Offline mode doesn't grant achievements, sometimes?

[fiftykyu]

Guess this is old news, but it seems like there's something funky with offline mode Steam Deck Achievements. With some games everything works as you'd expect, some you get them when you quit the game, and with some other games you just don't get them at all?

Been playing https://store.steampowered.com/app/635940/Little_Busters_English_Edition/ offline on my Deck, and got zero achievements. Went online and got some. Went back offline and got nothing. Offline on my desktop works just fine for cheevos, so I dunno what's up. :)

[Man's Best Friend]

Are the achievements actually not registering after you get back online, or are you getting credit and just not getting the notifications?
In my experience achievements work fine offline other than the fact that you don't get the notifications. Once you go back online the achievements will be registered with Steam, but the notifications still may or may not show up. I've had some pop up more than a day after they synced (even if I was offline again at that moment) and some that have still never appeared after months.

[fiftykyu]

Not sure if I'm explaining it very well. It's weird. :)

Playing that specific game offline with my Deck, it's like achievements don't exist at all. For example there's one for winning a baseball game, did that a few different times playing offline but the Deck thinks it never happened. They weren't saved up on my Deck and synced later, somehow they never got tripped at all. It was like the whole thing was a dream. :)

The only time that achievement worked for me was the time I won the baseball game while playing in online mode. Shrug.

Just to see if that game was broken somehow, I played most of one route offline on my deck, then loaded the cloud save on my offline-mode pc, and got the achievement when I finished that route just like you'd expect.

Now, one thing I haven't tried yet is playing in desktop mode offline. Would be interesting to see if it's some kind of funky proton thing, or something with the deck interface specifically, or what. Will have to see if I kept a save near the end of a route, it's a lot of fast-forwarding otherwise...

[thöni]

Same happens to me, play time is not recorded either

[ToferR]

I’m currently playing the Witcher 3 and there are over a dozen achievements that haven’t unlocked even though I completed them in game. Maybe it is just this game but it appears they only work when you are online when you actually complete it.

[Mako]

Yes I'm having the exact same experience. Its too unreliable so I avoid playing my Steam Deck offline which is a shame

[Sleepy Cyb]

Just noticed the same thing. Offline playtime is ignored and achievements are not unlocked.

Tried that on Master Magistrate and Dark Souls Remastered. No achievements are unlocked offline and when fullfilling the achievement's requirement online it unlocks it right away.

Not gamebreaking of course, but it would be nice if this was fixed.

[Mako]

That sucks. Could do with a list of games that support offline achievements. All I can find is info saying most modern games should support it

[Waxberry]

I'm a frequent traveller and have been using SD for a year. The experience is mixed. Last year with early firmware the offline play count and cheevos are unlocked some time after internet is restored (in my case like a few hours after I connected to hotel internet) but this year it was getting more unstable. I have been testing on 3 flights but only one of the 3 times got and cheevos unlocked afterwards. (And same game) Guess it might also matters about the condition you start the game offline. (Have a game has Cheevos but on offline even the list didn't show up) Will do more test. But generally as a user from PS Vita have to say SD is still quite far behind compare with PSV in terms of offline features handling...

[ingueferroque]

Have any improvements been made regarding this?

[fiftykyu]

Originally posted by ingueferroque:

Have any improvements been made regarding this?

Hi, I think something has been improved recently with achievements on the Deck with offline mode, at least I remember reading an update mentioning it, but...

For the specific game I mentioned https://store.steampowered.com/app/635940/Little_Busters_English_Edition/ - no, it's still exactly the same amount of broken regarding achievements today. I don't know why. My clueless speculation would be that specific game itself is doing something incorrectly, but I'm not a Steamworks developer and it's been a very long time since I've had IDA Pro installed so I'm disinclined to try solving this mystery myself. :(

For testing I reinstalled that game on my deck, nuked all the cloud save data, started a brand new game and couldn't trigger any achievements. Could re-test it on my desktop for comparison, but I assume since that scenario worked before, it would still be working now. Shrug.

[ingueferroque]

Originally posted by fiftykyu:

Originally posted by ingueferroque:

Have any improvements been made regarding this?

Hi, I think something has been improved recently with achievements on the Deck with offline mode, at least I remember reading an update mentioning it, but...

For the specific game I mentioned https://store.steampowered.com/app/635940/Little_Busters_English_Edition/ - no, it's still exactly the same amount of broken regarding achievements today. I don't know why. My clueless speculation would be that specific game itself is doing something incorrectly, but I'm not a Steamworks developer and it's been a very long time since I've had IDA Pro installed so I'm disinclined to try solving this mystery myself. :(

For testing I reinstalled that game on my deck, nuked all the cloud save data, started a brand new game and couldn't trigger any achievements. Could re-test it on my desktop for comparison, but I assume since that scenario worked before, it would still be working now. Shrug.

And they don't unlock when you are online, and after nuking the cloud save data? That is scary.

[Bradley]

Had the same problem in FFVII Crisis Core while deployed. Beat the game… got almost 0 achievements because I was offline. Really frustrating.