So once again, with the announcement that the skill tree achievements had been fixed I loaded up my savefile with 7 free level up points to burn to finally earn all my achievements. However, gradually going the list and maxing every tree in sequence, I discovered that the Vegan skill tree awarded the Pirate achievement upon maxing and the Pirate skill tree awarded me the Demonology achievement and the Demonology tree coughed up bugger all. Achievements that are achieveable but still somewhat bugged: - The Devil's Achievement - Dead Man's Chest Achievements that are completely unattainable for one reason or the other: - Playing For Both Teams - You Used All The Glue On Purpose - 98 Pound Weakling - Soylent Green is.... Soy, actually.
Yeah, that took me by surprise as well. I wondered if there really was some kind of vegan pirate conspiracy. I know Gaslamp, being an indie developer, can't afford to hire professional testers, but it's still remarkable how many of the bugs that slip through are bugs that *everyone* seems to experience, and yet they somehow made it past beta testing.
Also, am I to take it from your experimentation that the Vegan and Demonology achievements cannot be earned, and that Werediggle and Emomancy work fine?
BTW, it would appear that Playing For Both Teams still isn't fixed, unless there's some special condition to unlock it that we don't know (e.g. it actually means "beat Lord Dredmor with both heroes"). Edit: Oh, and somewhere along the line of patch downloading tonight, all my counter-based achievements have reset. Again.
The Vegan achievement can't be earned, correct. Demonology is earned by maxing the Pirate skill tree. Emomancy and Werediggle trees rewarded their respective achievements just fine. The rest of the achievements that I reported broken in my previous thread, no mention was made of a fix so I'm inclined to believe that they are still broken, but I'll give them another go just for the sake of trying everything, that and I presently have way too much time on my hands. Also, I'll give beating the game with the female hero a go. I've already beaten the game with the male hero with the RotDG DLC installed, so if that IS the case however much I doubt it, the achievement will be rewarded on game clear. Still, if nothing else I want to see if you're rewarded with a different ending picture for the female hero.
One quick test run later and I can conclude that everything that was broken previously is still broken. Playing For Both Teams does not unlock upon clearing the game with both characters, so we can rule that one out. Though, there is a new picture for clearing the game after all! <3 Muscle Diggles don't give the achievement when they kill the player. You Used All the Glue On Purpose still doesn't work.
Say I have a few characters will all the DLC skill trees maxed out. When they are fixed would I simply need to reload those characters to gain the achievements? I didn't know Killer Vegan was broke and when Piracy skill tree popped up... sigh... spent time dodging all those diggles and bats on floor 1 for nothing . I'm pretty close to maxing out Piracy, Big Game Hunter, Demonologist, and Emomancy. Vegan is maxed and broken, but I did gain the Werediggle achievement no problem.
Over my last two runs I got the achievement for Emo and Werediggle. Vegan Warrior gave me Piracy. I beat the game with a guy and a girl no achievement.
For what it's worth, the old Programmer's axiom states, "Find a bug in the code, fix the bug, recompile the code, 99 bugs in the code." You'd be surprised how hard it is to squish a bug. Bethesda Softworks is know for really good, but really buggy games, they're run by a Board of directors with a combined networth that's more than 2 billion dollars, and they still can't catch all the bugs before release. The fact that Gaslamps can't get the bugs fixed before release is just a fact of life. No company is immune. Also, you can play this game, unlike some of the bugs for Fallout 3.
The order the skills are listed in is: 34 Big Game Hunter 35 Emomancy 36 Werediggle 37 Killer Vegan 38 Piracy 39 Demonologist But, internally, the order is: 34 Big Game Hunter 35 Emomancy 36 Werediggle 37 Hermetic Magic 38 Killer Vegan 39 Piracy 40 Demonologist Perhaps the ACHIEVEMENT defines were broken when the one for Hermetic Magic was removed. Killer Vegan is skill number 38, but the list they have for Steam doesn't take the missing skill into account and sees 38 as Piracy. Piracy is 39 internally, but the 39th skill is Demonologist. So maxing Killer Vegan gets you Piracy, Piracy gets you Demonology, and Demonology gets you nothing (or some other achievement we all have).
