in f0d49db.

These should fix most of the functionality issues mentioned recently. Should. Please test 😄.

After testing, everything works smootly. Good job, AFA. 👍

[Shockwave508]

Liquid Death still isn't registering properly. Drowned myself in C1M2, and it didn't save to the CVARs.

[AFADoomer]

From a fresh game?

[Shockwave508]

Yep, fresh game, and it didn't save.

[AFADoomer]

Where specifically are you drowning yourself?

[Shockwave508]

Specifically drowned myself in the drop-down shaft into the shark-infested area, shortly after killing the first Dr. Schabbs Jr..

[MuadDib90]

@AFADoomer I tried to drown in C1M2 according to @Shockwave508 and it did counted: But the oddity is it caused VM abort:

[Shockwave508]

Drowned myself in C1M4, and the blue portion of the Liquid Death achievement was saved properly, and without a VM Abort.

[AFADoomer]

I can't reproduce either the failure to log in C1M2 or the VM abort... I've drowned myself half a dozen times in various places in the tunnel and the value is always saved properly, even across unrelated saves.

I've fixed what I think might have caused the VM abort here: dad605652a01ec5b6090f8bc2a7b40133a446831 - but can't really test.

[MuadDib90]

Sure, will test. Thanks.

EDIT: Tested on newest GZDoom dev built and works fine.

[MuadDib90]

Btw the current state of achievement board looks really impresive @AFADoomer. Good job. :)

[x3003]

Still missing one though. That's when you kill like 100 (or more ?) with the shovel.

[AFADoomer]

That's easy enough to add. Done in 258f3defe5727de929160afbb4c41739c105c629.

[MuadDib90]

But in this case, we should except zombies ("Kill 100 enemies (except zombies) with a shovel."). Because in C3M0_A it is an easy job. All the more the player is using the shovel naturally in here. And there is that side quest of killing 300 zombies...

[AFADoomer]

Updated the check to only count Nazi-species actors (except for mutants) in 29ff828e9297b46756553bc31a2bf696ae9d6d2e.